Conspiracy theories about the Rothschilds are still going strong on Twitter
After David Rothschild —no relation to the banking family — clapped back at an Elon Musk tweet, things quickly devolved into antisemitic conspiracies.
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Fast Forward Lara Logan says evolution is a false, Jewish-funded conspiracy
Fox News journalist Lara Logan has a history of antisemitism; though she joined Fox News’s streaming service with a program of her own, “Lara Logan Has No Agenda,” right before the pandemic began, even the conservative cable network — known for its hosts’ outlandish takes — distanced itself from the commentator after she compared CDC…
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Fast Forward A complete list of every time RFK Jr. has compared vaccine mandates to the Holocaust
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. compared the threat of 5G cell service and so-called vaccine passports to the Third Reich on Sunday, in his latest instance of invoking the Holocaust while peddling conspiracies theories about vaccines. “Even in Hitler’s Germany, you could cross the Alps into Switzerland, you can hide in the attic like Anne Frank…
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Opinion Conspiracy theories are at the root of anti-Jewish violence
In the days that followed the hostage crisis at the Beth Israel synagogue in Colleyville, TX, reports came out about how the hostage-taker repeatedly espoused antisemitic conspiracy theories, believing that Jews could exert their power and sway over the U.S. government to free an imprisoned Al Qaeda terrorist. These revelations are likely surprising to many,…
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Culture Does Netflix’s ‘Inside Job’ encourage antisemitic conspiracy theorists?
Jews are at the roots of most of the major conspiracy theories. A secret cabal who runs the government? That may be a QAnon tenet these days, but it’s originally from “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion,” a made-up pamphlet purporting to detail the Jewish plan for global domination. Bloodsucking lizard people? That one…
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Culture The antisemitic conspiracy behind the anti-porn movement
No one looks to porn for its great morals and upstanding behavior; even ethically-made porn, which ensures respect, safety and good pay for everyone on set, can depict BDSM scenes that (consensually!) hurt or humiliate the participants, which many people find troubling. Mainstream porn sites, meanwhile, struggle to regulate revenge porn and underage porn, and…
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Culture Will Spike Lee’s 9/11 series feature a conspiracy theorist who welcomes antisemitic canards?
Spike Lee’s searching curiosity makes him one of our best and most eclectic filmmakers. But sometimes he may be asking the wrong questions of the wrong people. As Jeremy Stahl reported Tuesday in Slate, in an advanced cut of the final episode of Lee’s new documentary miniseries on HBO, “NYC Epicenters 9/11–2021½,” the director devoted…
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Culture Can Sacha Baron Cohen be Borat and still tell the truth?
For a while now, Sacha Baron Cohen has had an issue with juggling multiple personas. On the one hand, as Borat, Bruno and his coterie of characters on “Who is America,” he is a cartoonish sounding board for America’s worst qualities. On the other, he is an increasingly serious out-of-character activist, a full-throated opponent of…
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