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“The Elders of Zion […] rule the world and do not like Hitler and are doing all they can to overthrow him.”
this just sounds like:
and all the other AIPAC/Zios/Mossad/elites/insert dog whistle here conspiracies running rampant right now.
you would think that facts and logic would prevail through the record of history. there were no Elders of Zion controlling anything. (((they))) did not stop Hitler and the industrial murder machine of the Holocaust. there’s no secret (((cabal))) puppeteering the world, no ZOG, no Jewish space lasers or genies or secretly engineered spy pigeons. facts and logic would seemingly make this easy to understand.
this hatred is not about Medinat Yisrael. yes, there are many problems there, from corrupt/criminal politicians to growing radicalism to violence to societal unrest to ptsd, etc, and those need to be addressed, which is true of most countries on this earth, but those aren’t the reasons for the hatred and the disinformation and the historical revisionism and the cultural erasure. the domestic issues of a nation roughly the size of New Jersey, or even of the conduct, casualties, and destruction as consequences of a terrible war, are not the reason that every comment section on every social media site (sometimes on posts that have nothing to do with Jews!) are brimming with judenhass. they are not the reason that Jews in cities across the world are afraid to openly wear Stars of David and are accosted on the street. that’s just the convenient excuse. the diaspora is sick with antisemitism. it is sick with extremism and the vaunting of demagoguery.
people online celebrating and justifying wholesale slaughter, be that on a kibbutz or a beach in Australia, use political jargon as a cover, thinking it masks the rot underneath the helpful buzzwords. it doesn’t, it’s the same hatred it’s always been.
antisemitism is, as a conspiracy theory, primarily a rejection of facts, logic, the historical record, reality, and, often ultimately a rejection of basic humanity itself. this is its great power, but also its undoing, because societies that indulge in this and allow it to flourish tend to decline and decay. it is never a sign of morality, growth, progress, or liberal values.
