A Jewish Fifth Column
A Jewish 'fifth column'
A comprehensive resource with examples and explanations of different forms of antisemitism. Browse by category or search for specific topics.
Historical religious narratives used against Jews
Traditional antisemitic tropes and imagery
Denial, distortion, and minimisation
Antisemitism disguised as political criticism
Conspiracy theories targeting Jews
Denial of Jewish identity and experiences
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A Jewish 'fifth column'
To see the whole Gallery of Antisemitism, visit https://www.saasuk.org/gallery-of-antisemitism/ To contact us, visit https://www.saasuk.org/contact-us/ Jews, Israel and Zionism: Accusing those who fig
Example 17: Accusing Jews who raise antisemitism of being antisemitic, for spurious reasons: The late David Graeber has put the view that exaggerating antisemitism on the left, i
Allegations of dual loyalty
Example 49: Responding unsympathetically to concerns about antisemitism by saying that it does not exist if it is not illegal: This is another instance of people apparently regarding antisemitism as a...
To see the whole Gallery of Antisemitism, visit https://www.saasuk.org/gallery-of-antisemitism/ To contact us, visit https://www.saasuk.org/contact-us/ Jews, Israel and Zionism : Blaming Jews generall
Blaming Jews themselves, or Israel, rather than antisemites, for the rise in antisemitism:
Example 19: Blaming Jews (or Zionists) for the Holocaust
Blood Libel
Claiming that Jews demand special status:
To see the whole Gallery of Antisemitism, visit https://www.saasuk.org/gallery-of-antisemitism/ To contact us, visit https://www.saasuk.org/contact-us/ Components of Conspiracy Theories: Using βcode-w
Example 40: Conspiracy theories featuring Israel: For dedicated antisemites, it is important to associate Jews as strongly as possible with the most undesirable and hated world phenomena
Example 43: Covid conspiracy theory: To bring this account right up to date as of November 2020, we take a look at how conspiracy theories have been applied to the Covid-19 pandemic, including their i...
Example 41: Cultural Marxism conspiracy theory and White Genocide/Replacement theory: We feature here two right-wing conspiracies with strong antisemitic components
Example 44: Denying that Jews are an ethnic group, and claiming that they are just a religious group: Many antisemites claim that being Jewish is only a matter of religion, not of ethnicity
Distortion of Jewish scripture β for example, claiming that the Talmud says that paedophilia is acceptable
Example 50: Erasure of antisemitism β βdenialism' & 'minimisationβ: This could include claiming that antisemitism is not a significant problem, or doesnβt exist at all, in society or in a section ...
To see the whole Gallery of Antisemitism, visit https://www.saasuk.org/gallery-of-antisemitism/ To contact us, visit https://www.saasuk.org/contact-us/ Example 26: Expecting Jews to denounce, or state
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Example 37: 'False flag' narratives: A βfalse flagβ incident is an act committed with the intent of disguising the actual source of responsibility and pinning blame on a second party: for example, set...
Holocaust comparisons'
Holocaust denial and minimisation
Holocaust inversion:
Host desecration libel
Jewish love of money:
Jewish responsibility for capitalism (or indeed communism):
Example 34: 'Jews conspire to subvert democracy': In the following examples, βIsraelβs handβ is accused of undermining the former leader of the Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn
Example 35: 'Jews control the whole banking and financial system': This is possibly one of the commonest current forms of antisemitism, popularised by the Nazis in their propaganda
To see the whole Gallery of Antisemitism, visit https://www.saasuk.org/gallery-of-antisemitism/ To contact us, visit https://www.saasuk.org/contact-us/ Components of Conspiracy Theories: 'Jews control
Example 47: Stating that Jews have no culture of their own but stole all their traditions, art, etc
Judas and 30 pieces of silver
Maliciously mocking Jewish teachings and traditions:
Example 39: 'Nation of Islam' conspiracy theory: The Nation of Islam (NOI) is a US-based African-American political and religious movement founded in 1930 by Wallace Fard Muhammed, and now under the l...
Nazi white supremacy β Dehumanisation of Jewish people, using Nazi symbols or motifs:
Example 36: Overestimating the power of the Jewish-majority state, Israel: We discussed the 'Israel lobby' in Example 30 in the 'Jews, Israel and Zionism' section, with particular reference to Britain...
Example 38: Protocols of Zion and David Icke: To summarise information given in the Introduction to this section, the infamous 1902 forgery, the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion purports to rev...
Saying we have heard enough about the Holocaust
Example 46: Separation of Jews by non-Jews into βrealβ and βnot realβ groups: This form of antisemitism is one that is more often found on what is sometimes described as the βcrankβ left than amongst ...
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The assumption that all Jews are rich, or that criticism of the rich is antisemitic:
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Example 45: The Khazar myth: The Khazar myth is another way of distorting what is known about Jewish ethnicity and so erasing Jews as a people
The myth of 'Jewish criminality'
Example 42: The QAnon conspiracy theory: No section about contemporary antisemitic conspiracy theory, sadly, can be regarded as complete without including the QAnon theory, which began to emerge in th...
Example 48: The claim that the word antisemitism was stolen by Jews off the other people of Semitic origin: We have seen above that antisemites have attempted to show that Jews are not a people, or do...
Trivialising or mocking the Holocaust, or any other historical example of Jewish suffering:
To see the whole Gallery of Antisemitism, visit https://www.saasuk.org/gallery-of-antisemitism/ To contact us, visit https://www.saasuk.org/contact-us/ Jews, Israel and Zionism: Zionist/Zionism used a