Conspiracy Theories Featuring Israel

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. This has, as we pointed out in the introductory section, a long history, was amplified with ghastly consequences by the Nazis, and still carries on today.

In contemporary world affairs, where the majority-Jewish state of Israel exists, many antisemites have found it most convenient to claim that Israel is responsible for disasters, as we mentioned earlier. Israel has been blamed for the 9/11 atrocity, starting with rumours circulating on the internet that Jews employed in the Twin Towers were warned not to come into work that day (despite the fact that Jews died in 9/11). Another example is the bizarre claim that Israel (sometimes along with ‘The West’) somehow created or has sponsored the radical Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), with the aim of destabilising and Balkanising the Middle East – ‘evidence’ includes stating that ISIS has never killed any Jews (which is untrue), and pointing out that ISIS has never attacked Israel – of course this was because ISIS did not have the necessary military capacity, not because they did not want to. Israel is also supposed to have intervened in other Middle Eastern conflicts, for example by funding Islamic terrorist attacks in Egypt, or by infiltrating the White Helmets in Syria, who are said to have lied about the source of chemical attacks.

Antisemitic conspiracy theory is ultimately about blaming the Jews for as many of world society’s ills as possible, and this is a contemporary example which fits this bill exactly.

Note that it is not unusual for these conspiracy theories to be shared by left-wing people who claim to be anti-Zionist but not antisemitic, see the first examples below. We beg to differ with them on this.