Sublime

Antisemitism is at heart a conspiracy theory, and one appeal of conspiracy theories is that they absolve their believers of accountability, replacing the difficult obligation to build relationships with the easy urge to destroy.

(For the record, the number of actual “righteous Gentiles” officially recognized by Yad Vashem, Israel’s national Holocaust museum and research center, for their efforts in rescuing Jews from the Holocaust is under 30,000 people, out of a European population at the time of nearly 300 million—or .001 percent. Even if we were to assume that the

The consequent claim, namely, that Zionism is the “monster” that fuels antisemitism, holds the Jews themselves accountable for prejudice against them. This recasting of Zionism as a causal factor of antisemitism, rather than an authentic Jewish response to it, is a uniquely leftist contribution to antisemitic doctrine. It is, moreover, intimately

When Hitler seized Poland in 1939, the region of western Ukraine known as Galicia that had until then been under Polish control suddenly fell to Moscow. Stalin and his Ukrainian Communist Party subordinate Nikita Khrushchev wasted no time in purging the region of anyone who might possibly fight the Soviet Union’s annexation: farmers who resisted

conspiratorial touchstone The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, and his reading of publications fixated on the Rothschilds and on claims that Israel plotted 9/11. Then there is the fact that the murders took place on the tenth anniversary of 9/11, that two of the targets were Jewish with ties to Israel, and finally that there was a ritualistic