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Corona pandemic opens floodgates for anti-Semitism

New report shows an uptick in the spread of anti-Semitic and anti-Zionist conspiracy theories, along with high-level incitement by officials and activists.

by  Hanan Greenwood
Published on  03-19-2020 17:12
Last modified: 08-19-2020 10:03
Illinois student body passes anti-Israel resolution, hundreds protestCitizenside/Georges Robert

Protestors march behind a banner of the BDS organization in Marseille, southern France, Oct. 25, 2019 | File photo: Citizenside/Georges Robert

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The Israeli Ministry of Strategic Affairs and Public Diplomacy published a new report this week detailing how anti-Israel and anti-Semitic outlets and activists are taking advantage of the global coronavirus pandemic in order to pin blame on Israel.

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In Turkey, a senior official who is close to the president said that the virus "serves Zionist interests" and Turkish bloggers said that the Jews created the virus in order to take over the world.

Iran's PressTV ran a piece clearly insinuating that Israel and the US deliberately "engineered" the novel coronavirus as a form of biological warfare against the Iranian and Chinese regimes.

In France, a local politician shared an anti-Semitic video on social media that promotes the conspiracy theory that the virus was an invention that was designed to "cement Jewish supremacy."

In the US, a torrent of anti-Semitic content flooded twitter after it transpired that about 30 students who had attended The American Israel Public Affairs Committee's annual conference were forced into quarantine over potential exposure to a carrier.

"You created the virus, you started this," one user said with glee. "So you are telling me that I am going to be infected because a Zionist mother tried to talk with the pandemic manager?"

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