The simplest way to think about antisemitism is that it is a conspiracy theory. What differentiates hatred of Jews from many other prejudices is that it is often not grounded in the idea that one group of people is supposedly superior to another. Rather, as the writer Yair Rosenberg explains, it is predicated on a lie about how the world ‘really’ works.
It is a conspiracy theory that allows for Jews to be both capitalists and Bolsheviks, controllers of the media, banks and the global war machine. That Jews (which ones?) congregate (where?) to manage world affairs (will there be food after?) If this were true, then any action taken against this nefarious group of people would surely be legitimate?
