anti-Semitic conspiracy theories

FILE - In this June 19, 1938 file picture, the word Jude (jew) is smeared to the windows of a shop in Berlin run by Jews. (AP Photo, file)

April 8, 2021, 8:53 am

Holocaust survivors use social media to show how words ‘stoke the fires of hate’

Campaign starting on Holocaust Remembrance Day comes after study found COVID lockdowns shifted anti-Semitic hate online, where conspiracists blamed Jews for pandemic’s devastation

By David Rising

Alison Chabloz. (Screen capture: YouTube)

From the WebApril 1, 2021, 10:22 am

Holocaust denier jailed in UK for barrage of online anti-Semitic abuse

Far-right activist Alison Chabloz accused Jews of turning their children into ‘psychopathic maniacs’ and running ‘anything that’s worth controlling,’ the UK’s Jewish News reports

Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene, center, and Lauren Boebert, left, are seen during a group photo with freshmen members of the House Republican Conference in Washington, DC, January 4, 2021. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images/ via JTA/ SUE)

February 13, 2021, 3:52 am

How Jewish constituents describe their new congresswomen who’ve supported QAnon

Freshmen Republicans Lauren Boebert and Marjorie Taylor Greene have lent credibility to anti-Semitic conspiracy theories, but Jews in their rural constituencies are on the fence

By Ben Sales

US Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, Republican of Georgia, leaves her office on Capitol Hill on February 3, 2021 in Washington, DC (ALEX EDELMAN / AFP)

February 5, 2021, 12:23 pm

She said what? A look at US Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s incendiary words

The freshman congresswoman has been in hot water over racist remarks, embrace of conspiracy theories and past endorsement of violence against leading Democrats

By BRIAN SLODYSKO

President John F. Kennedy is seen riding in motorcade approximately one minute before he was shot in Dallas, Tx., on Nov. 22, 1963. In the car riding with Kennedy are Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy, right, Nellie Connally, left, and her husband, Gov. John Connally of Texas. (AP Photo/Jim Altgens)

February 5, 2021, 5:05 am

Marjorie Taylor Greene liked a tweet implicating Mossad in JFK assassination

Approval of post from November 2018 is one of several instances of her support for anti-Semitic, racist conspiracy theories

By Ron Kampeas

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., walks back to her office after speaking on the floor of the House Chamber on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 4, 2021. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

February 5, 2021, 3:48 am

Taylor Greene kicked off US House committees for hateful conspiracy theories

11 Republicans support move as Georgia representative backtracks from support of QAnon and 9/11 trutherism, but fails to apologize for anti-Semitic, racist and violent comments

By Alan Fram and BRIAN SLODYSKO

In this Sunday, January 3, 2021, file photo, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., wears a 'Trump Won' face mask as she arrives on the floor of the House to take her oath of office on opening day of the 117th Congress at the US Capitol in Washington. (Erin Scott/Pool Photo via AP)

February 3, 2021, 6:04 am

Democrats seek to censure, expel QAnon-backing Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene

One resolution would formally rebuke Trump-backing congresswoman, another would remove her from all committee assignments and third would boot her from House entirely

By Jacob Magid

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., speaks as President Donald Trump listens at a campaign rally in support of Senate candidates Sen. Kelly Loeffler, R-Ga., and David Perdue in Dalton, Georgia, Monday, January 4, 2021. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)

February 2, 2021, 4:16 am

McConnell slams Greene’s ‘looney lies,’ calls them a ‘cancer’ for Republicans

Top Republican denounces QAnon-embracing, conspiracy theory-spouting Georgia lawmaker as Democrats move to formally rebuke her

By BRIAN SLODYSKO

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., gestures as US President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally in support of Senate candidates Sen. Kelly Loeffler, R-Ga., and David Perdue in Dalton, Ga., Monday, Jan. 4, 2021. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)

January 29, 2021, 6:08 pm

RJC slams Marjorie Taylor Greene’s ‘indefensible’ Jewish space laser comments

Republican Jewish Coalition chief calls lawmaker’s anti-Semitic conspiracy theories ‘unacceptable,’ but won’t say if he will press for her to be removed from House committees

By Ron Kampeas

In this January 6, 2021 photo, supporters of President Donald Trump gather outside the US Capitol in Washington. (AP Photo/Shafkat Anowar)

January 14, 2021, 8:12 am

‘It pierces the heart’: Jewish leaders alarmed over anti-Semitism in Capitol mob

US community heads say riot was not so much a ‘tipping point’ for Jew hatred, but rather ‘the latest explicit example of how it animates the narratives of extremists’

By ELANA SCHOR

Photos of Hitler CC-SA-3.0/Budesarchiv Bild. (Collage by The Times of Israel)

November 9, 2020, 2:31 pm

75 years after fall of Third Reich, Hitler conspiracy theories even more viral

Historian Richard Evans’ new book ‘The Hitler Conspiracies’ details the revival and unparalleled propagation of falsehoods about Nazi Germany — and the dangers this poses today

By Robert Philpot

Supporters stand for the national anthem before a rally for US President Donald Trump on October 23, 2020 in Pensacola, Florida. (Jonathan Bachman/Getty Images/AFP)

October 26, 2020, 5:15 pm

Hispanic voters in Florida targeted with anti-Semitic conspiracy theories

Racist disinformation campaigns appear to be specifically aimed at state’s Latino community in bid to sow distrust in US electoral system

By Leila Macor

George Soros, founder and chairman of the Open Society Foundations, attends the annual meeting of the European Council On Foreign Relations, in Paris, France, May 29, 2018. (Francois Mori/ AP)

October 19, 2020, 11:08 pm

Jewish Republican congressional candidate calls George Soros ‘Nazi sympathizer’

Eric Early tweets false accusation against billionaire megadonor in response to claims of anti-Semitism from Jewish incumbent Adam Schiff

By Ben Sales

In this Nov. 15, 2007, photo, US Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, left, sits with his wife Virginia Thomas, as he is introduced at the Federalist Society in Washington(AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

October 15, 2020, 6:38 am

US Supreme Court judge’s wife: George Soros ‘really running the Democrat Party’

Ginni Thomas, a conservative activist and wife of Clarence Thomas, calls family of Jewish philanthropist ‘evil’ in latest conspiracy theory post

By Ben Sales

A group of Germans who follow the QAnon conspiracy theory protest in Berlin, August 29, 2020. (Sean Gallup/Getty Images via JTA)

September 20, 2020, 4:23 am

QAnon an old form of anti-Semitism in a new package, say experts

Some of those tracking conspiracy theory note its use of tropes, vocabulary of anti-Semitic propaganda and blood libels throughout history

By Ben Sales