anti-Semitic conspiracy theories

Labour MP Afzal Khan (Wikimedia Commons/CC BY-SA 3.0)

July 29, 2019, 11:10 am

Senior UK Labour MP apologizes for posting ‘anti-Semitic conspiracy’ video

Shadow immigration minister Afzal Khan in 2015 shared a clip that denounced ‘Israel-British-Swiss-Rothschilds crime syndicate,’ says he is ‘mortified’ and ‘didn’t read the text’

By TOI staff and JTA

In this photo released by official website of the office of the Iranian Presidency, President Hassan Rouhani, right, and Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA, Yukiya Amano shake hands for media at the start of their meeting at the Presidency office in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, December 18, 2016. (Iranian Presidency Office/AP)

July 24, 2019, 10:25 am

Iranian news agency blames Israel for death of UN nuclear watchdog chief

Government-linked Tasnim claims Yukiya Amano was killed for refusing to bow to pressure from Jerusalem and Washington; IAEA dismisses report

By TOI staff

Illustrative: A United Parcel Service driver delivers packages from Amazon.com in Palo Alto, California, June 30, 2011. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)

July 13, 2019, 5:06 pm

German Jewish leader condemns anti-Semitic items on Amazon

Books currently for sale on the online retailer include ‘The Jew as World Parasite’ and ‘Judas: The World Enemy’, as well as pro-Nazi merchandise

By AFP and TOI staff

Ben Garrison drew this cartoon in 2017. It shows George Soros being manipulated by a hand of the Rothschilds, and Soros in turn manipulating Trump’s former National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster and retired Gen. David Petraeus. (Ben Garrison/Twitter via JTA)

July 10, 2019, 9:40 pm

Cartoonist disinvited from White House defends drawing panned as anti-Semitic

Ben Garrison says his cartoon portraying George Soros and the Rothschilds manipulating US officials is not a conspiracy but historical fact

By Josefin Dolsten

California State Assemblyman Tyler Diep ran this ad against Democrat Josh Lowenthal in their campaign last year. (Twitter)

July 6, 2019, 1:47 am

California lawmaker apologizes for depicting Jewish opponent clutching dollars

Tyler Diep had defended last year’s mailer, but after meeting this week with local Jewish leaders now says he’s sorry

By JTA

Czech journalist Michal Semin (YouTube screenshot)

June 16, 2019, 3:24 am

Czechs alarmed as populist leaders take aim at public media

Journalist who has blamed US elites for 9/11 and said Israel benefited from the attacks likely to be appointed to influential media oversight post

By Jan Flemr

Mel Gibson, right, directs Jim Caviezel on the set of Gibson's movie 'The Passion of The Christ' in 2003 (AP/Icon Productions, File)

May 15, 2019, 11:17 am

Mel Gibson rep: ‘Rothchild’ movie unrelated to Jews

Actor known for a drunken anti-Semitic rant will star in film with name targeted by anti-Semitic conspiracy theories

By JTA and TOI staff

Actor Mel Gibson poses for photographers upon arrival at the premiere of the film 'Daddys Home 2', in London, Thursday, Nov. 16, 2017. (Photo by Vianney Le Caer/Invision/AP)

May 14, 2019, 12:34 am

Mel Gibson to play a super-rich ‘Rothchild’ in upcoming comedy

Actor notorious for anti-Jewish rant will be joined by Shia LaBeouf in film that apparently parodies Jewish banking family often at center of anti-Semitic conspiracy theories

By Gabe Friedman

Ahmed Bhamji, the chairman of Masjid E Umar mosque in Auckland, New Zealand, speaks during a rally on March 23, 2019. (Screenshot: Facebook)

March 29, 2019, 10:23 pm

New Zealand Muslim leader dismisses colleague’s claims Mossad ordered killings

Head of mosque alleged Israeli intelligence, Zionist businesses behind massacre in Christchurch that killed 50

By henry Benjamin and TOI staff

Clockwise from lower left:'No. 44 Le baron James,' France, 1900 (Courtesy USHMM); Rembrandt, 'Judas Returning the Thirty Pieces of Silver,' 1629, (Courtesy National Gallery London); '11th Commandment: Get all you can, keep what you get, give away nothing,' England, 1830 (Courtesy Jewish Museum London)

March 22, 2019, 10:26 pm

This shocking exhibit reexamines age-old anti-Semitic trope of Jews and Money

Opened March 19, the show at London’s Jewish Museum doesn’t shy away from revealing to the public the extent of vicious anti-Semitic portrayals, past and present

By Jenni Frazer

Australia's Anti-Defamation Commission chairman Dvir Abramovich. (Courtesy)

March 3, 2019, 4:33 pm

Australian Jewish leader gets ‘chilling barrage’ of online anti-Semitic abuse

Anti-Defamation Commission head says he has contacted police over torrent of hateful messages following campaign to bar British conspiracy theorist David Icke

By Michael Bachner

David Icke (Tyler Merbler / Flickr/ Wikipedia)

February 20, 2019, 11:20 am

Slammed as ‘Holocaust denier,’ David Icke barred from Australia

Opposition MP says British conspiracy theorist, who has written about reptilians and ‘Rothschilds’ controlling the world, prevented from ‘spouting his vitriol’

By AFP and TOI staff

Sainte-Genevieve-des-Bois mayor Frederic Petitta, left, listens to a speech by French writer Emilie Freche, on February 13, 2019 in Sainte-Genevieve-des-Bois, at a ceremony honoring Ilan Halimi, two days after two trees planted in memory of the 23-year-old Jewish man abducted and killed over a decade ago by an anti-Semitic gang were found vandalized. (Bertrand Guay/AFP)

February 13, 2019, 10:13 pm

France’s ‘vile passions’ resurface in anti-Jewish graffiti

As poll finds nearly half of ‘yellow vest’ protesters believe in worldwide ‘Zionist plot’ and amid spate of anti-Jewish acts, one local says ‘French society is in trouble’

By Anne CHAON

Democratic Representative Ilhan Omar of Minnesota speaks at a press conference calling on Congress to cut funding for US Immigration and Customs Enforcement and to defund border detention facilities, outside the US Capitol in Washington, on February 7, 2019. (Saul Loeb/AFP)

February 12, 2019, 7:42 am

Twitter dustup, apology not firsts for Representative Ilhan Omar

Minnesota Democrat’s tweeted accusation that AIPAC paid US lawmakers to support Israel drew condemnations from across the political spectrum

By Amy Forliti

Amelia Womack, Deputy Leader of the UK's Green Party, seen in a campaign video from august 2016. (screen capture: YouTube)

January 26, 2019, 1:52 am

Deputy leader of UK Green Party apologizes for tweeting anti-Semitic image

Amelia Womack says she initially thought cartoon of Grim Reaper in US flag carrying Star of David scythe was criticizing American imperialism

By TOI staff