antisemitic conspiracy theories

Dr. Hend Al-Muftah, Qatar's ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva. (Screen capture/YouTube)

September 19, 2022, 11:50 pm

Qatar’s UN ambassador denied human rights post after antisemitic, homophobic tweets

Hend Al-Muftah rejected from position after slew of tweets uncovered that called Jews ‘our enemies,’ blamed Israel for 9/11 attacks and labeled gays ‘disgusting’

By Ash Obel

September 16, 2022, 6:16 pm

Qatar UN envoy blamed Israel for 9/11, said LGBT don’t deserve rights, watchdog says

UN Watch says Hend Al-Muftah, nominated to chair world body’s human rights forum, has repeatedly espoused antisemitic views, anti-Western conspiracies in past decade

By TOI staff

In this July 11, 2013, photo, Scarlett Lewis, center, mother of Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victim Jesse Lewis, hugs Lynn McDonnell, left, mother of victim Grace McDonnell, as Neil Heslin, right, father of Jesse Lewis watches after a public forum in Newtown, Connecticut. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill)

August 23, 2022, 1:52 am

Sandy Hook ‘hoax’ trial shows how false narratives are fed and spread, warns author

In her new book, ‘Sandy Hook: An American Tragedy and the Battle for Truth,’ NYT journalist Elizabeth Williamson sounds the alarm on more pernicious conspiracy theories

By Rich Tenorio

Marchers bearing the insignia of the white supremacist group Patriot Front parade through Boston Common on July 2, 2022, in Boston. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)

July 9, 2022, 7:54 am

‘They’re all lying to us’: The dangerous rise of conspiracy theories

Distrust now runs so deep that even US groups that seem ideologically aligned are questioning each others’ motives and intentions, with fascist marchers accused of being FBI

By David Klepper

A map of purported connections between Jewish groups and other organizations in Massachusetts created by The Mapping Project. (Screenshot/JTA)

June 11, 2022, 3:59 am

Pro-Palestinian group posts map of Massachusetts naming local ‘Zionist leaders’

Jewish arts group, schools, synagogues among network alleged to be responsible for wide-ranging societal harms by the anonymous page, which also names the organizations’ staffers

By Andrew Lapin

Author and conspiracy theory expert Mike Rothschild (Courtesy/ via JTA)

June 1, 2022, 4:17 am

A conspiracy-debunking Rothschild is writing the book about Jewish space lasers

Professional mythbuster Mike Rothschild isn’t related to the well-known banking family, but he’s out to expose the antisemitic theories that, left unchecked, can lead to violence

By Asaf Shalev

Screen capture from video of Stephen Sizer at the Christ at the Checkpoint conference in 2010, Bethlehem. (YouTube)

May 30, 2022, 9:32 am

Church of England vicar who shared article blaming Israel for 9/11 faces removal

Disciplinary tribunal formed after Jewish umbrella group highlights series of alleged antisemitic acts by Stephen Sizer, who also met with a Hezbollah leader

By TOI staff

Police walk along the perimeter of the scene after a shooting at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York, May 14, 2022. (AP Photo/Joshua Bessex)

May 15, 2022, 7:30 am

Manifesto attributed to Buffalo shooting suspect pushes antisemitic conspiracies

Screed posted online by Payton Gendron before mass shooting espouses white supremacist, anti-Black and anti-Jewish conspiracy theories; urges ‘real war’ against the Jewish people

By Luke Tress

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, right, and Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid enter a hall for talks in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, Sept. 9, 2021. (Alexander Nemenov/Pool Photo via AP)

May 2, 2022, 10:12 am

Israel demands apology for Russian FM’s ‘unforgivable’ claim Hitler had Jewish blood

Bennett blasts Lavrov’s ‘lies’ as FM summons envoy for ‘clarification’; Lavrov had defended ‘denazification’ of Zelensky-run Ukraine by saying ‘some of worst antisemites are Jews’

By TOI staff

A poster of the exhibition 'The Vienna Rothschilds - A Thriller' is displayed in front of the entrance of the Jewish Museum in Vienna on February 11, 2022. (ALEX HALADA / AFP)

April 29, 2022, 8:17 pm

Vienna exhibit explores persistence of conspiracy theories around the Rothschilds

Jewish Museum examines why the banking dynasty continues to be blamed for many of the world’s ills and how the family name became a codeword used by antisemites

By Blaise GAUQUELIN and eva WACKENREUTHER

An antisemitic meme espousing conspiracy theories that was posted in a far-right Telegram chat on March 4, 2022. (Screenshot)

March 5, 2022, 12:36 am

White supremacists condemn Ukraine conflict as a ‘brother war’; some blame Jews

Far-right extremists decry killing of white people in war, don’t pick a side overall; but the theme of supposed Jewish puppet masters is a recurring one

By Luke Tress

Illustrative -- German police officers in Frankfurt, Germany, Oct.7, 2020 (AP Photo/Michael Probst)

February 18, 2022, 10:45 pm

German police: Antisemitic conspiracies were a factor in man killing own family

Germany’s interior ministry says man, who later killed himself, believed COVID vaccines were part of an effort to ‘establish a new world order under Jewish leadership’

By AP

Police at a security cordon as a huge fire engulfs the Grenfell Tower in West London, June 14, 2017. (AFP Photo/Daniel Leal-Olivas)

February 13, 2022, 10:36 am

Woman who called deadly 2017 London fire a ‘Jewish sacrifice’ jailed for 11 months

Tahra Ahmed, 51, is found guilty of stirring up race hate in aftermath of Grenfell Tower blaze that claimed 72 lives

By TOI staff

This file photo from August 31, 2017, shows a Barnes & Noble Booksellers store in Pittsburgh. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)

January 28, 2022, 12:20 am

Barnes & Noble removes ‘The Protocols of the Elders of Zion’ from website

Bookseller says the fabricated antisemitic text was automatically put on its online store from ‘standard industry databases’ before it was removed following social media outcry

By CALEB GUEDES-REED

A sceren image of a post by artist Manfred Kielnhofer from Austria depicting an Israeli flag with a star of David made up of syringes and one of his statues. (Facebook via JTA)

January 21, 2022, 7:15 pm

Austrian artist under fire after posting Star of David made of syringes

Two cities plan to remove statues by Manfred Kielnhofer following his use of antisemitic tropes in protest against vaccine mandate

By Cnaan Liphshiz