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Passengers from flydubai flight FZ1073 walk with their family members through the arrivals hall at Ben Gurion International Airport near Tel Aviv, September 30, 2026. (Flash90)
October 6, 2026, 6:37 am
‘Bibiwood’: Flydubai attack spawns online conspiracy theories
After terror attack thwarted on plane full of Israelis, claims pop up on social media that the incident was a so-called false flag meant to engender global sympathy for Israel
By Ruth Eglash
Moshe Feiglin attends a hearing at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, August 3, 2026. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
September 4, 2026, 2:56 pm
How far-right outcast Moshe Feiglin resurrected his political career
After years on the political fringes, the fundamentalist whom Netanyahu once pushed out of Likud has secured spot No. 2 on Smotrich’s slate, putting a senior ministerial post well within his reach
By Shalom Yerushalmi
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and his wife Sara at a state ceremony marking the Hebrew calendar anniversary of the Hamas attack on October 7, 2023, at Mount Herzl military cemetery in Jerusalem on October 27, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/FLASH90)
September 3, 2026, 4:51 pm
The horrific October 7 ‘betrayal’ libel is now central to Likud’s official election campaign
Instead of taking responsibility for the country’s greatest failure, Netanyahu and his colleagues are peddling a false and despicable conspiracy theory against the defense establishment
By Shalom Yerushalmi
Yair Golan, leader of The Democrats party and a former IDF deputy chief of staff, speaks during an election campaign rally in Netanya, Israel, August 27, 2026. (Gili Yaari/Flash90)
September 1, 2026, 7:36 pm
Yair Golan warns Sara Netanyahu of $825,000 suit for airing Oct. 7 conspiracy theory
Democrats leader, who rescued multiple people from Nova festival, tells PM’s wife to donate to rave’s survivors and retract suggestion he had advance knowledge of Hamas onslaught
By ToI Staff and Michael Bachner
Left: Sara Netanyahu in a Channel 14 interview broadcast on August 31, 2026. Right: Yair Golan, October 14, 2023. (Screenshot/Channel 14; Kan TV screenshot)
September 1, 2026, 6:49 am
Sara Netanyahu pushes conspiracy theory that left-wing leader Golan had advance knowledge of Oct. 7
Golan, former deputy chief of staff, dashed to fight at Nova after invasion; his party decries ‘slander’ that ‘crosses a red line bordering on insanity’; PM’s wife also avoids ruling out ‘treason’ by security chiefs, which her husband has dismissed
By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff
Journalists that were in attendance for the White House Correspondents Dinner prepare for a press briefing at the Washington Hilton following an incident that disrupted the event, Saturday, April 25, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Allison Robbert)
April 28, 2026, 2:14 am
Reporters covered correspondents’ dinner shooting in real time. Conspiracies still spread
Even though there was no information vacuum, unfounded theories proliferated from both the left and the right, chief among them that the shooting was staged
By Melissa Goldin
Joseph Kent appears before a Senate Committee on Intelligence hearing for his pending confirmation to be director of the NCTC, on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, April 9, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Rod Lamkey, Jr.)
March 17, 2026, 6:32 pm
A top US counterterror official quits over Iran war, claims Israel tricked Trump into it
Joseph Kent, whose ties to extremists and conspiracy theories drew scrutiny, says US president was ‘deceived’ into launching attack, also says Israel ‘drew’ US into Iraq war
By Jacob Magid and Agencies
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses conspiracy theories claiming he is dead, in a video posted on March 15, 2026. (@netanyahu via X)
March 15, 2026, 8:17 pm
In video, Netanyahu mocks conspiracy theories about his death
Visiting a Jerusalem Hills cafe, premier debunks claim his recent live press conference was AI-generated, quips that he is ‘dying’ for coffee
Demonstrators protest the US and Israeli strikes on Iran on February 28, 2026, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
March 5, 2026, 5:22 am
A new war revives some old tropes about Jewish and Israeli influence
Echoing antisemitic conspiracy theories spread during the 2003 Iraq conflict, some claim the ‘Zionist war machine’ is manipulating the US — but this time there are key differences
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
A 15th-century drawing of the Khazars, the Central Asian people, demanding tribute from the Polyans. (Wikimedia Commons)
February 28, 2026, 2:44 am
Why Tucker Carlson pushed for Jewish DNA tests, and the Khazar theory touted by antisemites
The discredited view alluded to in an interview last week promotes the idea that Ashkenazi Jews hold illegitimate claims to Israel — and it’s employed by the far-left and far-right
By Andrew Lapin
David Zini seen with ultra-Orthodox soldiers from the IDF's Hasmonean Brigade, at the Western Wall in Jerusalem, on August 6, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
February 26, 2026, 9:18 pm
‘There was no treason’: Shin Bet chief rejects conspiracy theories of Israeli collaborators on October 7
Zini tells security agency’s leadership there was no cooperation with the enemy, as Netanyahu remains publicly silent on pervasive, baseless claims
By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff
Carrie Prejean Boller speaks during the White House Religious Liberty Commission public hearing on February 9, 2026. (Screenshot via JTA)
February 11, 2026, 11:30 pm
Former Miss California ousted from White House commission following antisemitism row
Carrie Prejean Boller initially refused to step down from religious liberty advisory body after derailing a panel on Jew-hatred with repeated claims anti-Zionism isn’t antisemitic
By Grace Gilson
Rep. Ritchie Torres, a pro-Israel Democrat, is facing two challengers who are taking aim at his support for Israel and, at times, the Jews in their Bronx district. (Collage by Grace Yagel/ JTA)
January 31, 2026, 6:44 pm
Ritchie Torres’s primary challengers criticize his pro-Israel views, take aim at ‘rich Zios’
15th Congressional District candidate Jose Vega has made Riverdale, which is packed with synagogues, a focus of his campaign, as other progressive challengers slam AIPAC funding
By Joseph Strauss
Nalin Haley (L) speaks to Tucker Carlson (R) on the latter's podcast, in an interview published November 19, 2025. (Screen capture, The Tucker Carlson Show on YouTube)
November 21, 2025, 10:01 pm
Tucker Carlson, amid Fuentes fallout, asks Nikki Haley’s son about ‘Israel question’
24-year-old Nalin Haley, on podcast to talk about views of young right-wing men, says he doesn’t think Israel is ‘evil,’ but ‘they need to stop interfering in our politics’
By ToI Staff
The welcome to Roswell sign includes UFO decor. (Larry Luxner/ JTA)
November 15, 2025, 5:29 am
Roswell, New Mexico, is rife with UFOs, scorpions and conspiracy theories — but few Jews
A Jewish ufologist helped put the isolated desert town on the map, but in a city forged around the religion of aliens, Jewish life is virtually nonexistent
By Larry Luxner
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