Connect the antisemitic dots " Putin could have written the Protocols."

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March 7, 2022 | Reading Time: 7 minutes

Connect the antisemitic dots
“Putin could have written the Protocols.”

Not enough has been said about Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy being Jewish. Not enough, anyway, by the mainstream press in the west. In Russia, though, it has been the subject of intense focus. Why?

Because the fact that a Jew was democratically elected as president by a people once subject to Soviet control is proof of a conspiracy.

A conspiracy against whom? Against Russia.

Huh?

Yeah.

Like white supremacy, antisemitism makes everything seem upside down, backward and prolapsed, because, to many people, the truth is unacceptable. It’s too “dangerous.” It feels better to make-believe.

Vladimir Putin is a neo-Tsarist, a Christian, a militarist and a former secret policeman. You could draw a direct line between him and the Tsarist secret police who cut-and-pasted the Protocols of the Elders of Zion together 120 years ago.
Yet here we are, two weeks into a military invasion premised on a lie – that the Russians must “de-Nazify” Ukraine. Yet the western press corps has for the most part overlooked the role of antisemitism.

The idea behind “deNazify,” as far as I can tell, is that the Russian people are the real victims of Nazism, not Jews, and that Jews exploit memories of the Holocaust to redirect attention away from Russians.

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So much of the unity right now comes from the exhilaration of a David and Goliath story. When things get darker and western economies start to suffer, when oil prices go up, you will hear voices blaming the Jews – and probably more so in the United States than there.

Those voices are getting louder. The Wall Street Journal reported on antisemitic pamphlets being circulated in cities around the country, including the home of the Texas synagogue recently attacked.

I am a great believer in the idea that America is the safest place in the world to be Jewish, but there are a significant number of Americans who would like to change that.

I don’t know what their numbers are, how many are evangelical or neo-Nazis. Those people hate Jews on principle, because of how we fit into the biblical End Times, or because of how we supposedly control the media and finance – the Protocols of the Elders of Zion story.

There are people who hate us because we became “white,” which we did. A lot of the antisemitism you hear from otherwise progressive Black people falls into that category.

There’s a lot of reported antisemitism that I don’t think is antisemitism at all, for instance, the pro-Palestinian activism on college campuses.

But Trumpism draws on this well of paranoia, and antisemitism is the classic expression of it. So naturally, I worry.

When I had a bigger internet presence than I do now, I used to hear from a fair number of Nazis. What was weird was how many wanted me to agree with them – to acknowledge the correctness of their analysis.

A lot of those people were mentally ill, of course. But I think they are tapped into something more universal – the Puritan idea that America is a Christian polity, that its success is a testament to its righteousness. If it doesn’t succeed, what does that mean?

You can blame yourself, you can blame the devil, you can blame the Jesuits, or you can blame the Jews.

The Jews tick off so many of those boxes in their imaginations.
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