Antisemitism is a conspiracy theory!!
Darkly through the looking glass I've fallen eyes wide open down the rabbit hole of conspiracy that is antisemitism, and I'm taking you with me
Recently, I was sitting in the hot tub at the gym and overhead two Muslim men literally say the words “he’s infatuated with Jewish identity and power… they do it for the land and money don’t care about the people… it’s the work of the devil..” the “…” is where I wasn’t sure what they said. I was so shocked to hear this shit in person in a public hot tub and there were other people there, not paying attention and on their phones. For half a second I debated playing a curious white liberal and saying “I’m sorry what? Did you just say Jewish identity is power and the devils work?” And I kinda wanted to ask if Muslims believe in the devil cus I hadn’t heard of that before- but my saner brain won out and I just pretended not to hear them and didn’t engage. Also it made a lot of things click for me- they’re afraid of Jewish power and they hate us cus we are powerful- somehow we’ve survived 3000 years of violence and hate and yet we’ve outlived every empire to try to take us down- we must be powerful.
I feel like I’m Alice peering down a bottomless pit of a rabbit hole as I watch the endless conspiracies pointed at me and the Jewish people. They’re all different but they’re all the same, they all come to the antisemitic point of no return on the triangle that is the tip of the ice berg. Whether it’s Hamas’ red triangle or the tip of conspiracy theories, they all become a deadly spear. The globalists, elites, Zionists, lizard people, cabal, run the world. And once you’ve seen it there is no unseeing it. There is no turning back. There is no way out.
I’ve warned you that you won’t be able to unsee what comes next, but I encourage you for the sake of society and civilization to watch this educational video about different types of conspiracy theories.
Watch Abbie Richard’s video and watch it again. Really! It is important to understand each level of the pyramid, of ungrounding from reality, of science denial. Circular logic. Learn the steps to the antisemitic point of no return. If you know someone past this point and want to help them leave the rabbit hole read through Abbie’s resources on her website. But this article isn’t about them- it’s about us, and me, and עם ישראל חי.
As Jews we are living on the flip side of the triangle as victims of this conspiracy theory. We are in the upside down- where somehow only Jews and our few allies have the eyeballs and moral clarity to see the hostages suffering, actually call the Amsterdam pogrom a pogrom and notice the rest of the antisemitism in the world but yet “all eyes are on Rafah”. Or is it Beirut this week where recently BBC ran a headline that dehumanized Israelis? Funny how they didn’t ask if Israelis or Jews are human post 10/7 or the Amsterdam pogroms or, or, or….
Anyway this is about how all conspiracy theories end in antisemitism.
It’s so fucking heavy having the crushing weight of this pyramid on my chest. I feel insane and not grounded in reality. Conspiracy theories at the top of the chart, past the point of no return are basically mathematically impossible. And yet I myself believe in a conspiracy theory- because I am a victim of one. Or many. But actually they all come back to one conspiracy theory- antisemitism itself.
So tell me everything is not about me, but what if it is!?!
-People Love Dead Jews, Dara Horn
But it’s not that I believe in a conspiracy theory- it’s that I am “awakened” to use their words- to the fact that this insidious conspiracy theory has embedded itself into society for the past 3000 years, and I cannot unsee its tentacles and its consequences.
They say what doesn’t kill you makes you aware. What happens when it becomes who you are?
And yet we have to laugh or we will actually literally physically go insane:
It is not just that all conspiracy theories end in antisemitism- it is that antisemitism itself is the world’s most successful and longest lasting conspiracy theory.
To be clear, being a victim of a conspiracy theory that is 3000 years old is a) fucking traumatic to mentally process- talk about generational trauma, and b) does not mean that I myself have fallen into the science denial and antisemitic point of no return. It means that I am now hyper aware of conspiratorial thinking.
then say they didn’t do it to hurt me, but what if they did!?!
I am through the mirror darkly- on the other side of the conspiracy theory- Jews are the dark mirror of society. And we are both oppressor and the oppressed. We are the capitalists and the communists. The apostates and yet the true origin of the faith. Every contradiction, every evil and benign- are we. And yet we do not own our model minority myth successes either. We are to blame and be punished for any achievement (for it is not our individual merit that achieved it) but our chosen status as members of the tribe. Never mind if the stereotype of Jews in Hollywood or Jewish bankers comes from Jews being forced into those jobs that were considered too garish gaudy and gauche for goyim and barred from more “respectable” professions.
As explored in Sara Lipton’s book Dark Mirror: The Medieval Origins of Anti-Jewish Iconography, on medieval Jewish imagery and depictions of Jews by Christian Europe, the role of the Jew was developed to be that of a viewer, an observer, an outsider, to become societies dark mirror into which to place its sins. Lipton “ maps out the complex relationship between medieval Christians' religious ideas, social experience, and developing artistic practices that drove their depiction of Jews from benign, if exoticized, figures connoting ancient wisdom to increasingly vicious portrayals inspired by (and designed to provoke) fear and hostility.” The reason art shows us as a spectrum of exotic figures of ancient wisdom, to out of date blind non acceptors of the true faith to evil incarnate to be feared is because art portrays the views of its makers. And antisemitism operates not simply as a hatred or as a racism to look down upon an “inferior race”. Antisemitism operates as a conspiracy theory that implies Jews are all powerful and should be feared while at the same time asserting that we are ugly, weak, and inferior in every way. There is a reason bloodsucking vampires are associated with Jews. But that’s another rabbit hole I don’t have time to write on.
One more time for the folks in the back “antisemitism is at its heart a conspiracy theory”.
Let’s not forget the “anti-Israel activists” who felt Israel was to blame for the Los Angeles Wildfires, they are just another cog in the machine of antisemitism’s latest viral variation of conspiracy. What was that about a secret cabal controlling the weather and Space Lasers? I hope these “far right” conspiracy theories sound just as bonkers as the “LA wildfires are caused by climate change accelerated by Israel bombing Gaza” “left wing” conspiracy theories. Reminder that when it comes to antisemitism- the horse shoe is a circle.
Don’t forget somehow the Jews were responsible for the temporary Tik Tok ban as well this news cycle!
Yes we can and should define antisemitism using the International Holocaust remembrance association definition. Us Jews should be able to define our own oppression. We can also use the 3 Ds test of Natan Shransky, or the Elders of Ziyon algorithm (EOZ) is a very worthwhile blog
Of course there is Einat Wilf’s brilliant discussion of the antisemitism mechanism.
Yes antisemitism is all those things, but it is also more because it includes philo-semitism and the perception that Jews are “too” successful, or that it is “punching up” to hate on Jews. (The people with the longest history of persecution in the world, yet “dark humor” comics insist we should continue to be the butt of their edge lord jokes because we are “too powerful”.)
I’ve come to this simple definition:
Antisemitism is a conspiracy theory that asserts that killing, oppressing or disempowering Jews is justice.
I refuse to be gaslit anymore I’m writing it, multiple times in multiple ways- antisemitism is a conspiracy theory!
Antisemitism is a conspiracy theory that asserts that killing, oppressing or disempowering Jews is justice.
Antisemitism is a conspiracy theory that purports it is “justice” to kill Jews or dispossess them of land or power, whether it’s for killing Christ, eating baby’s blood in matzah, the Black Death, well poisoning, being an inferior race, or genocide or crimes against humanity.
Antisemitism is a conspiracy theory that asserts that killing or dispossessing Jews of their lives, property or power is justice.
Antisemitism is a conspiracy theory that claims it is “justice” to take away the life, liberty, property, freedom or pursuit of happiness of a Jew because they are Jewish.
Simply put, antisemitism is the belief that Jews are too powerful. Just as those Muslim guys said so bluntly in the hot tub, “the Jews are too powerful” and therefore taking away their power is a good thing.
… So I leap from the gallows and I levitate down your street
Crash the party like a record scratch as I scream
"Who's afraid of little old me?"
You should be
The reason antisemitism on the left today is often more insidious is because it is painted to look like the “justice” of the day.
Listen to Dara Horn:
Antisemitism is pure and simple- Jews are not allowed to have power, land or sovereignty.
Additionally, philo-semitism and fetishization of Jews, often seen from the political right, feeds into the same conspiracy that is antisemitism- it is “justice to knock the Jews down a peg”.
It is a current trend that folks think of the left as being more educated and therefore having more legitimacy (think coastal elites- even though the word “elites” is very antisemitism-coded). This legitimacy and power it gives leads many to the false conclusion that antisemitism from the left is “more dangerous”. This is because folks are thinking of the right wing buffoonery of MTG declaring Jews control the weather with our space lasers, (I’m still putting in a request to the Elders for a snow day), but don’t forget about Vance Mr. Yale law himself and the Heritage Foundation and those on the right with college degrees and judicial appointments.
The insidiousness with a lot current day antisemitism on the left is they claim they’re ;pursuing “justice” for Palestine, whereas a lot of the antisemitism on the right is clearly hatred of Jews (neo Nazis) or can become insidious when it looks like “love” or “admiration” of Jews. But let’s not forget the right wing Mr. Let’s Make Crusades Great Again Hesegath the tattooed Christian nationalist- pretty sure those fighting crusades and pogroming Jews in the name of Christ were also pursuing “justice”. Regardless of ideology both sides of the horseshoe meet up together in the very unoriginal conclusion that it’s justice to target and kill the Jews.
https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-812463
As these pointy triangles put targets in the shape of death threats on the backs of random Jews in the diaspora, we should congratulate those vigilante vandals who totally just freed Palestine with a can of spray paint. To be clear, since these folks tend to have an issue with critical thinking- threatening and vandalizing synagogues does not “free Palestine” but does hurt Jews living in America. Anyone attacking a Chinese American Lunar new year’s festival would rightly be called racist, and engaging in anti-Asian hate regardless of if they claimed they were “standing against the CCP” or calling for “justice for Uyghurs”. People understand that random Chinese Americans have nothing to do with the Chinese Communist Party or China’s governmental policy decisions.
Being a jew means that critical thinking and logic is a survival skill, just as important if not more so than learning to start a fire with sticks or filter your own water or stock your pantry- or any other disaster prep.
The reason that we cannot hold logic to the free Palestine movement is because ultimately they believe in a conspiracy theory and that necessitates that they are not grounded in reality. A conspiracy theory that is completely unoriginal and has been repeated and reiterated throughout history.
The far left have completely bought into the oppression binary and see Jews as “white oppressors” and Palestinians as “POC” who can do no wrong and are “only reacting to being oppressed.” The oppression binary completely strips agency from every individual and makes it so that no one is responsible for their actions. Believers in the oppression binary are often driven by their own white guilt and want to project this onto the Jews claiming the Jews or “Zionists” are committing the worst atrocities etc- it’s just an updated blood libel for this time period.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Jewish/s/55L4Fvz4PO
“Antisemitism is always disguised as a virtue.”
The 🍉 crowd is detached from reality and therefore they see the mental gymnastics they do as logical and affirming of their world view that the oppressors/ elites/Jews are to blame. This means they can never see Jews as victims, this is why they tear down hostage posters and insist on seeing the terrorists and violent offenders in Israeli prisons as more deserving of life, liberty and happiness than the victims of October 7, torn from their beds in pajamas. This is why they refuse to care about the remaining women in captivity, or the 7 remaining Americans, or the Thais and other foreign nationals. This is why even as early as November 2023 they were ripping down hostage posters.
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTYW9AMXg/
The useful idiots of the woke west buy into the oppression binary that takes away agency from everyone and reduces people to oppressor or oppressed.
This brings up a whole conversation about Jews of Color, which @that_semite explains very well:
The reason that we cannot hold logic to the free Palestine movement is because ultimately they believe in a conspiracy theory and that necessitates the cognitive distortion of black and white thinking and rejects nuance. They are not grounded in reality.
They fall into “all or nothing” or “black and white” thinking patterns where they see Jews solely as the Oppressor and Palestinians solely as the Oppressed. This thought pattern is incapable of recognizing humans as individuals or letting Jews and Palestinians define themselves, take responsibility for their actions as individuals or escape the cycles of violence and conflict. This all or nothing thinking has even been termed a purity spiral https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000d70h
If you care, here’s a great blog post on how us Jews see ourselves, by RootsMetals.
https://www.rootsmetals.com/blogs/news/how-should-we-see-ourselves
Here’s a fun thread on how the elders of Zion never go out of style.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Jewish/s/zbtRXiiFW8
You caged me and then you called me crazy
I am what I am 'cause you trained me
The weight of the entire world is against me and I feel insane because it feels like actually everything really is about me and everyone else is wrong. I feel so alone. But I know that’s the gaslight talking.
Don't let this darkness fool you
All lights turned off can be turned on
I know what I saw with my own eyes on national television and I won’t back down:
“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” George Orwell 1984. The ADL might have sold out to keep their Twitter account active or whatever other deal they have with Musk- hopefully they got a large price tag because they won’t be seeing another dollar from me or my jewish family again.
Here is a discussion which shows that the ADL is feeling pressured to comply:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Jewish/s/46TdPc9rlW
I refuse the gaslighting. Only Nazis and people ok with Nazis make Nazi salutes.
This was not a dog whistle this was a front page advertisement that the man who was not elected yet holds undue power over the White House is calling the shots. Trump ran on the saying “I could shoot someone on fifth Avenue and they’ll still vote for me.” Luigi is testing out the rule of law and if one can really shoot somebody on fifth avenue and get away with murder. But Musk is taking the game of power to another level - he’s showing that he can do a full fledged Nazi salute at the U.S. Presidential Inauguration and not only get away with it- but re-write reality to his will power.
And when you trust your television
What you get is what you got
'Cause when they own the information, oh
They can bend it all they want
And here I am making everything about the Jews again, forgive me and the rest of the jewish people for being specifically offended by the hate sign of our most prolific genociders.
… I wanna snarl and show you just how disturbed this has made me
You wouldn't last an hour in the asylum where they raised me
I’ll spell it out for you “disturbed” individuals who are calling out Jews for “playing the Anne Frank card” when we are upset about a Nazi salute in a Presidential inauguration in America. I know Musk making the Nazi salute is about asserting his power and nothing less- but that doesn’t mean he isn’t stepping on the backs of dead Jews to do so. Nazism is *not* only about antisemitism, but it is inseparable from it. And therefore it is impossible to use Nazi rhetoric without also spreading antisemitism.
What’s upsetting to learn is that FDR himself, the president who fought against and defeated the Nazis, actually did not give a fuck about the Jews and despite knowing about the Holocaust did his best to prevent jewish refugees from entering the USA. He also refused to bomb the train tracks to Auschwitz, even though it would have used few resources, the Jews in his opinion were not worth saving. https://brandeiscenter.com/the-truth-about-fdr-and-the-jews/
I’m reminded of James McBride’s book, the Heaven and Earth Grocery Store. In it the character of Doc Roberts, a KKK member and the stories villain gives a monologue juxtaposing Emma Lazarus’ “New Colossus” and ending it with “so they may replace us”- the origin of the Great Replacement Theory. It was shocking and yet so simply done. As a descendant of one of those immigrant Jews, who is a huge Emma Lazarus fangirl and has taught the New Colossus as representing the epitome of the American dream to my students, seeing the origins of the GRT laid out like that from the perspective of a KKK member finally made so many things click for me about the cyclic rise of hatred of immigrants. It really is as simple as that people feel the promise of America is only for those they think “deserve it” (aka are like them) and they are afraid of being displaced and replaced in society. I of course, have known this truth, but hearing Doc’s monologue set in 1936 in which he discusses his love for America and the American dream and how of course he could do anything if he only wanted to, and he quotes Emma Lazarus’s poem all to crescendo into GRT and calling the Jews and blacks a “wine stain on the white tablecloth of America” made the hatred that is so often talked about in code and dog whistles today in 2025- so crystal clear as to the origins of GRT. It’s never gone away, and in fact is on the rise again with the re-trending of “America First”. It’s almost as if it’s actually 1925…
And if you don’t think that Mr. America First Musk is an antisemite, enjoy this deep dive on his support of GRT.
Again antisemitism is a conspiracy theory!
Again there’s a reason Elon is playing this game- he wants to see if he truly does have the power to re-write our reality- and so far he seems to hold that power. He can’t apologize if it never happened.
Here’s a deep dive on how Musks platform is a hotbed of disinformation:
In case you need more convincing that Musk is full of bigotry and bullshit:
Anyways don’t think I’m just hating on Musk, the far left and the far right are the ones hating on me.
I’m so tired my mind is on the blink
Justifying hate in pursuit of an ideology is the problem. The horse shoe is closing in on us Jews, squeezing us out of society.
I feel Like there is no place for me in this world where people can understand.
Little did you know your home is just a town you’re just a guest in
The only people who understand are fellow Jews. The only places that feel safe are jewish spaces. But we don’t want to hide in the attics any more. And we don’t want to all have to make Aliyah. And I don’t just want to say עם ישראל חי
Can they just let us live in peace? https://www.reddit.com/r/Jewish/s/gZGSqsqjLZ
We're overdue for a revival
We spent so long just gettin' by
That’s the thing about survival, who the hell likes living just to die?
At the same time as tired as the Jews are, we are our ancestors wildest dreams. Not only have the jewish people survived worse, but comparatively we are thriving.
If you will it, it is no dream
And broken as we are right now by a war and our hostages stolen from us, by rising worldwide antisemitism, we are living in the dream world of my grandparents- able to make Aliyah and become citizens of a jewish state, fragile as the democracy might be. Able to live our lives freely in places in the diaspora- although jewish public life is under attack.
Those of us Jews living in the “free world” are doing the very things that they dreamed for us. Simply to live.
The birds will still sing, your folks will still fight
The boards will still creak, the leaves will still die
We ain't angry at you, love
We'll be waitin' for you, love
I’m realizing something I shouldn’t simply retreat to jewish spaces and run off to israel. I shouldn’t distrust everyone who’s not a Jew, even if they might not always understand me on a fundamental level. Us Jews cannot do it alone on an island.
“Well if I were You-Know-Who, I'd want you to feel cut off from everyone else Because if it's just you alone you're not as much of a threat”
Those bigots at the hot tub gym are afraid of Jewish power, but nothing makes them more fearful than friendships between Jews and goyim and normalization of Arab states with Israel. If we have allies and real life friends, people who have met us and know it’s ridiculous to think we have horns, or control the weather or the media or the banks, and that we are mostly just regular people- well how will the antisemites scape goat the Jews? How will the antisemites get away with blaming all of their problems on us? Or the “foreigners among us” or lizard people?
And I’m realizing I’m not alone. And that my friendships with non-Jews, my community, my hometown, democracy. It’s all worth fighting for. We are the true “silent majority”. And it’s up to us to break the silence. We’ve already lost so much, friends, and the erosion of democracy, but we can fight to restore civility, communities and friendships. Not only should we not obey in advance, but we should fight tyranny with community.
As we wait with baited breath for the next group of hostages to return safely, we must remember:
So, pack up your car, put a hand on your heart
Say whatever you feel, be wherever you are
You're gonna go far
Interesting commentary. Thanks for taking the time to write it.