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The claim that “all of the most powerful people and companies in the world are either run or financed by Jewish people” is a longstanding antisemitic conspiracy, not an evidence-based description of g...
A mix of deliberate ideology, misinformation, and digital amplification explains why some people claim the Holocaust didn’t happen: denial is an antisemitic conspiracy position that rejects overwhelmi...
Claims that “Jewish bankers” secretly started or financed the world wars are a long-standing antisemitic trope rooted in forgeries like the Protocols and recycled into modern conspiracies; scholarship...
The “Jews control finance and media” conspiracy traces to medieval economic roles, 19th‑ and early‑20th‑century forgeries and modern extremists: the Protocols of the Elders of Zion popularized the cla...
The widely circulated claim that “Jews were kicked out of 109 countries” is a misleading oversimplification: the figure conflates expulsions from cities, regions and episodic displacements over nearly...
Antisemitic tropes fall into recurring themes — claims of Jewish control or excessive power; accusations of disloyalty or “dual loyalty”; money, greed and banking stereotypes; blood libels and deicide...
Claims that “Jews control mainstream media” are contradicted by reporting and research showing major U.S. news outlets are owned by large multinational corporations and a small set of conglomerates (e...
Poland, the Soviet Union (territories now in Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania, Latvia, Moldova) and other Eastern European countries suffered the largest proportional losses of their Jewish populations dur...
The official Irish government policy during World War II was , driven by strict immigration controls, neutrality calculations, and influential antisemitic voices within the diplomatic and civil servic...
No credible law-enforcement investigation or reputable journalistic inquiry has produced evidence that global elites run adrenochrome “harvesting” rings; the story is a modern mutation of older conspi...
Immediately after World War II the Jewish population of Europe had been reduced from a prewar total of roughly 9.5 million to a postwar remainder in the mid‑3‑million range, with most reputable contem...
Poles of Jewish faith and heritage live, work and practice in Poland today—estimates range from a few thousand to up to 15,000 people, with active communities in Warsaw, Kraków, Łódź and Wrocław and r...
Not all criticism of Israel is antisemitic; major organizations and scholars say criticism of policies or leaders is legitimate but crosses into antisemitism when it employs classic antisemitic tropes...
Claims that “Jews control the government” fit a long-standing antisemitic conspiracy trope, not an evidence-based description of political power; modern reporting and experts say this idea is rooted i...
Jewish organizations broadly condemned violence in response to the killing of Charlie Kirk and publicly expressed shock and sorrow, while reactions to Kirk’s past remarks and the ADL’s treatment of Tu...
The IHRA working definition of antisemitism has become a polarizing tool: supporters say it clarifies contemporary antisemitism, while critics contend its Israel-related examples are used to stifle le...
Major Jewish organizations generally use the IHRA working definition and the related “Three Ds” framework — demonization, double standards, and delegitimization — as the baseline criteria for judging ...
Experts and major institutions distinguish legitimate from antisemitism by applying tests and illustrative examples that focus on content, targets, and context — notably the IHRA working definition an...
The claim that Jewish people—or /—were responsible for the rests on a handful of urban myths (for example, “4,000 Jews stayed home” or the so‑called “dancing Israelis”) that have been repeatedly inves...
attracts disproportionate protests and formal condemnation for reasons that combine the ’s symbolic global resonance, structural features of bodies that single out Palestinian-related issues, and poli...