Tuesday, March 31, 2020

Sickening

1349 burning of Jews-European chronicle on Black Death.jpg

One of the more unfortunate aspects of the coronavirus pandemic is the proliferation of anti-semitic conspiracy theories seeking to blame Jews and the nation of Israel for it. This is nothing new. In the 14th century, Jews were blamed for the Black Death plague. Now, these theories claim that "Zionists" created the virus to destroy the world's economies and further their plans for world domination.

This is complete nonsense, especially at a time when peoples' lives and livelihoods are at stake, and communities need to pull together and support each other, and not exacerbate fear by peddling conspiracy theories.

https://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/coronavirus-conspiracy-theories-jews/

By Unknown author - European chronicle, scanned and cropped from A History of the Jewish People by H.H. Ben-Sasson, ed. (Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1976) p.564-565 ISBN 0-674-39730-4, Public Domain, Link

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