Study: Antisemitism is associated with conspiracy thinking, authoritarianism and desire to overturn the social order

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.., made headlines this weekend when he seemed to claim that COVID-19 could have been genetically engineered to target certain populations, and then mentioned there have been studies that suggested that Chinese people and Ashkenazic Jews are less susceptible to the virus.

"COVID-19 is targeted to attack Caucasians and Black people. The people who are most immune are Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese," the Democratic presidential candidate said in a video that the New York Post published.

There is indeed such a study, from 2020, which he gets slightly wrong. The two groups that the study claimed were less likely to be susceptible to COVID-19, based on an analysis of two specific genes, were Ashkenazic Jews and the Amish. Latino, South and East Asian, and Finnish people were less susceptible than other groups as well. 

Kennedy later clarified, saying he “never, ever suggested that the COVID-19 virus was targeted to spare Jews. I do not believe and never implied that the ethnic effect was deliberately engineered.” 

Obviously, a large number (and percentage) of Ashkenazic Jews died of COVID-19, so the study did not predict anything accurately. 

But the cat is out of the bag, and conspiracy theorists now have more ammunition to attack Jews. 

And they are the most likely people to be antisemitic to begin with. 

A new study published in Nature shows that antisemitism is not so much associated with the political Right or Left as it is with extremist thinking and conspiracy theories.

The researchers checked the association between antisemitic attitudes and likelihood to believe in other theories. For example, they found a high correlation between antisemites that those who believed in totalitarianism:

•To bring about great changes for the benefit of mankind often requires cruelty and even ruthlessness.

•Soft and idealistic people can never be the doers of great events.

•Almost any unfairness or brutality may have to be justified when some great purpose is being carried out.

•The unhappiness of a few people simply doesn’t matter when it is a question of a step forward for the majority of the people.

•Sometimes when a new society is in its early stages, the masses have to be ruled with an iron hand for their own good

Similarly, antisemitic attitudes were correlated with belief in conspiracy theories, such as:

•The government permits or perpetrates acts of terrorism on its own soil, disguising its involvement.

•The power held by heads of state is second to that of small unknown groups who really control world politics

.•A small secret group of people is responsible for making all major world decisions such as going to war.

•Secret organizations communicate with extraterrestrials, but keep this fact from the public

•The spread of certain viruses and/or diseases is the result of the deliberate, concealed efforts of some organisations.

•Technology with mind-control capacities is used on people without their knowledge.

And they are also associated with support for authoritarianism, both associated with the Right:

•What our country needs most is discipline, with everyone following our leaders in unity.   

•An ideal society requires some groups to be on top and others to be on the bottom.

•Some groups of people are simply inferior to other groups

And the Left::

•Rich people should be forced to give up virtually all of their wealth.

•Most investment bankers need to be thrown in prison.

•Political violence can be constructive when it serves the cause of social justice.

 •Books that contain racism or racial language should be censored.

•I should have the right not to be exposed to views I find offensive.

While both the Right and the Left attack each other as antisemites, they usually remain blind to the antisemitism that is on their own side.  And too many on their own sides want to see an authoritarian government that supports their viewpoints - and violently represses others. 

Which indicates that antisemites are often some of the worst people on Earth.  And those who find antisemites on their own political side should be in the forefront of denouncing them, not accommodating them. 

Incidentally, the introduction to the study cited quite a few studies that showed a strong correlation between Judeoiphobic antisemitism and anti-Zionist antisemitism. And the people who would self-describe as anti-Zionists were just as likely to believe in the other noxious theories listed here as those who espouse the "old" antisemitism.

(h/t Irene)

our country needs most is discipline, with everyone following our leaders in unity.

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Hamas agrees with Ilhan Omar: Zionists are hypnotizing the world

A number of years back, Ilhan Omar tweeted, “Israel has hypnotized the world, may Allah awaken the people and help them see the evil doings of Israel.” 

But one has to wonder, how do the Jews manage to hypnotize the world? What evil means do they use? How does this work? Can I learn how to do it, too?

A Hamas news site answers all these questions.

Al Resalah has an article by Nimr Yassin Madhoun where we are told:

Since the convening of the first Zionist conference in 1897, and the Zionist movement developed the methods of its psychological operations,understanding it was necessary to control the American and European societies. 

The Jewish psychological operations are divided into three stages: the first is the stage before the establishment of the state (Israel), where the psychological operations were based on the sayings, including “anti-Semitism” (the Holocaust). 

The second stage  followed the establishment of the state of the entity. Its sayings are in harmony with the nature of the usurpation of the land, such as "a land without a people and a barren desert" 

As for the third stage, which followed the October 1973 war, and after the dramatic developments that occurred after that war and the international changes, Israel relied on new statements that keep pace with the changing regional situation, such as: "The danger of creeping Islam."

The State of Israel attaches great importance to psychological operations, and it harnesses scientists and psychiatrists to study the Arab-Islamic milieu, and to conduct experiments that enable specialists to intellectually control the minds of Arab peoples, especially the Palestinian people, to kill the Arab will, discourage their morale and combat efficiency, and maintain control. 

The occupation has a high ability to use global media and social media, through which the poison is delivered to penetrate  a coherent social environment to become disjointed and conflicted socially, organizationally and politically, and rumor is one of the most important means of psychological operations used by the occupier....The coordinator’s page was in Arabic, to perform the task and enter the minds of the Palestinians in their language, dialect and their eastern Arabic form, so that the occupier appears in the role of an honest advisor and spreads obsessions in the Palestinian heart and mind .

And here I thought Israeli hasbara was not very good. Hamas (and Omar) thinks it is so brilliant that it controls the minds of the Arabs and the West!

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"Pro-Palestinian" website says WW2 a Jewish plot

It continues to amaze me how Westerners refuse to believe that Palestinian Arabs are antisemitic, and claim that they are only anti-Zionist.

A website called "Intifada-Palestine" has an article by loony far-left writer Brandon Martinez which includes these gems:

Brandon Martinez, a shining scholar for the "Palestinian cause"

Like Americans and Britons, most Canadians believe that World War I and II were quintessential “good wars” fought to secure “freedom and democracy” and other such flimsy fantasies. Most people reared in Canada’s degraded education system foolishly believe that this country’s participation in WWI and WWII was “the right thing to do” and that the outbreak of such wars was “inevitable.” Without doing one scintilla of actual research, the gullible masses can tell you why these fratricidal wars that caused the deaths of untold millions of people were “necessary” and “just.”

Do any of these ignorant zombies stop for a moment to think about what they are promoting? The “necessity” of an enormous bloodbath that plunged much of the world into pandemonium? Following WWII, Canadian society has evidently devolved into a brain-damaged loony-bin filled to the brim with parrots and yes-men incapable of independent thought or critical analysis.

...The brainwashed masses will say that “Nazism” was a grave and pressing danger and had to be stopped. But only if one is viewing the world through British or Jewish spectacles does that suggestion have any merit. As far as much of the global East and South were concerned, British imperialism was a far greater threat than anything posed by Hitler’s regional ambitions. From the perspective of the Arabs of Palestine and the Middle East, Jewish Zionism and its British imperial patrons was a worse adversary than Hitler’s Germany by a long shot.

... Neither WWI nor WWII were “good” or “just” wars by any stretch of the imagination. On the contrary, they were both catastrophic blunders that set the whole of Europe and Asia as well as parts of the Middle East and North Africa ablaze. The Second World War in particular delivered the world into the hands of the Anglo-American-Zionist Empire, thereby sealing the eternal fate of humanity as drone-like economic cogs and geopolitical cannon fodder for American, British and Jewish interests.

As long as people write against Israel and Jews, their lunatic writings can be featured in slick "pro-Palestinian" publications.

Not surprisingly, other authors that happily contribute to this website that features such antisemitism include Ali Abunimah, Ramzy Baroud, Jonathan Cook, Juan Cole, Richard Falk and Ben White,

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