Theories claiming that Mossad created the virus, myths from the black plague and presenting Israel as "the most dangerous virus of humanity" • An alarming report by the Cantor Center

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Conspiracy theories, medieval inspirations, and worldwide circulation, a report by the Centurion Center at Tel Aviv University states that the Korna epidemic has given rise to a new and unique wave of global anti-Semitism. 

The report draws on hundreds of different targeted reports in the world that have been received since March on the international network established by the Center. Because it is an intense, powerful and ongoing wave that indicates the growing fear in many populations where anti-Semitism is flourishing again. 

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The new wave is spread across European countries, the Muslim world and South America, and is also expressed in the United States and Canada. According to the report, the plots are mainly circulated on social networks and media outlets of extreme right-wing, ultra-conservative and Islamist Christians.

The new manipulation of Palestinian propaganda

While in the United States, the accusations come especially from groups that advocate white supremacy and ultra-conservative Christians, and are directed toward Jews in general and ultra-Orthodox Jews, in the Middle East, the accusations are directed at Israel, Zionism and the institution, as they invented, propagated the virus and earned money and money. . In the Western world, the main factor promoting anti-Semitic discourse is civil society groups characterized by diverse ideology, with some of the regimes themselves promoting anti-Semitic discourse in the Middle East.  

For example, the report states that claims are being circulated in Iran and Turkey that the Zionists, in collaboration with the US, are the source of the epidemic, and will benefit from it when Muslims in the Middle East die in their thousands, and Iranians in particular. Among the Palestinians, there is also a noticeable claim that Israel is spreading the virus among prison inmates in the country.

Throughout these theories, the State of Israel is described as "the 1948 Cubid virus" and as "the most dangerous virus for humanity." A repeated claim by anti-Zionist activists. In addition, Israel is accused of using the virus as ammunition against the Palestinians. A study by the University of Oxford in May found that 19.1% of the public in England agreed on varying levels with the statement that the Jews created the virus to bring about the collapse of the economy for financial gain. 

The report also describes how Holocaust-related concepts are distorted in a number of ways: Corona-related policy restrictions are compared to Nazi regime policies, the closure is closed to ghettos, and the phrase "inoculated" appears in place of the word "Jewish" through the yellow badges worn by protestors. This is to suggest that those who are not immune to their fate are similar to those of a persecuted Jew in Nazi Germany, and those who are angry with vaccine opponents see them as disease-spreaders like the Jews. 

Dr. Giovanni Carr adds: "The current wave of anti-Semitism is unprecedented because it has spread through social networks for a short time around the Corona crisis and quickly changed into another discourse according to social and political changes. From the Corona crisis to the social crisis in the face of racism in the United States, a few days have passed, but the anti-Semitic discourse is just as powerful and the factors responsible for disseminating it have adapted anti-Semitic narratives to the changing social context.

Dr. Carr also explained that "although the material comes from many different directions and bodies, it has many common motifs such as classic anti-Semitism, a return to the well being poisoned during the black epidemic." Poisoning a well happily.

The Centurion Center for the Study of European Jewry Today belongs to the Faculty of Humanities of Tel Aviv University. About 60 participants send regular information to the World Anti-Semitism Center on a network established a few years ago.