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Source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2022/01/10/antisemitism-jews-genocide/
Why People Love Accusing Jews of Genocide
(Washington Post) Yair Rosenberg - Last week, David Bateman, a prominent Utah entrepreneur and political donor, sent an email to his state business and political leaders. The subject line? "Genocide." The topic: Jews. Referring to the Covid-19 pandemic and its vaccines, Bateman wrote, "I believe there is a sadistic effort underway to euthanize the American people....I believe the Jews are behind this." The libel that Jews are committing genocide has exploded in popularity across anti-Jewish discourse. It crosses ideological lines and is increasingly expressed in polite company. People just love accusing Jews of genocide. "The Jews will use the vaccine to change DNA, making the person susceptible to designer viruses the Jews will create," wrote one poster on the neo-Nazi forum Stormfront in December 2020. Ishmael Muhammad, a student minister in Louis Farrakhan's Nation of Islam, referenced the "Synagogue of Satan" (an anti-Semitic reference to Jews) for allegedly promoting vaccines to sterilize Black people, in a live sermon from the organization's headquarters in Chicago. False charges of Jewish genocide weaponize the greatest Jewish trauma - when two out of three European Jews were killed - against Jewish people. There is no better way to hurt someone than to fashion their own most painful experience into a club with which to beat them. Moreover, casting Jews as the perpetrators of a new, fictitious Holocaust frees non-Jews from the obligation to learn the lessons of the actual Holocaust. Fundamentally, the impulse to hang the Holocaust on the Jews is an attempt to return humanity to where it was before the Holocaust - which enables such things to happen again.