The documents are a dud, but fuelling anti-Jewish conspiracy theories

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You will be confronted by a tidal wave of Jew hatred. You will witness an antisemitic feeding frenzy. Across social media, the cry goes up: the Epstein scandal proves Jews are demonic.

It’s all there. Jews control world affairs. They are the puppet-masters of the powerful. They use sexual corruption and blackmail to dominate governments.

Jeffrey Epstein has been turned from an iffy businessman who committed terrible crimes against young women into the archetypal Jew: venal, power-mad, possibly cannibalistic.

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It feels like a rehashing of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion — ancient hatreds reheated for the algorithm age.

No sooner had the U.S. Department of Justice released the latest batch of Epstein files than the Jews were being fingered as the cause of the West’s moral rot.

As a Jerusalem Post headline described it, there was an almost instant “wave of antisemitic conspiracy theories”.

Even searching for news reports about the files will lead you into a hellish maze of Jewphobic speculation.

So when the New York Post posted a story on X about Epstein’s relationship with Vladimir Putin, it found itself bombarded with racially-charged ridicule.

Said one irate poster: “Epstein was........

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