Jews were massacred on October 7. Before many were even buried, millions across the world had already decided the Jews themselves must somehow be responsible.

There was once a time when antisemitic conspiracy theories at least required imagination. Medieval Europeans accused Jews of poisoning wells. The Nazis accused them of simultaneously controlling capitalism and communism.

But today’s antisemite has upgraded his conspiracy theories for the social media age. The Jew is no longer merely accused of controlling banks, governments, or Hollywood. No, the modern Jew is apparently so uniquely sinister that he now orchestrates the slaughter of his own people for geopolitical advantage.

And so, before Israel had even finished counting its dead after October 7, a grotesque conspiracy theory had already spread across activist circles, campus protests, social media prophets, and the permanently concussed corners of the internet: Israel knew Hamas was coming and allowed it to happen. Israeli intelligence supposedly saw the attack in advance but intentionally ignored it. Others elaborated further: IDF soldiers allegedly received “stand-down orders” while Hamas terrorists butchered civilians. Then came the truly deranged version, that Israel activated the so-called Hannibal Directive and intentionally killed its own citizens to avoid a hostage situation.

One can imagine the sheer moral obscenity required to formulate such ideas.

The Jewish state, built in the ashes of the Holocaust precisely so Jews would never again be abandoned to slaughter, is accused of deliberately facilitating the slaughter of Jews.

Nobody claimed America secretly wanted 9/11 so it could invade Afghanistan. Nobody insisted Britain........

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