![]() One was the founder of the group Genocide Watch, former George Mason University professor of genocide studies Gregory Stanton, who published a piece earlier this month titled “QAnon is a Nazi cult, rebranded.” In recent weeks, as QAnon has begun to attract heightened scrutiny, many others have pressed that case. “This whole blood libel is very prominent there, the idea of kidnapping children for blood,” said Magda Teter, a Jewish studies professor and author of “Blood Libel: On the Trail of an Antisemitic Myth.” “People are going to start googling ‘killing children for blood.’ That will lead them to anti-Semitism even if they may not be initially inclined.” And other elements that don’t explicitly mention Jews also have anti-Semitic resonance, like the blood libel, an age-old anti-Semitic canard claiming that Jews kill Christian children to harvest their blood for ritual purposes. Schumpeter award ceremony in Vienna, Austria, J(AP Photo/Ronald Zak)īut the claim that rich Jews, including the Rothschild banking family, secretly control the world has long been a recurring feature. Even as some Republican leaders have condemned the theory, Trump has declined to disavow it. Republican candidates for Congress have supported it, and people wearing or carrying Q slogans have shown up to mainstream political rallies. According to NBC, its Facebook groups boasted millions of members in early August. The QAnon theory has become increasingly popular and visible in recent months, in the United States and abroad. “In terms of qualitative intelligence, there’s no doubt that it’s becoming more anti-Semitic,” said Joel Finkelstein, the director of the Network Contagion Research Institute, which studies hate and incitement on social media, and is gathering data on anti-Semitism in QAnon. The New York Times reported that there are 200,000 QAnon social media accounts on Germany’s far-right, and that the conspiracy was part of what inspired a faction of German extremists to storm its parliament in August. Researchers are still gathering data, but are seeing the trend pop up globally. The answer, according to those who study extremism and have been watching the meteoric ascent of QAnon, is the former: QAnon is inherently anti-Semitic - and only growing more so. An attendee at a rally for an Ohio congressional candidate holds a QAnon sign as US President Donald Trump speaks, August 4, 2018. ![]()
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