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Thu Apr 9, 2020, 12:48 PM Apr 2020

(Jewish Group) CST report notes 'chilling' spread of antisemitic conspiracy theories linked to COVID

The Community Security Trust (CST) has released a research briefing investigating the “chilling” spread in antisemitism online related to the coronavirus pandemic.

In 'Coronavirus and the Plague of Antisemitism', which was published on Wednesday, the CST reviewed antisemitic content that had been circulating online and identified “five different anti-Jewish narratives regarding COVID-19”.

Narratives ranged from “bizarre conspiracy theories” to the “sheer nastiness of those who like to see others suffer.”

The CST identified broad categories of conspiracy theory - including those asserting that the coronavirus was a Jewish conspiracy, that the Jewish people were its principal spreaders and others who sought to harness the virus to spread it to the Jews in what they dubbed as “the Holocough”.

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Some never miss the opportunity to blame Jews. While we have these assholes blaming Jews, we have others comparing their quarantines to that of the hiding of the Frank family, specifically Anne Frank. I posted that story in Editorials and here, in the Jewish group. The levels of depravity and disgusting behavior never cease to amaze, nor does the, just as predictable, defense from "Jews" (wink,wink) making excuses for the behaviors.

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