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The Times of Israel: QAnon an old form of anti-Semitism in a new package, say experts

Berry Craig
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EDITOR'S NOTE: Click here to read "Meet the 'QAnon' caucus: Conspiracy buffs on path to U.S. Congress." In Florida, Trump voted the straight Republican ticket, which included Laura Loomer, the pro-Quanon candidate for congress who was banned from social media sites for her racist and anti-Muslim rants.

Some of those tracking conspiracy theory note its use of tropes, vocabulary of anti-Semitic propaganda and blood libels throughout history

By BEN SALES 

JTA — Scott Wiener, a California state senator, has been barraged with anti-Semitic attacks online, including one falsely accusing him of promoting “Jewish pedophilia.”

A Republican congressional candidate, Marjorie Taylor Greene, appeared to accuse George Soros and the Rothschild family of being involved in a cabal of Democratic pedophiles. On Twitter, she has repeatedly called Soros, a Jewish billionaire, of being an “enemy of the people.”

On September 11, a Facebook group’s post claimed that an Israeli company knew about the 2001 terrorists attacks in advance.

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