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Such ideas fuel anti-Semitism. The myths that all Jews are responsible for the death of Christ, or poisoned wells, or killed Christian children to bake matzos, or 'made up' the Holocaust, or plot to control the world, do not succeed each other; rather, the list of anti-Semitic canards gets longer."
An antisemitic trope is a false story inciting antisemitism. Despite being false by definition, antisemitic tropes often form part of antisemitic conspiracy theories . The main article for this category is Antisemitic trope .
The "Orientalness of Jews", particularly that of Jewish women, was a common trope in anti-Semitic German literature of the 19th century. Examples of this stereotype are found in Hauff's novella Jud Süß (1827), Hebbel's play Judith (1840) and Grillparzer's play Die Jüdin von Toledo (1872).
In 2022, the American Jewish Committee stated that the Black Hebrew Israelite claim that "we are the real Jews" is a "troubling anti-Semitic trope with dangerous potential". [284] Black Hebrew Israelite followers have sought out and attacked Jewish people in the United States on more than one occasion.
Louis H. Feldman argues: "We must take issue with the communis sensus that the pagan writers are predominantly anti-Semitic." [ 3 ] He asserts that "one of the great puzzles that has confronted the students of anti-semitism is the alleged shift from pro-Jewish statements found in the first pagan writers who mention the Jews ... to the vicious ...
1806 portrait of Gerhard von Kügelgen. The earliest evidence of the idea of a "Jewish parasite" can be found in the 18th century. Precursors could be found, as suspected by the German-Israeli historian Alexander Bein, in the medieval notion of the "usurious Jew" who would suck the blood out of the people and the ritual murder legend according to which Jews would use the blood of Christian ...
The cartoon depicts “the prime minister of Israel as a guide dog with a Star of David collar leading the president of the United States, shown wearing a skullcap,” per the New York Times ...
Rootless cosmopolitan (Russian: безродный космополит, romanized: bezrodnyi kosmopolit) was a pejorative Soviet epithet which referred mostly to Jewish intellectuals as an accusation of their lack of allegiance to the Soviet Union, especially during the antisemitic campaign of 1948–1953. [1]