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The kosher tax conspiracy theory claims that the kosher certification of products (typically food) is an extra tax collected from unwitting consumers for the benefit of Jewish organizations. It is mainly spread by antisemitic , white supremacist , and other extremist organizations, and is considered a canard or urban legend . [ 1 ]
The tax came to be called that because Jews paying had to deposit a coin in a box at the kosher slaughterer. [ 5 ] According to Herman Rosenthal and Jacob Goodale Lipman , the tax was "the most burdensome and annoying of the special taxes imposed upon the Jews of Russia by the government". [ 1 ]
The "Kosher tax" trope claims that food producers are "forced" to pay an exorbitant premium to indicate that their products are kosher, which is allegedly passed on to consumers by price increase. [ 76 ] [ 77 ] [ 78 ] It is mainly spread by white supremacists.
The kosher tax conspiracy theory is a fringe conspiracy theory promoted by right-wing extremists that falsely claims that kosher certification of food products is part of a scheme to cost consumers extra money and thereby enrich rabbis.
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Despite being false by definition, antisemitic tropes often form part of antisemitic conspiracy theories The main article for this category is Antisemitic trope . Subcategories
He was a founding member of the Posse Comitatus, an antisemitic, anti-government and anti-tax group associated with the broader militia movement. [1] [2] He was strongly anti-communist, and he frequently advocated the genocide of Jews, non-European Americans, "race traitors," homosexuals, and drug addicts. [3] [better source needed]