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Covid vaccines, chemtrails, the Great Reset … Why do people invent false conspiracies when there are so many real ones to worry about? There’s only one way to find out: ask a believer

To bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance. In his 1790 letter of reply to the Hebrew Congregation of Newport, Rhode Island, George Washington echoed the words of first generation Jewish-American Moses Seixas who had penned them as part of a congratulations and query to the newly inaugurated first U.S. president with the aim of

Sir Alan Duncan should be using language judiciously instead of parroting narratives used to hurt Jews for decades, writes the Antisemitism Policy Trust's Chief Executive Danny Stone.

Seventy years ago, the Redwood City School District board of trustees named its newest school after Henry Ford, the man who transformed the automobile into a mass consumer product.

Donald Trump may not have a general grasp of politics and history, but he understands how to use the propaganda of fascism to sway public opinion.

Substack has a huge role in the active promotion of disinformation

American Jewish weather report: increased chill in the air. A conversation with historian Professor Jonathan Sarna.

Israel convinced itself that Hamas was more interested in governing Gaza than wiping out the Jewish state. That proved to be wrong, as anyone familiar with Hamas should have seen coming.

At a recent campaign rally, Trumps words echoed sentiments once spewed by Hitler and Mussolini.

On the 26 July London demonstration against Israel's assault on Gaza, I confronted a man who was carrying a placard which read “Research: The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion”, with an image of a Star of David, dripping blood, with “666” in the centre. The Protocols are an anti-Semitic forgery dating from Tsarist Russia, which purport to expose a Jewish conspiracy to dominate the world. They were used in their time, and have been used since, to whip up racist hatred, often vi...