(Jewish Group) Pushed off mainstream platforms, QAnon's antisemitism spiked
Antisemitism within QAnon has intensified in recent months, with the movement’s most popular supporter praising Hitler and other influencers posting increasingly blatant anti-Jewish messages on social media.
The shift is documented in a new report from the Anti-Defamation League in what it describes as one of the most comprehensive studies to date on the role of antisemitism in the sprawling QAnon conspiracy theory and social movement, which organized around the belief that the Democratic party is controlled by Satan-worshipping pedophiles.
Antisemitism is hardly new to QAnon. It was incubated four years ago in online forums teeming with neo-Nazis who trafficked in antisemitic tropes, focusing on Jewish scapegoats like philanthropist George Soros and the Rothschild family. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Georgia Republican who embraced QAnon during her campaign for Congress, made headlines early this year when it emerged that she had once posited that the Rothschilds had started California’s wildfires with a space laser.
But explicit forms of bigotry aimed at Jews were largely kept at bay until this spring, when many of the leading QAnon influencers were pushed off mainstream social media platforms, the ADL’s Center on Extremism found.
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