Viral prejudice and the Jews
TitleViral prejudice and the Jews
Author
Call numberS296.05/001
Object number08098a
Place of publicationCollingwood, Victoria, Australia
PublisherThe Jewish Quarterly
Year of publication
2021
Physical descriptionpp5-20
MaterialArticle
NotesArticle from the journal 'The Jewish Quarterly ' 'The return of history: new populism, old hatreds ' May 2021 Issue 244 pp5-20
Description
In late July 2020, the American pharmaceutical company Pfizer, in collaboration with the German co. Biotech began phase 3 clinical trials which would result in the announcement of the first covid-19 vaccine. The science of the pandemic has not scotched populism's appetite for conspiracy theories. The paradoxical exploitation of Holocaust tropes to refresh antisemitism - turning the victims of the Shoah into its new perpetrators has been standard in the more venomous zones of anti-Zionist diatribes. The health of the world depends on the victory of real, not imaginary knowledge