Viral prejudice and the Jews
TitelViral prejudice and the Jews
Auteur
Call numberS296.05/001
Objectnummer08098a
Plaats van uitgaveCollingwood, Victoria, Australia
UitgeverThe Jewish Quarterly
Jaar van uitgave
2021
Pagina'spp5-20
MateriaalArtikel
NotesArticle from the journal 'The Jewish Quarterly ' 'The return of history: new populism, old hatreds ' May 2021 Issue 244 pp5-20
Beschrijving
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