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“Sieg Heil”, “Juden Pack” and swastikas, carved on the door of the Biel synagogue. Not in 1939, but last Thursday. It is not an isolated case: this year there have already been three more attacks on Jewish institutions. The latest report on anti-Semitism from the Swiss Association of Israelite Communities (SIG) and the Foundation Against Racism and Anti-Semitism (GRA) shows that anti-Semitism remains a problem today.
“We’ve been warning for a long time: words will be followed by deeds,” says Jonathan Kreutner, SIG’s secretary general. As the report shows, the internet is rife with anti-Jewish slogans. This lists 485 serious anti-Semitic incidents in the online area alone. “What was particularly notable in 2020: Half of the taglines were related to conspiracy theories.”
“The Rothschilds are behind the pandemic”
And almost half is due to Corona. Because a crisis situation is the perfect breeding ground for anti-Semitism. Especially on Twitter, Facebook and, since 2020, on the messaging app Telegram, the popular platform among conspiracy theorists, anti-Jewish slogans have been spread.
“The Jews” deliberately brought the virus into the world, it is said. Or the virus doesn’t even exist, and Jewish families like the Rothschilds are behind the pandemic – they want to sterilize or even kill people with vaccines. “In November in particular, we recorded a lot of those conspiracy theories,” Kreutner said. Clearly there is a connection to the second lock and the fatigue of the crown of many.
The Federal Council, Bill Gates and WEF are the culprits most often
However, a clear distinction must be made between anti-Semites and crown skeptics, the report says. Although anti-Jewish conspiracy theories are also circulating around the latter, unlike other European countries and the United States, it is much more likely that the Federal Council, Microsoft founder Bill Gates or Klaus Schwab and their WEF are the alleged authors of the pandemic and the “New World Order” than “the Jews.”
Because Corona skeptics primarily brainstorm in chat groups, the SIG and GRA see an increased risk of anti-Semitic radicalization in these circles. “Such development must be countered at all costs,” they warn in the report.
Many comparisons about the Holocaust
The authors also identify the rise of comparisons about the Holocaust as a “big and serious problem.” Skeptics of the Crown would often make inappropriate comparisons to the National Socialist regime and to the persecution and murder of Jews.
“These comparisons are not anti-Semitic per se,” the report says. But wearing a Jewish star with the inscription “Umgeimpft” or “Mask Certificate” as seen at Corona’s rally at Wohlen AG over the weekend is extremely tacky and testifies to a lack of historical knowledge. Corona skeptics do not want to explicitly trivialize the suffering of Holocaust victims, which is why such statements were not included in the report’s statistics. But in their amount they would lead to a trivialization of the facts at that time, warn SIG and GRA.
The state can no longer look
SIG and GRA conclude that the situation is tense. The fact that no Jewish people were physically attacked in 2020 contradicts the fact that there is a risk of a terrorist attack against a Jewish target, the report warns. “We are – especially now during the pandemic – in a situation where there is a willingness to use violence against Jews,” Kreutner is also alarmed.
