Antisemitic canards
A small set of false claims about Jews has been recycled for nine centuries, each era repackaging the last: ritual-murder libels, a forged plan for world domination, a hidden hand behind finance, revolution or migration. These files exist to report those myths as debunked hoaxes and to name the reputable evidence against them, never to repeat the smear as fact. Every entry is rated debunked; the target throughout is the trope and the people who spread it, never the community it maligns.
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The blood libel is the false, antisemitic medieval myth that Jews murder Christians, especially children, to use their blood in religious rituals
The blood libel is one of the oldest and deadliest antisemitic lies: the false claim that Jews kidnap and murder Christians, especially children, to use their blood in rituals, most often to bake unleavened bread for Passover. It began in Norwich, England, in 1144, when a monk named Thomas of Monmouth accused local Jews of ritually killing a boy, and spread across Europe in roughly one hundred documented cases over the next four centuries. Each was a fabrication, yet the accusations triggered torture, mass executions, and pogroms. The charge is not merely unproven but affirmatively false: Jewish dietary law strictly forbids consuming blood, and popes and scholars debunked it repeatedly across the centuries. This file exists to report the hoax and its harm, and to name it plainly for what it is. It never treats the accusation as true; the target throughout is the myth, never Jewish people.
Read the case file →Holocaust denial and distortion, the antisemitic claim that the Nazi genocide of European Jews was faked or grossly exaggerated, is a debunked falsehood contradicted by overwhelming documentary, forensic, and testimonial evidence
Between 1933 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators carried out the systematic, state-organized murder of roughly six million European Jews, alongside millions of Roma, disabled people, Soviet prisoners, and others. Holocaust denial is the antisemitic claim that this genocide did not happen, or that it has been wildly exaggerated and invented by Jews for political and financial gain. It is not history; it is a hoax. The evidence against it is overwhelming and comes from multiple independent streams: the Nazis’ own bureaucratic records, the physical remains of the killing centers, forensic findings, the confessions of the perpetrators who ran the camps, demographic records, and a vast body of survivor and bystander testimony. This file centers that evidence and names the denial movement for what it is. It reports the deniers’ assertions only to rebut them, and it treats the genocide as documented fact, not as a matter still in dispute.
Read the case file →The George Soros “puppet master” conspiracy theories are a debunked, antisemitic trope in modern political dress, recycling the old myth of a rich Jew secretly controlling the world
George Soros is a real person: a Holocaust survivor, hedge-fund investor, and philanthropist whose Open Society Foundations openly bankroll liberal, human-rights, and pro-democracy work worldwide. Criticizing that spending is legitimate politics. This file is about something else, the sprawling conspiracy theory that casts Soros as a secret “puppet master” pulling the strings behind protests, immigration, crime, and elections. That theory is false, and its architecture is old. The Anti-Defamation League, the American Jewish Committee, and the Southern Poverty Law Center all identify it as a modern edition of a centuries-old antisemitic myth: the fantasy of a rich, rootless Jew secretly manipulating nations, the same myth forged into the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. Its concrete claims, paid protesters, a funded migrant caravan, controlled prosecutors, rigged voting machines, have each been fact-checked false. This file reports the trope as the debunked, antisemitic hoax it is, and never asserts any of its accusations as fact.
Read the case file →The 'Kalergi Plan' is a fabricated white-genocide conspiracy theory with no basis in reality: a supposed secret blueprint to abolish white Europeans by mass immigration and interracial mixing, falsely attributed to the pan-European pioneer Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi
The “Kalergi Plan” is a fabricated claim that a secret blueprint exists to abolish the white peoples of Europe by flooding the continent with non-European migrants and encouraging interracial mixing, supposedly authored by Count Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi, an early champion of a united Europe. No such plan exists. The name was never used in Kalergi's lifetime; it was manufactured decades after his death, chiefly by the Austrian neo-Nazi Gerd Honsik, who quoted a single speculative passage from Kalergi's 1925 essay Practical Idealism out of context and grafted an antisemitic conspiracy onto it. This file separates a real historical figure and a real book from the false story built on top of them. Kalergi predicted, hopefully and wrongly, a distant mixed humanity; he did not propose replacing anyone, and he directed no immigration. The myth is the European face of the “white genocide” conspiracy theory, and it is debunked.
Read the case file →The “Khazar theory,” the claim that Ashkenazi Jews are not “really” Jewish but descend from Turkic Khazar converts, is a debunked pseudoscientific trope used to deny Jewish identity
The “Khazar theory” starts from a real historical detail and turns it into a smear. The Khazars were a medieval Turkic people whose ruling class is thought to have converted to Judaism around the eighth century, and their empire faded after the tenth. From that kernel the modern trope makes a false claim: that Ashkenazi Jews are overwhelmingly the descendants of converted Khazars rather than of ancient Judeans, and so are “fake” Jews with no Semitic ancestry and no ancestral connection to Israel. This file treats the documented history and the false conspiracy claim as two separate things. It reports what is actually known about the Khazars, sets out why population genetics and mainstream scholarship reject the mass-descent claim as unsupported junk science, and names how the idea is used, by white supremacists to delegitimize Jews as impostors and by some anti-Zionists to deny Jewish indigeneity. The target of this page is the hoax, never the Jewish community it maligns.
Read the case file →'Judeo-Bolshevism,' the claim that Jews created and controlled communism to destroy Western civilization, is a debunked antisemitic canard that served as a rationale for genocide
'Judeo-Bolshevism' is the antisemitic conspiracy theory that Jews, as a people, created and secretly controlled communism in order to destroy Western and Christian civilization from within. It took hold during the 1917 Russian Revolution and the civil war that followed, drew on the forged 'Protocols of the Elders of Zion,' and became one of the central beliefs of Nazism, invoked to justify the 1941 invasion of the Soviet Union and the mass murder of Europe's Jews. This file reports the claim as what historians have established it to be: a false and lethal slur, not a description of reality. The historian Paul Hanebrink and institutions like the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum document both why the myth is baseless, Jews were a small minority of the Bolsheviks and were among communism's victims, and why it proved so durable, spreading long after 1945 and echoing today in 'cultural Bolshevism' and 'cultural Marxism.' The target of this page is the canard, never Jewish people.
Read the case file →The 1840 Damascus Affair was a false, antisemitic blood-libel accusation that drew international attention and was officially repudiated by the Ottoman Sultan
In February 1840, a Capuchin friar known as Father Thomas and his Muslim servant disappeared in Damascus. Within days the city's small Jewish community was accused of murdering the pair to drain their blood for Passover matzo, a revival of the medieval “blood libel.” The accusation was pushed by the French consul, Ulysse de Ratti-Menton, and Ottoman-Egyptian authorities extracted confessions through brutal torture; prisoners died in custody and dozens of Jewish children were seized to pressure their parents. The case became an international scandal. A delegation led by the British Jewish leader Moses Montefiore and the French lawyer Adolphe Crémieux secured the release of the survivors, and in November 1840 the Ottoman Sultan Abdülmecid I issued a firman denouncing the ritual-murder charge as a groundless slander. This file reports the affair for what it was: a false, antisemitic accusation, extracted under torture and formally repudiated, not a crime the Jewish community committed.
Read the case file →The “Andinia Plan,” a claim that Jews plotted to seize Patagonia for a breakaway Jewish state, is a debunked antisemitic myth with no documentary basis
The “Andinia Plan” (Plan Andinia) is a false, antisemitic conspiracy theory that claims Jews, or the State of Israel, secretly plot to seize Patagonia and establish a breakaway Jewish state in the south of Argentina and Chile. It has no documentary basis whatsoever: the Anti-Defamation League describes it as an allegation without evidence, and historians trace it not to any real plan but to the forged Protocols of the Elders of Zion, rewritten in an Argentine key. The myth surfaced among army officers in a 1971 leaflet and was propagated through the 1970s by the ultranationalist economist Walter Beveraggi Allende. It hardened into state paranoia during the 1976–1983 military dictatorship, when interrogators tortured Jewish prisoners, among them the editor Jacobo Timerman, demanding details of an invasion that did not exist. It resurfaces in each new crisis, most recently to blame Israeli tourists for wildfires. This file reports the myth as the debunked hoax it is; it never asserts the plot as real.
Read the case file →The claim that Israel murders Palestinians to harvest their organs is a debunked, antisemitic revival of the medieval blood-libel trope
In August 2009 the Swedish tabloid Aftonbladet published an article implying that the Israeli military kills Palestinians and harvests their organs. It named no proof, and its author later said plainly that he did not know whether the allegation was true and only wanted it investigated. The family at the center of the piece said they had never told him their son's organs were taken. The story nonetheless spread worldwide and has resurfaced in every subsequent Israeli-Palestinian crisis. This file reports it for what reputable sources say it is: a false accusation, and a modern iteration of the antisemitic blood libel, the medieval charge that Jews murder innocents to use their bodies. It keeps that hoax strictly separate from a real, documented 1990s scandal, in which the Abu Kabir forensic institute retained tissue from cadavers without consent. That episode was about unauthorized retention from the already dead, not a plot to kill people for their organs, and it does nothing to support the murder claim.
Read the case file →The claim that 4,000 Jews were warned to skip work at the World Trade Center on 9/11, so that no Jews died in the attacks, is a debunked antisemitic hoax
In the days after the 11 September 2001 attacks, a rumor took hold that roughly 4,000 Jews or Israelis who worked at the World Trade Center had been secretly warned in advance and stayed home, and that as a result no Jews died. The claim is false. It grew out of a genuine 12 September 2001 Jerusalem Post story reporting that Israel's Foreign Ministry had received the names of about 4,000 Israelis feared to have been near the World Trade Center or the Pentagon, a list of people to check on, which was twisted into a list of people who suspiciously failed to show up for work. Jewish New Yorkers died in the towers in numbers proportionate to their share of the local population, an estimated 10 to 15 percent of the victims, and five Israeli citizens were killed. This file explains where the hoax came from, how it spread through outlets such as Syria's Al Thawra and Hezbollah's al-Manar, why it endures, and why every credible source has rejected it. The target here is the hoax, never the community it defames.
Read the case file →The claim that Israel and the United States secretly created ISIS is a debunked conspiracy theory rooted in a fabricated hoax
As the Islamic State overran swaths of Iraq and Syria in 2014, a family of conspiracy theories claimed the group was not a jihadist movement at all but a Western creation. The most viral version asserted that leaked Edward Snowden documents proved Israel's Mossad, working with British and American intelligence, had engineered ISIS in an operation called “Hornet's Nest.” Fact-checkers traced the story to a fabricated post with no basis in Snowden's actual archive; the reporters who hold those files and Snowden's lawyer confirmed no such document exists. This file treats the theory as what it is: a debunked hoax that grafts a fake secret document onto a real, painful conflict. It separates the documented origins of ISIS as an al-Qaeda offshoot from the false claim of an Israeli-American plot, and names the antisemitic tropes the theory often carries.
Read the case file →'The Protocols of the Elders of Zion' is a genuine record of a Jewish plot to control the world
'The Protocols of the Elders of Zion' claims to be the secret record of Jewish leaders plotting to rule the world. It is a fabrication, and among the most comprehensively debunked documents ever written. Produced in the Russian Empire in the early 1900s, much of its content was lifted, sometimes verbatim, from Maurice Joly's 1864 satire 'Dialogue in Hell Between Machiavelli and Montesquieu,' a book about French politics that says nothing about Jews, with further material borrowed from an antisemitic German novel. The London Times exposed the plagiarism in 1921, printing the parallel passages side by side, and a Swiss court declared the text a forgery in 1935. This file does not treat the document as an open question or reproduce its supposed 'plan.' It reports what the Protocols is, a manufactured antisemitic hoax, shows how it was proven fake, and records the catastrophe it helped cause: it fueled pogroms, was spread by Henry Ford and the Nazis, and fed the propaganda that led to the Holocaust. It is debunked, and its danger is a matter of history, not theory.
Read the case file →A global elite harvests adrenochrome from terrorized children as a youth drug
Adrenochrome is a real chemical, the oxidation product of adrenaline, once studied briefly and inconclusively for mild psychoactive effects. In modern conspiracy culture it has been transformed into the imagined product of a horrific industry: a cabal of elites said to torture children to 'charge' their blood with adrenaline, then harvest adrenochrome as a life-extending drug. The story became a fixture of Pizzagate and QAnon. It is false at every level. The compound is cheap to synthesize and does nothing miraculous; there is no evidence of any harvesting; and the narrative is a modern retelling of the antisemitic blood libel, dressed in pseudo-scientific language and borrowed from fiction. The claim is debunked.
Read the case file →'Cultural Marxism' is a deliberate plot to destroy Western civilization from within
The 'Cultural Marxism' conspiracy theory holds that a deliberate plot, hatched by the Frankfurt School of Marxist thinkers, has spent decades corroding Western civilization through feminism, multiculturalism, and political correctness. This file separates the real from the conspiratorial. The Frankfurt School and its 'critical theory' genuinely existed and remain a fair subject of academic argument. But the story of a coordinated civilization-destroying scheme is a conspiracy theory: historians date its modern form to 1990s activists, and note that it recycles the Nazi-era slur 'Cultural Bolshevism' and its antisemitism. Sweeping, diverse social changes have many independent causes; attributing them to one secret plan is what makes the claim false. Rated as a conspiracy theory, it is debunked; the underlying intellectual history is real and open to honest debate.
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