Cassandre Fristot was sentenced on October 20 to six months suspended prison sentence by the Metz criminal court for having brandished an anti-Semitic sign during an anti-health pass demonstration in Metz on August 7. On this sign could be read the names of politicians, businessmen and intellectuals, mostly Jewish, names written around the slogan “Who?”. A sign which, according to the lawyers for the 13 civil parties in this case, carried both “the deep scars of anti-Semitism and the codes of conspiracy.”
The opportunity for Complorama to ask this question, in this 16th episode: why are anti-Semitism and conspiracy often linked?
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From the resurgence of anti-Semitism throughout the health crisis to the QAnon movement, Rudy Reichstadt and Tristan Mendès France explain why anti-Semitism remains the breeding ground for conspiracy theories. They also come back to the protocols of the Elders of Sion and the negationist remarks of Jean-Marie Le Pen, in 1987.
“Anti-Semitism is a matrix of contemporary conspiracy, judge Tristan Mendès-France. Conspiracy, whatever it is, will have a fairly high probability, if we pull the thread to the end, of developing an anti-Semitic discourse, with always the idea that if we are lied to about something, if there is international coordination, somewhere there is an imaginary set in motion and which has a good chance of being nourished by anti-Semitic references. “
“Antisemitism and conspiracy” is the 16th episode of Complorama, with Rudy Reichstadt, director of Conspiracy Watch, and Tristan Mendès France, lecturer and member of the observatory of conspiracy, specialist in digital cultures. A podcast to be found on the franceinfo site, the Radio France application and several other platforms such as Apple podcasts, Podcast Addict, Spotify or Deezer.