The link between the anti-vaccine movement and antisemitism is in part psychologically explained by crank magnetism, which describes the phenomenon where belief in one type of conspiracy or pseudoscience attracts multiple types: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ac…
@jonathanstea While anti-Semitism has been turbocharged by the pandemic (notoriously by RFK Jr. promoting the bogus claim that Jews are resistant to an "ethnically targeted" virus), such bigotry was well-known among antivaxers even before the pandemic. adl.org/resources/blog…
@Lorenzo7127 @jonathanstea This is a great article and infuriating at the same time. So riddle me this: The Ultra Hassidic sects who refused the vaccine and held huge events seem to align with the anti-vax beliefs. If this had to do with their conspiracy, this would not have happened or be happening today.