Old lies, new clothes.
Every modern anti-Jewish accusation has a genealogy. This database documents it — claim by claim, with sources — from medieval antijudaism through racial antisemitism to contemporary antizionism.
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Three eras, one structure
Antijudaism
Antiquity – c. 1800Religious hostility: deicide, blood libel, well-poisoning, host desecration. The root tropes of the entire tree.
Antisemitism
c. 1800 – presentRace and conspiracy replace religion: the Protocols, finance and media control myths, Judeo-Bolshevism — and their internet-era revivals.
Antizionism
1948 – presentThe same structures with “Zionist” substituted for “Jew”: Soviet Zionology and its export into contemporary discourse.
Follow a lineage
- Well-Poisoning AccusationAntijudaism1321; 1348–1351 (Black Death)
“Jews deliberately poisoned wells and water sources in a coordinated plot to exterminate Christians, causing the Black Death.”
- Blood Libel (Ritual Murder Accusation)Antijudaismc. 1144 – 20th c.
“Jews murder Christian children to use their blood in religious rituals, especially Passover matzah.”
- Deicide Charge ("Christ-Killers")Antijudaism2nd c. CE – 1965 (Nostra Aetate)
“Jews, collectively and for all generations, are guilty of killing Jesus Christ.”
Guided tours
Five short walks through the graph, each tracing one trope across the centuries. They open in the explorer and play themselves.
One Lie, Nine Centuries
6 stopsThe ritual-murder accusation born in 1144 Norwich resurfaces as Stalin's killer doctors, a 2009 tabloid organ libel, and QAnon's adrenochrome.
Start tour →The Forgery That Wouldn't Die
5 stopsA proven 1903 forgery becomes 'prophecy' after 1917, then finds a living face in George Soros and a pandemic to explain.
Start tour →When 'Jew' Became 'Zionist'
5 stopsSoviet propagandists ran find-and-replace on the Protocols, industrialized the result, and exported it through the UN.
Start tour →Follow the (Imaginary) Money
4 stopsFrom medieval moneylender caricature to 'Jewish space lasers' in four moves: the greed myth just swaps the banker's name each century.
Start tour →The Permanent Alien
4 stopsThe Wandering Jew becomes the Dreyfus traitor, Stalin's 'rootless cosmopolitan,' and the '4,000 Jews stayed home' 9/11 myth.
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