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Politics, Philosophy, and Everything in between | Sonny Loughran

Politics, Philosophy, and Everything in between | Sonny Loughran

Antisemitism has its roots in the Christian charge of deicide against the Jewish people. It was perhaps the early twentieth-century Elders of Zion that first popularised the idea that Jewish leaders are secretly plotting to take over the world

Politics, Philosophy, and Everything in between | Sonny Loughran
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Antisemitism: A Paranoid Delusion Why Antisism is a symptom of mental illness.

I wrote this piece shortly after Kanye West’s insane appearance on Infowars - the conspiracy-addled “news” channel run by Alex Jones .

West was diagnosed with bipolar disorder in 2016 .

Antisemitism has its roots in the Christian charge of deicide against the Jewish people.

The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion first popularised the idea that Jewish leaders are secretly plotting to take over the world.

The conspiratorial element is central to antisemitism, in a way that it is not in more ordinary manifestations of ethnocentrism.

A Manichean worldview of this kind serves only to justify punishment and will not help us rehabilitate those who transgress against our moral, social and political norms.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn , who was intimately familiar with the workings of the totalitarian state, acknowledges this in a famous passage from The Gulag Archipelago .

Antisemitism is an affliction of the mind, a paranoid delusion, says Christopher Hitchens .

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