Conspiracy to Massacre: Anti Semitism in America, Fault Lines

Fault Lines examines rising levels of violence and threats against Jewish Americans and the antiSemitic conspiracy theories that often animate these attacks. AntiSemitic hate crimes reached a fiveyear high in 2016. The next year, antiSemitic incidents saw an unprecedented surge, and white supremacists marched through Charlottesville, Virginia chanting Jews will not replace In 2018, the US witnessed the deadliest antiSemitic attack in its history when a white supremacist opened fire at Pittsburgh s Tree of Life synagogue. Then, in 2019, according to the AntiDefamation League, antiSemitic incidents reached an alltime high, eclipsing every previous year on record. AntiSemitism plays a unique role in the dangerous worldview of white supremacists. It is often coded into terms like white genocide and replacement, which stem from the conspiracy theory that Jews are trying to change the demographics of the US. Fault Lines decodes antiSe