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Daily Mirror
a day ago
- Politics
- Daily Mirror
Gary Lineker banned from Jewish friend's memorial after BBC exit forced U-turn
The son of Jewish football journalist Brian Glanville, who passed away last month, has said he won't allow Gary Lineker "anywhere near" his father's memorial service after his recent post on zionism The son of Brian Glanville has said that he won't let Gary Lineker"anywhere near" his father's memorial due to his contentious remarks about Israel. Glanville was a highly respected football journalist who died at 93 last month, becoming friends with Lineker during his early playing career at Leicester City. The Glanvilles had contemplated inviting Lineker to give an address at St Bride's Church on Fleet Street in London in memory of the veteran journalist, who was Jewish. However, plans for Lineker's involvement were abandoned after he sparked controversy by reposting a video on anti-Zionism featuring an image of a rat, leading to his accelerated exit from the BBC. Mark Glanville said: "I can't have somebody coming to speak at my dad's memorial service who, though not anti-Semitic, is someone who is giving ammunition to people who are anti-Semites. Once you share a picture of a rat which is associated with Nazis, you really are crossing a line." Nazi propaganda infamously used rat imagery to vilify Jews, and Mark noted that his father would not have approved of Lineker participating in the service despite respecting his talents on the pitch and as a presenter of Match Of The Day, reports the Daily Record. Speaking to the Mail on Sunday, Mark shared how the Holocaust left a profound impression on his father, born in 1931, who also faced anti-Jewish bigotry while attending Charterhouse School in Surrey. He said: "Dad was passionate about Israel. "He was a schoolboy during the Second World War but he was aware of what happened. He saw Israel, after all the utter horror, like so many Jews, as a country that was Jewish and where Jews could thrive as Jews and be safe. "I do not think Lineker is anti-Semite. But he does single out almost exclusively Israel, as so many people do, with the type of criticism that gives no context of what happened on October 7 and what has triggered it all. "As he is such a major public figure, he is lending a lot of fuel to people who have a very different agenda and who really don't just hate Israel, but also detest Jews. I believe Lineker really cares about issues but I wish he would talk about what is going on in Syria, in Sudan and with women in Afghanistan." Reflecting on his father's legacy, Mark added: "We felt that for a man of such stature, dad deserved a proper memorial service and my sister suggested inviting Gary Lineker to speak, saying that he had really loved dad's work. But I said that while this was undoubtedly the case, loads of other people were admirers of dad's work as well. "I then said there was no way Lineker was coming anywhere near it. She was very understanding as I explained that in my view Lineker was an exceptionally talented footballer and that is where it should have stayed." At 64, Lineker was already due to step down from Match of the Day at the end of the season, though it was intended he would continue to cover the FA Cup and World Cup for the BBC. Despite his firm stance that he "would never consciously repost anything anti-Semitic", his exit from the Corporation occurred last month after the row concerning the depiction of a rat. He said: "However, I recognise the error and upset that I caused, and reiterate how sorry I am. Stepping back now feels like the responsible course of action." Join our new WhatsApp community and receive your daily dose of Mirror Football content. We also treat our community members to special offers, promotions, and adverts from us and our partners. If you don't like our community, you can check out any time you like. If you're curious, you can read our Privacy Notice.
Daily Record
2 days ago
- Politics
- Daily Record
Gary Lineker barred from speaking at Jewish football icon Brian Glanville's funeral over controversial post
The son of the late football writer has said he will not have Lineker "anywhere near" his father's memorial service The son of the late football journalist Brian Glanville has stated that he won't allow Gary Lineker"anywhere near" his father's memorial service due to his criticisms of Israel. Brian Glanville, a renowned former Daily Express sports reporter who passed away at 93, was Jewish and had been friends with Lineker since the ex-footballer's early days at Leicester City. The family had considered inviting Lineker to speak at a service at St Bride's Church on London's Fleet Street. However, this was before Lineker was compelled to leave the BBC after sharing an anti-Zionism post featuring an illustration of a rat. Mark Glanville commented: "I can't have somebody coming to speak at my Dad's memorial service who, though not anti-Semitic, is someone who is giving ammunition to people who are anti-Semites. Once you share a picture of a rat which is associated with Nazis, you really are crossing a line." The Nazis used images of rats to depict Jews, and Mark added that his father, who passed away last month from Parkinson's Disease, would not have wanted Lineker to speak, despite his respect for him as a player and Match Of The Day presenter. He revealed to the Mail on Sunday that the atrocities of the Holocaust deeply impacted his father, who was born in 1931 and experienced anti-Semitic abuse at the fee-paying Charterhouse School in Surrey. Mark revealed: "Dad was passionate about Israel. He was a schoolboy during the Second World War but he was aware of what happened. "He saw Israel, after all the utter horror, like so many Jews, as a country that was Jewish and where Jews could thrive as Jews and be safe. "I do not think Lineker is anti-Semite. But he does single out almost exclusively Israel, as so many people do, with the type of criticism that gives no context of what happened on October 7 and what has triggered it all. "As he is such a major public figure, he is lending a lot of fuel to people who have a very different agenda and who really don't just hate Israel, but also detest Jews. "I believe Lineker really cares about issues but I wish he would talk about what is going on in Syria, in Sudan and with women in Afghanistan." Reflecting on his father's legacy, Mark said: "We felt that for a man of such stature, Dad deserved a proper memorial service and my sister suggested inviting Gary Lineker to speak, saying that he had really loved Dad's work. "But I said that while this was undoubtedly the case, loads of other people were admirers of Dad's work as well. I then said there was no way Lineker was coming anywhere near it. "She was very understanding as I explained that in my view Lineker was an exceptionally talented footballer and that is where it should have stayed." Lineker himself acknowledged, 'I recognise the upset that I caused'. Lineker, 64, was set to leave Match of the Day at season's end while still covering the FA Cup and World Cup for the BBC. Nonetheless, his departure from the Corporation came last month following a dispute over the rat image, despite his insistence that he "would never consciously repost anything antisemitic". He acknowledged: "However, I recognise the error and upset that I caused, and reiterate how sorry I am. Stepping back now feels like the responsible course of action."
Local Germany
28-03-2025
- Business
- Local Germany
Pensions to taxation: Where Germany's incoming government still disagree
It has been just over a month since Germany went to polls in the February 23rd elections, but events have been unfolding at a whirlwind pace. Within days of his electoral victory, CDU leader Friedrich Merz set about thrashing out a coalition deal with the centre-left SPD, with the aim of building a brand new 'Grand Coalition' by Easter. So far, the CDU/CSU alliance and the SPD have passed joint legislation to loosen Germany's debt rules for military spending and set up a whopping €500 billion infrastructure fund . They have put together an exploratory paper setting out some key plans, and working groups have tried to iron out the finer points of policy. On Friday afternoon, the final, decisive phase of talks will begin. An executive committee comprised of party leaders and senior MPs will aim to clear up disagreements. If all goes well, the parties will be able to finalise their coalition agreement in the coming weeks. TIMELINE: How soon will Germany get a new government? While things have run according to schedule so far, some of the trickiest issues have been put on the backburner. Here are the key problems party leaders will have to solve as they kick off the final phase of talks on Friday. Taxation Many financial questions have been clarified, but there are apparently a number of major disagreements when it comes to taxation. The first relates to taxation on top earners. While the parties have agreed to increase the income threshold for the top rate of tax to €80,000 per year in steps, the SPD wants to hike this tax rate from 42 to 47 percent, which the Union is vehemently against. Advertisement The centre-left party also wants to close loopholes in inheritance tax for people who inherit businesses. In contrast, the centre-right Union parties are keen to increase tax-free allowances for inheriting family members. In possibly the most contentious question, the SPD is pushing once again for the introduction of a wealth tax. It also wants capital gains tax on property investments to apply after the current 10-year period. Citizenship To the relief of many foreigners, the future coalition partners have pledged to keep Germany's reformed citizenship law in place, allowing dual nationality and shorter residence requirements. However, there is still some disagreement when it comes to the treatment of dual nationals. Staying true to their electoral promises, the CDU and CSU want to make it easier to strip dual nationals of their German citizenship in certain cases. A person holds a German and British passport. Photo: picture alliance/dpa | Britta Pedersen Under a draft paper produced by the working group for the interior, the parties say they want to examine if "terror supporters, anti-Semites and extremists who call for the abolition of the free and democratic basic order", can have their citizenship withdrawn. The SPD is apparently strongly opposed to the move, and experts have warned that de-naturalising citizens could open up "pandora's box" in the future. READ ALSO: Germany's next government could make it easier to strip citizenship from dual nationals Cars When it comes to the future of combustion engines, the Union and SPD have taken diametrically opposed positions so far. While the SPD are in favour of phasing out fossil-fuel cars by 2035 according to EU law, the CDU and CSU say this must be reversed. While the parties have pledged to incentivise the purchase of e-cars, there hasn't been any agreement so far on how this would look. REVEALED: Where SUVs are most - and least - popular in Germany The transport working group also bashed heads over the introduction of a 130km-per-hour speed limit on the Autobahn. The SPD are in favour, while the CDU/CSU are against. Advertisement Rent controls In good news for renters, the parties are united on extending current rent controls for a further two years after 2025. Currently, rents in areas with overheated housing markets are subject to the Mietpreisbremse , or rent brake. This dictates that rents should be no higher than 10 percent above average rents in the area and caps increases at a maximum of 20 percent over three years. While the parties want to extend the brake and make it more enforceable, the SPD is apparently pushing for even tighter controls to ease the housing crisis. Instead of a 20 percent cap, the party says the cap should be set at six percent in regions with a tight housing market and 15 percent in all other areas. The Union rejects tightening the restrictions. READ ALSO: Germany's incoming government 'to extend rent brake for two years' Advertisement Migration According to a policy paper obtained by Welt, the incoming government wants to introduce the aim of "restricting" migration in the country's Residence Act. So far, this appears to be targeted primarily at "irregular migration": in other words, to people who cross the border without explicit permission, usually to seek asylum. As well as ending family reunification for refugees for two years, the CDU/CSU and SPD say they will turn more people away at the border. However, there are fervent disagreements about whether Germany should get the green light from neighbouring countries first. Police check for illegal crossings on the German-Polish border. Photo: picture alliance/dpa | Patrick Pleul In terms of other types of migration, there appears to be more agreement. "We want to remain an immigration-friendly country and make qualified immigration into our labour market more attractive," the parties' exploratory paper read. To this end, the Union and SPD want to simplify immigration processes for skilled workers. Pensions In their initial plans for government, the Union and SPD agreed to safeguard the pensions level - but didn't say what level of pension would be safeguarded. The SPD are determined to keep the level at 48 percent - which equates to 48 percent of average earnings over 45 years. The Union believes this would lead to even higher contributions and are reluctant to agree. As a compromise, they've proposed that this level would be based on 47 years of contributions, instead of 45. Tough negotiations are likely to be ahead. READ ALSO: What Germany's CDU and SPD have agreed so far Military service In light of increasing global uncertainty, the Union has spoken out in favour of reintroducing compulsory military service for young people. The previous conscription law was scrapped by Angela Merkel's government back in 2011. Though the SPD also want to expand the number of military recruits, the centre-left party has set its sights on a voluntary system and say they want a wider social discussion around military service. Advertisement Energy policy Robert Habeck's Heating Law, which aims to phase out fossil-fuel heaters and offer subsidies for green alternatives, is still a bone of contention in talks. Though the Union pledged to scrap it in their election manifesto, there is still no consensus on how the law should be reformed or what should replace it. READ ALSO: What will Germany's likely new government do about the Deutschlandticket ? Similarly, the subject of nuclear energy is proving tricky to resolve. The CDU and CSU would like to retain a "significant role" for nuclear energy to help meet climate goals, while the SPD has taken a more sceptical stance. Another difficult issue is the subject of Klimageld , or climate money, which the former traffic-light coalition pledged but failed to introduce. While the parties say they want to redistribute money from the CO2 tax to the population, it's unclear if this would be transferred to households individually, as the Klimageld concept dictates.
Yahoo
26-03-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Why Right-Wing Influencers Keep Saying the Jews Killed JFK
When the National Archives and Records Administration released previously unseen documents relating to the assassination of John F. Kennedy last week, the world learned something interesting. It was not anything new about who killed the president, but rather how long it takes anti-Semites to pretend to read some 63,000 pages about his murder before going back to saying that the Jews did it. The answer: less than 24 hours. Last Tuesday, following an executive order from President Donald Trump, the documents became publicly available. By Wednesday, anti-establishment influencers had figured out who did the deed. 'So who killed JFK?' asked one user on X. 'The jews,' retorted Stew Peters, a far-right extremist and Holocaust denier with 808,000 followers, who has claimed that Jews sank the Titanic and that 'the Constitution is being replaced with the Talmud.' (He has also hosted now–FBI Director Kash Patel six times on his online show.) [Read: What the JFK file dump actually revealed] More savvy sorts avoided explicitly impugning Jews for Kennedy's killing and instead attempted to pin his death on the Jewish state. 'It's PROVEN there was Israeli involvement,' declared the manosphere podcaster Myron Gaines, who subsequently did a six-hour stream for his hundreds of thousands of followers in which he blamed Jewish people and Israel for multiple American catastrophes, including the 9/11 attacks. 'We've definitely seen enough in the documents to indicate that Israel was involved in some way,' the pro-Trump conspiracy theorist Ian Carroll told his 1.2 million followers on X, just a day after the files were released. James Li, a correspondent on the popular anti-establishment podcast Breaking Points, winkingly claimed that the truly incriminating material was still being concealed 'in Tel Aviv.' Other second-tier talkers attempted to ride this viral trend to greater notoriety, paying Elon Musk's platform to promote their anti-Jewish fulminations to more users. 'Why did Israel kill JFK? Why do they control America? Why do they want world domination? Why do they worship Satan?' read one representative promoted post. In reality, the newly declassified documents have little to say about Israel at all, let alone Israeli complicity in the assassination. There is a very straightforward reason for this: Israel was not complicit. We know this not just from American investigations, but from previously private Israeli records. In November 2013, Israel's national archives released a trove of documents to mark the 50th anniversary of the JFK assassination, including the candid reactions of Israel's leaders to the event. The Hebrew minutes from an Israeli cabinet meeting at the time reveal that the country's decision makers did not know who killed the American president—and that they had their own conspiracy theories about who did. 'In my opinion, there are some dark corners that I doubt will ever be cleared,' mused the foreign minister and future prime minister Golda Meir, just eight days after Kennedy's murder. She suggested to her colleagues that Lee Harvey Oswald might have been a communist agent of the Cuban leader Fidel Castro. 'If there's a clandestine group of Castro sympathizers that murdered the president, and it's organized in a way that they silence the murderer,' she said, 'I would say this is as severe as Kennedy's murder.' (Lyndon B. Johnson shared Meir's suspicions, though he revealed this only years later.) So where did the notion that Israel killed JFK come from? Declassified cables trace the allegation to the country's adversaries in the Middle East. In 1963, the National Security Agency intercepted a diplomatic message sent by a Palestinian source to unknown recipients three days after the assassination, asking supporters of the Palestinian cause to 'reveal the conspiracy to the supreme judgment of the world.' The plot in question? 'The late President was likelу to win the coming Presidency elections without supplicating the Zionist sympathy or seeking the Jews [sic] votes,' the message claimed. 'Aware of the fact that their influence and power in the United States are based upon the Jews [sic] votes, the Zionists murdered the courageous President who was about to destroy that legend of theirs.' Whether due to outside urging or their own initiative, Israel's enemies took up this call. 'The Syrian regime, always in search of new anti-Zionist arguments, has found, in the murder of President Kennedy, material for a rather unorthodox interpretation of the lamentable event,' reads a declassified cable from seven days after the assassination. 'According to the Ba'thist organ, the murder [of Kennedy] must be attributed to Zionism, which is really responsible and trying to cover up the misdeed.' To anyone remotely familiar with the history, none of this makes any sense. Kennedy was a Zionist and a steadfast supporter of the Jewish state. 'We are in this country the youngest of people,' he told the Zionist Organization of America in a 1960 address. 'But we are the oldest of republics. Now is our chance in this country to extend the hand of friendship to the oldest of People and the youngest of republics.' Although Kennedy periodically disagreed with Israel on policy, he also sold Israel its first major American weapons system, HAWK anti-aircraft batteries—kicking off a U.S.-Israel partnership in aerial defense that would produce today's Iron Dome. Like numerous American politicians before and since, and like the majority of Americans, Kennedy and his brother Robert F. Kennedy were pro-Israel not because of some international Jewish conspiracy, but for entirely non-Jewish, largely geopolitical and religious reasons. Indeed, the sympathies of the Kennedy brothers were so well known that Robert was later assassinated by a Palestinian nationalist during his 1968 presidential campaign. Perhaps all of this is why Oliver Stone, the gadfly movie director and longtime Israel critic, never mentioned the Jewish state in his award-winning conspiratorial film JFK. Given its implausibility, the 'Jews killed JFK' theory was for decades relegated to the rantings of neo-Nazis and Iranian state television. The formerly fringe falsehood didn't find its way to sudden celebrity because it became more convincing. Rather, the online conduits through which people get their information have supercharged this sort of material. Today, many Americans turn to TikTok, X, YouTube, and podcasts to get their news and make sense of the world. These platforms have enabled talented creators to reach wide audiences. But without quality control or standards of practice, they also tend to privilege virality over accuracy and conspiracy theorists over more careful content creators. After all, novel content is cheapest and easiest to produce if you just make it up. And that includes anti-Jewish content. Anti-Semitism is a social prejudice like any other, directed against individual members of a group for their perceived difference—but it also functions as a conspiracy theory. In fact, it is one of the world's oldest conspiracy theories, furnishing an all-encompassing explanation for how the world works by blaming the world's political, economic, and social problems on a clandestine cabal of string-pulling Jews. [Yair Rosenberg: Why so many people still don't understand anti-Semitism] A discourse dominated by conspiracy theories, then, is one that will be inevitably dominated by anti-Semitism. Once a person becomes convinced that an invisible hand is responsible for the world's ills, they are just a few Google searches away from centuries of propaganda informing them that the hand belongs to an invisible Jew. The Kennedy assassination is perhaps the most salient subject for such theories in American culture—and this, combined with an online ecosystem optimized for conspiracy theories, practically guarantees the anti-Semitic agitprop we now see. That agitprop has little to teach us about who actually killed Kennedy. But the prevalence of such unhinged ideas does tell us something disquieting about ourselves and the incentives of the digital discourse we now inhabit—revealing a threat to our republic far greater than any assassin's bullet. Article originally published at The Atlantic
Atlantic
26-03-2025
- Politics
- Atlantic
Why Right-Wing Influencers Keep Saying the Jews Killed JFK
When the National Archives and Records Administration released previously unseen documents relating to the assassination of John F. Kennedy last week, the world learned something interesting. It was not anything new about who killed the president, but rather how long it takes anti-Semites to pretend to read some 63,000 pages about his murder before going back to saying that the Jews did it. The answer: less than 24 hours. Last Tuesday, following an executive order from President Donald Trump, the documents became publicly available. By Wednesday, anti-establishment influencers had figured out who did the deed. 'So who killed JFK?' asked one user on X. 'The jews,' retorted Stew Peters, a far-right extremist and Holocaust denier with 808,000 followers, who has claimed that Jews sank the Titanic and that 'the Constitution is being replaced with the Talmud.' (He has also hosted now–FBI Director Kash Patel six times on his online show.) More savvy sorts avoided explicitly impugning Jews for Kennedy's killing and instead attempted to pin his death on the Jewish state. 'It's PROVEN there was Israeli involvement,' declared the manosphere podcaster Myron Gaines, who subsequently did a six-hour stream for his hundreds of thousands of followers in which he blamed Jewish people and Israel for multiple American catastrophes, including the 9/11 attacks. 'We've definitely seen enough in the documents to indicate that Israel was involved in some way,' the pro-Trump conspiracy theorist Ian Carroll told his 1.2 million followers on X, just a day after the files were released. James Li, a correspondent on the popular anti-establishment podcast Breaking Points, winkingly claimed that the truly incriminating material was still being concealed 'in Tel Aviv.' Other second-tier talkers attempted to ride this viral trend to greater notoriety, paying Elon Musk's platform to promote their anti-Jewish fulminations to more users. 'Why did Israel kill JFK? Why do they control America? Why do they want world domination? Why do they worship Satan?' read one representative promoted post. In reality, the newly declassified documents have little to say about Israel at all, let alone Israeli complicity in the assassination. There is a very straightforward reason for this: Israel was not complicit. We know this not just from American investigations, but from previously private Israeli records. In November 2013, Israel's national archives released a trove of documents to mark the 50th anniversary of the JFK assassination, including the candid reactions of Israel's leaders to the event. The Hebrew minutes from an Israeli cabinet meeting at the time reveal that the country's decision makers did not know who killed the American president—and that they had their own conspiracy theories about who did. 'In my opinion, there are some dark corners that I doubt will ever be cleared,' mused the foreign minister and future prime minister Golda Meir, just eight days after Kennedy's murder. She suggested to her colleagues that Lee Harvey Oswald might have been a communist agent of the Cuban leader Fidel Castro. 'If there's a clandestine group of Castro sympathizers that murdered the president, and it's organized in a way that they silence the murderer,' she said, 'I would say this is as severe as Kennedy's murder.' (Lyndon B. Johnson shared Meir's suspicions, though he revealed this only years later.) So where did the notion that Israel killed JFK come from? Declassified cables trace the allegation to the country's adversaries in the Middle East. In 1963, the National Security Agency intercepted a diplomatic message sent by a Palestinian source to unknown recipients three days after the assassination, asking supporters of the Palestinian cause to 'reveal the conspiracy to the supreme judgment of the world.' The plot in question? 'The late President was likelу to win the coming Presidency elections without supplicating the Zionist sympathy or seeking the Jews [ sic ] votes,' the message claimed. 'Aware of the fact that their influence and power in the United States are based upon the Jews [ sic ] votes, the Zionists murdered the courageous President who was about to destroy that legend of theirs.' Whether due to outside urging or their own initiative, Israel's enemies took up this call. 'The Syrian regime, always in search of new anti-Zionist arguments, has found, in the murder of President Kennedy, material for a rather unorthodox interpretation of the lamentable event,' reads a declassified cable from seven days after the assassination. 'According to the Ba'thist organ, the murder [of Kennedy] must be attributed to Zionism, which is really responsible and trying to cover up the misdeed.' To anyone remotely familiar with the history, none of this makes any sense. Kennedy was a Zionist and a steadfast supporter of the Jewish state. 'We are in this country the youngest of people,' he told the Zionist Organization of America in a 1960 address. 'But we are the oldest of republics. Now is our chance in this country to extend the hand of friendship to the oldest of People and the youngest of republics.' Although Kennedy periodically disagreed with Israel on policy, he also sold Israel its first major American weapons system, HAWK anti-aircraft batteries—kicking off a U.S.-Israel partnership in aerial defense that would produce today's Iron Dome. Like numerous American politicians before and since, and like the majority of Americans, Kennedy and his brother Robert F. Kennedy were pro-Israel not because of some international Jewish conspiracy, but for entirely non-Jewish, largely geopolitical and religious reasons. Indeed, the sympathies of the Kennedy brothers were so well known that Robert was later assassinated by a Palestinian nationalist during his 1968 presidential campaign. Perhaps all of this is why Oliver Stone, the gadfly movie director and longtime Israel critic, never mentioned the Jewish state in his award-winning conspiratorial film JFK. Given its implausibility, the 'Jews killed JFK' theory was for decades relegated to the rantings of neo-Nazis and Iranian state television. The formerly fringe falsehood didn't find its way to sudden celebrity because it became more convincing. Rather, the online conduits through which people get their information have supercharged this sort of material. Today, many Americans turn to TikTok, X, YouTube, and podcasts to get their news and make sense of the world. These platforms have enabled talented creators to reach wide audiences. But without quality control or standards of practice, they also tend to privilege virality over accuracy and conspiracy theorists over more careful content creators. After all, novel content is cheapest and easiest to produce if you just make it up. And that includes anti-Jewish content. Anti-Semitism is a social prejudice like any other, directed against individual members of a group for their perceived difference—but it also functions as a conspiracy theory. In fact, it is one of the world's oldest conspiracy theories, furnishing an all-encompassing explanation for how the world works by blaming the world's political, economic, and social problems on a clandestine cabal of string-pulling Jews. Yair Rosenberg: Why so many people still don't understand anti-Semitism A discourse dominated by conspiracy theories, then, is one that will be inevitably dominated by anti-Semitism. Once a person becomes convinced that an invisible hand is responsible for the world's ills, they are just a few Google searches away from centuries of propaganda informing them that the hand belongs to an invisible Jew. The Kennedy assassination is perhaps the most salient subject for such theories in American culture—and this, combined with an online ecosystem optimized for conspiracy theories, practically guarantees the anti-Semitic agitprop we now see. That agitprop has little to teach us about who actually killed Kennedy. But the prevalence of such unhinged ideas does tell us something disquieting about ourselves and the incentives of the digital discourse we now inhabit—revealing a threat to our republic far greater than any assassin's bullet.
