{"id":4007,"date":"2020-11-01T18:33:29","date_gmt":"2020-11-01T18:33:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emoryhistorynews.wordpress.com\/?p=4007"},"modified":"2020-11-01T18:33:29","modified_gmt":"2020-11-01T18:33:29","slug":"lipstadt-diagnoses-anti-semitism-at-core-of-qanon-conspiracy-theory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/2020\/11\/01\/lipstadt-diagnoses-anti-semitism-at-core-of-qanon-conspiracy-theory\/","title":{"rendered":"Lipstadt Diagnoses Anti-Semitism at Core of QAnon Conspiracy Theory"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/religion.emory.edu\/home\/people\/faculty\/lipstadt-deborah.html\">Deborah E. Lipstadt<\/a>, Dorot Professor of Modern Jewish History and Holocaust Studies and associated faculty in the History Department,\u00a0was recently quoted in the <em>NBC News<\/em> article &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/think\/opinion\/trump-s-refusal-disavow-qanon-part-his-pattern-encouraging-hate-ncna1243828\">Trump&#8217;s refusal to disavow QAnon is part of his pattern of encouraging hate for political gain<\/a>.&#8221; The article addresses Trump&#8217;s refusal to disavow the conspiracy group QAnon. The piece&#8217;s author, Jewish Democratic Council of America executive director Halie Soifer, writes that QAnon frequently employs &#8220;anti-Semitic tropes and age-old conspiracy theories.&#8221; Soifer draws on comments that Prof. Lipstadt posted on Twitter. Watch Dr. Lipstadt&#8217;s commentary below, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/think\/opinion\/trump-s-refusal-disavow-qanon-part-his-pattern-encouraging-hate-ncna1243828\">read the full <em>NBC News <\/em>article<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Last night, Donald Trump not only refused to condemn QAnon, he actually legitimized the basis of their dangerous conspiracy theory.<br><br>Watch renowned Holocaust historian, Professor <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/deborahlipstadt?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@deborahlipstadt<\/a>, explain the danger of this movement, which includes antisemitism. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bbtPb7rMxS\">pic.twitter.com\/bbtPb7rMxS<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Jewish Dems (@USJewishDems) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/USJewishDems\/status\/1317119895214096387?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 16, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deborah E. Lipstadt, Dorot Professor of Modern Jewish History and Holocaust Studies and associated faculty in the History Department,\u00a0was recently quoted in the NBC News article &#8220;Trump&#8217;s refusal to disavow QAnon is part of his pattern of encouraging hate for political gain.&#8221; The article addresses Trump&#8217;s refusal to disavow the conspiracy group QAnon. The piece&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1282,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,17,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faculty","category-public-scholarship","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1282"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4007\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}