The conspiracy joins a list of other claims by the presidential candidate, including the suggestion at an anti-COVID-19 vaccine demo that life was more difficult today than it was for those attempting to flee Nazi Germany

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    1 year ago

    This is a very old bigotry indeed. Anti-Semites have been blaming Jewish people for plagues since at least the Black Death.

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      1 year ago

      It may not be germane to the situation, but I believe the Egyptians were blaming Jewish people for plagues a number of years before that…

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        So the Jewish people were never enslaved in Egypt. The entire Passover myth is without any historical foundation. The Jewish people were conquered and enslaved by the Babylonians and eventually liberated by the Persian emperor Cyrus. Oddly that real historical event is not celebrated in Jewish culture.

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            1 year ago

            It would be equivalently odd if there was another messianic Jew who rose from the dead and was observed by multiple eye witnesses who documented the miracle.