THERE MUST BE SOMETHING TO IT
From the editor-in-chief
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TELLING TALES
Nothing is more human than our incredible ability to construct stories, to build narratives and share them with others.
The stories we tell forge bonds and often largely define the way we perceive the world.
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SECRETS OF THE JEWS
Since ancient times, the lives of Jews have intrigued those who are not Jewish. The separation between the two, rooted as much in the dictates of Jewish law as in external rejection, is fertile ground for suspicions and fantasies to grow.
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THE RABBI WHO FOUGHT FAKE NEWS
In the mid 17th century, Nathan of Gaza proclaimed that the Messiah had appeared in the figure of Sabbatai Zvi. Adherents soon multiplied into a movement that swept across the Diaspora and tore communities apart. In the midst of this messianic storm, one rabbi stood firm on rabbinical principles of rigour and doubt, and meticulously dissected both Sabbatianism itself and what made it possible.
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FREEING CONSPIRACY FROM CONSPIRACISM
The repudiation of conspiracy theories cannot come at the expense of a healthy vigilance against conspiracy itself. It is conspiracism we must immunize ourselves against—and the Jewish tradition can help.
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BELIEF AND DOUBT
Rudy Reichstadt, founder of Conspiracy Watch (l’Observatoire du conspirationnisme) in France, takes an expert look at the phenomenon plaguing our world.
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Blood Will Tell
When it comes to conspiracy theories, one in particular stands out: accusing Jews of performing “ritual murder” on Christian children. This allegation, with its roots in the Middle Ages, has been perpetuated throughout centuries and across continents. Academic Sophie Bigot-Goldblum explores the history of this rumour.
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AFTER PUBLICATION OF THE BLACK NOTEBOOKS,WHAT DO WE DO WITH HEIDEGGER ?
Interview with Joseph Cohen & Raphael Zagury-Orly, philosophers, authors of l’Adversaire privilégié. Heidegger, les juifs et nous
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THERE IS ALWAYS A JEW SOMEWHERE
We can criticize conspiracy theories for being inconsistent, contradictory, and ideologically volatile, but what we cannot deny is the rigour and constancy with which Jews almost always feature somewhere in their sinister scheme.
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SECRET KNOWLEDGE
Men studying the Torah or the Talmud in small groups, using a language as strange as it is foreign while abiding by a protocol and observing certain rituals—this is enough to raise eyebrows in our age of transparency. What on earth are Jews doing when they gather in secret in the early hours of the morning to jabber about in some sort of gibberish?
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FAKE NEWS: CONSPIRING IS NOT A GAME
In 2015, Thomas Huchon made ConspiHunter, a documentary created for the online media outlet Spicee that alleges the CIA created the AIDS virus to oppose the Castro regime. Once the film was released on the Internet, Huchon monitored reactions within the “conspirosphere” to better understand how information is constructed in the age of “fake news”.
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The invisible all-powerful guy
La BD d’Odélia Kammoun
ENEMIES OF THE VACCINE
The undeniable success of Israel’s Covid vaccination campaign has done nothing to dispel conspiracy theories, even at the heart of the Jewish world. But vaccine mistrust is nothing new; it has been inflaming the scientific community and public opinion for three hundred years.
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JUSTICE IS THE REALM OF STORYTELLING
Death does not have the final word; this is called justice—a truth greater than any one person, we have learned alongside the survivors of the Charlie Hebdo, Montrouge, and Hyper Cacher attacks and the families of the victims, police officers, lawyers, court appointees, and journalists.
Excerpt of the preface by Yannick Haenel
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