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 Hello and welcome to The Reckoning – Iran, Israel, America, and War. This podcast explores the relationships among these countries and the events that led to war in 2026. Crossroads of Hate is a five-part series that examines Western influences on Iranian anti-Semitic propaganda. This has been part of Iran’s information warfare against both Israel and the United States. The author is Mark Silinsky. This is the first episode, and it gives the background of Iranian information operations against Israel and Jews. Recurring antisemitic tropes from around the world flow into Iran today. Long-suppressed European antisemitism has resurfaced, though not to its former homicidal levels. Over the centuries, global antisemitism has fluctuated wildly. In the Christian and Islamic worlds, there were periods of general indifference toward Jews. However, eras of openness were punctuated by spasms of mass murder, most notoriously during the Crusades, the Black Death, and the Holocaust. In Europe and the Greater Middle East, kings could expel Jewish communities from their homes with little warning. Some would flee with few possessions, hoping to rebuild their lives in their new homes. Expulsions recurred in Europe in the 1930s and 1940s and again in Iran in the 1980s. Antisemitism is malleable and tapers to indigenous cultures. After the revolution, Iran's leaders promoted antisemitic themes that would have been considered vulgar by educated Iranians earlier in the twentieth century. Iranian leaders blended elements of Western and Koranic antisemitism. Logical inconsistency often does not impede marketing mutually contradictory antisemitic concepts. Jews could be simultaneously radical and reactionary, communist and capitalist, cosmopolitan and clannish. Jean-Paul Sartre argued that the antisemite does not feel compelled to act logically consistent in painting the Jew. A familiar, centuries-old image in Europe and the Middle East is that of the wandering Jew, portrayed as a stateless, parasitic vagabond. In this view, the Jew belonged to no nation and recognized no law. In European fiction, two dominant Jewish characters were Fagin, who ran a criminal syndicate of child pickpockets, and Shylock, a notorious usurer. Mutations of this typecast are often echoed in Iran today by the ayatollahs’ penmen. Other stereotypes cast Jews as murderers. In Europe and the greater Middle East, villagers used the idea of Jewish criminality to explain mysteries or catastrophes, such as children disappearing or the sudden onset of pandemic diseases. With Iran's purge of liberalism in the 1980s came a renaissance of earlier Nazi-crafted antisemitism. These early purveyors were Ayatollah Mesbah Yazdi, an intimate of Khomeini, and Ahmad Fardid. After the revolution, Fardid, sometimes called the Iranian Heidegger, taught university courses on Nazi theory and racial hygiene and promoted Holocaust denial. Mohammad-Ali Ramin, an adviser to Ahmadinejad, was an ardent antisemite associated with neo-Nazis while living in Germany. He drove Nazi antisemitic iconography and passionate Holocaust denial in the Islamic Republic. Several antisemitic themes in Iran intersect with Western antisemitism. These beliefs maintain that Jews destroy civilizations, grasp for control of the world's political decision-making, manipulate international financial flows, exist as less-than-human animals, murder non-Jews to use their blood for ritualistic purposes, fabricate claims of the Holocaust to enrich themselves and Israel, pollute indigenous culture, and start wars for their pleasure and benefit. Many of these themes overlap and embellish each other. For example, an Iranian broadcast might claim the Rothchilds pay Israeli soldiers to remove Palestinian children's eyes to sell them on the international market. This example draws a spin on blood libel, national destruction, ill-gotten financial profit, and inhumanity. Bernard Lewis referred to this trend of recycling of European stories as "Islamization of antisemitism." Jews are Destroyers of Nations and Controllers of the World Some Iranian and European theologians and public intellectuals accuse Jews of destroying nations. In Europe, this view crystallized during the age of nationalism in the nineteenth century. European antisemites argued that Jews undermine social hierarchy, order, authority, and tradition. Richard Wagner, in Judaism in Music, argued that Jews polluted German art. Iranian media sometimes depict Jews as clever cultural polluters. This was a common theme in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, fueled by European nationalism. British philosopher Houston Stewart Chamberlain, Heinrich von Treitschke, composer Richard Wagner, and many public intellectuals decried the inclusion of Jews in their countries' national arts scene. In the early Third Reich, Minister of ...
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