Coronavirus-Related Anti-Semitism Finds Its Way to the Pages of a Prestigious Medical Journal

In a recent report, a group of researchers at the University of Tel Aviv observed an increase in expressions of anti-Semitism in the wake of the pandemic. As Cary Nelson notes, claims that Jews or Israel are somehow responsible for or exacerbating the pandemic can be found on the pens and lips of the European far right and far left, as well as of journalists and officials in Turkey, Iran, and other Muslim countries. Similar slanders have also appeared in a recent letter from four physicians published in the British medical journal the Lancet, accusing the Jewish state of inflicting a coronavirus crisis on the people of Gaza: