Tehran Is Close to Getting Massive Sanctions Relief from Washington. So Why Does It Keep Trying to Kill Americans?
Because it can get away with it.
August 22, 2022
How Medieval France Became Convinced That Jews Were Poisoning Its Wells
The rise of a conspiracy theory.
In the 14th century, the Jews of northern Europe—who had already suffered from massacres during the crusades and wholesale expulsion from England in 1290—faced a new problem: they were accused of spreading disease among Christians by poisoning the wells. Tzafrir Barzilay suggests that this libel began with rumors that lepers were deliberately spreading their condition through the water supply, which in turn gave rise to similar accusations against Jews:
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The Disaster at an Egyptian Church Is a Symptom of Systemic Persecution—and a Country in Decline
Egypt kicked out Jews, Italians, and Greeks in the 1950s and continues to persecute Copts today.
The Cult of Social Justice
The amphetamines of the masses.
How Medieval France Became Convinced That Jews Were Poisoning Its Wells
The rise of a conspiracy theory.
The Peruvian Villager Who Led Hundreds of His Countrymen to Judaism and Israel
Getting Zerubbabel Tzidkiya’s story right.