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People's shrinking attention span and apathy towards history will allow those interested to manipulate them without having to wait for any kind of erasure of conscience.
I just read this and found it interesting. Important historical context.
From the History of Antisemitism page on Wikipedia -
Other manifestations[edit]
During the early 1980s, isolationists on the far right made overtures to anti-war activists on the left in the United States to join forces against government policies in areas where they shared concerns.
[57] This was mainly in the area of civil liberties, opposition to United States military intervention overseas and opposition to US support for Israel.
[58][59] As they interacted, some of the classic right-wing antisemitic
scapegoating conspiracy theories began to seep into progressive circles,
[58] including stories about how a "
New World Order", also called the "Shadow Government" or "The Octopus",
[57] was manipulating world governments. Antisemitic
conspiracism was "peddled aggressively" by right-wing groups.
[58] Some on the left adopted the rhetoric, which it has been argued, was made possible by their lack of knowledge of the history of
fascism and its use of "scapegoating,
reductionist and simplistic solutions,
demagoguery, and a conspiracy theory of history."
[58]
Towards the end of 1990, as the movement against the
Gulf War began to build, a number of
far-right and antisemitic groups sought out alliances with left-wing anti-war coalitions, who began to speak openly about a "
Jewish lobby" that was encouraging the United States to invade the Middle East. This idea evolved into conspiracy theories about a "
Zionist-occupied government" (ZOG), which has been seen as equivalent to the early-20th century antisemitic hoax,
The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.
[57] The anti-war movement as a whole rejected these overtures by the political right.
[58]
In the context of the first US-Iraq war, on September 15, 1990
Pat Buchanan appeared on
The McLaughlin Group and said that "there are only two groups that are beating the drums for war in the Middle East – the Israeli defense ministry and its 'amen corner' in the United States." He also said: "The Israelis want this war desperately because they want the United States to destroy the Iraqi war machine. They want us to finish them off. They don't care about our relations with the Arab world."
[60] When he delivered a keynote address at the 1992
Republican National Convention, known as the Culture War Speech, Buchanan described "a religious war going on in our country for the soul of America".
[61]