Florida Latinos Are Being Flooded With Anti-Semitic Conspiracy Theories Ahead Of The Election

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Trump supporters display QAnon posters at a 2018 rally in Florida. Recently, Latinos in the state have been inundated with anti-Semitic messages, many relating to the false QAnon conspiracy theory. (Thomas O'Neill/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

MIAMI (JTA) – Anti-Semitic conspiracy theories are spreading among Florida’s Latino communities ahead of the presidential election, amplified by social media and messaging apps as well as respected mainstream outlets.

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According to a report in Politico, much of the anti-Semitism stems from QAnon, the growing, false conspiracy theory that claims Democrats and the “deep state” run a pedophile ring and are working to take down President Donald Trump. Purveyors of the theory often traffic in classic anti-Semitic tropes, claiming that powerful Jews control the anti-Trump cabal.

The exact origin of the messages — which are circulating in groups on WhatsApp, the Facebook-owned messaging app, or on social media — is unclear. But they reflect both the themes in the QAnon theory and rhetoric deployed widely on the right that urges voters to fear disorder if Trump is unseated.

The theories have also been amplified by more respected outlets. Radio Caracol, a well-regarded Columbian radio network, hosted someone who claimed that Jewish American financier George Soros is “the world’s biggest puppet master” and, in August, ran a 16-minute paid segment claiming that if Joe Biden wins the election, it would lead to a dictatorship in the United States run by “Jews and Blacks.” Radio Caracol has since apologized.

In another instance on Friday, the Miami Herald’s Spanish partner, El Nuevo Herald, included an advertising insert called “Libre” that included anti-Semitic views and attacked Black Lives Matter. The paper apologized and ended its relationship with Libre.

“What kind of people are these Jews?” the ad insert said, according to Politico. “They’re always talking about the Holocaust, but have they already forgotten Kristallnacht, when Nazi thugs rampaged through Jewish shops all over Germany? So do the BLM and Antifa, only the Nazis didn’t steal; they only destroyed.”

Much of Trump’s recent campaign has revolved around the national protests against racism and the looting and rioting that at times accompanied them. He has said that if Biden defeats him, American voters can expect more disorder.

That message could resonate among some of Florida’s Latino voters. They include some who are Jewish, including a substantial community of Cuban emigres in Miami who fled the Communist regime there and who tend to be politically conservative.

Dina Siegel Vann, director of the American Jewish Committee’s Belfer Institute for Latino and Latin American Affairs, said the anti-Semitic conspiracies appear to be coming mostly from the right. She said she’s “very concerned” about them and that her office has been reaching out to media outlets to combat the stereotypes.

But she said that the spread of conspiracy theories doesn’t surprise her given QAnon’s increasing popularity and the significance of Florida in the coming election.

“I would be surprised if Florida were not inundated,” she said. “You have it all over the country, and Florida is a very important swing state. Latinos are such an important constituency in Florida.”

She said that before this year, among Latino communities, “you didn’t see these types of conspiracy theories in the least.” While Annette Taddeo, a Columbian-American Jewish state senator from Miami, did call out the Radio Caracol segment as a “disgusting message,” Siegel Vann said she’s disappointed that there hasn’t been a stronger response to the anti-Semitism from opinion makers and government officials.

“There should have been an outcry in the media itself and there should have been an outcry in government from both parties,” she said. “You didn’t see that.”


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Chareidi Jews For Biden/Harris 2020
Chareidi Jews For Biden/Harris 2020
3 years ago

It is unfortunately common for Frum Always Trumpers to retweet, share and repost anti-Soros messaging that is the product of antisemetic groups trying to paint Jews as controling the world. It is sad to see blind love for Trump, Tucker Carlson etc turn frum yidden into propagandists for QAnon and antisemites

YeshivaOfFlatbush
YeshivaOfFlatbush
3 years ago

Q-anon’s dangerous conspiracy theories prove why ‘frum’ yidden should vote for Mr. Trump. After all, he re-tweets its blood libels, supports trumpublican Q-anon backed candidates, and spreads its misinformation blaming Jews for COVID.

Dgjtdchd
Dgjtdchd
3 years ago

I could see why some people compared the rioting to Kristallnacht. In both, businesses were destroyed and the governments didn’t intervene.. There are differences though.In Kristallnacht, it was stormtroopers against the Jews. Now it is BLM..
After Kristallnacht, Jews were murdered by the nazi movement and robbed, imprisoned , enslaved, starved, tortured, etc.Now it is defunding the police, which has contributed to an increase in crime. Along with the upheavals caused by coronavirus, people are worried about the future and the crumbling of the country.
But to comparenow to Kristallnacht is ignorance about what happened during and after Kristallnacht.

Anonymous
Anonymous
3 years ago

The evil cult of ‘Q’ hss been exposed as probably run by a SVP of Citigroup Bank in NJ. Q pushes the blood libel of Jews spreading Covid and that VP JOE BIDEN is a pedophile, which trump tweeted today! Kapo Yidden support this sick Q drek, which has killed people and is listed as a domestic white terror group. Achtung Juden!

Zion1948
Zion1948
3 years ago

I’m confused. If Biden wins will the Jews be kicked out of the country or will the Jews and Blacks run the country?

Stam Misha
Stam Misha
3 years ago

ok, ok, JTA quoting a Politico hit piece. Oh wait, it actually has information we can glean. uh uh, this stuff is anti-soros, so JTA got interested. Seems like good news, it’s about getting hispanics to vote Trump 2020.

JEWS FOR TRUMP 2020
JEWS FOR TRUMP 2020
3 years ago

They’re right about Soros.
Unfortunately, they’re also right about Jews, because of their overwhelming presence in the criminal coup attempt. These leftie Jews have not learned history lessons well.