Why People Love Accusing Jews of Genocide

Last week, David Bateman, a prominent Utah entrepreneur and Republican political donor, sent an unusual email to his state's business and political leaders, including Gov. Spencer Cox. The subject line? "Genocide." The topic: Jews. But Bateman's message was not about the Holocaust, or about Jews being the victims of mass murder. Instead, he accused them of perpetrating it. "I believe there is a sadistic effort underway to euthanize the American people," Bateman wrote. "I believe the Jews are behind this. ... I believe the pandemic and systematic extermination of billions of people will lead to an effort to consolidate all the countries in the world under a single flag with totalitarian rule. … No one is reporting on it, but the Hasidic Jews in the US instituted a law for their people that they are not to be vaccinated for any reason." (No such law exists.)