Conspiracy narratives migrate between rival extremist traditions without losing form

Evidence

Groups within the extreme right incorporated anti-Muslim replacement fears while retaining antisemitic tropes, claiming that Jewish elites were secretly orchestrating non-white immigration to Europe. Researchers link these demographic theories directly to subsequent far-right violence, including the 2019 Christchurch mosque shootings. — Wikipedia contributors, Eurabia Conspiracy Theory, 48

Categorization

  • BMF: The old plot re-skinned with a new villain is the ‘same structural need’ logic Kundnani describes in para 47 — cf. the recycled-conspiracy architecture in The New Crusades (Islamophobia as a template).