QAnon fuses medieval blood libel with the modern Jewish cabal trope

Evidence

QAnon stands out not for the originality of its plotlines, but for its ability to mash up the more modern trope of a Jewish cabal running the world with the more ancient blood libel involving kidnapped and drained Christian children. In QAnon’s version, an international conspiracy that includes many prominent Jews, but is not restricted to Jews, kidnaps children to drain them of adrenochrome, apparently in the hopes of prolonging the conspirators’ own lives. These stories are currently coursing and combining and morphing in our culture, lending an ancient and sinister energy to the invisible ethnic double that we Jews lug around. — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, 935

Categorization

• DEFINE: Shows how QAnon’s specific conspiracy combines the two distinct historical anti-Semitic strains Klein has laid out.
• SEED: Angle: the ‘invisible ethnic double’ — mapping the ancient blood-libel libel onto the Mirror World’s child-trafficking narrative could anchor an essay on how QAnon inherited a five-centuries-old slander.
• XREF: connects to: The ancient blood libel remains actively cited into the twenty-first century — Anna Merlan, Republic of Lies, 275