Goebbels Gap
The Goebbels Gap is an Internet adage defined as the amount of time between a negative event in the world and when someone blames it on the Jews.[1] Promulgated by the American writer Yair Rosenberg, then a senior writer at Tablet Magazine, in 2019, it seen as a proof point of seemingly every conspiracy eventually targeting the Jews.[1] It is named for Nazi chief propagandist Joseph Goebbels, who engineered the deeply virulent anti-Semitic propaganda of the Third Reich.
Rosenberg has cited as examples of the Goebbels Gap the 10 day period between the September 11 attacks and when anti-Semitic conspiracy theories began to emerge of Israel's culpability in the attacks,[1] and Iranian President Hasan Rouhani claiming Israel supported the Islamic State in 2019.[2]
See also
- List of eponymous laws
- Nazi analogies
- Antisemitism
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Carwana, Brian. "Holocaust Remembrance Day & How Antisemitism Threatens Democracy". https://religionsgeek.com/index.php/2022/01/26/holocaustremembrance/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=holocaustremembrance.
- ↑ Rosenberg, Yair. "Iran's President Claimed Israel Supports ISIS on National TV and No One Noticed". Substack. https://yair.substack.com/p/irans-president-claimed-israel-supports.
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