When examining the 91 doctors who were profiled on Stop Antisemitism, four common themes emerge of the ways in which these doctors exhibit their antisemitism. Forty-seven of them engage in demonization of Israel that reaches the threshold of antisemitism. Holocaust inversion is particularly popular, with examples including a Facebook post by the director of bariatric surgery at UIH Chicago railing against Europe for “welcoming the perpetrators of the Holocaust in Palestine now,” and another by the medical director at Vituity Health in Santa Ana, California, stating that “Zionists are the Nazis of our day. Not Hamas.” Conspiracies about Jewish power and control are also common, with 23 of the doctors, including geriatric and family physicians, explicitly embracing ideas that Jews are all-powerful slave masters responsible for the firing of an NFL coach or that “Zionists” are “manipulators in chief” who both destabilize and “control the world.” Oct. 7 denialism is another popular theme, with 20 of the doctors invoking obvious falsehoods about the Hamas massacre, including denials of sexual violence and claims that the Bibas family was murdered by Israel. Perhaps most worryingly, 17 of the doctors endorse Palestinian terrorism with slogans like “glory to all resistance fighters” and “we call it (Oct. 7) liberation. Decolonization. Resistance. Revolution.”
Our findings should raise even greater doubt about the conventional wisdom that education is an antidote to antisemitism.