1960 ⟶ Bobby Fischer's Anti-Jewish Statements

Chess player Bobby Fischer made numerous anti-Jewish stateme...

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1960

📜 Tacitus' Anti-Jewish Polemic in Histories

Tacitus writes anti-Jewish polemic in his Histories (book 5). He reports on several old myths of ancient antisemitism (including that of the donkey's head in the Holy of Holies), but the key to his view that Jews "regard the rest of mankind with all the hatred of enemies" is his analysis of the extreme differences between Monotheistic Judaism and the Polytheism common throughout the Roman world.⟶

Roman EmpireAnti-SemitismTacitusHistoriographyAncient RomeReligious DifferenceMonotheism

Italy

🌍 International Anti-Jewish Congress in Dresden

The International Anti-Jewish Congress, led by Adolf Stoecker, convenes at Dresden, Germany; it appeals to "the Government and Peoples of Christian Nations Threatened by Judaism" to expel "the Semitic race of Jews" from Europe.⟶

International Anti-Jewish CongressDresdenAdolf StoeckerExpulsionIdeology19th century

Germany

📖 Savitri Devi's Publication of 'Impeachment of Man'

Impeachment of Man is a book by Savitri Devi, first published in 1959, in which she recounts a history of the general indifference toward the suffering of non-human life. She puts forth a pro-vegetarian, anti-vivisectionist, biocentric, and Misanthropic conservationist point of view. However, she does so within the context of her pro-Hitler and pro-Nazi political views, and devotes space to antisemitism and denouncing Jewish dietary practices.⟶

Savitri DeviImpeachment of ManAnti-SemitismNazismIdeologyHolocaust denialPro-NaziVegetarianism

France

♟️ Bobby Fischer's Anti-Jewish Statements

Chess player Bobby Fischer made numerous anti-Jewish statements and professed a general hatred for Jews since at least the early 1960s. Although Fischer described his mother as Jewish in a 1962 interview, he later denied his Jewish ancestry.⟶

Bobby FischerChessAnti-SemitismHate speechJewish identityControversyIdeologySports

United States

🚩 Rise of Anti-Zionist Campaign in the Soviet Union

The rise of Zionology in the Soviet Union. In 1983, the Department of Propaganda and the KGB's Anti-Zionist committee of the Soviet public orchestrates formally "anti-Zionist" campaign.⟶

AntizionismSoviet UnionPropagandaCold WarIdeologyKGBAnti-JewishEastern Europe