PRA Presents: Lifting the Curtain on Antisemitism—Episode 2: Conspiracy Theories, Antisemitism, and the Politics of Holocaust Memory with Valentina Pisanty and Jelena Subotić
<p>Guest host Natasha Roth-Rowland talks to scholars Valentina Pisanty and Jelena Subotić about the anatomy and function of conspiracy theories and the role of antisemitism within them. How do conspiracy theories come about? Why do they so often revolve around false narratives regarding Jewish people, power, and control? How are they used to discredit movements for justice? And what role do the politics of Holocaust memory play? By taking a look at the history of antisemitic conspiracy theories and examining their role in our contemporary politics, Jelena and Valentina teach us to recognize them, how to understand them, and h...