Perspective: The San Diego shooter’s manifesto is a modern form of an old lie about Jews
People participate in a vigil and prayer service in Poway, Calif., for victims of a shooting at the Chabad of Poway synagogue on Saturday. By Talia Lavin Talia Lavin is a writer and researcher based in Brooklyn. April 29 at 9:17 AM On Easter Sunday, 1475, the body of a 2-year-old Christian boy named Simon Unferdorben was discovered near a Jewish home in the northern Italian city of Trent, then a province of the Holy Roman Empire. Immediately, authorities arrested every Jew living in the city.
If, in the 1400s, anti-Semitic myths were transmitted by means of beatific poetry, legends of martyrs and claims of miraculous healing by pilgrims, today such lies are transmitted far more easily. “You are not forgotten Simon of Trent, the horror that you and countless children have endured at the hands of the Jews will never be forgiven,” he wrote in a manifesto uploaded to the text repository Pastebin and posted on the anonymous message board 8chan. The dissemination of the manifesto was instantaneous, reaching thousands of readers on the message board and around the world. But the hatred at its core could have been plucked directly from the 15th century.
Like the manifesto of Brenton Tarrant, whom authorities have charged with slaughtering Muslims at prayer in Christchurch, New Zealand, last month, Earnest’s is larded with jokey references to message-board culture, memes and YouTube stars. In the 8chan post with the link to his manifesto, he said he planned to soundtrack his atrocities with a number of “memeable” songs, including the Pokémon theme song.
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