I have a personal confession: I spend too much time on Twitter. In fact, I’ve been there so long, I still call it Twitter (not “X”).
And as much as I try to train the algorithm to feed me the content I want to see (like beautiful architecture), I wake up every morning to a deluge of Jew-hate. And the troubling thing is not just the obsessiveness; it’s that I can’t tell the far-right and the far-left apart anymore.
The same dangerous narratives, like about how Western countries are “occupied by Zionists,” are bringing political extremes together into an unholy alliance.
What on earth is going on? It’s called the Horseshoe Effect, and it explains how political extremes converge, frequently around hatred of Jews. It turns out the Woke Left is now mirrored by the “Woke Right,” which has been developing at warp speed, and like so many extremist movements based on conspiracies, it has cast Jews as the familiar villain.
