When History Gets Flattened: The Social Media Life of Khazar Theory
Earlier this year, a cluster of high-profile influencers began using terms such as “Khazarian mafia” and referring to all Jews as “Khazars.” This language that quickly spread across X draws on a fringe conspiracy theory rooted in a much older historical debate about the origins of Ashkenazi Jews. The Khazar hypothesis of Ashkenazi ancestry is the historically debated idea that a substantial portion of Ashkenazi Jews descend not from ancient Israelites of the Levant, but from the […]
How Tucker Carlson’s Chabad Conspiracy Theory Spread to Millions Online
On the evening of March 5, 2026 — one week into Operation Epic Fury, the U.S.-Israeli military campaign against Iran — Tucker Carlson opened his show not with analysis of ballistic missile trajectories or nuclear enrichment timelines, but with a theory about a Hasidic Jewish outreach organization. “There are key players involved in this war,” Carlson told […]