After a horrifying and deadly string of anti-Semitic attacks rocked the United States in December 2019, many people spent the first months of 2020 uniting against the scourge of anti-Jewish prejudice. The urgency of that fight has understandably taken a backseat to concerns about the devastation wrought by the coronavirus pandemic. In the midst of the COVID-19 outbreak, however, anti-Semitic hate has not diminished. In fact, a diverse crew of anti-Semites are using the pandemic to retool their prejudices and propagate more baseless, despicable hatred of Jews.

Chief among those making anti-Semitic hay from a global crisis are white supremacist groups and neo-Nazis, who are spreading a new conspiracy theory that Jews created the coronavirus.