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September 15, 2025

The Anti-Semitism Driving Jeffrey Epstein Conspiracy Theories

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The case of Jeffrey Epstein has resurfaced in the news cycle over the past few weeks, bringing with it a steady drip of new information and ever more outlandish conspiracy theories, now involving the CIA and the Mossad. While it is perhaps inevitable that a wealthy, well-connected, and demonstrably evil sexual predator would stoke the imaginations of anti-Semites, Matthew Schmitz argues that anti-Semitism is at the very heart of the obsession with Epstein: 

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