A well was poisoned long before anti-Semites lied about Jews and Covid

Centuries-long theme is now morphing and adapting the ‘Zionist bioweapon’ myth for the coronavirus and internet age

09 September 2021 - 20:24 By Andreas Kluth

As the coronavirus spread through Europe last year, cartoons and posts began going up on French social media that might as well have come straight from the 14th century. In one series, Agnes Buzyn, who is Jewish and was France’s health minister until February 2020, was depicted with grotesquely distorted features dropping poison into wells...

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