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From anti-vaxxers to antisemitism: Conspiracy theory in the COVID-19 pandemic October 2020

". Once a vaccine becomes available it will be essential to quickly sideline the conspiracy theories and misinformation of the antivaxxers. Exposing their links to antisemitism and age old conspiracy theories can only assist the public health message, but in doing so government and civil society organisations must also combat the resurgence of antisemitism that, as this report evidences, is present in 79 % of antivaxxer networks. The attempts to blame ‘the other’ for the economic and health problems of COVID-19 will inevitably mean an increase in antisemitism at precisely the moment that nations will need to be at their most united. Exposing the level of antisemitism amongst the anti-vaxxer movement now is therefore of the utmost importance."

Researcher Dr Lewis Arthurton received his doctorate from the University of Oxford in Molecular Cell Biology in Health and Disease. He worked for Public Health England as an Ebola Lab technician in Sierra Leone during the Ebola epidemic.

[UK Government 'Independent Advisor on Antisemtism'](https://combatantisemitism.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Antisemitism-antivaxxer-report.pdf) *From anti-vaxxers to antisemitism: Conspiracy theory in the COVID-19 pandemic October 2020* ". Once a vaccine becomes available **it will be essential to quickly sideline the conspiracy theories and misinformation of the antivaxxers.** Exposing their links to antisemitism and age old conspiracy theories can only assist the public health message, but in doing so government and civil society organisations must also combat the resurgence of **antisemitism** that, as this report evidences, **is present in 79 % of antivaxxer networks.** The attempts to blame ‘the other’ for the economic and health problems of COVID-19 will inevitably mean an increase in antisemitism at precisely the moment that nations will need to be at their most united. **Exposing the level of antisemitism amongst the anti-vaxxer movement now is therefore of the utmost importance**." Researcher Dr Lewis Arthurton received his doctorate from the University of Oxford in Molecular Cell Biology in Health and Disease. He worked for Public Health England as an Ebola Lab technician in Sierra Leone during the Ebola epidemic.

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