creatures | #TranslateHate
creatures
theme \ 'krē-chərs \
: animals, as distinct from human beings; fictional or imaginary beings
WHEN IT’S ANTISEMITIC:
A common form of coded antisemitism includes illustrations and images that depict Jews as vermin, tentacled creatures, reptilian men, and other “subhuman” monsters.
Antisemitic rhetoric that dehumanizes Jews laid the foundation for the Holocaust, used as rationale by the Nazis to treat them as creatures that needed to be exterminated. It appeared in Nazi literature and other propaganda to spread antisemitic tropes—including Jews as the overlords of global affairs, Jews controlling minds, Jews’ quest for world domination, and Jews as superior or elite masterminds (see New World Order).
More recently, antisemites such as Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan have referred to Jews as “termites” likening them to unwanted pests who multiply rapidly, take over, and destroy everything they touch.
