Goebbels gap
The Goebbels gap is an Internet adage defined as the amount of time between a negative event in the world and when someone blames it on the Jews. Promulgated by the American writer Yair Rosenberg, then a senior writer at Tablet magazine, in 2019, it is seen as a proof point of seemingly every conspiracy theory eventually targeting the Jews.<ref name="Religions Geek" /> It is named for Nazi chief propagandist Joseph Goebbels, who engineered the deeply virulent antisemitic propaganda of the Third Reich.
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Rosenberg has cited as examples of the Goebbels gap the 10 day period between the September 11 attacks and when antisemitic conspiracy theories began to emerge of .<ref name="Religions Geek" />
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Rosenberg has cited as examples of the Goebbels gap the 10 day period between the September 11 attacks and when antisemitic conspiracy theories began to emerge of .<ref name="Religions Geek" />
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