The Jew as the Eternal Scapegoat

Micha Danzig examines here the role of the Jew as eternal scapegoat, through history and still, alas, today.

There is a pattern that appears repeatedly across European and Middle Eastern history — especially when ordinary people feel the ground beneath them shifting in ways they cannot control.

Economic instability. Political fragmentation. War. Technological upheaval. Institutional distrust. Fear of decline.

And then comes the search for a “villain” large enough to explain the feeling.

For centuries, Jews have repeatedly served that role.

Not because Jews uniquely possessed power. Every era had monarchs, aristocracies, industrial and military elites, clergy and political machines that were certainly not Jewish. But Jews repeatedly occupied a different role in the political imagination: the hidden hand. The mysterious “they” supposedly behind events.