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THE GENOCIDE OF TRUTH: The Deep Roots of a Modern Blood Libel
by Daniel Clarke-Serret
Introduction: The Genocide of Truth
PART 1: The Tree of Knowledge
Chapter 1: Truth // Chapter 2: Ideology // Chapter 3: Religion // Chapter 4: Science // Chapter 5: Attention // Chapter 6: Distraction // Chapter 7: (True) Expertise // Chapter 8: Authority
PART 2: The Descent to Babylon
Chapter 9: Declaration // Chapter 10: Confusion // Chapter 11: Conversation // Chapters 12: Democratisation // Chapter 13: Sophistry // Chapter 14: Image
PART 3: The Rise of Byzantium
Chapter 15: Guilt // Chapter 16: Belief // Chapter 17: Christ (see below)
Chapter 17: Christ
Hath a Jew not Eyes?
[Video: Hath a Jew not eyes? (Al Pacino)]
The nature of antisemitism seems an unsolvable riddle; the continued hatred against a tiny people which only grows and mutates with the passing of the years.
That it exists seems clear to all but those enmeshed in its grasp. Also that it evolves from anti-Judaism to racial antisemitism to the modern denial of Jewish self-determination. Yet diagnosis is not the same as cure, description being insufficient to explain this most curious of phenomena.
Explanations have abounded, all without complete satisfaction. Alan Mairson has spoken of Narrative Darwinism, the fact that humans need meaning, and meaning needs narrative and narrative needs coherence. If Muslims and Christians have a story of God in history then all contradictions must be interpreted as fitting within those foundational stories.
The continued existence of the Jew - his religion and nation - is a firm rebuttal of God’s rejection. It’s a narrative danger to both Christian and Muslim theology. So the existing Jew’s actions must be demonised. Else how can one explain both his flourishing and the truth of “our” divine message. Jew hatred is thus a psychological necessity and the first step on the road marked twisting reality.
I too have contributed to this debate, speaking of the phenomena of Nomadism. Noting that minorities - nomads, immigrants, wanderers - are rejected the world over for a failure to conform, Jews face a double bind. Following the pattern established by their ancestor Abraham, they are rejected here and rejected there. In Ur and in Canaan, in Egypt and among the Peoples of the Plain. We have no home. And when we re-establish a homeland in Israel, our problems just continue: we are a minority among the nations instead of a minority within them. We are hounded from Poland to Palestine, just to be told - even in Poland - to “go back where we came from”.
Amongst such attempts at a general theory we have pure descriptions of change. In the 2026 conference, A Canary’s Song, speakers Naya Lekht and Adam Louis-Klein made reference to the mutating nature of antisemitism, noting that said pejorative marker is inaccurate in our modern reality. That whereas 19th Century antisemitism focused on Jewish foreignness within the West, Antizionism - the rejection of Jewish self-determination in their homeland - speaks of Jewish indistinguishability within the West. We are mere Europeans acting as genocidal, settler-colonialists in the Orient. All that connects antisemitism and antizionism, they say, is Jew Hatred.
Yet these are descriptions which, however accurate, fail to get to the root cause, and even attempted explanations, those of Alan and myself, assume the following presumption: that antisemitism and its variants are enabled by Jew Hatred. But what if anti-Jewishness (for want of a better term) isn’t principally conceived in hate. Yes Hitler was the hater or haters and antisemites-as-such wish us ill, but with Christian theologians and modern anti-zionists, it isn’t so simple. Allow me to explain.
Looming large over every moral Western debate is Christ. Not the historical Jesus, he who Professor Dale Martin describes as a Jewish apocalyptic prophet in the tradition of Daniel, but Christ himself: God incarnated in the flesh; he that was created in the beginning as the Logos.
