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Ln May 14, Payton Gendron, a teenager armed not with a shopping cart, but with an assault rifle, walked into a supermarket in Buffalo, New York. He had deliberately chosen a supermarket in a predominantly black neighborhood because, he explains in his “manifesto” published online, blacks are the “substitutes”. This term designates those who, in the words of Gendron, seek “to be ethnically replaced [son] people “. Also, determined to “ensure the existence of [son] people and the future of white children,” did he kill ten men and women.
What is certain, in the immediate future, is that this unspeakable act causes trauma and suffering among black Americans, once again victims of the deep racism that has plagued throughout the history of the United States. United. But Gendron’s manifesto also aggravates the unease among American Jews. The text is full of anti-Semitic clichés, memes and illustrations. The International Center for Counter-Terrorism [un think tank néerlandais] conducted an analysis of the text which shows that the number of references to Jews in it exceeds the number of references to any other American minority.
The vine and the fig tree
The term “substitute” comes from the “great replacement” thesis, coined by French far-right thinker Renaud Camus. This theory has been embraced en masse by white ethnonationalists who believe that a Jewish-dominated “global elite” is orchestrating demographic changes. [en vue du remplacement de la population blanche]. In Gendron’s eyes, the Jews therefore constitute “the biggest problem the western world has ever had” – on the one hand they run the banks and the government, on the other hand they broadcast “a leftist ideology” opposed to the banks and they are “Marxists” hostile to the government.
Without detour, Gendron makes his conclusion: “Jews must be singled out and killed. » Not today maybe, but tomorrow definitely. After all, “we can take care of the Jews when the time comes”. Are we there already?
In 1790, President George Washington promised: Every American Jew “may sit in safety under his vine and his fig tree, and no one will disturb him”. The vine and the fig tree stood up with such firmness that the historian of the XXe century Salo Baron pointed out that the Jews of America did not have a history full of ” tears ” of their brothers in Europe.
This idea permeated the first years of the XXIe century. ” In the near future, assured, in 2011, Steven T. Katz, renowned Jewish historian, it seemed reasonable to think that American Jewry would continue to prosper and flourish. » Historian Leonard Dinnerstein, author of the reference work Antisemitism in America (Oxford University Press, 1995, untranslated), wrote in an article published in 2016: “Anti-Semitism is too minor an issue to worry about” (Antisemitism in North America, Brill, non traduit).
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