Thread by @bobfrombrockley

[THREAD] About six weeks ago I stumbled across a whole load of COVID denialist and anti-vans accounts pumping out gross antisemitism. I reported all the tweets captured here to @Twitter. I’m pleased to see today this account’s been suspended...

However, this one, whose pinned tweet is obviously antisemitic, is still going...

So is this one, which has 2.6K followers...

And this one, which has 10K followers...

And Know_More_News, which has 21K followers. And HighImpactFlix, which has a whopping 23K followers.

Note the tactics for avoiding machine detection (“J’ish” for Jewish, “cohencidental”, putting the antisemitic words in the pics not text, etc) but once reported surely obvious?

PS See my earlier thread on how antisemitism seeps into the anti-vaxx/anti-lockdown scenes. Events like today’s #LondonProtest provide space where internet-radicalised COVID skeptics come into contact with actual fascists and this stuff multiplies. Cc @DrMatthewSweet @JoeMulhall_

Not gonna link to this video, as it’s from Anna Brees, the UK’s wannabe version of QAnon, but she asks a former Times reader what media brands brought him to the streets today. He says UnHerd, Spectator, Telegraph, her. That’s the pipeline to the sort of accounts up this thread.

You’ve probably already seen these yellow star wearing anti-vaxxers from the #londonprotest (via @chloe_adlestone & @Baddiel). This is what @deborahlipstadt rightly calls softcore Holocaust denialism. It’s antisemitic, even if not intended as such.

The yellow star thing as an anti-vaxx symbol, by the way, is pre-COVID. I think one of the originations is Del Bigtree, whose conspiracy nonsense has been promoted by Tory MP Desmond Swayne & Max Blumenthal’s Grayzone. #londonprotest

Mega thread on misuses of the Holocaust by anti-vaxxers and others:

Wow...