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2016 Opinion 21 Forward Decoding an Anti-Semitic Trump Meme From Anime Jay Michaelson n the week since my column on Donald Trump was published in the Forward, I've been avalanched by several hundred anti-Semitic tweets. Pictures of me in a gas chamber, pictures of Trump saying "You're fired" next to a death camp oven, and hundreds of hate tweets callling me a k---, a traitor, a rat and far worse. Others have written about similar experiences, but it has been a harrowing, educational time. I didn't find much something. On a Reddit-like thread ly, Anno incoryotated conspiratoetal themes into the series and SEELE i but I did find from January, I found a different particular. It's also well-ksown tat Japanese society often displaysa cu ous blend of phillo and antidemitiom will bomb the s--- out of SELEE sic ofen admiring Jews for our dispr and take their oil" While this would portionate impact on society, media and politics. This is tmue bort in dhe mainstream of Japanese socieny he Protocols of the Eldens of Zion has often been a bestseller and os the fringes (radical csupiratiotial anes Semitiss was part of the idesingy of the mundens Aam Shinign ait Japanese anti-Semitiom epeiencet a surge in the agos and gs, wih several books alleging that the Chined States was cotled by eses andwas pioming to desty Japan Hom Shins kyo in particular develioped fantastic myths in wnich the wortid weoslid be destroyed and reglaced wih anoth er one- mytits quine siimilar o dhE pice of Evangelion which appeand image of Asuka-as-Trump as well as one post saying, "If elected, Trump seem to align SEELE with Arab states rather than with Jews, if one takes the conspiratorial worldview that, e meme, however, grabbed my tion. Posted several times, it ured a female, catlike anime cter wearing a "Make America Again" hat, her hands/paws in k mode. Despite a fair amount of wging and searching databases of es. I couldn't find anyone decod- his particular image. did it myself. ms out, the image is of Asuka, cter in the controversial, crit- heralded anime series "Neon MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN Evangelion," created by Anno in 1995. Evangelion ela mythology that makes "Lost" ke Candy Land, blending togeth- stic, kabbalistic, Christian and puracy theory themes and incorpo- ng many of Anno's own struggles with mental illness. arond the same time. At the same time. Evangion was deliberatellr comtuted by Anne as a complex mufti-naratve in wiues drent viewes conlid see wat fhey Twanted to see I is filet with dac semal imagery and parannid imag inings of all inds. SELE is pat of hat, but cetainly sot the Sun Thene is no tace af a Hcnd's poilitiical belieti or otherwerfk E seems mome liely that the cuitur all familiarity of cpiacy teties pwded a rich as for Erangiot's garatcid tagestry, witfiout any parte alar animus rideiog Somehowe oiongh. the myhoingy of ages apane ed setes es finumd One of those themes concerns a shad- wy organization called SEELE, which Is essentially a mythologized blend of the world Zionist conspiracy (a la Protocols of the Elders of Zion), Illumi- nati and the United Nations. According to the Evangelion wiki, SEELE is "a secret and mysterious organization with influence over the world's govern- ments and organizations." Its name comes from the German word for soul. The U.N. is a participant in this secret organization, which has among its goals the uniting of all human- ity and the erasure of national boundaries. SEELE's ultimate motives are sinister, however. culminating in its own control of the world (to the 26 gresitienrial f wartir agninst the jevish onginy E semaiins a mal in fact, the great conspiracy Jevisi UN. Masoic, whaterer cautol efforts are ultimately unsuccessful and catastrophe rains upon Earth) In other words, and again oversiimpli fying somewhat, Asuka is the warrior against the secret IlluminatiJewish greatly oversimplify). SEELE also has some specifically Jewish elements, in particular its knowledge of the Dead Sea Scrolls, which in Evangelion are prophetic, gnostic texts. Asuka (full name: Asuka Langley conspiracy to take over the world Soryu) is a fighter pilot who becomes the great enemy of SEELE. A 14-year-old girl, she is the love interest of Evan- gelion's tormented hero, Shinji. But she is also a warrior in her Own right, destroying SEELE's weapons, giant document how and where it entered humanoid robots called Evangelions. (Fittingly for the dark series, these fringe. became The Dr everythng, then of curse they also archestrate the world's wars hee were scarce resorces. SEELE behind Saud Arabia and as much wei And in the meme posted on my Twit- ter thread, she is Trump, wearing his signature hat Having decoded the meaming of the image. I then set about trying to eally behind Israel As fior where the exact meme ang mated or wherber white supner Iow any of tis histury Idtk Imcetainly aot gring to egage with any of them nier m ak Fsalso unciear how muhal fthis is really in Erangeilon itseE Cetan- glain view the employ of the white sugremacist

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