‘The point was to dehumanise’: London holocaust archive examines world’s first ‘viral’ antisemitism scandal

The Dreyfus affair was a major scandal in 1894 where a French army captain, Alfred Dreyfus, was wrongly convicted of treason. This event marked the world's first experience of antisemitism spreading rapidly through the media. Printing presses were fast, and censorship laws had been lifted, allowing the scandal to reach a wide audience. The significance of the Dreyfus affair lies in its echoes of how anti-Jewish hatred manifests itself today. The rapid spread of misinformation and prejudice through the media has disturbing parallels with modern-day antisemitism.

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