"You know, to look for that scapegoat on whom you can attribute your own failings or the unexplained issues in a society."

"The Jews having all the power, controlling the media, controlling the banks. The Jews being the capitalists. Or the Jews being the communists and the Jews being responsible for the world’s wars. And the Jews, you know, trying to undermine societies and so on and so forth. Because, again, the conspiracy theory is a shortcut for how the world works."

-Jonathan Greenblatt

"Anti-Semitism is not a Jewish problem; it's an American problem."

-Jonathan Greenblatt

"And I can tell you, we had never quite had a situation like this. I mean, not since probably Henry Ford republished the protocols of Zion in the Dearborn Independent."

"And so now, today, you can’t pick up a newspaper, open your phone, and not hear crazed people who are making claims about Jewish space lasers, comparing, you know, COVID-19 precautions to the Nazi Nuremberg laws, to other kinds of wild claims, where these extremists now seem to occupy, literally, a part of the overall conversation in ways we never had before."