New Hate, Old Story is an educational resource that traces modern antisemitic claims to their historical origins: where they started, how they have been reused, and what the factual record supports or contradicts.

The site is not an advocacy project, a political campaign, or a response to any single event. It is a reference built on documents and expert writing from established places: the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, the Anti-Defamation League, the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, Encyclopaedia Britannica, and peer-reviewed scholarship.

The material is written in plain language for classrooms, newsrooms, and general reference. It is meant to sit alongside primary sources and standard histories so that specific claims can be checked against documentation rather than rumour.

The focus is on evidence and pattern: what archives, trials, and historians record, and how certain accusations have recurred across centuries. The site does not stage debates or target individuals; it maps claims to the record.

Every trope page follows the same backbone: then-and-now comparisons, where the lie came from, a timeline, how it appears online today, what the record shows, pattern cues, and a behavioral checklist (what you can do). The top of each page adds framing and a short excerpt from the factual correction so readers see intent before the longest sections.

Editorial principles:

• Frame the pattern first, then history. Trope pages open with what the trope claims, a one-line statement that it is false and that we map how it returns, a short excerpt of what the record shows, and only then the deep history. The goal is prebunking-style clarity before the heaviest material.
• Show the pattern, then name it. Older and newer versions appear side by side so the continuity is easy to compare.
• Use plain language. Jargon, dense academic framing, and insider activist vocabulary are avoided unless a term is defined.
• Link to real evidence. Claims point to museum archives, encyclopedias, court records, or established civil-rights research that can be opened directly.
• Acknowledge complexity. When a correction is partial or context-dependent, the text says so.
• Informational tone. The writing aims to inform, not to accuse or lecture.

Classroom and international guidance often splits antisemitism education into three strands: cognitive learning (facts, definitions, analysis), socio-emotional learning (attitudes, empathy, knowing Jewish people as more than targets of hate), and behavioral learning (what to say, report, or teach in real settings). This site is built to support the first strand in depth; the homepage section What works alongside these pages and each trope's "What you can do" block point to the second and third so the project does not stop at debunking alone.

Research on misinformation also emphasizes prebunking: show people how a false claim or tactic usually works before they meet it without context. Trope pages use that idea by stating the editorial line up front, naming the pattern, and pairing samples with correction.

Rigorous proof that any single website changes deeply held hate is scarce. We still align layout and copy with what major museums, established international classroom frameworks, and civil-rights monitors recommend: primary sources, plain language, contemporary examples, and explicit next steps.

Each trope page is built from a structured research process:

1. Identify the claim as it currently circulates on social media, in political rhetoric, or in news reporting.
2. Trace the history using original documents and expert histories, noting the earliest examples and when the story resurfaced loudly.
3. Document the modern version using reports from monitoring organizations (ADL, CyberWell) and established journalism, and, where a definition of antisemitism is needed, citable text from the U.S. State Department (full page, PDF). (IHRA is also associated with holocaustremembrance.com, but that site is hard to verify in every environment, so this project prefers those .gov links; the unrelated ihra.org domain is not the coalition and is often parked for sale.)
4. State what the record shows and where the claim breaks (wrong facts, twisted logic, or contradicted by evidence).
5. List pattern cues describing how the same story often appears in new wording or on new platforms.
6. Add behavioral guidance (reporting, sharing discipline, classroom pairing with certified Jewish-life and Holocaust resources) so the page is not only analytical.

All sources are linked directly from each page. The site mixes encyclopedias, university archives, government pages, and wire hubs with Holocaust museums and civil-rights monitors so different kinds of evidence can be compared.

This site does not argue that criticism of Israel is antisemitic. The working definition of antisemitism that is often called the "IHRA definition" (adopted by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance; on this site, cited from the U.S. State Department) explicitly states that criticism of Israel similar to that leveled against any other country is not antisemitic. What this site documents is something different: recurring conspiracy frameworks that predate the current political moment by centuries and that target Jews as a group.

This site is not affiliated with any government, political party, or lobbying organization. It is an independent educational project.