Dr. Yang Meng of Peking University has documented a wave of antisemitic content in China — via snack packaging, lottery prizes, and wordplay — which she calls 'Antisemitism 3.0.' She says the state does not orchestrate it but tolerates it, and the phenomenon functions as coded cultural wallpaper rather than explicit hate speech.
Dr. Yang Meng, an assistant professor at Peking University and a fellow at the London Centre for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism, has documented a pattern of antisemitic content in China that she terms 'Antisemitism 3.0.' The phenomenon includes a snack shop named Youtairen (鱿太仁), a near-homophone for 'Jews' (犹太人, yóutàirén), which also sold a dried squid package labeled with a swastika-like allusion and a 'Million Mark Bread' referencing Weimar hyperinflation. A lottery run by the same outlet featured a 'Jewish concentration camp' prize and a soap item alluding to Holocaust myths. Yang identifies three mechanisms: linguistic ambiguity (each element is deniable individually), gamification (participation in lotteries and streams), and commodification (stereotypes baked into everyday products). She notes the state does not orchestrate the trend but does not actively suppress it. The report draws on her field collection and her course on Jewish civilization at Peking University.
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