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'You will not replace us'

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Jewish replacement theory, shouted in 2017 by torch-bearing marchers in Charlottesville, Virginia, was featured in this 1892 cartoon that proclaimed: ‘Instead of returning to the holy land to build up Jerusalem and to restore the glories of their race, the chosen people are coming to the metropolis of the new world.’

This political cartoon, one of a series of antisemitic works appearing in Judge magazine in the 1890s, was titled, “Their New Jerusalem.”

It shows Jews driven from Russia by persecution coming to New York City in rags and becoming prosperous due to their “Perseverance and Industry,” and in the process forcing established New Yorkers to move West (that’s the Jewish replacement libel echoed in Charlottesville a century and quarter later).