"Israel Orchestrated Spain’s Border Crisis!" and Other Crazy Conspiracies | Asher Westropp-Evans

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When thousands of Moroccans crossed into Spain’s North African enclaves, the internet found a familiar culprit: Israel. The claim was baseless—but it spread from fringe accounts to influential commentators, politicians, and human rights figures.

In this episode of EylON the Record, Eylon Levy speaks with Asher Westropp-Evans, director of the Spokes Office and producer of the State of a Nation podcast, about how the crisis in Ceuta and Melilla became the latest vehicle for anti-Israel conspiracy theories. They examine why voices on both the far left and far right strip other countries of agency, turn isolated Israeli remarks into evidence of a global plot, and use Israel as a scapegoat for political failures that have nothing to do with it.

In this episode, we discuss:

- How commentators including Anna Kasparian, Cenk Uygur, Hasan Piker, Kenneth Roth, and Nick Fuentes helped spread or legitimize claims connecting Israel to the crisis.
- How comments by Yair Netanyahu and Danny Danon were stripped of context and repackaged as supposed evidence of Israeli intentions.
- Why Morocco’s tensions with Spain, the Western Sahara dispute, and - Spain’s domestic political failures disappear once Israel becomes the explanation.
- How antizionism brings the far left and far right together around a worldview that blames the Jewish state for nearly every global crisis.

This is about more than one absurd conspiracy theory. When Israel is repeatedly presented as the hidden force behind every war, migration crisis, and political failure, legitimate criticism gives way to a worldview that treats the Jewish state as a cosmic evil whose removal would supposedly cure the world’s problems. Repetition makes even the most irrational accusation feel plausible.

🎯 Key moment:
“That’s the whole point of a scapegoat. Literally, you put your sins onto a goat and chuck it off a cliff.”

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