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Thirteen Forces That Keep Antisemitism Alive
Foreword by Roz Rothstein, CEO of StandWithUs
⚙ The
Thirteen Forces That Keep
Antisemitism Alive
About the Book
Not because human nature is evil. Because societies repeatedly activate the same set of social and psychological mechanisms whenever they need an explanation for their fears, a target for their frustrations, or a symbol to carry what they cannot confront in themselves.
The Engine of Blame names these mechanisms. All thirteen of them. It traces each through history - from the blood libels of the twelfth century to the campus celebrations of October 2023 - and shows every engine running in the world today.
Three of the engines have never appeared in any previous book on this subject: the Envy Engine, the Eternal Foreigner Engine, and the Victim Inversion Engine. Together, they explain what happened after October 7, 2023 more clearly than anything else written since.
This is not a book about victimhood. It is a book about understanding. And once you have read it, you will not be able to see the world the same way again.
Pre-Order / Inquire"Rachid stopped in front of a ruined textile workshop and said: 'The Jews of Fez were the finest craftsmen in Morocco - the best in the entire region. Sultans would call for Jewish craftsmen.' He paused. 'And this is also why some people hated them.'"
- Fez, Morocco, 2025"They were always ours. We just forgot that."
- Hassan, Moroccan Muslim scholar, MarrakechThe Framework
Engine One
How a family disagreement within Judaism became a civilizational conflict spanning two thousand years.
Engine Two
How legal exclusion created Jewish economic niches - and how those niches became the source of centuries of resentment.
Engine Three
When a society is frightened, it needs someone to blame. Jews have been standing in the line of sight for two thousand years.
Engine Four
Too Jewish. Not Jewish enough. Either way, a problem. The accusation was never about behavior. It was about existence.
Engine Five
Why Jews are imagined to secretly control the world - and why this absurd fantasy has proven so durable across so many cultures.
Engine Six
For two thousand years, Jews were blamed as stateless manipulators. Then they built a state. The accusations did not disappear. They adapted.
Engine Seven
A people that refuses to disappear becomes unsettling. Jewish continuity was not only a religious achievement. It was a provocation.
Engine Eight
Stories about Jews travel through history without Jews. Once a myth enters cultural memory, it no longer needs real Jews to survive.
Engine Nine
The first frame wins the moral verdict. Before the bodies were identified on October 7, the framing had already begun.
Engine Ten
Antisemitism does not only survive among the ignorant. It flourishes among the certain - when slogans replace study.
Engine Eleven
Jewish intellectual and cultural achievement has historically been treated not as an asset but as a threat. Excellence inside walls is sometimes more threatening than mediocrity.
Engine Twelve
No matter how long Jews live in a country, their belonging remains conditional. At any moment of crisis, centuries of belonging disappear overnight.
Engine Thirteen
The history of Jewish suffering is systematically denied, minimized, and weaponized against Jews. A people stripped of their history is a people stripped of their defense.
From the Book
San Diego Desert, California - 2020
"That's a lot. You should Jew him down." - She didn't even know we were Jewish. That is how prejudice survives. Not as ideology. As ordinary language.
San Diego - Two Years Later
My son Ariel was seven. He wears a kippah to school. A neighbor's friend pointed at us: "Here are the Jews again." Something changes when it is your child.
Zakopane, Poland - 2011
Martin said: "Maybe that Jewish shopkeeper opened a more successful store. And when chaos came... they had a chance." Sometimes history does not create hatred. It creates the moment when resentment feels safe to act.
Lisbon, Portugal - 2023
Andre discovered he was Jewish as an adult - a crypto-Jew whose family had hidden their identity for five centuries. He helped reopen the old synagogue. Not for secrecy. For return.
Fez Mellah, Morocco - 2025
Rachid stopped at a ruined workshop: "The Jews of Fez were the finest craftsmen in Morocco. And this is also why some people hated them." The excellence was real. The resentment was real. The two were connected.
Marrakech, Morocco - 2025
Hassan said of the Jews his city lost: "They were as Moroccan as I am." He paused. "They were always ours. We just forgot that." That sentence is the eternal foreigner engine described from the inside.
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Endorsement
"I could not put it down. The focus of each chapter was familiar but alarming due to the irrefutable clarity brought forth by Oz Laniado. This book is an early warning system, allowing the reader to see if they have been infected by the current plague and potentially deadly virus of antisemitism."
Pastor Victor Styrsky
Former National Educational Director, Christians United for Israel
10 Million Members
"In an age of confusion, slogans, and selective outrage, The Engine of Blame offers something desperately needed: clarity. Truth matters, memory matters, and moral courage matters. Thoughtful, morally serious, and profoundly relevant, this is an important book for people of faith, leaders, students of history, and anyone who cares about justice, truth, and human dignity."
Pastor John Sorrentino
New Covenant Tabernacle
"I was privileged to read the final draft of Oz's fascinating and critically important book. Finally a book about antisemitism that is simple, intuitive, straightforward, and practical. The Engine of Blame is a must-read for anyone who wants to clearly understand the origins and drivers of modern antisemitism and is interested in effectively fighting it. An incredible achievement."
Doron Malka, PhD
President, Ameba Marketing | Professor, San Diego State University
"I was particularly impressed by how clearly and thoughtfully you presented the facts and history surrounding antisemitism. The subject is complex and often emotionally charged, yet you explained it in a way that was both accessible and deeply informative. A must read."
Carine Chitayat
Co-Founder and CEO, Adopt a Family Foundation
"The framework of thirteen engines is genuinely original and the three new engines explain the post-October 7 world more clearly than anything else I have read."
Advance Reader
"This book does not ask for pity. It demands understanding. And it gives readers the tools to understand something they have been watching but could not name."
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"The Morocco material is unlike anything in the literature. A Muslim caretaker tending Jewish graves for three generations is not a metaphor. It is an argument."
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