An artistic rendering of the RMS Titanic.
MOSCOW — A privately owned Russian television channel reran a documentary from 2012 that claimed the Titanic was sunk partly due to a conspiracy by Jews.
REN-TV aired the anti-Semitic documentary in July, according to the Coordination Forum for Countering anti-Semitism.
The documentary suggested a “group of 300” Jews, freemasons and “illluminati” had sunk the ship in 1912 to provoke an international crisis and install themselves as leaders of a world government, a central theme of anti-Semitism conspiracy theories.
The 2012 version of the documentary used the past tense, suggesting that the attempt was in the past and ultimately unsuccessful. However, REN-TV’s airing was edited to use the present tense, as well as to link the conspiracy to more recent events, including the Chernobyl disaster, 9/11 and the collapse of the Soviet Union.
