Wikileaks posted, and subsequently removed, tweets that suggested that most of its critics are Jewish “tribalist….establishment climbers”.
The Wikileaks twitter account wrote “most of our critics have 3 (((brackets around their names))) & have blacked rimmed glasses. Bizarre”.
The use of three brackets around one’s name is a practice that many Jews on Twitter have re-appropriated from the far right, who had used the symbol to identify or ‘expose’ Jews.
In another tweet Wikileaks speculated as to whether the “symbol has been re-re-purposed to now be a tribalist designator for establishment climbers”, drawing on common antisemitic imagery of Jewish control over, or attempts to influence the political establishment.
Wikileaks deleted the tweets, but still continued to defend them.
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has previously referred to a “Jewish conspiracy” and has links to Holocaust denier Israel Shamir