Is there a deep Israeli state that runs the world, and are the assassination attempts on leaders like Trump or Fico the result of that? No, that´s not true: there is no evidence that such shadowy organization controls society.
The claim appeared in a video (archived here) published on TikTok on July 14, 2024. The text overlaid over the video says in Slovak, translated by Lead Stories: "Assassinations will continue if the government is afraid to intervene." The person in the video says in Slovak, translated by Lead Stories:
Don't be surprised in Slovakia, don't be surprised in the USA. Why I would be surprised, when it was clear that this would happen.... Because it's gonna happen again. Why? Because we're dealing with the effect, not the cause. None of them have the balls to deal with the cause... political correctness and all this differences and groups that need safe space. This has become a new religion, you are all absolutely crazy about them, either in the US, or Slovakia, or the western world. This did not fall from the sky, it is the third ruling party that does this, when we start to fight and murder each other, and I hope there will not be a civil war, the one or other side wins but that third party, who install this through Israeli-US deep state....
This is what the post looked like on TikTok at the time of writing:
(Source: TikTok screenshot taken on Tue Jul 16 06:42:04 2024 UTC)
The person speaking in Slovak in the video above claims that the "Israeli deep state" actually runs the U.S. and Slovakia or that it controls "75 percent" of the Republican Party. He also says that "Israel owns the whole Congress" and that "incestuous" people from this "Israeli deep state," which he also calls a "cult," actually invented the LGBT agenda, Covid, vaccines, or diversity, or even parliamentary democracy, which he says is a "sick" system. He goes on to say that the governments of the world are afraid to uproot this organization, and even if it may not be behind the recent assassination attempts on some world leaders, it is responsible for them because its agenda is to create vicarious problems to divide people and pity them against each other.
There have been numerous conspiracy theories involving anti-Semitic statements related to the attempted assassination of former U.S. President Donald Trump. They included unsubstantiated claims (archived here) that the Mossad was responsible for the act, or that Jews or Israel were trying to install Trump's rival Nikki Haley, according to the ADL. There is no evidence for such claims, and neither is there any information from the US or Slovak officials available that would link a similar attempt to assassinate the Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico with Israel or the Jews as of July 22, 2024.
Similar claims made in the TikTok video above are classic anti-Semitic views, traditionally associated with the far right extremism (archived here), blaming Jews for all kinds of misdeeds, including conspiracy theories accusing Jews or Israel of "secretly conspiring to dominate the world," controlling the press and media, international banks and manipulating financial markets, controlling governments. Such claims go back to The "Protocols of the Elders of Zion" (archived here), a forged document purporting to reveal a Jewish conspiracy to take over the world, using an "invisible hand," which has been proven to be a forgery, but which has been circulated for centuries and has become a pretext for scapegoating Jews and a rationale for anti-Semitic events.
According to Jan Charvat (archived here), a political scientist at Charles University in Prague, "it's very difficult to pin an anti-Semitic motive on the attempted assassination of Trump because of his pro-Israel policies," and it's also very difficult to "convince people who believe in such theories" otherwise. Charvat told Lead Stories over the phone on 22 July 2024, that the supporters of such conspiracy theories are often "people who are convinced of the dysfunctionality of the state system" and "try to make sense of events" through such conspiracies. Disillusionment with the way the state and politicians work could also be the main motive for the attack on Fico in Slovakia, according to available media reports, which describe the men as having held various political views in the past, Charvat added.
The person commenting on the attempt to assassinate Trump in the video above is Daniel Bombic, an extremist with far-right views (archived here), often featured in Slovak media, who has been wanted by Slovak police (archived here) for evading prosecution since 2022. Bombic, who has used social media platforms to disseminate his views, had his YouTube account canceled in June 2024, he wrote on his Telegram channel (archived here). Bombic, who has also encouraged conspiracies against COVID-19 (archived here), is also mentioned in a 2023 Globsec report mapping violent extremist groups in the region for "doxing and publicizing" personal details of Slovak health officials and medical personnel during COVID-19 pandemics, who was then "targeted by his followers online and in person" (archived here). Bombic has made anti-Semitic posts in the past, including posts on his X account, where he alleges that Israel conspires to destroy Europe´s population (archived here), or that Israel is behind the 9/11 terrorist attack (archived here). On April 24, 2024, Bombic, who has resided in London, based on the content of his social media accounts, also informed that a U.K. court approved his extradition to Slovakia (archived here).
