Goebbels Gap

The Goebbels Gap is an Internet adage defined as the amount of time between a negative event in the world and when someone blames it on the Jews.[1] Promulgated by the American writer Yair Rosenberg, then a senior writer at Tablet Magazine, in 2019, it seen as a proof point of seemingly every conspiracy eventually targeting the Jews.[1] It is named for Nazi chief propagandist Joseph Goebbels, who engineered the deeply virulent anti-Semitic propaganda of the Third Reich.

Rosenberg has cited as examples of the Goebbels Gap the 10 day period between the September 11 attacks and when anti-Semitic conspiracy theories began to emerge of Israel's culpability in the attacks,[1] and Iranian President Hasan Rouhani claiming Israel supported the Islamic State in 2019.[2]