Excellent Explination For and Result Of Anti-Semitism

From Walter Russell Mead:

Countries where vicious anti-Semitism is rife are almost always backward and poor.  This isn’t, as anti-Semites believe, because the Elders of Zion are plotting to keep Uz-beki-beki-beki-stan poor.  It is because the inability to see the world clearly and discern cause and effect relations in complex social settings is linked to many other failures in economic and political life.  Anti-Semitism isn’t just the socialism of fools; it is the sociology of the befuddled.  The anti-Semite fails to grasp how the world works, and that failure condemns him to endless frustration.  Naturally, this is the fault of the Jews.

The same can be said of conspiracy thinking in general. It's a sign of anti-intellectualism, because it's the easy answer, one that does not require that much complex thinking.