ABSTRACT
On May 14, 2022, a white supremacist terrorist entered a supermarket in Buffalo, New York, and assassinated ten African Americans and wounded three more. The white supremacist violence was, in the view of the perpetrator, retaliation and a call for arms against the “great replacement” of white populations. The concept of “race suicide” gained significant traction in the following years; it was, for instance, mobilized by Theodore Roosevelt in different speeches and essays. Very often, population replacement discourse identifies Jews as the main actors in this respect, and one key characteristic of the palimpsest is the recycling and reworking of antisemitic conspiracy theories. The multilayered understanding of what population replacement conspiracy theories consist of brings to a complex genealogy with many articulations of different strands of thought. The chapter also presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in this book.
