The primary evidence against Dreyfus was a slip of paper discovered in a German military trash can. French handwriting experts couldn’t definitively link the handwriting on the garbage can paper to Dreyfus’s handwriting. But that was enough for the French military to convict Dreyfus at a court-martial trial.

The entire Dreyfus Affair demonstrated that concerning Antisemitism, little has changed between the late 1800s and today.

The Dreyfus affair generated Anti-Semitic riots worldwide. In France, there were more than twenty French cities, and riots in Algiers resulted in several deaths. The anti-Semitic riots of 1896 and 1897 were similar to the violent 2023-3034 anti-Semitic riots worldwide caused by Israel defending herself after the October 7 massacre.

[Jeff argues that Emile Zola proved one man could make a difference. That’s true, but it was insufficient to the scale of the problem then, and even more so now. That’s why every person of virtue and courage should speak out against the raging anti-Semites of our moment and call them what they clearly are: Jew haters and terror sympathizers. — Ed]