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Stoker never specifically identified Dracula as Jewish, but Dracula has a stereotypically Jewish face: a hooked nose, prominent eyebrows, and ugly, sharp features. The association of Jews with foreignness, disease, and ingesting blood was reworked by Bram Stoker in his 1897 novel Dracula. Gentiles also claimed that Jews used the blood of Christian children in their Passover rituals to make matzah-a conspiracy theory known as the blood libel. At that time, Christians accused Jews of causing the Black Death by poisoning wells. The Jew as weird murderous alien goes back to the Middle Ages, at least. But he’s also the charming, sporadically noble, consistently charismatic hero, who enjoys pizza as much as he enjoys greeting small children with a cheerful “Good morning, dickhead.” Rarely have weird murderous aliens seemed so charming. In short, he’s an antisemitic stereotype. He’s a sneaky, infiltrating, ugly outsider with mind control powers bent on the destruction of all humankind. In the show, Harry Vanderspeigle (played by Alan Tudyk) is an alien who lands in the town of Patience, Colorado and becomes the town doctor.

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The new SYFY series Resident Alien is entertaining for at least this Jewish fan in part because it doesn’t so much invert that trope as lean so far into it that it comes out the other side. In pulp and science fiction storytelling, antisemitic stereotypes have long been used as a shorthand for the evil, greedy, villainous alien threat.

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