"Serbs are the oldest people in the world, everything else is nonsense!" - is one of the titles of the "BalkanInfo" podcast whose regular guest is "expert for conspiracy theory and political activist” Jovanka Jolić, but also other conspiracy theorists.
Her guest appearances have become a hit lately on social networks. From statements that caused ridicule that Elon Musk is from Republika Srpska, to completely ridiculous hate speech against Jews.
"Ms. Jovanka is educated, eloquent, but she is obsessed with hatred of Jews.. Why, only she knows..", stated someone in the comments below the YouTube video.
"Milorad Dodik is not Dodik, but Dodig a crypto-Jew. He built his own empire and he is not interested in Republika Srpska. Well, look who his advisors are all Jews one to one. Not a single Serb around him when it comes to advising and that", is another in a series of claims by Jolić.
And almost every statement would end with the sentence: "And that must be said publicly."
Who is Jovanka Jolic?
There is no official confirmation of her education, and in the media she is most often presented as an art historian and researcher. He deals with "conspirology through the research of the deep state and their work through the security services and state institutions", Istinomer wrote.
Jolić does not refer to sources when she shares controversial claims, so her theories are often the subject of ridicule and criticism.
"The other day I read, I didn't know, that 4.874 Serbian soldiers received vaccines made by Ludwik Hirschfeld, a Jew from Poland, in Corfu in 1916. And that they all died. And history presented us that they received it and died. So they were killed. Why don't our historians say who killed almost five thousand Serbs who went through the Balkan Golgotha? So that Jesuit high school gave If the people knew this, they would not roll up their sleeves and go get vaccines from the same Jews", is just one more in a series of controversial claims by Jovanka Jolić.
"Vreme" previously wrote that conspiracy theories very rarely play a serious role on the historical stage. Their theater is narrower and for the protagonists takes place in caravans, on obscure radio and TV programs, in small-circulation mystery magazines and, inevitably, in psychiatric clinics.
Conspiracy theories are a marginal social phenomenon and - except in one case - they cannot by their very nature be extended to the general population. This is evidenced by a whole series of psychological studies that point to a specific profile of people who can believe in conspiracies in general.
