On Gemma O’Doherty’s article: “Swiss Cheese Kosher Productions: A New Year of AI Slop,” January 5, 2026
The New Year’s Day 2026 fire at Le Constellation in Crans-Montana was a catastrophic tragedy that claimed 40 lives and left over 100 people injured, primarily young adults celebrating the holiday. Investigators found that sparklers on champagne bottles ignited flammable acoustic ceiling foam, leading to a rapid and deadly flashover.
In response to this event, conspiratorial narratives—like those promoted by Gemma O’Doherty—falsely claim the disaster was a staged “psyop” or “theatre.” These arguments rely on misinterpreting common fire-scene realities, such as discarded shoes, as “stage props” and dismissing genuine mobile phone footage as “AI fakery.”
Most harmfully, this narrative shifts into aggressive antisemitism by baselessly linking the fire to a nearby Chabad-Lubavitch center and Jewish residents like Vicky Safra.
It utilizes ancient, dangerous tropes like “blood libel” and the “Kalergi project” to suggest that Jewish people orchestrate mass casualties for political control.
By mocking the “lack of tears” from grieving parents and labeling victims as “vicsims” or “crisis actors,” these claims attempt to dehumanize the dead while promoting Holocaust denial through terms like “Holohoax.”
Ultimately, these theories claim the tragedy was manufactured to force the Swiss public into accepting digital IDs and police-state measures, ignoring the lived reality of the families who lost their children in a preventable fire safety failure.
This was my comment on her post:
The claims made in this post are a textbook example of circular logic and harmful antisemitic tropes that seek to dehumanize victims of a real tragedy.
By dismissing a deadly fire as a “psyop,” this narrative ignores the physical realities of trauma, fire science, and basic human behavior.
To begin with, the “markers” mentioned—like discarded shoes—are common in every real-world crowd crush or fire. In a panic, people trip or are pushed out of their footwear; it is a sign of a desperate escape, not a “stage prop.”
Similarly, the idea that furniture must be totally incinerated to prove a fire occurred ignores how flashover works, where heat and smoke often destroy the upper half of a room while leaving floor-level items scorched but intact.
The attempt to link this tragedy to the Jewish community through Chabad-Lubavitch or specific donors is a recycling of the “blood libel” and “globalist” myths.
The presence of a synagogue or a charitable donor in a major international resort is a demographic reality, not a conspiracy.
Labeling charity efforts as “Jewish money laundering” or “GoFraudMe” relies on the “Greedy Jew” caricature to delegitimize the genuine financial needs of grieving families.
Furthermore, the dismissal of survivors as “crisis actors” because they don’t “look sad enough” is a cruel misunderstanding of how shock and dissociation work. There is no evidence of a global network of actors capable of maintaining such a lie; these are real people with documented lives who have suffered immense loss.
The claim that fire footage is “AI fakery” also falls flat; low-light digital artifacts and compression are standard in mobile phone videos and do not indicate CGI.
Finally, the use of the term “Holohoax” is deeply offensive and historically illiterate. It seeks to deny the systematic murder of six million people to rehabilitate hateful ideologies.
Using terms like “Holohoax” alongside tropes about “Zio cults” and “ritual tragedies” reveals that this isn’t a “debunking” of a fire, but a deliberate attempt to incite hatred against Jewish people. Tragedies like the one in Crans-Montana deserve respect and factual reporting, not the spread of dehumanizing conspiracy theories.
Written with the help of AI.
Writing by Dr. Dannielle Blumenthal 