Image: Memorial to victims of the Tree of Life Synagogue shooting on October 27, 2018.
This page is part of a resource collection on far right extremism. See also: Antisemitism in the Second Trump Administration.
Overviews of Antisemitism
International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance: Working definition of antisemitism.
SPLC: Antisemitism.
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: Why the Jews: History of Antisemitism.
Wikipedia: History of antisemitism.
Antisemitism in 2025
January 30. David Gilbert: Bleach Enthusiast, Antisemitic Conspiracist Among Stars of Anti-Vaxxer Event to Be Held at Trump Hotel.
February 6. Ben Lorber: Trump’s EO to ‘Combat Antisemitism’ Wields Jewish Safety as a Weapon to Crush Palestine Solidarity.
February 14. Peter Beinart: The Perils of Universities’ Unscholarly Antisemitism Reports: By relying on pro-Israel organizations’ analysis of antisemitism—rather than recruiting the scholars on their own campuses—university antisemitism task forces are enabling the assault on academic freedom.
March 12. Ben Lorber: Why Did Trump Just Tell Reporters that Chuck Schumer ‘Is Not Jewish Anymore,’ That He ‘Has Become a Palestinian’?
March 13. Jewish Voice for Peace: Rejecting Project Esther: Understanding Christian and White Nationalism as Racism and Antisemitism.
March 15. Scott Simon: Sen. Chuck Schumer discusses his new book, ‘Antisemitism in America’.
March 15. Mary Papenfuss: Head of Trump’s antisemitic task force shares antisemitic tweet about ‘Jew cards’.
March 17. Ben Lorber: Conservatives claim to be fighting antisemitism. Don’t believe them.
March 20. Kaity Kline: Weaponizing antisemitism makes students ‘less safe,’ says drafter of definition.
April 14. April Rubin: Jewish people fear scapegoating as Trump invokes antisemitism to justify crackdowns.
May 6. Alice Speri: Jewish faculty decry Republican panel members ahead of antisemitism hearing: Lawmakers on key committee have quoted Hitler and are associated with calls for Jews to convert to Christianity.
June 2. Zoe Sottile: Colorado suspect, now charged with federal hate crime, planned antisemitic attack for a year, FBI says.
June 2. Praveena Somasundaram: FBI investigates attack on Jewish gathering in Colorado that injured eight. The attack happened during a weekly event in downtown Boulder to call for the release of hostages in Gaza, authorities said.
June 3. Cynthia Miller-Idriss: The biggest failure in fighting antisemitism may also be the easiest to address. We have the tools to stop antisemitic violence like the Boulder attack. Why aren’t we seeing better progress?
Antisemitism in 2024
January 3. Jewish New Syndicate: Jeffrey Hobgood pleads guilty to threatening NC Jewish Federation.
January 3. Mari Cohen & Alex Kane: Top Executive Leaves ADL Over CEO’s Praise of Elon Musk: Yaël Eisenstat’s departure is the most prominent instance of post-October 7th dissent within the organization.
February 12. Ben Lorber: Meet the ‘Bronze Age Zionists’ — Far-Right Jews Embracing Fascism in the Wake of October 7.
February 24. Ben Goggin: Nazis mingle openly at CPAC, spreading antisemitic conspiracy theories and finding allies.
February 27. Eyes on the Right: Massachusetts GOP Candidate Is A Neo-Nazi Who Wants To ‘Expel’ Jews And ‘Overthrow The Government’.
March 29. Shane Burley: Christ Is King: Candace Owens’ antisemitism was a feature, not a bug. And it’s the whole Right that’s infected.
April 18. USA Today: Antisemitism is everywhere. We tracked it across all 50 states.
April 19. Jordan Green. Busted: Paul Gosar campaign consultant linked to antisemitism and white nationalism.
April 23. Odette Yousef: More and more, young kids are being exposed to hate ideologies.
May 30. David K. Li & Emily Berk: Driver accused of jumping curb, targeting people outside New York City Jewish school. No one was hurt, and Asghar Ali, 58, was arrested and booked on a slew of charges, including attempted second-degree murder as a hate crime.
May 31. Jordan Green. Florida teens tied to ‘2119’ neo-Nazi gang to plead guilty for antisemitic attacks.
June 18. Jeff Tischauser: An ‘Angry Fascist’ Revealed: An Alabama man who has been charged in connection with racist and antisemitic vandalism in Nashville, Tennessee, appears to associate with organized white power groups.
July 18. Vittoria Elliott: Fortnite Has a Political Violence Problem: In a report shared exclusively with WIRED, the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism says it found more than a dozen user-generated games on Fortnite that featured antisemitism and political violence.
August 7: John Bowden: Uncovered texts reveal lengthy conversations between JD Vance and Holocaust denier.
August 24. Jennifer Hassan: France opens terrorist investigation into attempted attack on synagogue.
September 17. Shane Burley: Frankists, Talmudists, and Zionists: Shifting Sands of Antisemitism in 2024.
September 23. Yair Rosenberg: The Anti-Semitic Revolution on the American Right:How Jews became collateral damage in a Republican power struggle.
October 4. NBC: Bomb threats target NY synagogues ahead of Hamas attack anniversary.
October 18. Jason Koebler: This Is Exactly How an Elon Musk-Funded PAC Is Microtargeting Muslims and Jews With Opposing Messages.
October 19. Will Carless: Calif. statehouse candidate who was at Jan. 6 spread antisemitic conspiracy theory.
October 22. Ben Lorber: Heritage Foundation’s Christian Nationalist ‘Project Esther’ Won’t Combat Antisemitism — But it Will Weaponize Jews.
November 21. Franklin Foer: Trump Is Building the Most Anti-Semitic Cabinet in Decades: Donald Trump has vowed to “defeat anti-Semitism.” His Cabinet picks tell a very different story.
December 13. The Guardian: Switzerland seeks to ban Nazi symbols amid surge in antisemitism.
Antisemitism in 2023
January 12. Michelle Boorstein & Scott Clement: Survey finds ‘classical fascist’ antisemitic views widespread in U.S.
January 17. SPLC: Idaho Republican Club Hosts Speech by Antisemite, Jan. 6 Attendee.
February 1. Vice News Reports podcast: Behind The Anti-Semite Advising Kanye’s Campaign.
February 16. Rosh Lowe: Antisemitic slurs fuel violence during game between Miami-Dade religious private schools, parents say.
February 22. Nicole Asbury: Montgomery County schools toughen penalties after more antisemitic incidents.
March 1. Natalie Neysa Alund: Ex-Ohio National Guardsman sentenced to 6 years after creating ghost guns, antisemitic threats.
March 1. Mack Lamoureux: A Neo-Nazi Troll Network Is Making Money Abusing Jews: The Goyim Defense League, or GDL, has been banned from almost every social media site. But videos of their stunts find a way online anyway.
March 8. ADL: Fuentes Delivers Antisemitic, “Christian Nationalist” Rant to Fellow White Supremacists.
March 21. Daniel Wu: City will pay $750K after police allegedly drew swastika in man’s car.
March 23. ADL: Audit of Antisemitic Incidents 2022.
April 4. Jewish Currents: The ADL’s Antisemitism Findings, Explained: The organization’s annual audit found a worrisome surge in incidents—but experts say some of its numbers lack context.
April 7. Kyle Melnick: WWE apologizes for using footage of Auschwitz in a WrestleMania promo.
April 22. Minyvonne Burke: Jewish student with autism had swastika carved onto his back, mother says.
April 24. Adam Reinherz: Day one of the synagogue shooting trial: Judge Colville begins questioning of potential jurors.
May 16. The Washington Post: Musk says George Soros ‘hates humanity,’ compares him to Jewish supervillain.
May 24. Andrew Lapin: The Florida mom who sought to ban Amanda Gorman’s poem says she’s sorry for promoting the Protocols of the Elders of Zion.
May 25. White House Briefing Room: Biden-Harris Administration Releases First-Ever U.S. National Strategy to Counter Antisemitism.
May 30. David Nakamura: Prosecutor says gunman in Pittsburgh synagogue killings hunted victims: Testimony begins in the trial of Robert G. Bowers, who faces 63 hate-crime and gun-related charges in the 2018 attack that killed 11 people.
June 29. Department of Justice: Member Of White Supremacist Group [The Base]Charged for Allegedly Defacing Synagogue With Neo-Nazi Symbols.
August 1. Timothy Bella: Police shoot Memphis man who fired gun outside Jewish school.
September 19. AP News: White supremacist admits threatening jury and witnesses in Pittsburgh synagogue shooter’s trial.
September 23. Antonio Olivo & Emily Wax-Thibodeaux: Amid rising antisemitism, the vivid language of Yiddish makes a comeback.
September 25. Justin Baragona: Jewish Leaders and Rabbis Call Out Elon Musk for Spreading ‘Overt Antisemitism’.
October 3. Ellen Francis: Hitler’s birth house will become a police station to keep neo-Nazis away.
October 5. Shane Burley: Book Review: Jewish Space Lasers. The Rothschilds and 200 Years of Conspiracy Theories.
October 18. Simmone Shah: The Israel-Hamas War Is Leading to an Uptick in Hate Crimes.
October 24. Eric Hananoki: Kari Lake has embraced numerous antisemitic media figures in recent years.
October 24. ADL: ADL Center on Extremism notes nearly 400-percent increase in preliminary antisemitic incidents reported year over-year.
October 25. NPR: When Israeli-Palestinian conflicts erupt, threats against U.S. Jews and Muslims surge.
October 25. Kanishka Singh: US antisemitic incidents up about 400% since Israel-Hamas war began.
October 28. The New York Times: As China Looks to Broker Gaza Peace, Antisemitism Surges Online: China’s state-run media has blamed the United States for deepening the crisis, while perpetuating tropes of Jewish control of American politics.
October 30. Marlene Lenthang: Cornell University police investigate online threats targeting Jewish students: “Horrendous, antisemitic messages threatening violence” were posted Sunday on a website unaffiliated with Cornell, sparking a police presence at its Center for Jewish Living.
October 31. Hannah Rabinowitz: FBI director: Antisemitism reaching ‘historic level’ in US.
October 31. Stephen Collinson: A new wave of antisemitism threatens to rock an already unstable world.
October 31. CNN: Cornell University student threatened to stab and rape Jewish students and ‘shoot up’ school, prosecutors say.
November 1. LA Times: Antisemitic graffiti at Canter’s Deli investigated as possible hate crime.
November 1. Tess Owen: Neo-Nazis and the Far-Right Are Trying to Hijack Pro-Palestine Protests: Neo-Nazis are showing up at protests in an attempt to push antisemitic conspiracy theories and tropes into the mainstream.
November 1. Shane Burley: How the far right is trying to manipulate the crisis in Gaza: White nationalists are attempting to hijack Israel’s escalating war to draw new recruits and push their antisemitic and Islamophobic narratives.
November 3. Adam Serwer: Don’t Equate Anti-Zionism With Anti-Semitism: It is not anti-Semitic to want equal rights for all in Jerusalem, in Tel Aviv, in Gaza, in Ramallah.
November 4. Max Lewis: Indy police arrest ‘terrorist’ for purposely driving her car into what she thought was a Jewish school.
November 5. Shera Avi-Yonah: Long before Elon Musk, Henry Ford went to war with Jewish groups.
November 7. Danny Postel: The Conservative Fault Lines Revealed by Debates Over Israel: Tucker Carlson and Ben Shapiro’s argument on the war in Gaza is a microcosm of the fractures on the American right that lie behind the Republican Party line.
November 8. NBC News: Synagogue and Jewish community center in Montreal hit by attempted firebomb attack.
November 8. Justin Horowitz: Holocaust denier and other extremists celebrate Charlie Kirk’s antisemitic “Jewish dollars” attack.
December 15. Jacob Gurvis: Menorahs Across US Vandalized as Jewish Communities Celebrate Chanukah.
November 16. Tess Owen: Racist Premium X Users Exploiting Israel-Hamas War to Push Antisemitism, Islamophobia.
November 19. The Washington Post: Antisemitism was rising online. Then Elon Musk’s X supercharged it.
December 14. Jacob Gurvis: FBI arrests California minor for role in synagogue swatting ring: The suspect is believed to be a member of a swatting ring that carried out false bomb threats and swatting attempts targeting at least 25 synagogues in 13 states during July and August.
December 21. Tess Owen: At Leading Anti-Hate Group, Boss’s Embrace of Elon Musk Raises Tensions: Some staff at the Anti-Defamation League are wondering why, when antisemitism is on the rise, their CEO is treating the X owner with kid gloves.
Antisemitism in 2022
January 20. Cynthia Miller-Idriss: Texas synagogue hostage-taker’s antisemitism not taken seriously by the FBI. The FBI’s statement that the hostage attack wasn’t antisemitic failed to capture the very nature of antisemitism.
January 25. Spencer Sunshine: Amazon’s Still Selling Lots of Nazi Books.
January 30. Christopher Mathias: The ‘Perfect Anti-Semitism’ Of Tucker Carlson’s Latest Trip To Hungary: The Fox Nation host goes all-in on the white supremacist conspiracy theory that George Soros is waging “demographic war — on the West.”
May 3. ADL: U.S. White Supremacist Propaganda Remained at Historic Levels in 2021, With 27 Percent Rise in Antisemitic Messaging.
August 25. Center on Extremism: Antisemitism and Anti-Transgender-Hate in Attacks on Gender-Affirming Healthcare.
October 17. Rachel Lerman & Jennifer Hassan: Kanye West plans to buy right-leaning social app Parler, company says: Ye was recently locked out of his Instagram and Twitter accounts for antisemitic posts.
October 17. Tess Owen: Kanye West Is Buying Parler as the Far-Right Scrambles to Co-Opt Him: The rapper, who has fully gone public with his antisemitism, is buying the far-right platform. The extreme right could not be more thrilled.
October 18. Jonathan Chait: There’s No Comparison Between How the Parties Handle Antisemitism: Marjorie Taylor Greene shows it pays in the GOP.
November 4. CNN: FBI identifies source of New Jersey synagogues threat.
November 19. Vimal Patel and McKenna Oxenden: 2 Men Arrested in Threats to New York Jewish Community.
November 23. Eric Hananoki: Marjorie Taylor Greene paid antisemitic and white nationalist haven Gab for “fundraising” in August.
November 27. Leah McElrath: The Kanye West and Nick Fuentes collaboration strikes me as potentially dangerous for Jewish Americans. It’s multiracial unification around antisemitism. I am concerned about how that might take hold within white, Latino, and Black Christian evangelical and Catholic communities. (Twitter thread.)
December 1. Tess Owen: Kanye Says He ‘Likes Hitler’ In Disturbing Rant to Alex Jones.
December 5. Mack Lamoureux: Kanye West Is Dragging Far-Right Figures Into the Mainstream:Numerous far-right figures are clambering to gain access to the disgraced rapper, whose antisemitism and celebrity could raise their profile.
December 14. Mack Lamoureux: Kanye Keeps Circling the Bottom, Hit With More Cancellations: After months of antisemitic rants, Ye is now finding out how few people want to talk to him.
December 17. Julie Zauzmer Weil: Antisemitic graffiti discovered at Montgomery County high school.
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Alex Amend and Jonathon Morgan: Breitbart Under Bannon: Breitbart’s Comment Section Reflects Alt-Right, Anti-Semitic Language.
Shana Bernstein: How the spike in hate crimes is forging unlikely alliances: And why vulnerable groups should be careful about attempts to divide them.
Elizabeth Dias, Maggie Haberman, and Almer Durston: Trump’s Order to Combat Anti-Semitism Divides Its Audience: American Jews.
Jaclyn Granick and Britt Tevis: Why the Pittsburgh shooter raged about immigration before attacking a synagogue: There are deep ties between nativism and anti-Semitism.
Nicole Hemmer: Tweedy racists and “ironic” anti-Semites: the alt-right fits a historical pattern.
Rebecca Kobrin: Why the lessons of Kristallnacht must guide our debate over migrants in America today: We’re risking repeating a grave mistake from the past.
Deborah Lipstadt: Jews Are Going Underground.
Shannon Foley Martinez: Speaking With Children About Antisemitism.
Christopher Mathias: Jewish Groups Demand Stephen Miller Resign From White House.
Daniel Reynolds: Remembering the Holocaust in an era of rising anti-Semitism: How to move past ritual remembrance toward something more meaningful.
Joshua Shanes: Donald Trump, Pittsburgh and the lessons of Kristallnacht: You don’t have to hate Jews to stoke anti-Semitism.
Alexandra Minna Stern: The Repackaging of Hate and Anti-Semitism in Our Post-Truth Era.
Paul B. Sturtevant: Science fiction’s anti-Semitism problem: Stories about the future tend to replicate the prejudices of the past.
Victoria Saker Woeste: Why Ford needs to grapple with its founder’s anti-Semitism: Anti-Semitism is on the rise. Now a mayor wants to suppress the history of America’s most famous anti-Semite.
Victoria Saker Woeste: The anti-Semitic origins of the war on ‘fake news’.