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2025
January 20. David Gilbert: Neo-Nazis Love the Nazi-Like Salutes Elon Musk Made at Trump’s Inauguration: The far right is celebrating what it views as a clear signal from the X owner and Donald Trump associate, who made the gestures onstage Monday.
January 21. Kate Connolly: ‘The gesture speaks for itself’: Germans respond to Musk’s apparent Nazi salute.
January 26. Freddie Clayton: Elon Musk’s call for Germany to ‘move beyond’ Nazi guilt is dangerous, Holocaust memorial chair says.
January 30. David Gilbert: Bleach Enthusiast, Antisemitic Conspiracist Among Stars of Anti-Vaxxer Event to Be Held at Trump Hotel.
February 21. Justine McDaniel & Patrick Marley: Bannon denies making Nazi salute as French far-right leader cancels speech. The gesture comes as Trump and his allies have prompted growing alarm among critics about their embrace of authoritarian messaging and symbols.
March 6. Tom Dreisbach: A Pentagon press secretary has history of pushing antisemitic, extremist theories.
March 7. Andrew Silverstein: State Department plan to deport ‘pro-Hamas’ students relies on a 1952 law that targeted Jews.
March 7. Timothy Snyder: Antisemitism in the Oval Office: A confrontation seen with a historian’s eye.
March 13. Antonio Pequeño IV: Musk Retweets ‘Hitler Didn’t Murder Millions’ Message.
March 14. Arno Rosenfeld: Head of Trump’s antisemitism task force says one on ‘anti-white bias’ may be next.
March 14. Timothy Snyder: “Antisemitism” and Antisemitism: The abuse of the word and the spread of the phenomenon.
March 17. Arno Rosenfeld: Trump’s antisemitism chief shares ‘Jew card’ post from white supremacist: Leo Terrell, who runs the DOJ’s antisemitism task force, shared a post from the former leader of an organization that promoted the ‘Nazification of America.’
March 27. Democracy Now! Elon Musk’s Family History in South Africa Reveals Ties to Apartheid & Neo-Nazi Movements.
March 30. Ben Makuch: Trump’s counter-terror cuts will harm fight against far right, experts warn. Scale of cuts undermines US president’s own promises of ending stateside terrorism and curtailing antisemitism.
April 23. Akela Lacy: Trump Administration Texted College Professors’ Personal Phones to Ask If They’re Jewish.
April 24. David Edwards: ‘Sorry’: Trump nominee apologizes to Jewish newspaper for praising Nazi sympathizer.
April 25. Spencer S. Hsu, Tom Jackman: Video casts doubt on Ed Martin’s apology for praising Nazi sympathizer.
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.
May 14. Tom Dreisbach: Multiple Trump White House officials have ties to antisemitic extremists.
May 29. Nomia Iqbal: ‘I left one conflict zone to enter another’: Harvard’s Jewish foreign students on Trump row.
May 30. Tom Dreisbach: Trump nominates official with ties to antisemitic extremists to lead ethics agency.
May 31. Alice Speri: Jewish organizers are increasingly confronting Trump: ‘The repression is growing, but so is the resistance.’
Trump’s Weaponization of Antisemitism
“As the US watches videos of the regime’s police handcuffing and arresting student protesters in front of their families, as well as the destruction of the world’s greatest system of higher education, all supposedly in the service of ‘protecting’ Jewish Americans, it is past time to note: this can’t be good for the Jews . . . [Trump is] using Jewish people as the sledgehammer for fascism.” Jason Stanley, Jewish author of “How Fascism Works.”
“Abductions by government agents; unexplained, indefinite detentions; the targeting of allegedly dangerous ideas; lists of those under government scrutiny; official proclamations full of bluster and bile — Jews have been here before, many times, and it does not end well for us.” Michael S. Roth, Jewish president of Wesleyan University.
March 20. Kaity Kline: Weaponizing antisemitism makes students ‘less safe,’ says drafter of definition.
April 1. Anna Betts: US House Democrat blasts Trump for using ‘antisemitism’ to attack universities: Jerry Nadler of New York says president ‘weaponizing real pain American Jews face to advance desire to wield control.’
April 3. Jordan Green: ‘We know where this leads’: How Trump’s crackdown puts Jewish people in peril.
April 4. Yair Rosenberg: Trump’s Jewish Cover Story: The administration claims to be protecting Jews while advancing an agenda that most Jews oppose.
April 7. Michael S. Roth: Trump Is Selling Jews a Dangerous Lie.
April 16. Michel Martin, Obed Manuel: Trump exploiting antisemitism fears to undermine rule of law, warns Jewish coalition.
May 28. Alex Zheutlin: Trump’s fight with Harvard risks making Jewish students a scapegoat: President Donald Trump’s targeting of universities like Harvard isn’t about protecting Jewish students. It’s a political weapon that exploits concerns over antisemitism to advance a broader campaign.
Antisemitism in The First Trump Administration
“Hardcore White supremacist endorsements [for Trump’s first election] rolled in: From the neo-Nazi Daily Stormer, which contains special sections on ‘The Jewish Problem’ and ‘Race War.’ From the Ku Klux Klan newspaper The Crusader, which hails itself as ‘the premier voice of the white resistance.’ From the internet’s first major forum of White supremacist hatred, Stormfront. From former Grand Dragon Don Black. From August Kreis III, the former Aryan Nations Minister of Information and Propaganda. From the White supremacist website VDARE. Rocky J. Suhayda, the leader of the American Nazi Party, wrote: ‘We have a wonderful OPPORTUNITY here folks, that may never come again . . . Donald Trump’s campaign statements, if nothing else, have SHOWN that ‘our views’ are NOT so ‘unpopular’ as the Political Correctness crowd have told everyone they are!’” – Excerpt from Lynn Burnett’s Donald Trump’s Deep White Supremacist Roots.
Antisemitic Extremists Back Trump’s 2016 Campaign
Lynn Burnett: Donald Trump’s Deep White Supremacist Roots: From His Father’s Klan Membership to the Klan Supporting His Presidency.
Christina Coleburn: Donald Trump on Racist Endorsement: ‘I Don’t Know Anything About David Duke’.
David Neiwert & Sarah Posner: Meet the Horde of Neo-Nazis, Klansmen, and Other Extremist Leaders Endorsing Donald Trump: The Republican nominee for president has not disavowed any of them.
Antisemites in The First Trump Administration
Alex Amend and Jonathon Morgan: Breitbart Under Bannon: Breitbart’s Comment Section Reflects Alt-Right, Anti-Semitic Language.
Lulu Garcia-Navarro: Stephen Miller And ‘The Camp Of The Saints,’ A White Nationalist Reference.
Christopher Mathias: Jewish Groups Demand Stephen Miller Resign From White House.
NBC: Sebastian Gorka Made Nazi-Linked Vitezi Rend ‘Proud’ by Wearing Its Medal.
Tina Nguyen: Far-Right Trump Adviser Tied to Anti-Semitic Paramilitary Group.
The Southern Poverty Law Center: Stephen Miller’s Affinity for White Nationalism Revealed in Leaked Emails.
More Connections between Donald Trump & Antisemitism
Bobby Allyn: Facebook Removes Trump Ads With Symbol Used By Nazis. Campaign Calls It An ‘Emoji’.
Zachary Basu & Jonathan Swan: Trump talks with white nationalist Nick Fuentes at Mar-a-Lago dinner.
Aaron Blake: Trump’s long history of trafficking in antisemitic tropes.
CNN: 1990 report: Ivana Trump told her lawyer Donald Trump kept Hitler speeches beside bed.
Jose A. DelReal & Julie Zauzmer: Trump’s vigorous defense of anti-Semitic image a ‘turning point’ for many Jews.
Tom Dreisbach: Trump’s Bedminster club hosted an alleged Nazi sympathizer who stormed the Capitol.
Eric Hananoki: Trump shared post from N-word-spewing account that claims “Hitler was right” and the Holocaust “never happened”.
Amita Kelly: Trump To Jewish Republicans: ‘I’m A Negotiator Like You Folks.’
Ben Makuch: Neo-Nazi and far right groups seize on Trump’s anti-immigration rhetoric.
Flynn Nicholls: Swastika Flags Flown During Donald Trump Boat Parade in Florida.
NPR: Trump posted a video on Truth Social calling the country a ‘unified reich’ if he wins.
Christian Picciolini: Former Neo-Nazi Says Trump’s Call for Proud Boys to “Stand By” Will Encourage More Violence.