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Contemporary Antisemitism

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.

Overviews of Antisemitism

SPLC: Antisemitism.

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: Why the Jews: History of Antisemitism.

Wikipedia: History of antisemitism.

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.

January 9.   Anna Merlan: Hidden Passageway Beneath New York Chabad Building Drives Chaos and Antisemitic Conspiracy Theories: As “tunnelgate” circulates on Twitter, the far right and the broader conspiratorial universe seize on an irresistible combination of words.

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 8.   Jordan Fischer: Fugitive Ohio man charged with federal hate crimes in aerosol attack outside DC synagogue: Brent Wood, 34, of Ohio, is accused of spraying a noxious substances at congregants of the Kesher Israel Congregation while shouting, “Gas the Jews!”

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.

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 8.   NBC: Leading Neo-Nazi Website Is Now Publishing in Spanish: The Daily Stormer, a leading neo-Nazi website with racist and anti-semitic content which has also railed against Hispanic immigrants, is expanding its audience by publishing in Spanish.

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

ADL: U.S. White Supremacist Propaganda Remained at Historic Levels in 2021, With 27 Percent Rise in Antisemitic Messaging.

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.)

November 30.   NBC News: DHS warns of domestic terror threats to LGBTQ, Jewish and migrant communities: Americans motivated by violent ideologies pose a “persistent and lethal threat,” a senior DHS official said in a briefing about a new Terrorism Advisory System bulletin.

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.

Bradley W. Hart: America’s dark history of organized anti-Semitism re-emerges in today’s far-right groups: The German American Bund and the Silver Legion developed a unique culture of hatred for Jews in the 20th century.

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.

Pamela S. Nadell: Why we were overdue for a fierce debate about anti-Semitism in America: By focusing mostly on the Holocaust, we have overlooked centuries of American anti-Semitism.

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’.