There was a roughly constant but relatively small level of anti-Semitism in the United States after World War II, but it was widely shunned and those who gave voice to it were marginalized. Opposition to anti-Semitism was part of the “American consensus” after the war and the Holocaust. Together with the breakthrough in race relations that accompanied the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the turn against anti-Semitism was sharp, sustained, and widely shared.
Although relations between the United States and Israel have been up and down, the acceptability of Jew-hatred in the US dropped to almost zero, and from the 1967 Six-Day War and the 1973 Yom Kippur War, US support for the State of Israel has been high and stable.
Israel has become one of America’s most important strategic allies – a nuclear and intelligence superpower with the will to project hard power when necessary in its own national interest, which generally coincides with America’s. Prior to Hamas’s invasion of Israel and the massacre and kidnapping that followed in the Jewish state on October 7, 2023, attacks on Jewish synagogues and centers in the US had been rare, although sometimes tragically deadly.
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From the March 23, 1960, shooting at Congregation Beth Israel in Gadsden, Alabama, when a white supremacist wounded two of the congregants, to the deadliest anti-Semitic attack in the nation’s history at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in October 2018, which killed 11 victims and injured six others—attacks on Jewish gatherings were rare.
When another murder and injury occurred six months later at Chabad of Poway in Poway, California, concerns increased dramatically, but the United States did not witness more deadly attacks on Jews afterward, and concern focused on white supremacist hate groups.
Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman greets Pittsburgh Mayor Ed Gainey during the commemoration ceremony on the fifth anniversary of the attack on the Tree of Life Synagogue on October 27, 2023 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The shooting, the deadliest attack on Jews in American history, left 11 dead after a gunman stormed a synagogue in Pittsburgh’s Squirrel Hill neighborhood. (Getty)
Compared to the vast ocean of anti-Semitism in Europe and especially the Middle East, American Jews lived in peace and security—although they were aware of the need for vigilance against the deranged.
That has changed since the atrocities of October 7.
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Israel’s “just war” continues. The ceasefire on the Gaza front in that war is largely holding, even as Hamas continues to violate its terms. Hezbollah has repeatedly violated the terms of its ceasefire, prompting Israeli responses, and Iran has rushed to build ballistic missiles to replace the thousands it fired at Israel in its 12-day direct battle with Israel, which was quickly brought to an end by President Trump with Operation Midnight Hammer, which crushed Iran’s decades-long effort to develop nuclear weapons.
A handful of opportunists from the post-October 7 attention economy used their podcasts and websites to deliberately pursue the return-on-investment that anti-Semitic content suddenly offered as the conflict over Israel intensified. These parasites took advantage of outright supporters of Hamas and enemies of Israel who organized demonstrations, marches and “occupations” across the country – especially on college campuses.
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Vile rhetoric against Jews skyrocketed online. So did “anti-Semitic incidents,” in the jargon of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Whether it was Jewish students trapped in the Cooper Union College Library in Manhattan or Jewish students denied access to parts of the UCLA campus, the past two years have been full of open attacks on American Jews that were previously unthinkable – until Hamas launched its massacre and Hezbollah in Lebanon and the Houthis in Yemen joined in, with all terrorists funded and trained by “the head of the snake” in Iran.
The international reach of the Internet allowed the enemies of Israel, the United States, and the West in general to take over those US-based voices/platforms that decided to monetize anti-Semitism in the US and amplify them globally, using bots and digital minions to generate traffic. The goal was to take marginalized, discredited viewpoints and force them into the mainstream of American discourse.
Even as President Donald Trump returned to office — bringing Israel’s strongest supporter ever back to the Oval Office — and appointed serious prosecutors for hate crimes and illegal discrimination, including Harmeet Dhillon, the assistant attorney general of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, anti-Semitic anger continued to flourish online. While this phenomenon is primarily rooted in the American political left, there are also some elected officials Both sides have repeated anti-Semitic tropes or supported anti-Israel jihad.
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The coming year should mark the demise of America’s anti-Semitic platforms, as the general American public grows tired of anti-Jewish hatred and insane conspiracies very quickly, and finally realizes that arguing or debating people who rely on the “attention economy” is the last thing you can do.
The year 2026 should mark the demise of America’s anti-Semitic platforms, as the general American public grows tired of anti-Jewish hatred and insane conspiracies very quickly, and finally realizes that arguing or debating people who rely on the “attention economy” is the last thing you can do. (iStock)
Refusing to notice much less platform for the profiteers is the best tactic. Starve them of real attention. They can’t survive on bone farms only. Ignore them. All. Do not participate online. Instead, to borrow from former Republican Senator Lamar Alexander of Tennessee, who borrowed from author Alex Haley, “Find the good and praise it.” I’ll add, “And subscribe to it.”
Two examples among many that cost a few dollars: “Call Me Back Insider,” in which Dan Senor builds a great business, and the Patreon account of the Israeli version of the late Charles Krauthammer, Haviv Rettig Gur. These, along with Commentary magazine and its podcast, are the heavy burdens of anti-anti-Semitism and anti-anti-Israel hatred.
I urge you to pay attention and consider patronizing them. There is an effect similar to Gresham’s law about bad money driving out good money: good speech, sound logic, and persuasive arguments eventually drive out bigoted rants and conspiracy theories every time. In short: shut down the pipelines of bigotry. You don’t need them.
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The traditional media in the US simply does not understand what happened in the aftermath of October 7. When they recognize the anti-Semitic groundswell at all, they reflexively warn of a largely non-existent anti-Muslim hatred across the country. This false ‘balance’ is just the most obvious symptom of a sick content provider.
Most of the old media outlets are run in their various beleaguered castles by old journalists who came out of the old pipelines with worldviews shaped by the old left at the old elite schools that sit atop DEI poisoned “newsrooms.” A handful of wealthy people/foundations keep the lights on on a few of those platforms because of their mistaken belief that there is a huge battle underway to undermine “democracy” in the US and that President Trump is some kind of modern-day Savonarola instead of a popularly elected president with three years left in his term.
They also refuse to acknowledge — let alone applaud — that President Trump has already achieved a successful second term by crushing Iran’s nuclear ambitions and restarting the vast U.S. economy, largely by extending and expanding his initial tax cuts, cutting regulations and boosting energy production, lowering the costs of everything.
The “Trump Derangement Syndrome” has helped strengthen the anti-Semitic fringe by marginalizing previously important voices shackled by their anti-Trump sunk costs. They refuse to applaud anything “45-47” does, even though they were once outspoken and influential supporters of Israel – and Trump remains the most pro-Israel president in US history.
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Like the British Tories who continued to hate Winston Churchill long after the invasion of Poland made every major choice crystal clear, the “Never Trump” rump has sidelined itself in this crucial era because they cannot bear to support Trump or his appointees in any way. The years 2026 to 2028 will be election years at the ballot box on anti-Semitism and support for Israel. Side with the Constitution and its protections for all faiths and individuals – or don’t.
As has been the case for hundreds of years, the choice begins with the Jews. Support them – and the only Jewish state in the world – or support the other side, which is, in a word, Mordor.
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