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The Antisemites to Worry About [1]
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Date: 2025-04-20
How about the ones wearing MAGA hats?
Donald Trump claims his attacks on prominent universities is to protect Jewish students from antisemitic protests against Israel’s destruction of Gazi, but his election in November and inauguration in January actually unleashed a wave of antisemitic sentiment on rightwing podcasts and in the blogosphere. Many leading Jews and Jewish organizations worry that Trump’s claim to be defending Jews while promoting his nationalist agenda will end up reenforcing anti-Jewish stereotypes and contribute to an anti-Jewish backlash.
This post on MAGA antisemitism is largely based on an article in the English edition of the Israeli newspaper Haaretz.
Mega-MAGA Elon Musk and Steve Bannon notoriously raised their arms in gestures that disturbingly mirrored Nazi and Fascist salutes from Germany and Italy in World War II. Both denied their salutes had anything to do with Hitler or Mussolini, however, Musk campaigned in the recent German Parliamentary election for the rightwing AfD Party and said Germans should move beyond a focus on past guilt. Important leaders of the AfD have denied or minimized the European Holocaust and the extermination of 6 million Jews. Musk and Bannon maintain close ties with Hungary’s authoritarian leader Viktor Orbán. Orbán’s parliamentary election campaigns have featured antisemitic imagery charging that George Soros and a cabal of powerful Jewish financiers are scheming to control the world.
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) has also used the antisemitic George Soros trope, claiming that many of the protesters at Republican town hall meetings are paid by “George Soros-funded groups” to make a scene “for the cameras.” Meanwhile key Trump allies like Tucker Carlson have a long history of promoting the Great Replacement Theory which is embraced by neo-Nazi groups that believe Jews are conspiring to replace whites in America with non-white immigrants that they can control.
The Joe Rogan Experience hosted by Joe Rogan had as a guest Ian Carroll who previously argued that Israel was responsible for September 11 attacks and that a "Zionist mafia" controls America. On the Rogan podcast, Carroll claimed that convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein had ties to the Israeli secret service and decried the power of the "Jewish mob" and the "Rothschild banking family." Darryl Cooper, who claims that Nazi motivations for constructing concentration camps are misconstrued and other Holocaust revisionism also appeared on the Rogan podcast.
Other prominent rightwing antisemites to be concerned about include Andrew Tate who claims there a lack of free speech in America that prevents him from "speaking out against Jews” and Candace Owens who espouses conspiracy theories that powerful Jews are doing "horrible things" in Hollywood and claims Israel harbors international Jewish pedophiles. Kingsley Wilson, Trump’s new deputy Pentagon press secretary, in online posts and political commentary has espoused the Great Replacement theory, attacked the Anti-Defamation League and the case of Leo Frank and defended the lynching of Leo Frank, a Jewish man wrongful conviction of the rape and the murder of a 13-year-old girl who was later exonerated.
European Jews were tortured and murdered for over a thousand years accused of being Christ killers. Georgia Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene and Matt Gaetz, Trump’s initial nominee as Attorney General, opposed a bill to crack down on antisemitic speech on colleges campuses because Greene feared it “could convict Christians of antisemitism for believing the Gospel that says Jesus was handed over to Herod to be crucified by the Jews” and Gaetz argued that “the Gospel itself would meet the definition of antisemitism under the terms of the bill.”
And just in case you forgot, in 2022 Donald Trump had dinner with rapper Kanye West and Nick Fuentes at Mar-a-Lagos and after the Charlottesville Nazi march in 2017 Trump famously declared there were “some very fine people on both sides.” Kanye West, who prefers to be known as Ye, recently issued a casting call for dancers willing to wear swastikas on stage and released a song, later deleted, about “rockin’ swastikas” because his Black supporters are “Nazis.”
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