It's back. Not the usual anti-Israel vitriol from the so-called "Left" —but a creeping, winking strain of anti-Jewish hostility rising this time inside the American "Right." This chill is often dressed up as "just asking questions" or "anti-globalism". How come there never seem to be similar "questions" about Qatar, China, Turkey, Nigeria or Pakistan?
There is nothing new about recycling century-old tropes, flirting with blood libels, or mainstreaming a Holocaust denier because he brings clicks. The American "Right" — at its best — defends the Judeo-Christian foundations of the West, and honors facts, allies and moral clarity. This heritage means standing with Israel and against antisemites, even when the antisemites posture as being on the side of all that is "good."
Perhaps one can start with those who defended various antisemitic rants (such ashere,hereandhere). The problem is not about failing to tolerate "free speech." The problem is about failing to examine what is said with follow-up questions. The great Edward R. Murrow invited Senator Joseph McCarthy on CBS television'sSee It Nownot to give him the run of the corral but to challenge his remarks. The problem is apatternof tolerating an intolerance that would not be accepted if it were aimed at any ethnic group other than Jews.
Normalize the slur here, wink at a trope there, then insist that critics are "overreacting." This is how the ideological poison spreads.
There is a gulf between arguing to cut foreign aid and amplifying blood-libel smears.
Then came interviews that allowed the Tucker Carlson moment. On his show, on October 27, 2025, hehostedaHolocaustdenier,Nick Fuentes. The interview featured open antisemitic bile and even bizarre praise of both Hitler and Stalin to waft by with, at best, anemically gentle pushback.
By late 2024, the watchdog groupStop Antisemitismciting a dossier of repeat offenses, named Candace Owens its "Antisemite of the Year."
EvenThe Nation— no MAGA organ —warnedthat elements of right-wing anti-Zionism are curdling into open antisemitism and explicitly cites the Heritage Foundation-Tucker Carlson controversy as symptomatic.
To its credit, the American "Right" has no shortage of adults in the room. Many intellectuals, Jewish advocates, elected Republicans, and elected Democrats that you can count on one hand have openly explained that freedom of speech does not require respectableplatformsto feature unreconstructed bigots when they accuse "the establishment" of "silencing us."
Whenever someone habitually slanders Jews and then complains of being "silenced," it is important to call it out as the two-faced switch that it is. Criticism is not censorship, decency is not "consensus" and the Jewish people are not "clicks."
Source: Gatestone Institute :: Articles
