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How Iran weaponized antisemitism to divide the West
Western governments largely understand the Iranian threat through the familiar language of nuclear weapons, ballistic missiles, terrorism and regional destabilization. The Islamic Republic has financed armed organizations, threatened Israel’s destruction, supported attacks against Western interests and developed an extensive network of regional proxies. Yet alongside these visible instruments of power, Tehran has cultivated another form…
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How the Muslim Brotherhood weaponized antisemitism
The explosion of antisemitism since October 7 is sometimes erroneously treated as if it appeared suddenly in response to the war in Gaza. History tells a much more troubling story. Modern Islamist antisemitism was built over generations, combinin older religious prejudices with some of the most poisonous ideas imported from European antisemitism: conspiracy theories about…
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Three years after Oct 7, antisemites celebrate terror in New York
It is nightmarishly grotesque, and horribly revealing, that crowds have gathered in New York and other cities on the third anniversary of the October 7 Atrocities to celebrate the mass slaughter of Israelis by Hamas. Not to protest Israel’s actions before, during or since the war those attacks began, but to cheer the 6,000 Hamas…
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Iran introduces Russia and China to weaponized antisemitism
The US State Department released an assessment in 2024 concluding that antisemitism is not only a social problem or a form of hate speech. According to the report, some of America’s leading geopolitical adversaries are using antisemitic narratives as part of broader influence campaigns aimed at weakening democratic societies, dividing Western populations, and advancing their…
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Which Antisemitic Narratives Are Gaining Search Attention?
Anyone who has watched the news over the past few years has heard that antisemitism is rising, but the harder question is which specific narratives are gaining traction and which are receding. We tracked US search interest in 18 terms that can function as inputs to antisemitism, from conspiracy proper-nouns to contested framings of Israel,…
