Friday, October 31, 2025
Jonathan Tobin: A season of bipartisan betrayal on antisemitism
Heritage embraces TuckerWhen Conservative Leaders Lose Their Way
He reached a new low this week when he welcomed neo-Nazi Holocaust denier and vicious Jew-hater Nick Fuentes onto his podcast. That raised the question as to whether Carlson was going to be able to mainstream antisemitism on the political right in much the same way that woke progressives have done to the left.
We didn’t have long to find out the answer to that question. And it came from a surprising source—the Heritage Foundation Washington think tank that has been one of the intellectual hubs of conservative thought and activism. In a video posted on X, Kevin Roberts, a historian and president of Heritage, made it clear that not only was he refusing to distance himself and his organization from Carlson, but that he was doubling down on this stand.
In a brief speech, Roberts denounced those who have criticized Carlson’s platforming of antisemitism and his vicious attacks on Israel and Christian Zionists, whom the podcaster described as heretics who had a “brain virus.” Roberts said Heritage didn’t believe in “canceling our own people or policing the consciences of Christians” and depicted those appalled by Carlson as a “venomous coalition” who engage in “slander” that “serves someone else’s agenda.”
Roberts said Heritage supported cooperation with Israel when it served U.S. interests—something no one disputes. But the Heritage president seemed to echo some of the dark rhetoric of the far left and far right when he spoke of those who “reflexively support” the Jewish state as “loud” sinister, globalist” forces who are somehow harming America, and that must be resisted.
He made clear that he would stick with Carlson, no matter what he did, and his only interest was in attacking the left. He said that he “disagreed with and even abhorred things that Fuentes had said,” but wouldn’t cancel him either. He treated his hatred of Jews as merely an idea that should be debated.
He did some damage control on that aspect of his statement a day later by detailing on X his profound disagreement with Fuentes’s vile bigotry. Still, he stopped short of drawing the obvious conclusion that those who normalize and seek to mainstream neo-Nazi beliefs need to be held responsible for doing that.
The point being, it doesn’t matter if you are appalled by Fuentes if you treat those who promote him and treat him as legitimate as allies, and smear those who oppose such abhorrent behavior as somehow unpatriotic or guilty of dual loyalty.
This is a startling turnabout for an organization with not only an honorable record of support for Israel but whose “Esther Project” to combat antisemitism has served as a blueprint for the Trump administration’s efforts to root out left-wing ideologies that are enabling Jew-hatred on college campuses. Roberts’ seeming neutrality about his friend’s prejudiced behavior directly contradicts what his organization has been trying to do in academia.
It’s especially discouraging since the real “globalist” forces in the international community are the ones whose arguments are echoed by Carlson and Fuentes, in which they promote blood libels against Israel, and seek to isolate and destroy it. Supporters of the Jewish state are Heritage’s natural allies and are to be found among its staff and donors because they support the same vision of national conservatism—both in the United States and Israel— that Roberts has championed.
JD Vance mimics Kamala Harris
Roberts’s profession of loyalty to Carlson came in the same week as a troubling response of Vice President JD Vance to questions from an Israel-hating student at a Turning Point USA event at the University of Mississippi. When given an opportunity to slap down anti-Israel conspiracy theories, he let them go unanswered. He responded with what could only be described as an equivocal statement about the U.S.-Israel relationship in which he boasted of pressuring Jerusalem during the recent ceasefire negotiations and professed his Christian faith.
While Trump and Vance have strong pro-Israel records, Vance’s answer was little different from the way Harris responded to smears of Israel from left-wing activists when campaigning last year, when she was primarily interested in signaling her sympathy for them. Like her, Vance seemed to be signaling that he, too, was more concerned with demonstrating his solidarity with extremists on his end of the spectrum than in distancing himself from them. When you consider that Vance is the likely frontrunner to succeed Trump, it calls into question whether Trump’s historic pro-Israel policies will be maintained if he wins in 2028.
Both battles must be fought
Taken together, all these events present an ugly picture of the current state of political debate in the United States.
There is no doubt that most of those who are supporting the U.S.-Israel alliance and fighting antisemitism can be found among Republicans and on the political right, while all the energy and most of the young stars in the Democratic Party are to be found among its anti-Israel and antisemitic left-wing. And unlike the crickets to be heard among most prominent Democrats about Mamdani, the pushback against Heritage and Carlson from prominent Republicans like Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee is a sign that the conservative base of the GOP is still firmly pro-Israel and ready to fight Jew-hatred wherever it is to be found.
But what we heard from the Heritage Foundation and Vance this week indicates that the antisemites have not only gotten a foothold within the conservative mainstream. Some of the most important players in it would prefer to embrace them rather than to drive them back to the fever swamps where they belong.
This is a sobering revelation for those who have long taken comfort from the way that the two major American political parties had more or less exchanged identities in the last half-century when it came to Israel and opposition to antisemitism. This shouldn’t diminish the effort to call the political left to account for its role in normalizing hatred for Israel. But it is a discouraging reminder that the same battle must now also be fought on the political right.
The Stakes for ConservatismSeth Mandel: The Question JD Vance Needs to Answer
Roberts is free to debate Israel policy, question foreign aid, or advocate for a more transactional foreign policy. These are legitimate positions worthy of serious discussion. But when he uses his platform as Heritage’s president to defend the mainstreaming of neo-Nazis, he damages not just his own reputation but the credibility of the entire conservative movement.
He gives the left ammunition to paint all conservatives as tolerant of fascism. He alienates Jewish conservatives who have been vital to building our movement. He signals to young conservatives that Holocaust denial is just another viewpoint in the marketplace of ideas.
This is particularly tragic because Heritage has so many brilliant scholars doing crucial work on everything from regulatory reform to national security. They deserve leadership that can distinguish between legitimate policy disagreements and the mainstreaming of genocidal hatred.
A Call for Moral Clarity
The Heritage Foundation is bigger than any one president. Its legacy of principled conservatism stretches back to Edwin Feulner, who built it into a powerhouse, and forward to the scholars who continue producing vital research today. The institution itself remains essential to the conservative movement.
But Kevin Roberts has failed a basic test of leadership. By defending the platforming of Nick Fuentes, he’s chosen online populism over moral principle. He’s decided that maintaining Tucker Carlson’s friendship matters more than maintaining the standards that separate conservatism from its worst fringes.
Roberts owes the conservative movement—and The Heritage Foundation itself—a clear retraction and apology. Not for his views on Israel or foreign policy, which are legitimate subjects for debate, but for defending those who mainstream Holocaust denial and white nationalism.
Until he provides that clarity, he’s damaged not just his own credibility but cast a shadow over an institution that deserves better leadership. Heritage’s board, scholars, and supporters should demand better. The conservative movement certainly does.
There are many hills worth dying on in politics. Defending the mainstreaming of Holocaust deniers isn’t one of them. Kevin Roberts should know the difference. The fact that he doesn’t is a tragedy for him and a challenge for an institution that has given so much to the conservative cause.
Last night, Vice President JD Vance made remarks at a Turning Point USA event in Mississippi and then took questions from the crowd. It was inevitable that one of those questions would be a provocative statement about nefarious Jewish influence masked as an innocent question about American foreign policy.
“I’m just confused,” the stammering MAGA-hatted student repeated a couple of times. What was this poor chap confused about? “I’m a Christian man, and I’m just, uh, confused why—that there’s this notion that we, uh, might have or, uh, owe Israel something or that they’re our greatest ally or that we have to support this multi-hundred billion dollar, um, foreign aid package to Israel…. I’m just confused why this idea has come around, considering the fact that not only does their religion not agree with ours but also openly supports the prosecution of ours.”
Now, there are a few possible ways to answer this type of “question.” Vance could have been combative and rejected the premise forcefully, deterring any other clowns from trying to hijack the vice president’s event. That would have been a show of strength. He also could have ignored the sniping about Judaism to appear diplomatic while trying to show that he won’t take such bait. In that case, he could’ve just answered the policy part of the question by correcting the kid’s warped description.
The third option would be the weakest: accept the premise of both parts of the question and try to convince the young man that the White House knows what it’s doing.
As you can probably guess, the vice president chose the third option:
“First of all, when the president of the United States says America First that means that he pursues the interests of Americans first. That is our entire foreign policy. And that doesn’t mean that you’re not going to have alliances, that you’re not going to work with other countries from time to time…. In this example, the most recent Gaza peace plan that all of us have been working on very hard for the past few weeks, the president of the United States could only get that peace deal done by actually being willing to apply leverage to the State of Israel. So when people say that Israel is somehow manipulating or controlling the president of the United States, they’re not controlling this president of the United States.”
A good follow-up question might have asked Vance which specific presidents he had in mind when he suggested that other presidents have been controlled by Israel.
Vance then treated the other part of the question as equally legitimate:
“Now you ask about, you know, sort of Jews disagreeing with Christians on certain religious ideas. Yeah, absolutely. It’s one of the realities is that Jews do not believe that Jesus Christ is the messiah. Obviously, Christians do believe that. There are some significant theological disagreements between Christians and Jews. My attitude is: Let’s have those conversations. Let’s have those disagreements when we have them. But if there are shared areas of interest, we ought to be willing to do that, too.”
Vance said he was fine with, for example, working with Israel to maintain open access to Christian holy sites. Then he concluded: “What I’m not OK with is any country coming before the interests of American citizens.”
Vance was plainly unprepared for this question, even though he should have known it was coming. In the end, he came off as a guy who really wants the vote of a college-age groyper who came to troll him that night.
Seth Mandel: Anti-Semitism Makes You Stupid
Heritage still employs many actual issue experts who are now in the tough position of doing real scholarship while the organization’s president seeks to sabotage their work and replace serious intellectual pursuit with frog memes and performative pseudo-fascist pageantry. These patriots have my deepest sympathy, and I sincerely hope their Heritage affiliation does not make people think they are like Roberts. May they prevail in this organizational tug-of-war.Heritage president issues second statement, decries Fuentes for Jew-hatred, Holocaust denial
The intellectual rot of which I am warning is one that conservatives have no trouble decrying when its practitioners are on the left. Prior to the Vance-sparked news cycle, the political story of the week was a video of Zohran Mamdani, the progressive frontrunner for the New York mayoralty, explaining to left-wingers how to blame all problems on the Jews.
“We are in a country where those connections abound,” he told socialist activists in 2023. “Especially in New York City, you have so many opportunities to make clear the ways in which that struggle over there is tied to capitalist interests over here.”
For example, he said, “We have to make clear that when the boot of the NYPD is on your neck, it’s been laced by the IDF.”
That particular anti-Semitic trope, by the way, reportedly helped inspire the 2019 Jersey City massacre at Jewish establishments. It is also occasionally used by Democrats (including some in Congress) to try to provoke black-Jewish racial tensions and to inflame pro-Hamas sentiment among progressives. So Mamdani’s anti-Semitism is a bloody brand of Jew-baiting.
But it is also classic paranoiac anti-intellectualism. Mamdani was openly admitting that he does not seek to solve problems but to whip up public rage at his chosen scapegoat—the Jews—no matter what the issue is. Many have noted that Mamdani’s policy proposals are laughably unserious. Why do you suppose that is? Because anti-Semitism has robbed him of any semblance of critical thinking skills. As a result, Mamdani’s supporters have embraced a psychotic obsession with Israel and Jews. This is what you get.
Michael Brendan Dougherty made a similar point in an excellent piece at National Review, writing that “antisemitism continues to spread like a brain disease in the people who give in to it. You start a conversation about anything at all, the price of a carton of eggs, and they respond with a criticism of Bibi Netanyahu. It’s nuts.”
Point is, you can’t have a serious conversation with these people. They won’t let you. So a political movement of ideas must stop the spread of this nonsense or it will be harder for everyone to have serious conversations.
Is that the most important thing about anti-Semitism? Maybe not. But it is impeding American politics, so there ought to be a broad coalition ready to sweep it out of the way and into the dustbin of history.
Roberts’s post on Friday mentioned Carlson only once, noting that Fuentes appeared on the latter’s program.
In the hours after Roberts’s first post on Thursday, in which critics said that he evoked the language of anti-Israel conspiracies, some Heritage staffers, including Jews, decried Carlson and Fuentes. Others shared social media posts to that effect without responding to Roberts in their own words.
“Fuentes claims to be a man of God and yet, rejects the laws of God. He clearly doesn’t believe in the inherent worth of all human life or the imago Dei,” imitating the divine, wrote Richard Stern, acting director of Heritage’s economic policy studies institute and director of the think tank’s center for the federal budget.
“Don’t be deceived by those wearing religion as a skin suit,” Stern wrote.
Preston Bashers, a tax policy research fellow at Heritage, wrote that “there are some who just don’t know what Fuentes is all about, including people who watched Tucker’s two -hour pattycake session with him.”
“The problem isn’t so much that Tucker did the interview but how he did it,” Bashers said.
Jason Bedrick, an education policy research fellow at Heritage and an Orthodox Jew, stated that “Tucker pushes decidedly non-conservative ideas and figures while sowing division on the right.”
“Tucker has made clear that he is not a part of the conservative coalition. Indeed, he has made clear that he hates large portions of the conservative coalition,” Bedrick wrote. “Conservatives should be clear-eyed about who are and are not our friends.”
Now do Tucker and his obsession with devoting every show to some Jew hater or Holocaust revisionist or 9/11 conspiracy theorist. And then when you’re done, address Tucker’s newfound admiration for communists.
— Marina Medvin 🇺🇸 (@MarinaMedvin) October 31, 2025
Then explain to me how you plan to sell this to us as “conservative.”
Q: Is it 'venomous' to say that you hate Christian Zionists?@KevinRobertsTX: "Of course it is" pic.twitter.com/srCNracEse
— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) October 31, 2025
At about the 21-minute mark, Dana does a phenomenal job of squeezing Roberts on Tucker, hypocrisy, and also the responsibilities leaders have when trying to attract new recruits to a movement, especially if those new recruits are fans of ppl like Fuentes: https://t.co/GsNj2xos4e
— Seth Mandel (@SethAMandel) October 31, 2025
Heritage’s Betrayal of Moral Clarity
Avoiding intramural conflict is one thing; moral cowardice is another. Heritage was founded to fight for truth and virtue in public life, not to excuse those who trample both. When a leading conservative publicly agrees with a racist who targets Jews, it is not “infighting.” It is a test of conscience.
If Heritage had said nothing, it would have been disappointing but comprehensible. By rushing to defend Carlson and attack his critics, it abandoned principle entirely. Roberts even managed to contradict himself, claiming conservatives should “confront bad ideas rather than cancel people,” then condemning those confronting Carlson’s ideas as a “venomous coalition” “sowing division.”
And that is where the hypocrisy deepens. Would Heritage have reacted the same way if the target had been another minority? If Carlson had shared a “bro-style” laugh with someone calling Black Americans “unassimilable” or accusing them of destroying the country, would Heritage have filmed a defense of him? The strange, sobering answer is yes — because that is precisely what happened. Fuentes is an open racist who spews the same hatred about Black Americans as he does about Jews, and Heritage still chose to stand “with Tucker.” That is not moral neutrality. It is moral collapse.
The irony is unmistakable. The people now derided by Carlson — Jewish conservatives, Christian Zionists, pro-Israel donors — were among Heritage’s most loyal supporters. They funded the institution, built its credibility, and embodied the moral clarity that once defined it. To watch Heritage throw them aside in defense of a talk-show host is to witness the decay of what was once the conscience of American conservatism.
Heritage’s founders believed that conservatism rests on a moral order: freedom depends on virtue, and virtue depends on truth. That truth does not change when the offender comes from the right. The movement does not lose its soul by fighting the left. It loses it when it refuses to confront evil in its own ranks.
Heritage’s defense of Tucker Carlson was not a mistake; it was a declaration of what the institution has become — an organization that has traded moral courage for political convenience. Any group that sacrifices truth for power cannot claim to defend Western civilization. It has already joined its decline.
The “intellectual backbone of the conservative movement” is only as strong as the values it defends. Last I checked, “conservatives should feel no obligation” to carry water for antisemites and apologists for America-hating autocrats. But maybe I just don’t know what time it is… https://t.co/FxfhJxbZw2
— U.S. Senator Mitch McConnell (@SenMcConnell) October 31, 2025
At Republican Jewish event in Vegas, Cruz denounces Carlson after Heritage president defends him
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), who used an appearance before the Heritage Foundation last month to attack Tucker Carlson over the former Fox News host’s anti-Israel rhetoric, blasted him again Thursday after the head of the conservative think tank refused to disavow the right-wing firebrand.
Cruz didn’t mention Carlson by name as he kicked off the Republican Jewish Coalition’s annual legislative conference in Las Vegas with a call to action to stop the spread of anti-Israel talk among young Christians.
But he left no doubt to whom he was referring and bemoaned what he said was the impact of such rhetoric.
“We are seeing young Christians and young evangelicals turning against Israel,” Cruz said in a speech that drew several rounds of applause and ended with a standing ovation.
Cruz’s talk originally was planned for a private dinner with RJC supporters as the group celebrated its 40th anniversary, but was opened to the media at the senator’s request.
His comments came after Kevin Roberts, the Heritage president, came to Carlson’s defense in a video in which he said that Carlson “always will be a close friend of the Heritage Foundation.”
Carlson has interviewed professors on his program who claimed that Adolf Hitler was not the genocidal murderer who began World War II.
“If you sit there and nod while someone says there’s a very good argument America should have intervened on behalf of Nazi Germany in World War II, if you sit there with someone who says Adolf Hitler was very, very cool, and that their mission is to combat and defeat global Jewry and you say nothing, then you are a coward and you are complicit,” Cruz said at the Vegas conference.
If you say nothing when someone tells you that Adolf Hitler was cool, you are a coward and complicit in evil.
— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) October 31, 2025
My full remarks to the @RJC, here: https://t.co/gM0rBDDoUm pic.twitter.com/Zo5wyVoTVY
Dinesh D'Souza weighs in on Nick Fuentes, Tucker Carlson, and Candace Owens — the new emerging troika. pic.twitter.com/SThkqS8weO
— Awesome Jew (@Awesome_Jew_) October 31, 2025
Exhibit B https://t.co/UaCOnZqMNO
— Marina Medvin 🇺🇸 (@MarinaMedvin) October 31, 2025
Last year, when running for office, Vance said clearly that Nick Fuentes was a loser and that antisemitism and white supremacy have no room in the MAGA movement. I want to hear Vance say those words again this year. pic.twitter.com/nUy1jUsb07
— Marina Medvin 🇺🇸 (@MarinaMedvin) October 31, 2025
Heritage is hosting James Fishback, an 'expert' who doesn't like Israel or Indians, but wants to bring a Muslim rock thrower named Mohammed to America
— Daniel Greenfield - "Hang Together or Separately" (@Sultanknish) October 31, 2025
The split isn't about Jews: it's about Islam pic.twitter.com/4eFlwIFcZ7
UKLFI: GMC Refers Dr Ellen Kriesels to Interim Orders Tribunal Following UKLFI Complaint
The General Medical Council (GMC) has confirmed that Dr Alberta Elisabeth Kriesels (known as Ellen) has been referred to an Interim Orders Tribunal, following a complaint by UK Lawyers for Israel (UKLFI). The hearing is scheduled to take place on 14 November 2025.UKLFI: Body Shop Confirms Neutral Policy After Complaint Over Political Badges in Brent Cross Store
The GMC has informed UKLFI that “Following receipt of information from her employer, we have referred Dr Kriesels to an Interim Orders Tribunal, which is scheduled to take place on 14 November 2025”.
UKLFI had written to the GMC on 8 September 2025, raising its concerns about Dr Kriesels’ conduct.
Dr Kriesels, who is listed on the Whittington Hospital website as a Consultant Developmental Paediatrician, Clinical Lead, and Named Doctor for Child Protection, was accused of making racist and antisemitic statements both online and in public.
Photographs show Dr Kriesels attending anti-Israel demonstrations on 4 June, 19 July, and 6 September 2025, carrying a placard depicting an Israeli flag surrounded by the words:
“Rape, steal, cry, kill, cheat, lie.”
UKLFI expressed its opinion that this message was “blatantly antisemitic, racist and wholly unacceptable for a doctor.” Dr Kriesels was also photographed making gestures toward Jewish demonstrators which UKLFI regarded as obscene.
Her social media posts on X (formerly Twitter) include repeated accusations that Jews are “supremacists” and comments describing Judaism as a “racist, imperialist and genocidal religion.”
In one post dated 25 August 2025, she defended Hamas, claiming that its members are “oppressed resistance fighters, not terrorists.” She also described yellow ribbons, worn in support of Israeli hostages, as “a visual sign of Jewish supremacy.”
The Body Shop has confirmed that it does not permit employees to wear badges or emblems with political or campaigning connotations while at work. This follows a complaint by UK Lawyers for Israel (UKLFI) about an incident at one of the Body Shop stores.In Germany, Academic Activism Fuels Antisemitism
UKLFI had written to Body Shop after a Jewish customer reported that a sales assistant at the company’s Brent Cross outlet was wearing several badges displaying the Palestinian flag while serving customers.
UKLFI’s letter pointed out that the display of such political symbols could make Jewish and Israeli customers feel “uncomfortable and unwelcome,” and that staff wearing them in the workplace could amount to harassment under Section 29(3) of the Equality Act 2010, which prohibits conduct creating a hostile or intimidating environment based on religion, race, or belief.
The customer commented: “I felt disappointed. I’ve always appreciated how diverse and inclusive our community is, and how we’ve managed to live and work together respectfully. Recently, seeing symbols like Palestinian badges — especially given the global environment — is uncomfortable. It’s not about denying anyone’s right to express their views, but rather a concern that such symbols might unintentionally introduce a sense of division in a place that has otherwise felt unified and respectful. I wasn’t expecting to encounter this in a Body Shop store, which has always represented inclusivity and neutrality to me.”
Whenever you think things can’t get any worse, you find an open letter from so-called experts, researchers from various disciplines who need to express their “concern” in a public way. October 7, 2025 marked the second anniversary of the Islamist-jihadist massacres carried out by Hamas and eight other Palestinian terrorist organizations in southern Israel. The massacres were the reason for the war in Gaza. The war has ended for now, but Islamist-jihadist means in plain language that the “resistance” of the Palestinian Mujahideen (as they call themselves) will not end; they will fight to the death in the name of their faith and take everyone and everything that stands in their way, including Palestinian women, children and men.
The second anniversary of the massacres was an occasion for academics in Germany who see themselves as progressives and experts to initiate or support events to assess the factors that led to Oct. 7. Recently, the initiative “Beyond raison d’état. How historical responsibility, strategic interests and international law can be reconciled. Expert paper for a change in Middle East policy” was published. This refers to the security of Israel formulated by Angela Merkel in the Israeli Knesset as part of the German raison d’état. This is always cause for outrage, criticism and excitement. At the “pro-Palestinian” demonstrations, the simply formulated criticism is “Free Gaza from German Guilt” or “Germany finances—Israel bombs.” During the anti-Israeli demonstrations worldwide, but also even among prominent antisemitism, Holocaust and genocide researchers, a similar argument is repeatedly constantly: that the German government is involved in a “genocide” in Gaza, and this is based on the allegation that Germany is “uncritically” supplying the state of Israel with weapons because of Germany’s guilt for the Holocaust.
The “expert paper” sees the existence and founding of Israel as a problem, asserts that the state must apologize, and suggests that encounters between Jews and Muslims should be promoted, an idea that sounds good but is already a reality. Palestinians appear here exclusively as victims, while the Islamic Republic of Iran, the Muslim Brotherhood (the spiritual brother of Hamas) do not appear. The narrow view focuses on two peoples. The war of the neighboring Arab states against the newly founded state of Israel is also omitted, and the almost complete expulsion of Jews from Arab countries in the course of the founding of the state is conspicuously missing. Today, these Jews make up around 60% of Israeli society. It could hardly be more ahistorical and one-sided to omit this fact. In addition to many other questionable statements, there is also a plea for the genocide accusation to be considered a relevant opinion.
Academic genocide accusations drive antisemitic hatred and violence.
After the antisemitic murders in Manchester by a Syrian-British Islamist, the victims were blamed on social media the same day “because of the genocide in Gaza” and the acts were justified. It has now become normal to insult Jews and Israelis who do not belong to the extremist anti-Zionist organization “Jewish Voice for Peace,” to denigrate them as “Zionists” (now a cipher for all evil par excellence) and to threaten them with violence. All Jews, Israelis or Israel-solidarity actors who do not unilaterally blame Israel for the war in Gaza or who assign responsibility for the massacres of Oct. 7 to Palestinians are the target of hate speech. They are boycotted, marginalized and attacked. And it is apparently also “normal” to defame non-Jews who provide a balanced picture by using their real names and threatening them with death.
This poster, found at a London bus stop, claims that “the real goal of Communism is the same as the New World Order, essentially a dictatorship of the Masonic Jewish central banking cartel.”
— Campaign Against Antisemitism (@antisemitism) October 31, 2025
The claim that a secret Jewish group controls world politics and finance began with… pic.twitter.com/fHyKbpaA7f
Today, figures like Piers Corbyn continue to promote similar ideas.
— Campaign Against Antisemitism (@antisemitism) October 31, 2025
He claims that “very powerful Jewish interests” are behind the World Economic Forum and major corporations — and that they seek global domination. pic.twitter.com/HrC1BfUusk
Ellison’s Oracle poised to run TikTok, raising hopes for tougher antisemitism rules
American Jewish leaders have blamed TikTok for allowing antisemitism to spread among young people and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu recently accused China of using the platform to promote anti-Israel sentiment around the world — a charge China denies.
The allegations form a backdrop to the high-stakes negotiations over TikTok’s future in the United States, which may be finally heading to a resolution. US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced Thursday that Beijing has green-lit a multi-billion-dollar deal that would bring the social media platform’s operations in the United States under American control.
“In Kuala Lumpur, we finalized the TikTok agreement in terms of getting Chinese approval, and I would expect that would go forward in the coming weeks and months, and we’ll finally see a resolution to that,” Bessent told Fox Business following a meeting between US President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping.
The deal follows a law passed last year requiring China-based ByteDance to sell or face a ban of the app, which US officials have called a national-security risk.
Details of the agreement have not been released, but the White House has previously said that a consortium of US investors led by Oracle Corporation — whose co-founder, Larry Ellison, is a longtime supporter of Jewish causes and of Israel — would acquire a controlling stake in the app.
For the leader of one of the largest and most broadly representative Jewish groups in the country, these developments are hopeful.
“At the Jewish Federations of North America, we are optimistic about this moment,” JFNA CEO Eric Fingerhut said Tuesday while moderating a panel on the deal at the organization’s Washington headquarters. “Frankly, the part that makes us the most optimistic is the parties that seem to be associated with the deal on the American side, especially Oracle and Larry Ellison personally, who’s been such a strong supporter of our community.”
Of all the deranged things the @nytimes has published, this has to be one of the worst.
— Yehuda Teitelbaum (@chalavyishmael) October 31, 2025
If you want to understand the psychology of a suicidal Jew, read it.
Every word could have been written by a Nazi. If you didn't know the author, you'd be forgiven for thinking it's a… pic.twitter.com/7cuq4Pe9ZH
International Relief Fund for the Afflicted and Needy (IRFAN-Canada) — CRA revoked (Apr 9, 2011); later listed as a terrorist entity over alleged support to Hamas (Apr 29, 2014).
— Natasha Montreal (@NatashaMontreal) October 30, 2025
ISNA Development Foundation (Mississauga) — CRA revoked (Sept 21, 2013) after an audit found funds…
This is a video from a funeral in the West Bank capital of Ramallah, where we're told there's no Hamas. They are chanting "October 7 is a holy day! October 7 is a happy day!" Notice the multitude of Hamas flags flown along the Fatah flags. Gaza taught them nothing. pic.twitter.com/NTkfKy7Rvz
— Uri Kurlianchik (@VerminusM) October 31, 2025
Haha our Mossad interview on @The_Brink_ has been picked up by Iranian state TV! I’m crying 😭 https://t.co/ocyjl7Fb8l
— Jake Wallis Simons (@JakeWSimons) October 31, 2025
“all because I make anti-Israel posts”
— Marina Medvin 🇺🇸 (@MarinaMedvin) October 31, 2025
Every. Single. Time. pic.twitter.com/wdlPlFxC0A
"It's not the pain. It's not the punch. It's the thought that a Jewish man like me cannot go safely in this lovely city."
— Hen Mazzig (@HenMazzig) October 31, 2025
Rami Glikstein was walking in midtown in NYC when an attacker approached, asked him menacingly what his religion was, then ripped off his kippah and spit on… pic.twitter.com/oydyCk4blH
Ray White Judd White is under pressure to sack one of its senior partners after the well-known Melbourne auctioneer called Jews “money hungry” and “child murdering pigs” in a series of shocking online posts.
— Australian Jewish Association (@AustralianJA) October 31, 2025
Reporting by Carly Douglas pic.twitter.com/vqszcIJIpt
Meet the French mayor who hung Israeli flags and a hostage banner on his City Hall
Over the past two years, Nice Mayor Christian Estrosi has been among France’s most vocal elected officials calling for the release of those kidnapped by Hamas during the terror group’s bloody invasion of southern Israel on October 7, 2023. As such, the recent return of all surviving hostages and a growing number of the dead has made a strong impact on him.World Jewish Relief launches emergency response for Caribbean hurricane
“I felt mixed emotions,” says Estrosi. “A lot of joy, but also sadness. Sadness in thinking of the October 7 massacre and the ensuing two years of horror for the hostages and their families, which continues with Hamas still not having returned all the deceased hostages.”
“While I rejoiced over the incredible images of the hostages being reunited with their loved ones, I also thought of those families still waiting for their loved ones who are no longer alive,” he said.
Until a few weeks ago, Israelis visiting the French Riviera city of Nice could be forgiven for being shocked when they walked past the City Hall. Figuring prominently at its main entrance was a sight unexpected at a municipal building outside Israel — a large, vertical banner with photos of the 48 Israelis still being held at the time by Hamas in Gaza, with uppercase text demanding their release.
The banner was inspired by another unusual sight. Until this summer, on the historic building’s main balcony outside Estrosi’s third-floor office, eight Israeli flags, in two separate groups, had pride of place alongside their French and European Union counterparts.
Estrosi had the Israeli flags installed there following the October 7 atrocities in Israel. In solidarity with the Jewish state, he vowed to keep the blue-and-white flags in place until all hostages were released. Despite opposition to the move, Estrosi stayed true to his word until an administrative court ordered them removed four months ago, prompting him to erect the hostage banner at City Hall.
World Jewish Relief has begun mobilising life-saving support after Hurricane Melissa left catastrophic destruction across the Caribbean, with more than five million people affected.Chabad becomes a critical relief hub as Jamaica reels from Hurricane Melissa
Homes have been swept away, vital infrastructure has collapsed and communities have been cut off from food, clean water, and medical assistance following one of the region’s most powerful storms on record.
The London-based humanitarian agency said trusted partners in Haiti and Jamaica are already assessing critical needs, including emergency shelter, healthcare, food distributions and hygiene access. It is also monitoring the welfare of the small Jewish community in Jamaica to ensure their safety.
Chief executive Paul Anticoni urged the community to act swiftly. He said: “In times of tragedy, swift action can save lives. Please help us support those facing this disaster. Every act of kindness makes a difference.”
The charity estimates £250,000 is required to reach 10,000 people, focusing on those most vulnerable to the fallout of natural disasters – including older adults, women and girls.
Despite shattered windows, blown-off doors and no running water after the most intense Atlantic hurricane to make landfall in recorded history, Chabad Jamaica’s Rabbi Raskin has told Jewish News their resilient community are “picking up aid that is arriving by plane thanks to the wonderful Hatzola of Florida and a lot of our supporters from around the world.”Oi Va Voi release new song for diaspora Jews who ‘feel unheard’
The private plane carrying essential supplies took off from South Florida, carrying kosher food, medical supplies, baby formula, canned goods, flashlights, and other critical items for the devastated island.
Rabbi Raskin, his wife Chaya and their children took emergency shelter as the tropical storm hit the Caribbean island directly on Tuesday afternoon, bringing record 185 mph winds, over 40 inches of rain and storm surges that caused massive destruction.
Chabad of Jamaica in Montego Bay has emerged as a vital lifeline, providing emergency aid, phone charging stations, shelter coordination, and relief services even as the building itself sustained severe damage.
Posting on their Facebook page on Friday, the Chabad community wrote: “Some sights were very difficult — downed power lines and trees, collapsed buildings, chaos on the roads. Our street is blocked with debris and downed treed and we need to walk on foot before we can get out. It took over an hour to get gas — very chaotic at the station. Very difficult to describe.”
They added that other sights were more positive: “people coming together to help each other. Several tourists and locals are sheltering with us, so we will have a Shabbat meal together. Our neighbours are using our diesel generator to charge their phones and contact their loved ones. We were able to clean up most of the debris around the Chabad house today – the shattered glass, downed solar panels, trees and other trash all over the place.”
British band Oi Va Voi, who had two gigs cancelled in May due to pressure by pro-Palestine activists, are releasing a new song that dials up their Jewish sound for diaspora Jews who “feel unheard”.
The new song, Back to My Roots, released today on Oi Va Voi’s own record label, Parallel Skies, two weeks before a major show in London, is based on a klezmer melody that has been played live by the band since they formed more than 20 years ago. Until now, that melody has not officially been released.
Josh Breslaw, co-founding member and drummer, told the JC: “This tune was a turning point for us because it was the moment we went from playing traditional klezmer into dropping dance grooves and drum and bass onto it. This song goes back to where we started as a band.” Rising star Shaindel, who sings on Oi Va Voi's new song 'Back To My Roots'Rising star Shaindel, who sings on Oi Va Voi's new song 'Back To My Roots'
The band released their fifth album, The Water’s Edge, in May, after which two shows promoting it at venues in Bristol and Brighton were abruptly cancelled, an experience they described as both “very hurtful” and a catalyst for recording new music. The band wanted to make a powerful musical “statement” rather than write a message on social media.
Breslaw said: “We were shut down in our own country and told we couldn't play music. It was a very hurtful experience, and we were bruised and battered. We realised the first thing we had to do was make new music that represented who we are. We had to go back to our roots.”
The song, he said, turned out to be themed on their roots in both its lyrics and music, and “felt a really natural and important thing” to record. The track features a violin, a clarinet and a trumpet carrying the klezmer melody, blended with Steve Levi-Kallin’s cantorial vocals in Hebrew.
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