Thursday, November 20, 2025
Elder of Ziyon
Western extremist ideologies, whether they come from the Far-Left or the Far-Right, have made antisemitism central to their philosophies.
Read that again. They aren't "philosophies that tolerate antisemitism" or even "philosophies that include antisemitism." They are dependent on antisemitism for the movements to be successful.
They rely on antisemitism in a way that is not incidental but structural. It plays the same role in both cases, even though the surrounding language and theatrics are different. These movements all operate on a single, rigid frame that divides the world into a simple binary. The labels differ – oppressed and oppressor, pure and corrupt, patriot and parasite – but the architecture is the same, and it cannot tolerate complexity. When the real world refuses to fit neatly into their categories, they do not adjust their framework. They look for an external energy source that can sustain the fiction. That source, today, is the Jews.
Hating Jews is a recruitment tool. Antisemitism is a feature, not a bug. Neither the Groypers nor progressive groups can survive without making Jews a defining part of their narratives and the main objects of their hate.
The Jewish people do not fit the prefab slots that these ideologies depend on. They are indigenous to the Middle East but often identified as “white.” They are a global minority but numerically a majority in one small country. They are historically persecuted yet statistically successful. They are religious, cultural, and national all at once. They refuse to sit obediently in anyone’s political taxonomy. For any worldview that insists on reducing history, power, and morality to a tidy binary, this is a serious problem. And instead of rethinking the system, the system redefines the Jews as the very thing the ideology opposes.
To the far-Left, today, Jews are white supremacists. To the far-Right, today, Jews are outsiders who support illegal immigration of people of color. Jews are endlessly malleable Play-Doh to fit whatever the haters need to hate.
The modern Left has a large portfolio of causes, many of them only loosely connected of at all. Climate activists, police abolitionists, anti-capitalists, housing activists, and gender theorists do not share much naturally. Yet when Israel enters the picture, suddenly the various components behave as if they belong to one organism. Anti-Zionism becomes the connective tissue. It provides the emotional intensity and pretense of moral clarity that none of the other issues reliably deliver on their own. Protests about local policy questions are sporadic, but protests about Israel produce an almost guaranteed turnout. The movement’s diffuse parts cohere around a single, simple storyline, and once someone absorbs that storyline, the rest of the package flows to them in short order. The antisemitism is not the conclusion. It is the entry point.
On the Far-Right, the pattern is older but functions similarly. Antisemitism has always existed there, but for a long period it remained socially embarrassing to say out loud. All it took was a bit of political permission and a culture of online performative defiance to turn private bigotry into a public organizing principle. Once the taboo evaporated, people who had previously stayed quiet now treat antisemitic speech as if it were an act of courage. The language of “fighting the elites” or “exposing the truth” gives personal resentment the appearance of moral heroism. The ideology suddenly gains mass not because it has improved or clarified anything, but because it has normalized the one element that insulates it from contradiction. By shifting the blame for every failure, disappointment, or social anxiety onto a small, imagined cabal, the movement protects its worldview from scrutiny and converts old hatreds into new political energy.
Is it not strange that campaigns for local office are obsessed with the candidates' view on Israel? Isn't it odd that both the far-Left and the far-Right claim that the Jews are silencing them? And at the same time both sides also do everything they can to silence and marginalize Jews?
In both cases, there is literally nothing the Jews can do, short of public suicide, that will mollify them. The biggest massacre of Jews in nearly 80 years causes more antisemitism. A ceasefire that they claimed they wanted for two years prompts more antisemitism. Jews as victims, or Jews as wanting peace, is not the narrative they want the world to see; since demonizing Jews is so central to their worldviews they use these situations as springboards for more hate.
And it works. Hating Jews publicly has become not just bravery, but a recruitment tool. The newly indoctrinated antisemites and the publicity that hate receives from social media algorithms form a feedback loop where that the Jews actually do becomes irrelevant - they have become the faceless, evil Other and whatever Jews do is by definition evil.
Jew-hatred is not peripheral nowadays. It is as central to these movements as it was in 1930s Germany, in 1950s Soviet Union. Facts are considered aggression and aggression is recast as justice.
And dismissing these as fringe phenomena, with only 5% or 15% of their movements who really are antisemites, is very shortsighted.
The old brain teaser about the bacteria in the jar is the right analogy: if it doubles every minute and fills the jar in sixty minutes, it will be only half full at minute fifty-nine. At minute fifty-five, it looks nearly empty. That illusion is what makes exponential growth so dangerous.
Antisemitism today feels like minute fifty-five. Yes, the hardcore antisemites are still a minority, but the rate of growth is steep. The normalization is accelerating. The political oxygen is rich. We are watching both the Far-Left and the Far-Right fill the jar rapidly.
This is not the time to relax because “only a small percentage” is openly hateful. It is the time to recognize how fast the cancer is metastasizing. We may have only a few minutes left on the clock before disaster.
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