Should We Be Surprised by Right-Wing Antisemitic Conspiracy Theories?

Guno צְבִי

Guno צְבִי

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The special character of contemporary antisemitism is that it emanates from both the right and the left. Just a few years ago, the “new antisemitism” seemed to be a strictly left-wing affair, tied to the Israel-Palestine conflict and informed by the “Red-Green Alliance” between the Western Left and Islamist groups. Right-wing Israeli and Jewish commentators emphasized that fact and added it to the advantages of identification with the Republican Party and other conservative groups.

But in the last year and a half, this picture has been fractured by the emergence of virulently antisemitic right-wing “influencers” such as Candace Owens and Nick Fuentes and the cover they are provided by political and media figures such as Vice President JD Vance and Tucker Carlson.

Many commentators have expressed surprise at this development. Yet should this really be surprising? Hadn’t xenophobia, anti-immigrant sentiment and discrimination against various groups (starting with Native peoples and African chattel slaves) been intrinsic to America, at various times and in various circumstances, since its inception? Furthermore, conspiracy theories demonizing Jews and others may be a deeply rooted byproduct of modernity.

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Should We Be Surprised by Right-Wing Antisemitic Conspiracy Theories? - The Jewish People Policy Institute

We should not be surprised that conspiratorial antisemitism has reemerged in the current circumstances. But there is a deep reason that ties it specifically to the right.
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We should not be surprised that conspiratorial antisemitism has reemerged in the current circumstances. But there is a deep reason that ties it specifically to the right. One of the major and recurrent generators of anomie since the end of the Middle Ages has been the clash of traditional markers of collective identity – race, ethnicity, religion – with the increasingly rationalized and technological means of production on the one hand, and the increase of social criticism based on liberal reason that traces back to the 18th-century Enlightenment and extends to the current “progressive” ideology

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They lectured us for decades about consent....but look at what they do.



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Guno צְבִי said:
The special character of contemporary antisemitism is that it emanates from both the right and the left. Just a few years ago, the “new antisemitism” seemed to be a strictly left-wing affair, tied to the Israel-Palestine conflict and informed by the “Red-Green Alliance” between the Western Left and Islamist groups. Right-wing Israeli and Jewish commentators emphasized that fact and added it to the advantages of identification with the Republican Party and other conservative groups.

But in the last year and a half, this picture has been fractured by the emergence of virulently antisemitic right-wing “influencers” such as Candace Owens and Nick Fuentes and the cover they are provided by political and media figures such as Vice President JD Vance and Tucker Carlson.

Many commentators have expressed surprise at this development. Yet should this really be surprising? Hadn’t xenophobia, anti-immigrant sentiment and discrimination against various groups (starting with Native peoples and African chattel slaves) been intrinsic to America, at various times and in various circumstances, since its inception? Furthermore, conspiracy theories demonizing Jews and others may be a deeply rooted byproduct of modernity.

jppi.org.il

Should We Be Surprised by Right-Wing Antisemitic Conspiracy Theories? - The Jewish People Policy Institute

We should not be surprised that conspiratorial antisemitism has reemerged in the current circumstances. But there is a deep reason that ties it specifically to the right.
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We should be infuriated by leftist, pro-terrorist attacks on Jews...
 
Historically the Right has been anti-intellectual and prone therefore to bigotry. Objects of its bigotry may change but not bigotry itself as a guiding force since its anti-intellectualism leaves no other.

But criticisms of Israeli excess in Gaza are not "antisemitism". Many American Jews share in the criticisms.
 
martin said:
Historically the Right has been anti-intellectual and prone therefore to bigotry. Objects of its bigotry may change but not bigotry itself as a guiding force since its anti-intellectualism leaves no other.

But criticisms of Israeli excess in Gaza are not "antisemitism". Many American Jews share in the criticisms.
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You are one f**ked up dude. Any and all bigotry today is being played out in front of
us by the dems and the dem anti Semites, especially from those anti American-anti
Semitic DSA people. These are the people that I would list as being severely anti intellectual.
 
Librtlover said:
You are one f**ked up dude. Any and all bigotry today is being played out in front of
us by the dems and the dem anti Semites, especially from those anti American-anti
Semitic DSA people. These are the people that I would list as being severely anti intellectual.
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You're one of the last members of this forum in a position to "list" people as anti-intellectual.
 
The earliest identifiable right‑wing anti‑Jewish writings appear in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, when conservative and nationalist thinkers began reacting against Enlightenment universalism and Jewish emancipation.



PeriodKey figures & textsContext
1790s–1810sJohann Gottlieb Fichte (Germany) — Beiträge zur Berichtigung der Urteile des Publikums über die Französische Revolution (1793)Fichte argued that Jews could only be citizens if “all their heads were cut off and replaced with others,” reflecting early nationalist hostility to emancipation.
1819Hep‑Hep riots pamphlets and broadsides in German statesReactionary writers blamed Jews for economic upheaval after Napoleonic wars; these texts mark the first mass‑distributed right‑wing antisemitic propaganda.
1870s–1890sWilhelm Marr — Der Sieg des Judenthums über das Germanenthum (1879)Marr coined the term Antisemitismus and framed Jews as a racial threat to German identity — a cornerstone of later right‑wing ideology.
1890s–1910sProtocols of the Elders of Zion (Russia, c. 1903)Fabricated by Tsarist secret police; became the most influential right‑wing antisemitic conspiracy text worldwide.



🧩 Broader pattern​

These writings emerged from reactionary nationalism, clerical conservatism, and racial pseudoscience, all opposing liberal equality and modern capitalism. They fused older Christian anti‑Judaism with new racial and conspiratorial frameworks — the intellectual roots of 20th‑century fascist antisemitism.
 
Guno צְבִי said:
The special character of contemporary antisemitism is that it emanates from both the right and the left. Just a few years ago, the “new antisemitism” seemed to be a strictly left-wing affair, tied to the Israel-Palestine conflict and informed by the “Red-Green Alliance” between the Western Left and Islamist groups. Right-wing Israeli and Jewish commentators emphasized that fact and added it to the advantages of identification with the Republican Party and other conservative groups.

But in the last year and a half, this picture has been fractured by the emergence of virulently antisemitic right-wing “influencers” such as Candace Owens and Nick Fuentes and the cover they are provided by political and media figures such as Vice President JD Vance and Tucker Carlson.

Many commentators have expressed surprise at this development. Yet should this really be surprising? Hadn’t xenophobia, anti-immigrant sentiment and discrimination against various groups (starting with Native peoples and African chattel slaves) been intrinsic to America, at various times and in various circumstances, since its inception? Furthermore, conspiracy theories demonizing Jews and others may be a deeply rooted byproduct of modernity.

jppi.org.il

Should We Be Surprised by Right-Wing Antisemitic Conspiracy Theories? - The Jewish People Policy Institute

We should not be surprised that conspiratorial antisemitism has reemerged in the current circumstances. But there is a deep reason that ties it specifically to the right.
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martin said:
Historically the Right has been anti-intellectual and prone therefore to bigotry. Objects of its bigotry may change but not bigotry itself as a guiding force since its anti-intellectualism leaves no other.
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Amending this post. The bigotry accusation is too narrow, only part of it is that. The guiding force of Trumpism is anti-intellectualism in all its politically relevant forms, including its love of conspiracy theories, its disbelief in science based climate change, its vaccine skepticisms, and its racial and cultural bigotry. There's probably more but those come to mind.
 
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