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Two decades ago, Islamism was virtually absent from the US political landscape. <\/em>Islamic antisemitism has gained ground in recent years, not just in the US but also in Europe. It appears fueled not only by adversaries of the US such as Iran, but also by domestic non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that appear to hide the identities of foreign donors.<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Many anti-Israel protesters claim to support the Palestinian cause, but oddly none of them ever calls for the Palestinians’ rights from their own leaders for freedom of speech, women’s and children’s rights, or even for a stop to entrenched corruption, arbitrary arrests, torture, extrajudicial executions, and other crimes against them.<\/em><\/p>\n The problem was not, as some have tried to claim, simply that [Tucker] Carlson invited [the neo-Nazi Nick] Fuentes, so much as Carlson’s disinclination to question what he said. The veteran journalist Edward R. Murrow invited US Senator Joseph R. McCarthy for an interview but probed his statements. Carlson failed to indicate any disapproval of, or question, Fuentes’s antisemitic remarks… What Carlson did was simply to give Fuentes a platform to expand his influence, unchallenged. The interview has been viewed online more than 20 million times.<\/em><\/p>\n This new hostility to Western civilization has also acted as a destabilizing force in major US foreign policy alliances. Israel, like it or not, is the United States’ principal and most reliable ally in the Middle East…. As Israel is a world leader in technology, American investments there yield far more than they cost.<\/em><\/p>\n Islamists and other enemies of the United States doubtless hope that if the US abandons Israel, this would lead to both a substantial weakening of America and other democracies, and a strengthening of tyrannies — notably Islamist tyrannies.<\/em><\/p>\n November 19. New York City. Park East Synagogue. A mob of Muslims and “leftists” block the entrance and\u00a0terrorize Jews<\/a>\u00a0with\u00a0shouts<\/a>\u00a0of “Globalize the intifada” and “Take another settler out.” The protest took place two weeks after a self-declared socialist, Zohran Mamdani, won the New York mayoral election. His spokesperson\u00a0said<\/a>\u00a0that he “discouraged the language” used by the protesters, but, she added, incorrectly, “sacred spaces should not be used to promote activities in violation of international law”. She was referring to an event at the synagogue\u00a0hosted<\/a>\u00a0by\u00a0Nefesh b’Nefesh<\/a>\u00a0(Soul to Soul), a Jewish group that facilitates immigration to Israel.<\/em><\/p>\n The mayor-elect\u00a0seems to think<\/a>\u00a0that Jews confronted with hostility and violence should not be helped to seek refuge in their homeland. He also seems to think that helping them violates some unnamable,\u00a0non-existent<\/a>\u00a0“international law”.<\/em><\/p>\n As for policies, New York’s next mayor will not only be the first\u00a0explicitly socialist<\/a>\u00a0mayor of the city, he will be the first to\u00a0adopt<\/a>\u00a0communist rhetoric, such as “seizing the means of production”. It is therefore a bit disquieting that he will be governing the city that has been for decades the\u00a0world’s capital of finance<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n Mamdani, who will be the\u00a0first Muslim mayor<\/a>\u00a0of New York, is also the first to associate happily with anti-American Islamists. During his election campaign, at the Masjid At-Taqwa mosque in Brooklyn, he\u00a0posed<\/a>\u00a0for a photograph with Siraj Wahhaj, an imam named by federal prosecutors as an\u00a0unindicted co-conspirator<\/a>\u00a0in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing plot. Wahhaj is quoted as having said:<\/em><\/p>\n The mayor-elect\u00a0praised Wahhaj<\/a>\u00a0before an ecstatic crowd shouting “Allahu Akbar,” so it is also a bit disquieting that he will be governing a city so recently victimized by the 9\/11\u00a0Islamic<\/a>\u00a0terrorist<\/a>\u00a0attacks<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n Sadly, some of the organizations with which the first anti-Israel mayor-elect of New York associates appear so imbued with\u00a0antagonism toward Israel<\/a>\u00a0that many observers think his statements are steeped in\u00a0antisemitism<\/a>. That the city with the\u00a0world’s largest Jewish community<\/a>\u00a0outside Israel should have elected such a mayor is bewildering, as is that a\u00a0third of New York’s Jewish voters<\/a>\u00a0cast their ballots for him.<\/em><\/p>\n It is necessary, unfortunately, to note that these trends present in New York can also be found, for example, in\u00a0Michigan<\/a>,\u00a0Minnesota<\/a>,\u00a0Massachusetts<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Texas<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n Mamdani is a member of the\u00a0Democratic Socialists of America<\/a>\u00a0(DSA), an organization that was\u00a0simply socialist<\/a>\u00a0at the time of its founding and which has\u00a0increasingly slid farther left<\/a>. Twenty years ago, the DSA had little influence, but has since gained ground. It currently counts among its members\u00a0more than 200<\/a>\u00a0elected\u00a0officials<\/a>, including three U.S. House Representatives (among them\u00a0Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez<\/a>, whose influence appears to be growing among the American left).<\/em><\/p>\n Many of the DSA’s proposals are clearly communist: the party’s platform calls explicitly for the “abolition of capitalism<\/a>.” The DSA is also radically\u00a0anti-Israel<\/a>, supports\u00a0defunding the police<\/a>, and advocates for\u00a0abolishing prisons<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n Socialism has been\u00a0gaining ground<\/a>\u00a0in the United States. A September 2025 Gallup\u00a0poll<\/a>\u00a0showed that 39% of Americans have a positive view of socialism and view it more positively (66%) than capitalism (42%). The\u00a0disasters<\/a>\u00a0wrought wherever socialism was imposed seem to have been completely forgotten by, or never been taught to, a growing proportion of Americans. Support for socialism appears particularly strong among young Americans. A March 2025\u00a0survey<\/a>\u00a0by the Cato Institute and YouGov showed that the number of Americans aged 18\u201329 who hold a positive view of socialism now reaches 62%, and the number of them who hold a positive view of communism reaches 34%.<\/em><\/p>\n Muslims still remain a\u00a0small minority<\/a>\u00a0in the United States (1% to 1.3% of the U.S. population). Two decades ago, Islamism was virtually absent from the US political landscape. Since then,\u00a0Muslim candidates<\/a>\u00a0with Islamist views have increasingly been elected. Rep.\u00a0Ilhan Omar<\/a>\u00a0was first elected US Representative for Minnesota in November 2018. Despite having\u00a0close ties<\/a>\u00a0to the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), which the governor of Texas recently\u00a0designated<\/a>\u00a0as a terrorist organization, Omar served from January 2019 to\u00a0February 2023<\/a>\u00a0on the House Foreign Affairs Committee.<\/em><\/p>\n Rep.\u00a0Rashida Tlaib<\/a>, first elected in November 2018 as a US Representative from Michigan, is alleged to have extensive fundraising\u00a0ties<\/a>\u00a0to Hamas supporters.<\/em><\/p>\n With the Muslim vote in the US remaining still too small to have a significant impact nationally, Omar and Tlaib, like Mamdani, were elected thanks to the\u00a0“left-wing” vote<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n Omar, starting in 2019, has published countless\u00a0antisemitic posts<\/a>\u00a0on Twitter\/X. Tlaib, another emitter of antisemitic remarks, had the honor in 2024 of being named “Antisemite of the Year<\/a>” by the organization Stop Antisemitism. Both representatives\u00a0have<\/a>\u00a0falsely<\/a>\u00a0accused Israel of “genocide” — apparently with the support of the Democratic Party. A 2019 House Resolution to censure antisemitism was watered down to include “Islamophobia and other forms of bigotry.” Democratic Party leaders know what these policies are, but most nevertheless\u00a0support<\/a>\u00a0their candidacies. Senator Chuck Schumer quietly\u00a0distanced<\/a>\u00a0himself from Mamdani’s campaign, but the time when he presented himself as the “guardian of Israel<\/a>” is clearly over. The Democratic Party is simply\u00a0not what it was<\/a>\u00a030 years ago.<\/em><\/p>\n Support for Israel in the United States has long been both strong and bipartisan. It now seems to be\u00a0weakening<\/a>\u00a0and is no longer bipartisan. A Pew Research Center\u00a0survey<\/a>\u00a0conducted in October 2025 showed that 59% of Americans have a negative view of the Israeli government. A\u00a0recent poll<\/a>\u00a0showed that more American voters have a slightly greater sympathy for Palestinians (41%) than for Israelis (34%). Another\u00a0recent poll<\/a>\u00a0showed that a majority of Democrats (54%) sympathize with Palestinians. Only 13% of Democrats sympathize with Israelis. 46% of all Republicans still say they sympathize with Israelis, but the percentage is lower than three years ago.<\/em><\/p>\n Support for Israel in the United States has recently become\u00a0precarious<\/a>. The horrors of the October 7, 2023, massacre appear largely to have been\u00a0forgotten<\/a>. The relentless propaganda\u00a0falsely accusing Israel<\/a>\u00a0of “genocide” may well have had its intended damaging effect, even among American Jews. A September 2025\u00a0poll<\/a>\u00a0revealed that 48% of American Jews were hostile to Israel’s actions in Gaza, that 61% of them said that Israel committed war crimes against Palestinians, and\u00a0about 40%<\/a>\u00a0went so far as to say that Israel is perpetrating “genocide.” Nearly\u00a0one-third of them<\/a>\u00a0(32%) said that the US is too supportive of Israel.<\/em><\/p>\n In such a context, perhaps it is not surprising that so many Jews in New York voted for a mayor with anti-Israel positions and policies.<\/em><\/p>\n Israel, since October 2023, has been\u00a0fighting for its survival<\/a>, forced to fight not only Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthi militia, but also Iran. It is mystifying why so many people cannot see how hard but also how carefully Israelis fought, how they were killed, suffered devastating wounds, and lost homes and livelihoods to safeguard the values of a West that cannot even bring itself to say thank you.<\/em><\/p>\n Antisemitism in the United States had, for decades, been marginal. It seemed difficult to imagine that it could actually rise once more from the ashes of World War II, yet here it is,\u00a0rising again<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n Islamic antisemitism<\/a>\u00a0has gained ground in recent years, not just in the US but also in Europe. It appears fueled not only by\u00a0adversaries<\/a>\u00a0of the US such as\u00a0Iran<\/a>, but also by domestic non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that appear to hide the identities of foreign donors.<\/em><\/p>\n Many anti-Israel protesters claim to support the Palestinian cause, but oddly none of them ever calls for the Palestinians’ rights from their own leaders for\u00a0freedom of speech<\/a>,\u00a0women’s<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0children’s<\/a>\u00a0rights, or even for a stop to entrenched\u00a0corruption<\/a>, arbitrary\u00a0arrests, torture<\/a>, extrajudicial\u00a0executions,<\/a>\u00a0and other\u00a0crimes<\/a>\u00a0against them.<\/em><\/p>\n Since 1992, when\u00a0William F. Buckley<\/a>, the political commentator and founder of\u00a0National Review, took a stand against the presence of anti-Semites within the political right in America and published\u00a0In Search of Anti-Semitism, that prejudice had become a fringe phenomenon among America’s “right wing.”\u00a0Candace Owens<\/a>\u00a0was previously thought of as a “conservative<\/a>,” worked for the late Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA from 2017-2019, and was later affiliated with other conservative groups such as PragerU and the\u00a0Daily Wire<\/a>. Since shortly before her show at the Daily Wire was cancelled, she has been regularly making\u00a0antisemitic<\/a>\u00a0remarks.<\/em><\/p>\n Tucker Carlson, also presumed to be a “conservative” had a popular nightly show on Fox News, but\u00a0was let go<\/a>\u00a0in April 2023 for reasons unconnected to antisemitism and racism. Shortly after he began his independent podcast, he\u00a0hosted<\/a>, on the September 3, 2024 show,\u00a0Darryl Cooper<\/a>, a Nazi apologist and\u00a0Holocaust-denier<\/a>\u00a0whom Carlson went on to\u00a0describe<\/a>\u00a0as “the best and most honest popular historian in the United States.” On October 27, 2025, Carlson\u00a0hosted<\/a>\u00a0on his show Nick Fuentes, a proudly racist neo-Nazi who openly and enthusiastically admires both\u00a0Adolf Hitler<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Josef Stalin<\/a>, for a friendly, non-confrontational interview.<\/em><\/p>\n Some prominent conservative commentators, such as\u00a0Megyn Kelly<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Matt Walsh<\/a>, refused to disavow Carlson after his show with Fuentes. The problem was not, as some have tried to claim, simply that Carlson invited Fuentes, so much as Carlson’s disinclination to question what he said. The veteran journalist Edward R. Murrow\u00a0invited<\/a>\u00a0US Senator Joseph R. McCarthy for an interview but probed his statements. Carlson failed to indicate any disapproval of, or question, Fuentes’s antisemitic remarks and later tried to\u00a0explain<\/a>\u00a0that the Fuentes interview was an “effort to understand different perspectives.” What Carlson did was simply to give Fuentes a platform to expand his influence, unchallenged. The interview has been viewed online more than\u00a020 million times<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n Carlson recently\u00a0said<\/a>\u00a0that Christian Zionists have a “brain virus” and that “I dislike them more than anybody.” According to US Representative\u00a0Randy Fine<\/a>\u00a0(R-FL), Carlson is now the “most dangerous anti-Semite in America”. Yet\u00a0Kevin Roberts<\/a>, president of the Heritage Foundation, the leading conservative think tank in Washington, DC, called those who criticized Carlson’s interview with Fuentes a “venomous coalition<\/a>.” He immediately faced a huge negative reaction, and then\u00a0apologized<\/a>\u00a0for his “terrible choice of words,” but\u00a0refused<\/a>\u00a0to sever his organization’s ties with Carlson. The legal scholar and Princeton professor Robert George\u00a0resigned<\/a>\u00a0from the Heritage Foundation’s board, as did several prominent\u00a0members<\/a>\u00a0of the organization’s “antisemitism task force.”<\/em><\/p>\n A few Republican representatives also seemingly decided to follow the anti-Israel movement taking shape: US Rep. Marjorie Taylor-Greene used the word “genocide<\/a>” to describe Israel’s war in Gaza. US Rep. Thomas Massie was the sole Republican to\u00a0vote against a resolution<\/a>\u00a0reaffirming Israel’s right to exist.<\/em><\/p>\n Other conservatives showed rather more resolve. Fox News host and author Mark Levin\u00a0denounced Carlson<\/a>, and US Senator Ted Cruz\u00a0said<\/a>\u00a0that Carlson “spread a poison that is profoundly dangerous”. “Everyone of us,” Cruz\u00a0added<\/a>, “has an obligation to stand up and say it is wrong.” The anti-Semitic current within the conservative movement, which William Buckley seemingly had eradicated by 1992, has apparently\u00a0resurfaced<\/a>\u00a0with a vengeance.<\/em><\/p>\n The increasing dissemination of socialist, communist and Islamist ideas; the hatred of Israel (meaning Jews); the Islamic and “left-wing” antisemitism; the transformation of the Democratic Party into a\u00a0leftist party<\/a>\u00a0open to Marxism and Islamism; and the many American Jews distancing themselves from Israel, all appear to result from the transformation of many American universities into centers of anti-Western\u00a0brainwashing<\/a>. This hostile ideological campaign has been underway for decades, and since Hamas’s October 7, 2023, massacres, has led to many\u00a0demonstrations<\/a>\u00a0in support of the Islamist terrorist group,\u00a0campus occupations<\/a>, and the\u00a0harassment<\/a>\u00a0and assault of Jewish students and faculty. These brainwashed alumni who now flood academia and the mainstream media simply keep advancing the\u00a0harmful ideas<\/a>\u00a0instilled in them during their years of study.<\/em><\/p>\n The result threatens the\u00a0fundamental values<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>\u200b\u200b<\/em>upon which the United States has<\/em>\u00a0<\/em>rested<\/a>\u00a0for 250 years since its founding: the free market, private property, and freedom of speech, association and worship, without infringing on the rights of others.<\/em><\/p>\n There also seems to be a dangerous wish to erase the fact that the fundamental values <\/em>\u200b\u200b<\/em>of the United States are Judeo-Christian. The Declaration of Independence states: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights,” meaning that these fundamental rights are given by a\u00a0higher power<\/a>. Christianity includes the\u00a0Old Testament<\/a>\u00a0— which is essentially the Hebrew Bible, or\u00a0Tanakh<\/a>\u00a0— as well as the New Testament. Christianity essentially rests on the\u00a0foundation of Judaism<\/a>. The Hebrew language, in the first American universities, was a\u00a0required subject<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n This new hostility to Western civilization has also acted as a destabilizing force in major US foreign policy alliances. Israel, like it or not, is the United States’ principal and\u00a0most reliable ally<\/a>\u00a0in the Middle East. High-level intelligence cooperation with that tiny nation, the size of New Jersey (roughly 22,000 sq. km.), helps\u00a0keep America safe<\/a>\u00a0in a seriously unstable world. As Israel is a\u00a0world leader in technology<\/a>, American investments there yield\u00a0far more than they cost<\/a>. Islamists and other enemies of the United States doubtless hope that if the US abandons Israel, this would lead to both a substantial weakening of America and other democracies, and a strengthening of tyrannies — notably Islamist tyrannies.<\/em><\/p>\n The rise of these anti-Semitic, “anti-Zionist” and anti-American currents within the conservative movement has been\u00a0called<\/a>\u00a0“a growing cancer” and it needs to be relentlessly fought. Americans who treasure the values <\/em>\u200b\u200b<\/em>of individual liberties and human rights shall have to assume the role of gatekeepers.<\/em><\/p>\n\n