Antisemitism

Building Horizontal Alliances and Fighting Antisemitism as Progressives with Shanice McBean and Rachel Shabi

Lifting the Curtain on Antisemitism—Episode 6

a collage of protesters against the occupation of Palestine, and protestors for racial justice.

In the final episode of Lifting the Curtain on Antisemitism, Ben Lorber and Shoshana Brown talk to experts on how the fight against antisemitism is tied to the larger struggle for justice.

Podcast

Anti-Antisemitism and Antiracism with Leo Ferguson and Steven Gardiner

Lifting the Curtain on Antisemitism—Episode 5

Collage of protestors at anti-racist protests and a JFREJ action.

This episode of Lifting the Curtain on Antisemitism breaks down how antisemitism is tied to anti-immigrant movements and anti-Blackness, and how they work together to reinforce systems of oppression.

Podcast

Antisemitism in the Far-Right Ecosystem with Elad Nehorai and Stefanie Schüler-Springorum

Lifting the Curtain on Antisemitism—Episode 4

A collage of a protest against AfD, Elon Musk, A QAnon flag and Alice Weidel

Experts Stafnie Schüler-Springorum and Elad Nehorai discuss the interconnected right-wing political ecosystem in the U.S and Europe, and how they use antisemitism to gain power.

Podcast

Weaponizing Antisemitism to Advance Authoritarianism with Lara Friedman and Yousef Munayyer

Lifting the Curtain on Antisemitism—Episode 3

A collage with the background of a campus encampment, and protests against the dissapearing of Palestinian students.

This episode discusses ongoing efforts to suppress criticism of the Israeli government’s oppression of Palestinians under the guise of fighting antisemitism—efforts which are fueling authoritarianism and pushing shared safety further from …

Podcast

Conspiracy Theories, Antisemitism, and the Politics of Holocaust Memory with Valentina Pisanty and Jelena Subotić

Lifting the Curtain on Antisemitism—Episode 2

Collage of a background of a Holocaust memorial, with cut outs of Benajmin Netanyahu and George Soros in the foreground

This episode asks, how do conspiracy theories come about? Why do they so often regurgitate false narratives about Jewish people, power & control? How are they used to discredit movements for justice? And what role do the politics of Holocaust…

Podcast

What is Antisemitism and its Weaponization? A Conversation for Movement Organizers with Shoshana Brown and Ben Lorber

Lifting the Curtain on Antisemitism—Episode 1

Background of the Maghen Abraham Synagogue in Lebanon and The Tree of Life Synagogue in the US, overlapping with protestors in support of Black Lives Matter, and Jews for a Free Palestine.

This episode dives into discussing antisemitism—its history, how it looks today, how to understand it, & why the fight over defining it has become a means of targeting Palestinians and their allies while driving authoritarian policies &…

Podcast

Synagogue Safety Beyond Higher Walls and Militarized Police

An Excerpt from Safety Through Solidarity

A group of people standing in front of a synagogue with umbrellas open

In this excerpt of the book Safety Through Solidarity, Ben Lorber and Shane Burley share insights on community organizing to build Jewish solidarity.

Article

The Anti-DEI Movement and the Jewish Right

Weaponizing Antisemitism to Defend White Supremacy

A collage of three men and a woman in front of a blue patterned background.

Right-wing groups collaborate with Jewish groups to use the claim of antisemitism to suppress Diversity, Equity and Inclusion programs on college campuses. The tactics used by the Right reflect the tactics used by the state of Israel to suppress any…

Article

A student encampment in solidarity with Gaza at Brown university in April 2024 (Credit: Colonel Glenn/Flickr.com)

Unsurprisingly, authoritarian forces in the U.S. are desperate to quell the grassroots upsurge in Palestine solidarity protests by responding with neo-McCarthyist repression tactics, recalling a period of extreme anti-Left repression driven by the U…

Article

Why You Should Care about the End Times: Christian Zionism & its Outsized Influence on American Policy with Aidan Orly

Inform Your Resistance Season 2: Episode 6

Two men in suits standing in front of the Israeli and US flags

Koki is joined by Aidan Orly, one of a handful of U.S.-based researchers writing and speaking about Christian Zionism: the right-wing domestic and international movements that use a Christian biblical interpretation to promote and endorse Jewish…

Podcast

Christian Zionism comprises several authoritarian movements, and collectively forms the largest political base of support for Israel in U.S. Learn about the Who and What behind this influential movement.

101

Advisory: ‘No Nazis on Our Streets!’

Combating Far-Right Entryism in Palestine Solidarity Protests

People protesting, waving red, white, and green Palestine flags in the air.

With Palestine solidarity protests ramping up in the U.S. and around the world in response to Israel’s large-scale, indiscriminate assault on Gaza following Hamas’s horrific massacre and kidnapping of Israeli civilians on October 7, troubling…

Advisory

Conspiracy at the Core

Five Years After Tree of Life, Antisemitism Continues to Animate the MAGA Movement

Antisemitism today has become a core driver of the illiberal, anti-democratic Right. Its flexible meta-narrative helps unify different sectors of the Right—from White and Christian nationalists, to self-interested billionaires, anti-trans advocates…

Article

Standing Together

Against Antisemitism and for Justice in Israel/Palestine

Black and white photo of protesters with raised fists

This week, large-scale protests in support of Palestinian rights have unfolded across the United States and around the world. An overdue narrative shift is occurring across broad sectors of U.S. society,…

Article

Culture Warlords

Author Q&A with Tal Lavin

A group of right wing protesters outside the Capitol building in Washington DC. They are climbing the Stairs of the building.

This fall, anti-fascist journalist Tal Lavin published his first book, Culture Warlords: My Journey Into the Dark Web of White Supremacy. The book—reported in a “gonzo” style that at times involved undercover infiltration of online White supremacist…

Q&A

Webinar 10/27/2020 - Christian Zionism: The End Times Agenda in U.S. Domestic and Foreign Policy

Webinar 8/13/2020 – Under the Cover of COVID

Enemy in the Making

The Language of “Anti-Sorosism” in the U.S. and Hungary

“I really feel that Soros, in many ways, is the biggest danger to the entire Western world.” So argued British right-wing populist Nigel Farage in 2018 on the U.S. right-wing TV network Fox News.^{^[1]} Though…

Article

End Times Antisemitism

Christian Zionism, Christian Nationalism, and the Threat to Democracy

I first encountered Christian Zionism—political support for the modern State of Israel grounded in beliefs about its prophetic significance in End Times scenarios—in 1992, while working as a fight-the-Right researcher in Portland, Oregon. A big part…

Article

Antisemitic and Anti-Black

Conservative Jewish Magazine Features Uncensored White Nationalism

On June 11, the American Jewish publication Tablet published a lengthy interview with Kevin MacDonald, a White nationalist and antisemite whose voluminous writings on Jews have shaped the movement responsible…

Article

The Globalist Within

Antisemitism and Anti-China Nationalism In the Era of Coronavirus

Cover image of Der Spiegel: "Made in China"

As the coronavirus crisis deepens, voices across the Right are mobilizing a politics of resentment to distract from the Trump administration’s botched response, and to advance an exclusionary nationalist agenda. Their antagonist is China and their…

Article

The Right Wants to Keep Jewish and Black Non-Jewish Communities Divided

We Can't Let That Happen.

New York, USA. 5th January, 2020. About 15,000 protesters took to the streets in the No Hate No Fear March in response to increased antisemitic attacks

Jews and allies have drawn thousands to demonstrations following separate antisemitic attacks by members of Black communities against orthodox Jews in Jersey City, Crown Heights, and Monsey. The White nationalist movement, meanwhile, has…

Article

Meanings of October 27th

Reflections from Pittsburghers on the Impact of the 2018 Synagogue Shooting

Meanings of October 27th is an oral history project that explores Pittsburghers’ experiences of and reflections on the October 27th, 2018 synagogue shooting that took eleven lives.

Article

Taking Aim at Multiracial Democracy

Antisemitism, White Nationalism, and Anti-Immigrant Racism in the Era of Trump

As shocking as it was, it is important to understand that the Tree of Life attack was driven by an explicitly White nationalist ideology—an ideology that imagines that U.S. Jews are manipulating policy to use non-White immigrants as a weapon against…

Report

Trump is briefed by Michael Burnett about the mass shooting at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh

Today, President Trump visited Pittsburgh, PA after a violently antisemitic attack at Tree of Life synagogue left 11 dead on Saturday. The shootings are the deadliest attack on Jews in the United States. Jewish leaders affiliated with Bend the Arc…

Article

Anti-Semitic flier distributed by the Daily Stormer

On Monday, October 22, reporting that someone had placed a bomb in the mailbox of billionaire George Soros dominated news coverage.¹ Similar devices were subsequently discovered to …

Article

White Nationalism on the March

One Year After Charlottesville

Introduction The “Unite the Right” rally was designed, over months, to be the largest gathering of its kind in at least a decade, and was successful in bringing together disparate elements of the Far Right on August 12, 2017 in Charlottesville,…

Report

Jake Laskey and the American Front

In the small Oregon town of Cottage Grove, just south of Eugene, a sign on an empty storefront that used to house a local museum announces a new business: Wolfclan Armory. While most towns would welcome the new blood, instead protests have already…

Article

Steve Bannon speaking at the 2017 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Maryland. Photo: Gage Skidmore via Flickr.

Stephen K. Bannon was the Executive Chairman of the Far Right media website Breitbart from March 2012 to August 2016, and from August 2017 to January 9, 2018. Between the two periods he took a leave of absence to be Donald Trump’s campaign adviser…

Article

Memorial for Heather Heyer in downtown Charlottesville. Photo: Courtesy of Bob Mical via Flickr.

In the United States, 2017 was a banner year for fascist and related far right activism. There were arguably the highest levels of public demonstrations by the Right since the last wave of Klan and neonazi activity in the 1980s and ‘90s. A main…

Article

Three Pillars of the Alt Right

White Nationalism, Antisemitism, and Misogyny

The new wave of avowed White nationalists who have been energized by Donald Trump—most prominently the Alt Right—have held demonstrations across the United States, most famously in Charlottesville, Virginia in August 2017. Progressive activists have…

Article

Rumors of Civil War

How Anti-Communist Conspiracies Imagine an Antifa Civil War on November 4

A conspiracy theory has spread like wildfire through the Far Right claiming that on November 4, “antifa” will start a civil war and attempt to overthrow Donald Trump. The date is supposed to precede the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution,…

Article

Kevin Barrett: Repackaging Antisemitism

Veterans Today, an online publication targeting U.S. veterans, came under fire this month when an Oxford University study revealed its ties to the Kremlin. The publication features overt antisemitic commentary. One of its editors, Kevin Barrett, is…

Profile on the Right

Among the groups leading the recent Unite the Right march in Charlottesville, Virginia was the League of the South – an Alabama-based theocratic, neo-confederate group that has long advocated for southern secession. League leader Michael Hill was…

Article

Press Release: From the Streets of Charlottesville to the Corridors of the Capitol, White Nationalism is On the March

Contact: Greeley O’Connor, g.oconnor@politicalresearch.org, 617.666.5300 (BOSTON) The U.S. Far Right has killed nearly 450 people since 1990. Heather Heyer of Charlottesville, Virginia…

Press Release

Battle without Bullets: The Christian Right and Fourth Generation Warfare

What might have seemed to most to be normal, if unusually acrimonious, political aggression was in fact a classic example of a right-wing strategy developed in the late 1980s: Fourth Generation Warfare (4GW). Trump’s rhetoric and policies rightly…

Article

A Guide to Who’s Coming to the Largest White Nationalist Rally in a Decade

The Unite the Right rally, which will take place in Charlottesville, Virginia on August 12, 2017, looks like it will be the largest White Nationalist rally in the United States in more than a decade. Between 500 and 1,000 people are expected to…

Article

An Alt Right Update

My January report, “Ctrl-Alt-Delete,” was published at the beginning of Donald Trump’s administration. It dealt with the Alt Right’s ideological roots, major players, multiple internal currents, and complex relationships with both conservatives and…

Article

Skin in the Game

How Antisemitism Animates White Nationalism

Young Eric Ward posing with friends holding books

Antisemitism forms the theoretical core of White nationalism. First, it allows us to identify the fuel that White nationalist ideology uses to power its anti-Black racism, its contempt for other people of color, and its xenophobia—as well as the…

Article

Resisting White Supremacy in Kentucky

An online video call discussion on anti-racist resistance with Kentuckians For The Commonwealth, Political Research Associates, and Rural Organizing Project.

Webinar

The most influential aspect of the rise of the Internet in the 1990s was the liberation of information from the constraints of the mainstream media—something expected to further democratize the globalized economy. After all, the more information…

Article

#First100Days Crash Course: Week 8

Bigotry and Ethnoviolence

Whether it’s a spree killing, a vandalized mosque, or a bias attack on a queer teen, Americans are quick to chalk it up to hate. The label “hate crime” invites us to blame overwrought individuals acting on extreme personal prejudice, making it seem…

Article

#First100Days Crash Course: Week 2

Islamophobia & Antisemitism

Prejudices against Jews and Muslims are enduring parts of right-wing ideologies, whether these are expressed in religious or racial terms.

Article

Profile on the Right: Steve Bannon

Stephen Bannon is the former CEO of Breitbart News Network—which he promotes as “the platform for the Alt Right”—and former chief strategist to Donald Trump. Bannon has a history of antisemitism and has been called “one of the foremost peddlers of…

Profile on the Right

Richard Spencer’s Mom Spins Victim Narrative for Self, While Neonazis Target Jews

Before Richard Spencer came to town in 2011, the tourist destination of Whitefish, Montana, was known mostly to well-heeled aficionados of the sporting life for its splendid vistas and ski slopes. Now it’s making news as a battleground in the fight…

Article

What Happens When Terroristic Threats Come From Someone Wealthy & White?

The case of David Lenio is opening up many questions about the criminal justice system and White supremacy. Specifically, questions about how terroristic threats are treated when the person making them comes from a wealthy White background versus…

Article

U.S. Secretary of State and Christian Zionist Mike Pompeo meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Israel, on October 18, 2019. [State Department Photo by Ron Przysucha/Flickr]

The majority of pro-Israel Americans aren’t Jewish. In fact, many of them could even be described as anti-Jewish.

Article

Attack On NYC Art Gallery Highlights Fascist Organizing in U.S. Immigrant Communities

New York City is one of the most diverse U.S. cities, and has a profusion of immigrant communities. While this might make the city seem like one of the least likely places for fascist activism, the opposite seems to be true: there is a spate of…

Article

Constructing Campus Conflict

Antisemitism and Islamophobia on U.S. College Campuses, 2007-2011

Antisemitism and Islamophobia on college campuses are manifested in a complex set of interactions among a number of different players. This report seeks to explore issues and incidents in a way that will ameliorate aggression, intimidation, and…

Report

Campus Profile - Alison Weir: If Americans Knew

Few political writers today appear in the publications of both the Left and the Far Right. One rare exception is Alison Weir, the founder of If Americans Knew (IAK).

Profile on the Right

Nazism, Godwin's Law, and the Far Right

There is an internet adage coined in the 1990s by Mike Godwin called Godwin’s Law. The rule states, “As an online discussion grows longer, the possibility of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1.”

Article

Vice President Mike Pence shakes John Hagee's hand and delivers remarks at the Christians United for Israel Washington Summit in Washington, D.C. Monday, July 8, 2019. (Official White House Photo/Flickr)

In late October, Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace laureate Elie Wiesel spoke at a Christians United for Israel (CUFI) event hosted by the controversial Christian Zionist John Hagee at his Cornerstone Church in San Antonio, Texas. Internationally…

Article

Rebranding Fascism: National-Anarchists

On September 8, 2007 in Sydney, Australia, the antiglobalization movement mobilized once again against neoliberal economic policies, this time to oppose the APEC (Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation) summit. Just as during the protests against the…

Article

White Power Cyberculture

Building a Movement

Two computer screens on a desk in a dark room. The light is focused on the computers

My bro N I went to our first Aryanfest this last weekend in Phoenix. It was just mind blowing on the amount of brothers and sisters out there all living, breathing, and working for the cause. And here I thought we were alone LOL.

Article

Glass candles in a row, with one of them lit.

In 1991, college students across the country were confronted with a shocking form of bigotry against Jews: full-page ads in college papers purchased by Bradley Smith, founder of a California organization called the Committee for Open Debate on the…

Article

Old scrolls of the Bible and Menorah lie on a black background.

It can be frustrating to warn the public of growing U.S. antisemitism when the reply (often from Jewish advocacy organizations as well as non-Jewish groups) is that Jews are doing well in the U.S. Never better, in fact. In Scapegoat in the New…

Article

Fascism Wrapped in the American Flag

A Political Research Associates Briefing Paper In Three Parts Part One Outside the Boston federal courthouse a photographer discretely snaps pictures of certain persons entering the building. In the echoing halls, private security guards…

Report

Search

Research