It's back. Not the usual anti-Israel vitriol from the so-called "Left" —but a creeping, winking strain of anti-Jewish hostility rising this time inside the American "Right." This chill is often dressed up as "just asking questions" or "anti-globalism". How come there never seem to be similar "questions" about Qatar, China, Turkey, Nigeria or Pakistan?
There is nothing new about recycling century-old tropes, flirting with blood libels, or mainstreaming a Holocaust denier because he brings clicks. The American "Right" — at its best — defends the Judeo-Christian foundations of the West, and honors facts, allies and moral clarity. This heritage means standing with Israel and against antisemites, even when the antisemites posture as being on the side of all that is "good."
Perhaps one can start with those who defended various antisemitic rants (such as here, here and here). The problem is not about failing to tolerate "free speech." The problem is about failing to examine what is said with follow-up questions. The great Edward R. Murrow invited Senator Joseph McCarthy on CBS television's See It Now not to give him the run of the corral but to challenge his remarks. The problem is a pattern of tolerating an intolerance that would not be accepted if it were aimed at any ethnic group other than Jews.
Normalize the slur here, wink at a trope there, then insist that critics are "overreacting." This is how the ideological poison spreads.
There is a gulf between arguing to cut foreign aid and amplifying blood-libel smears.
Then came interviews that allowed the Tucker Carlson moment. On his show, on October 27, 2025, he hosted a Holocaust denier, Nick Fuentes. The interview featured open antisemitic bile and even bizarre praise of both Hitler and Stalin to waft by with, at best, anemically gentle pushback.
By late 2024, the watchdog group Stop Antisemitism citing a dossier of repeat offenses, named Candace Owens its "Antisemite of the Year."
Even The Nation — no MAGA organ — warned that elements of right-wing anti-Zionism are curdling into open antisemitism and explicitly cites the Heritage Foundation-Tucker Carlson controversy as symptomatic.
To its credit, the American "Right" has no shortage of adults in the room. Many intellectuals, Jewish advocates, elected Republicans, and elected Democrats that you can count on one hand have openly explained that freedom of speech does not require respectable platforms to feature unreconstructed bigots when they accuse "the establishment" of "silencing us."
Whenever someone habitually slanders Jews and then complains of being "silenced," it is important to call it out as the two-faced switch that it is. Criticism is not censorship, decency is not "consensus" and the Jewish people are not "clicks."
The fact is that Republican support for Israel remains high. Pew Research this year found solid GOP confidence in Israel's leadership and warm views of Israelis. When far-right influencers target Jews, they are out of step with rank-and-file Republican voters -- and not speaking for them.
Younger voters, subject to China's antisemitic and anti-American influence on TikTok, are admittedly more skeptical.
Contrast the fringe to actual governance. Under President Donald J. Trump, the U.S. moved its Embassy to Jerusalem (2018), recognized Israeli sovereignty on the Golan Heights (2019), and brokered the Abraham Accords — historic normalization agreements reshaping the strategic map. These facts remain the gold standard for a pro-ally foreign policy grounded in U.S. interests.
The momentum has continued. Fox News last year reported on efforts to expand the Abraham Accords — with new international candidates openly discussed — precisely because strength plus moral clarity wins respect in the region. Whenever Washington projected resolve rather than courting applause in European salons, anti-terror alignment, economic growth and Western values have advanced.
Meanwhile, serious national security policy continues confronting jihadist groups, backing Israel's right to self-defense, and leveraging diplomacy (as with the Gulf states) to isolate terrorists. This framework does not require romanticizing any foreign government. It does require rejecting those who would turn "Zionist" into a slur and "globalist" into a dog whistle for "Jew."
The newly vocal antisemitic "Right" seems to represent regress masquerading as rebellion. They do not actually speak for the "Right;" they speak for themselves and for the social media algorithms that reward outrage and sounding outrageous.
Many – maybe most -- prominent members of the "Right" — from Trump to Pastor John Hagee, Thomas Sowell and Marco Rubio — stand with Israel because they stand with the West, with victims of jihad, and with a commitment to preserve the values of individual freedom, economic opportunity, quality education, freedom of expression and equal justice under the law. The "Right" would do well say so — clearly, repeatedly, and without apology — and should quarantine the grifters who would trade civilization for "clicks."
Pierre Rehov, who holds a law degree from Paris-Assas, is a French reporter, novelist and documentary filmmaker. He is the author of six novels, including "Beyond Red Lines", "The Third Testament" and "Red Eden", translated from French. His latest essay on the aftermath of the October 7 massacre " 7 octobre - La riposte " became a bestseller in France. As a filmmaker, he has produced and directed 17 documentaries, many photographed at high risk in Middle Eastern war zones, and focusing on terrorism, media bias, and the persecution of Christians. His latest documentary, "Pogrom(s)" highlights the context of ancient Jew hatred within Muslim civilization as the main force behind the October 7 massacre.
