Few on the ‘Far Right’ Turn Against the Jews

by Pierre Rehov  •   Gatestone Institute  •   December 26, 2025

President Donald Trump and his national security team meet in the Situation Room of the White House, Saturday, June 21, 2025. (Official White House Photo by Daniel TorokBy The White House – https://www.flickr.com/photos/202101414@N05/54609013013/, Public Domain, Wikipedia)

• Normalize the slur here, wink at a trope there, then insist critics are “overreacting.” That is how the ideological poison spreads.

• When someone habitually slanders Jews and then complains of being “silenced,” the right needs to respond. Criticism is not censorship, decency does not require “consensus,” and the Jewish people are not “clicks.”

• Candace Owens, Tucker Carlson and Nick Fuentes represent regress masquerading as rebellion. They do not speak for the right; they speak for themselves and for the algorithms that reward outrage and sounding outrageous.

• Many, maybe most, prominent people on the right — from President Donald Trump to Pastor John Hagee to Thomas Sowell to 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, equal justice under the law and freedom of speech. The right should say so — clearly, repeatedly and without apology — and should quarantine the grifters who would trade civilization’s cause for “clicks.”

It’s back. Not the left’s usual anti-Israel vitriol — but a creeping, winking strain of anti-Jewish hostility rising inside corners of the American “right.” This chill is often dressed up as “anti-globalism” or “just asking questions” — about Israel. 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, honors facts, allies, and moral clarity. This heritage means standing with Israel and against antisemites, even when they pretend to be on the side of all that is “good.”

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