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Maureen Galindo participates in a forum held by the League of Women Voters of the San Antonio Area in San Antonio on May 6, 2026. (Katina Zentz/San Antonio Express-News via Getty Images)
May 26, 2026, 4:26 am
Texas Democrat’s antisemitic rhetoric sparks outrage ahead of Tuesday’s primary runoff
Maureen Galindo’s extreme comments will be put to the test in the contest over who will represent the party in the San Antonio congressional district
By Grace Gilson
Dan Bilzerian at the Hollywood Palladium on May 8, 2019, in Los Angeles, California. (Randy Shropshire / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)
April 11, 2026, 4:19 pm
Dan Bilzerian, who says Judaism is ‘terrible’ and wants to ‘kill Israelis,’ runs for Congress
Influencer has declined to answer whether Adolf Hitler was antisemitic, asked his 30 million followers whether Jews responsible for world’s problems, minimizes the Holocaust
By Joseph Strauss
Right-wing pundit Tucker Carlson (l) hosts Israeli leftist, former interim president and former speaker of the Knesset, Avraham Burg, on his program, March 23, 2026. (Screenshot via YouTube)
March 25, 2026, 2:34 am
Avraham Burg, longtime fixture of Israeli left, meets Tucker Carlson on his own turf
The interview reflects how some progressive Israelis and Jews, finding few allies among their own, may be looking instead to fringe voices on the right, where anti-Israel sentiment is growing
By Andrew Lapin
Joe Kent (l) sits for an interview with Tucker Carlson a day after resigning as director of President Trump's National Counterterrorism Center, March 18, 2026. (Screenshot via YouTube/ via JTA)
March 20, 2026, 3:30 pm
Joe Kent hints to Tucker Carlson that Israel may have killed Charlie Kirk to stoke Iran war
Days after resigning and under investigation for sharing classified information, former counterterrorism head stokes growing debate over Israel and antisemitism on the right
By Andrew Lapin
Demonstrators protest the US and Israeli strikes on Iran on February 28, 2026, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
March 5, 2026, 5:22 am
A new war revives some old tropes about Jewish and Israeli influence
Echoing antisemitic conspiracy theories spread during the 2003 Iraq conflict, some claim the ‘Zionist war machine’ is manipulating the US — but this time there are key differences
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
A 15th-century drawing of the Khazars, the Central Asian people, demanding tribute from the Polyans. (Wikimedia Commons)
February 28, 2026, 2:44 am
Why Tucker Carlson pushed for Jewish DNA tests, and the Khazar theory touted by antisemites
The discredited view alluded to in an interview last week promotes the idea that Ashkenazi Jews hold illegitimate claims to Israel — and it’s employed by the far-left and far-right
By Andrew Lapin
Tyler Oliveira interviews residents of Lakewood, New Jersey, in his YouTube video titled 'I Exposed New Jersey's Jewish Invasion...', February 2026. (Screenshot)
February 27, 2026, 10:03 am
As popular YouTuber targets US Orthodox communities, the right grapples with antisemitism
Tyler Oliveira releases ‘exposés’ about Haredi locales Lakewood and Kiryas Joel, relying on selective interviews, amplifying antisemitic tropes, and garnering millions of views
By Grace Gilson
Tucker Carlson delivers a monologue in an episode of his podcast released on February 20, 2026, in which he interviewed US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee. (X screenshot)
February 21, 2026, 5:42 am
Tucker Carlson claims Israel targeted his family, Netanyahu ‘believes in blood guilt’; questions Israel’s right to exist
In program including interview with Huckabee, right-wing commentator launches litany of unsubstantiated claims echoing antisemitic tropes, falsely says Herzog visited Epstein island
By Luke Tress and ToI Staff
Carrie Prejean Boller speaks during the White House Religious Liberty Commission public hearing on February 9, 2026. (Screenshot via JTA)
February 11, 2026, 11:30 pm
Former Miss California ousted from White House commission following antisemitism row
Carrie Prejean Boller initially refused to step down from religious liberty advisory body after derailing a panel on Jew-hatred with repeated claims anti-Zionism isn’t antisemitic
By Grace Gilson
This undated photo released by the US Department of Justice shows Jeffrey Epstein. (US Department of Justice via AP)
February 6, 2026, 6:51 am
Release of latest Epstein files unleashes online wave of antisemitic conspiracies
As conspiracy theories about Israel and Jews surge online, researchers says ‘people are taking these things and turning them into proof for whatever conspiracy they already believe in’
By Grace Gilson
Documents included in the US Justice Department release of files related to disgraced financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein are photographed on January 2, 2026. (AP Photo/Jon Elswick)
February 6, 2026, 3:00 am
No, the Epstein files don’t show that he worked for Mossad
Scraps of info in millions of documents released this week are seized on by conspiracists from Gen Z influencers to Iranian state media
By Luke Tress
Rep. Ritchie Torres, a pro-Israel Democrat, is facing two challengers who are taking aim at his support for Israel and, at times, the Jews in their Bronx district. (Collage by Grace Yagel/ JTA)
January 31, 2026, 6:44 pm
Ritchie Torres’s primary challengers criticize his pro-Israel views, take aim at ‘rich Zios’
15th Congressional District candidate Jose Vega has made Riverdale, which is packed with synagogues, a focus of his campaign, as other progressive challengers slam AIPAC funding
By Joseph Strauss
Then-Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro, center, attends a Commemoration Ceremony in Schenley Park, in Pittsburgh's Squirrel Hill neighborhood, on October 27, 2021, three years after a gunman killed 11 worshipers at the Tree of Life Synagogue. (AP/Gene J. Puskar)
January 25, 2026, 1:21 am
From Alfred Dreyfus to Josh Shapiro: How the ‘dual loyalty’ charge shadows Diaspora Jewry
A question put to the Pennsylvania governor by Kamala Harris’s vice-presidential vetting team highlights how a historic antisemitic trope collides with modern attachment to Israel
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
US Vice President JD Vance speaks with Breitbart News Washington bureau chief Matthew Boyle at Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium, November 20, 2025, in Washington, DC. (AP/Julia Demaree Nikhinson, File)
January 8, 2026, 5:12 am
Vance again downplays rising right-wing antisemitism as fringe influencers gain ground
US VP calls ‘to reject all forms of ethnic hatred… antisemitism, anti-Black hatred, anti-white hatred,’ when asked if conservatives should jettison those espousing Jew hatred from their ranks
By Andrew Lapin
Richmond Mayor Eduardo Martinez (YouTube screenshot)
December 19, 2025, 8:23 pm
California mayor urged to resign for spreading antisemitic Bondi Beach conspiracies
Jewish Community Relations Council of the Bay Area says Eduardo Martinez ‘can no longer effectively serve’ after he reposted claim that Hanukkah attack was a ‘false flag’ by Israel
By Grace Gilson
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