There has been a persistent lie amongst the Jew-hating population that their loathing of the Jewish nation is limited only to the Jewish state and not the Jewish people. In other words, they are anti-Zionist, not anti-Semitic. This has always been a ridiculous notion, proven false time and time again, yet with the ongoing war in Gaza and the lies spread about the state of the civilian population there, the mask of anti-Zionism is harder to keep on. The surge in antisemitic incidents, particularly in the past two weeks, underscores how anti-Zionist rhetoric fuels real-world violence and discrimination against Jews, blurring any supposed boundary between the two.
There is a growing segment of right-wing, Trump-supporting pundits that have fully embraced this level of anti-Semitism. Call it “woke Right,” or “horseshoe theory,” or any other term that has been bandied around on social media these days, this is a group that has fully embraced the genocidal intent of Nazis and Islamists, and they are gaining followers. One of these growing personalities is Myron Gaines, who follows in the footsteps of Nick Fuentes and Candace Owens in his cartoonishly evil Jew-hatred.
This week, Gaines’ podcast featured guests openly praising Adolf Hitler, describing him as “a man trying to save the world,” while justifying the Holocaust by claiming “the Jews deserved it” and even calling for the killing of Jews. One guest claimed that the Jews “did something to the Germans that made them act a certain way but nobody wants to talk about [it],” and “The Jews don’t want to take accountability.” The episode, which went viral before being removed, featured Gaines laughing along and other guests piling on, blaming Jews for the current state of American healthcare and claiming that Jews are stealing all the money.
This goes beyond rhetoric, though. In Spain, approximately 50 Jewish children from a French summer camp were removed from a Vueling Airlines flight in Valencia after singing songs in Hebrew. Their 21-year-old camp counselor was arrested and reportedly beaten by police, with authorities citing “disruptive behavior,” though the camp and witnesses attributed the incident to antisemitic bias against the group’s Jewish identity. The pilot, Ivan Chirivella, actually trained two of the 9/11 hijackers, as described in his 2003 book The Innocent Accomplice.
A group of Israeli teenagers vacationing on the Greek island of Rhodes reported being chased and attacked by a pro-Palestinian mob wielding knives outside a nightclub. The assailants allegedly shouted anti-Israel slogans during the assault. In Australia, Year 5 students from Melbourne’s Mount Scopus Memorial College, a prominent Jewish school, were allegedly subjected to antisemitic slurs such as “dirty Jews” by older high school students during a museum excursion.
A historic synagogue in Melbourne, the East Melbourne Hebrew Congregation, was targeted in an arson attack during Shabbos services, with an unknown man dousing the doors in accelerant and setting them ablaze while around 20 worshippers were inside. The fire forced an evacuation, and police have charged a suspect, amid condemnations from Australian officials labeling it an attack on the nation’s values.
A U.S. State Department visa specialist, Arslan Akhtar, was caught on hidden camera expressing extreme hatred toward Israelis, stating, “I hate them to death,” while also admitting to coaching illegal immigrants on evading deportation. The video led to his firing and has raised concerns about antisemitic views within government ranks.
All of these incidents are bad enough, and cannot be viewed in a vacuum. The attackers of Jews never seem to separate their disdain for Israel from the Jews they harass, yet the “intellectuals” in our society will still bleat on that the two are completely unrelated. The biggest story of the week comes from the National Education Association (NEA), America’s largest teachers’ union.
A few weeks ago, the NEA voted to drop the Anti-Defamation League from its longtime partnership in supplying the educational guide to the Holocaust and other anti-Semitic-related issues. At the time, it was argued that this was not a rebuke of the ADL being too soft on these issues, but rather being too hard. The new NEA 2025 handbook reveals that they have fully embraced the most vile forms of anti-Jewish propaganda that is being disseminated today.
As first reported by the Washington Free Beacon, the NEA handbook essentially removes Jewish suffering from the Holocaust. Columnist Alana Goodman writes, “The handbook says the union will ‘promote the celebration of International Holocaust Remembrance Day’ by ‘recognizing more than 12 million victims of the Holocaust from different faiths, ethnicities, races, political beliefs, genders, and gender identification, abilities/disabilities, and other targeted characteristics.’ The description does not mention the attempted extermination of the Jewish people by the Nazis.”
While these crucial facts are omitted from Holocaust education, there were plenty of details elaborating the false propaganda surrounding the so-called “Nakba,” which is what anti-Israel activists call the failure of the Arab world to kill all the Jews in the newly formed state of Israel. “The Nakba, meaning ‘catastrophe’ in Arabic, refers to the forced, violent displacement and dispossession of at least 750,000 Palestinians from their homeland in 1948 during the establishment of the state of Israel,” said the handbook. “Educating about the Nakba is essential for understanding the Palestinian diaspora narrative and experience, including the ongoing trauma of our Palestinian American students today. Teaching about the Nakba fosters critical thinking and empathy among students, promoting a deeper understanding of historical injustices and their contemporary ramifications.”
There is no indication that the teaching materials will include that the vast majority of Arabs living in the area left when they were told by the invading armies, nor will they include the expulsion of nearly a million Jews from Arab countries during the 1950s.
In the mother of all ironies, the NEA had the audacity to then claim that it was teaching that anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism are separate. “NEA will use existing digital communication tools to educate members about the difference between anti-Zionism and antisemitism,” the handbook reads. “NEA will use its existing media outlets to defend educators’ and students’ academic freedom and free speech in defense of Palestine at K-12 schools, colleges, and universities.” Notice that all of these changes, which directly erase the suffering of the Jewish people in the 20th century and contribute to the lie that Jews are the oppressors in the region, occurred when anti-Israel sentiment is at its highest levels ever. The NEA’s own handbook contributes to the conflation between Zionism and Judaism, yet they claim that it is unlinked.
This NEA handbook, combined with the relentless wave of incidents - from podcast rants praising Hitler to arson attacks on synagogues - proves unequivocally that anti-Zionism is antisemitism. It is the hatred of Israel, often disguised as political activism, that is fueling these assaults on Jews around the world, creating an environment where Jewish safety, identity, and history are under constant threat. Anti-Zionism is not criticism of the Israeli government or their policies. Anti-Zionism is the fundamental belief that Jews cannot have their own homeland, unlike every other nation on Earth. That is why they are the same. To declare that Jews must be treated differently is to declare your own anti-Semitic stance.
Moshe Hill is a political analyst and columnist. His work can be found at www.aHillwithaView.com and on X at @HillWithView.