IT'S THE JEWS (But Is It?)

Antisemitism Is Real. So Is Lazy Thinking.

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Unless you can show me a direct quote, completely in context, of someone saying they hate Jews and want them genocided, I’m not going to believe you when you say someone is antisemitic.

That shouldn’t be controversial. But it is.

Because in 2025, "antisemitic" has become a Swiss army word. It means whatever the person yelling it wants it to mean. It’s used to silence dissent, redirect attention, or just end a conversation they don’t like. Everyone's trying to win the narrative war, not tell the truth.

These days, I consider myself more of a dispassionate observer of internet phenomena than an active participant. Of course I have opinions, but I try to watch all groups from the same detached place whether I agree with them or not, and give them a fair shake. That's what it means to honor the truth above narrative.

Here’s What We’re Watching Play Out Right Now.

There’s a growing schism among those who oppose the left, between the classical liberals who support Israel above all, and the anti-war right which does not. According to classical liberals, anyone who does not support Israel's actions in the Middle East is the "woke right" and an obvious antisemite.

For example, James Lindsay, the Babylon Bee, and a chorus of others have launched a campaign to brand anyone critical of Israel as part of the "woke right," a catch-all label designed to smear people who ask uncomfortable questions. That includes Darryl Cooper of MartyrMade, who was the centerpiece of that controversial Joe Rogan debate with Dave Smith and Douglas Murray. He responded to the backlash from that by writing his article The Road to Hell, which has since made the rounds online.

Cooper's position is clear. He doesn't hate Jews, and he recognizes antisemitism as a real problem. But simply questioning Israeli policy or U.S. foreign entanglements with Israel does not make someone an antisemite. And he's right.

We should take people at their word when they say they don't hate Jewish people. That's the baseline. We don't want anyone to hate anyone. But the people pushing the "woke right" narrative argue that it's not enough to say that. According to them, Darryl Cooper secretly hates Jews and just won't admit it.

That is the same circular logic Robin DiAngelo used when she said that if you're white and deny being inherently racist, that denial is proof of your racism.

It was nonsense when the left did it. It’s nonsense now that the right is doing it. It's the same tactic supporting a different tribe's narrative.

It is ridiculous to call everyone an antisemite just because they raise questions about what Israel is doing in the Middle East, or point to the disproportionate lobbying influence of groups like AIPAC, or question dual loyalties among political elites. These are valid questions. They are not rooted in hatred. They are not calls for violence. And to conflate the two is to commit intellectual fraud.

But Is It The Jews? And Does It Matter?

At the same time, I have zero patience for the "it’s the Jews" crowd. Not because I don’t understand their argument. I do. In fact, I know their historical claims. Jewish intellectuals were instrumental in the development of Bolshevism in Russia. The Frankfurt School, which helped seed critical theory and normalize Marxism in American universities, was composed mostly of Jewish thinkers. These are facts.

They also say Hitler was fighting communism, and that's true. He was. Hitler was the response to communism in Germany. But Hitler also believed all the communists were Jewish. And that was why he wanted to destroy them. An obscene number of Jewish people died in the concentration camps, and that's true regardless of the specific number you believe it was. The Holocaust happened. A tragic number of people perished in the camps, and most of them were innocents caught up in a game they didn’t even know they were playing.

No serious person denies that the concentration camps in Germany resulted in mass death. If they're being intellectually honest, they will also say that what happened to Germany and the German people following the war was also a tragedy. And that China’s Cultural Revolution has them both beat in terms of the sheer volume of death that communism causes.

But Here's The Real Question.

Why are we allowing a debate over history, which should be a reasonable exchange of ideas, to distract us from a current and existential threat?

Is it true that all the communists were Jewish? I don’t know about then. But I do know about now. Today’s far-left activists are not all Jewish. Not even close.

There are Palestinian activists. There are white communists. There are anarchists, progressives, radical queers, Muslims, atheists, and yes, even Christians. There are people of every race, sex, and infinite genders. The left is a patchwork of ideologies and identities.

And if it’s like this now, it was probably like that back then too.

Are there Jews involved? Yes.
Are there Palestinians involved? Yes.
Are there non-Jews involved? Yes.
Are there Christians involved? Yes.

This isn’t a religion. It’s a political operating system.

So when I engage with people who want to understand how the far left operates, who it recruits, how it speaks, what its goals are, and all they can do is bark “it’s the Jews,” I tune out. Because that kind of thinking ignores the evidence that’s right in front of them. It is confirmation bias dressed up as analysis.

The real world is messier than your narrative. Assigning blame to one group, and ignoring everyone else who is actively involved, isn’t insight. It’s laziness.

You want to understand the far left? Start with their own words. Watch their trainings. Read their manifestos. Learn who is organizing the protests, writing the literature, funding the NGOs. Ask what they believe, not what group they were born into. Ask yourself if they're Jewish, fine. Because most of them aren't, and you'll see that very quickly.

In my experience, the left has more in common ideologically than they do ethnically. Their loyalty isn’t to Judaism. It’s to communism and the abolition of private property. And ironically, many of the Jewish voices on the left actually oppose Zionism and have had the full weight of the Israel lobby brought down on them for it through organizations like Canary Mission, which is currently advising the Trump administration on its college student protestor deportation targets. The Zionist Jews would tell you that the anti-Zionist Jews are not real Jews. I'm sure the anti-Zionist Jews would disagree. So which side can you be on that doesn't make you an antisemite?

We have to get back to nuance. Because the problem of the left isn’t going away. It’s getting worse, and it's happening right under everyone's nose because they're arguing about who is and is not an antisemite. They use it to police their own side based on their tribal interest, to fracture alliances, and to burn bridges over bad-faith accusations.

The left is the existential crisis. Not the so-called "woke right."

The left wins when the right eats itself.

So get it together. Drop the lazy labels. And focus on the real enemy, the ideology consuming our institutions from the inside out.

This piece is a response to Darryl Cooper's article "The Road to Hell" and expands on my commentary posted here on X.

And Here’s What I Really Think

Since you made it to the end:

• I don’t care if people are Jewish, I care if people are communists.

• I don’t believe in treating people differently based on any immutable characteristic. I believe in judging them based on their individual behavior.

• I think many interesting questions are being raised about the history of World War II, and we should be able to have rational intellectual discussions about the topic where the genuine goal is to discover the truth.

• I think mudslinging and personal attacks are reprehensive on what is supposed to be the intellectual battleground of ideas.

• I don’t think you should believe anyone that anyone tells you on the internet - just look at the primary sources and decide for yourself what you think. That’s why I only use primary sources in my materials.

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