Part 1: Antisemitism is the Oldest Rebellion Against Universal Justice
As eighty percent of humanity lives under authoritarian rule, the campaign against Israel is only the surface of a deeper war on liberty.
Welcome to the first installment of this three-part series. Here I attempt to diagnose the moral inversion fueling modern antisemitism and its roots in the authoritarian assault on freedom and liberty. Tomorrow in Part 2, I will attempt to unpack how this hatred is packaged as “social justice” - witness the rise of Zohran Mamdani; and in Part 3, I will lay out a proposal to start a war for truth begins now. Please subscribe to follow the fight. It’s free.
When Empathy Turns Against Truth
Something broke on October 7, 2023. The slaughter of Israelis by Hamas should have unified humanity against evil. Instead, it revealed how far the moral order has fallen. Within days, sympathy for the victims collapsed. The murderers were celebrated as “resistance fighters.” This is not only a Jewish crisis. It is a civilizational one. It exposed that the war on Israel is not about land but about truth itself.
A generation stripped of American pride no longer senses the honor of citizenship. This is not finger-pointing; it is grasping the peril when youth mature devoid of affection or allegiance to their homeland. As patriotism wanes, souls grow ready to surrender what forebears bled to secure. They pursue fleeting lures rather than anchoring to the land that bestowed liberty and promise. This void invites the ideological diseases we see metastasizing: antisemitism dressed as justice, where envy and resentment fill the gap left by eroded national pride. Yet within the chaos, there are still examples of moral strength worth emulating.
Antisemitism as Political Warfare
The Shapeshifting Hatred: Why Conventional Explanations Fail
Until we understand why antisemitism exists, we can’t combat it effectively. The common answers such as economic envy, religious difference, ignorance or simple racial prejudice are all inadequate. These factors vary across time and place: Jews have been hated as capitalists and communists; as a race and as a religion; as rootless cosmopolitans and as hyper-nationalists. If the hatred were specific to money or theology, it would be consistent. Instead, it constantly shapeshifts, adapting itself to whatever ideological weapon a regime needs to justify oppression.
To understand why the world so reliably turns on the Jews, we must expand the discussion beyond these superficial explanations and go back to the beginning: to the political context of the Law of Moses.
The Root of the Conflict
The Torah tells the story of a slave revolt. The Jewish people escape tyranny. They receive the law of Moses. This law ends oppression by binding rulers to the same standard as the ruled. It replaced appetite with conscience and power with principle. Over twenty-five centuries, this idea transformed the cruelest societies on earth into the freest. At its center is a sentence that carries more weight than any political manifesto: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself” derived from Leviticus 19:18.
This ethical commandment is often viewed simply as a universal expression of empathy. However, the work of Francisco Gil-White reveals a profound tension at its core. Gil-White argues that moral systems are fundamentally ethnocentric. They are designed to enforce loyalty and cooperation within a defined group. In this view, the commandment’s original context restricted the scope of the “neighbor” to a fellow member of one’s own people, serving as a mechanism for ingroup cohesion, not universal love.
It is precisely here that the Jewish ethic becomes the target of political warfare. If the moral law had remained only a tribal code, it would pose no threat to empire. The revolutionary act, the idea that transformed history, was the prophetic and subsequent theological universalizing of that commandment. The Jewish concept that rights are based on equal dignity, not tribal membership, gradually expanded the definition of “neighbor” to include the stranger, the foreigner, and ultimately, every human being created in the divine image. This Gil-White persuasively argues, once morality became universal, once Jews claimed that every life carried divine dignity, tyrants found their perfect scapegoat.
If your neighbor bears equal dignity, law must serve justice, not power. Rights are universal. Conscience is king. This profound Jewish concept is widely understood as a foundational ethical precept for the development of modern political universal rights, and this very connection becomes a target for antisemitic and authoritarian ideologies. It’s a compelling argument and if we agree on the premise, it changes how we must combat antisemitism.
History confirms what moral logic predicts: when the Jewish conscience is exiled, freedom soon dies beside it. Every empire seeking to enslave humanity knows the Judeo-Christian ethic blocks it. Antisemitism is political warfare against the moral law. It is the most reliable signal of this systemic attack. Destroy the Jews, and you remove the people who keep reminding the world that power has limits.
Where Jews Are Purged, Freedom Dies
Freedom House estimates that only 1/5th of humanity lives in free societies where rights are protected and conscience reigns over force. That leaves six billion people under governments that restrict freedom. In more than a hundred countries, liberties are curtailed or crushed. In fifty nations, dissent is a crime and equality a fiction.
Authoritarian regimes thrive by dismantling the very ideas our ancestors forged in the fires of Exodus and Revelation. They jail journalists, shatter assemblies, and silence faiths that preach dignity. In doing so, they clear a path for modern slavery that now enslaves more than fifty million people worldwide, according to the International Labour Organization. Forced labor in China’s camps, migrant bondage in Qatar’s shadows, and conscription in Russia’s wars are the fruits of freedom denied.
The shadow of ethnic cleansing falls heaviest where authoritarianism takes root, a grim pattern etched in the blood of exiles and the silence of the suppressed. Consider the expulsion of nearly nine hundred thousand Jews from Arab lands between 1948 and the early 1970s, a forced exodus that erased communities that had flourished for millennia. These acts were not collateral damage of war; they were precursors to tyranny. In the decades that followed, fourteen of those twenty-two nations devolved into full autocracies, with Freedom House scores plummeting by more than forty points. Iraq under Saddam, Syria under the Assads, Libya under Gaddafi, each rose on a wave of scapegoating, where purging Jews cleared the moral ground for dictators to enthrone themselves. The pattern repeats across the twentieth century. In Eastern Europe, Stalin’s antisemitic campaigns coincided with the Iron Curtain’s descent. Even in Latin America, pogroms against Jewish communities preceded the rise of military juntas. Everywhere the moral law was exiled, tyranny filled the vacuum.
The pattern is clear: where Jews were driven out, freedom soon followed them out the door. This is not coincidence. Tyrants do not merely tolerate such violence. They orchestrate it as a systematic attack on the moral law that Jews have carried since Sinai. By erasing those who embody equal dignity, they dismantle the conscience that binds rulers to justice. The result is an empire of fear, where billions now endure restricted freedoms and the chains of yesterday forge the labor camps of today.
So is it any surprise that traces of that pattern are emerging in America itself. Ours is a country built on the Judeo-Christian ethic of “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”
We are the land of the brave. It is time to once again embrace what made this nation the greatest on earth. The same belief that bound rulers to law at Sinai later crossed an ocean, shaping a republic that defied kings and drew strength from patriots who gave everything to keep the American experiment alive.1
Moral Corruption of the West
By the end of 2024, antisemitism had exploded to record levels. The ADL recorded 9,354 incidents in the United States, nearly triple the year before. Europe saw similar spikes. Synagogues defaced. Students chased from classrooms. Cities filled with mobs chanting for intifada. The lies now flood mainstream media and culture. They bridge the Atlantic Ocean from the New York Times to the BBC, from podcasts to morning radio shows that shape a generation’s moral compass. Populist commentators recast anti-Israel narratives as working-class solidarity. Billionaires become villains. Question the movement’s heroes, and you are branded Islamophobic or elitist. This rhetoric fuses social justice language with old antisemitic tropes. It whispers that “Zionists,” “corporations,” and “Wall Street” are the same. The audience hears empathy. What slips through is envy and resentment.
A Slide into Darkness on the Right
Neo-Nazi rhetoric and conspiracies about globalists and Zionist control return through populism’s digital backdoor. A small, loud faction echoes the radical left. Jews are again the obstacle to America.
The problem has faces. Tucker Carlson gives oxygen to vile voices like Nick Fuentes who spout antisemitic venom and Holocaust denial. Eliminationist rhetoric is laundered as contrarian inquiry. Candace Owens promotes conspiratorial framing. She paints Jews as uniquely suspect. A leaked chat among Young Republican leaders exposed pornographic racism, open Jew hatred, and violence fantasies. These are future officials. Their language echoes what extremists whispered at cross burnings. Now it arrives by phone. Algorithms feed the poison.
When senior figures redefine bigotry as trolling, they turn complicity into virtue. The silence normalizes the slurs. The Holocaust denial becomes normal. The right must confront this rot early. Otherwise, a generation slips into nihilism that destroys the movement.
The Indoctrination of the Left
The modern left has replaced moral reasoning with power arithmetic. Identity politics divides humanity into “oppressors” and “oppressed,” assigning virtue or guilt by category rather than conduct. Within this hierarchy, Israel is cast as the ultimate oppressor, and Jews are recoded as “white colonizers” despite being an indigenous people in their ancestral land, with roughly half of Israel’s Jews descended from Middle Eastern and African refugees and the rest from exiled communities across the diaspora.
From the Quad to the Classroom
This dogma now dominates elite universities. Encampments from Columbia to UCLA turned campuses into “Zionist Free” propaganda zones. Jewish students faced harassment, spitting, blocked access to class and violence.
Picture a freshman at UCLA, books in hand, spat on and called a “Zionist pig” while diversity officers look away.
At Columbia, protesters set up plywood checkpoints and demanded Jewish students show IDs to enter campus areas.
At Harvard, student groups blamed Israel alone for the massacre.
At MIT, Jewish students were told to stay home “for their safety” as demonstrators blocked hallways and shouted down classes. Professors applauded “resistance.” They assigned Hamas communiqués as reading. Faculty unions demanded boycotts of Israeli scholars.
The intellectual groundwork for this perversion did not begin in the encampments. It began in the classroom. The moral inversion now visible in the quads was seeded in the seminar.
A decade ago at Oxford, Dennis Prager asked: Who threatens peace more in Syria — ISIS or Israel? In Lebanon, Hezbollah or Israel? In Egypt, the Muslim Brotherhood or Israel? The answer is obvious. Yet the ideological left refuses it. That exchange remains one of the clearest illustrations of moral inversion in modern debate. It is worth watching.
They say the fight is really about the power dynamic of the modern state of Israel and its policies, the settlements, the military presence in the West Bank, and the blockade on Gaza. They say this is the “legitimate political criticism” they represent. But here is the critical point: every nation has territorial disputes, security dilemmas, and flawed policies. Israel’s conflict is unique, in part, because its enemies seek its annihilation. But mostly because the world’s only Jewish state is the only one whose right to exist is treated as negotiable.
This selective outrage exposes the truth. It is about a moral inversion that demands Jews alone be denied the moral right of self-determination and self-defense. It is an ideology that calls the massacre of civilians “resistance” and self-defense “genocide.” These lies and double-standards, this moralizing obsession, are proof the argument is not about land or policy. It is about a moral inversion that demands the Jewish state be held to a unique, impossible standard, allowing the massacre of civilians by Islamist terrorists to be excused as “resistance” while defensive actions are branded “genocide.” This selective radicalization itself confirms that the true enemy is the ideological framework, not the policy.
It traces back to the academy, to a generation of postcolonial theorists who replaced moral judgment with moral relativism.
Among the most influential is Columbia professor Mahmood Mamdani, father of NYC Mayor-Elect, Zohran Mamdani, whose politics have become emblematic of this worldview. In 2007, Mahmood Mamdani argued that labeling the Darfur genocide a “genocide” was itself an act of Western colonialism that the language of international law was merely a tool of imperial power. Think about that for a moment. The regime in Khartoum systematically murdered Black Africans in the name of Arab-Islamic supremacy, and yet condemning those crimes became, in this logic, a form of colonial aggression. It was a moral trick that absolved killers and condemned conscience itself. That same logic, where murderers are victims and victims are oppressors, now dominates the global conversation on Israel. Fast-forward to today. The same framework that excused the Darfur genocide now sanctifies Hamas’s war on Israel. When Islamists massacre Jews, their violence is reframed as “resistance.” When Israel defends its citizens, its actions are treated as “genocide.” The skepticism toward international law vanishes the moment it can be used against the Jewish state.
This is the through-line of our crisis: an ideology that once claimed to expose the political use of language now uses that language to erase moral politics and re-legitimize genocidal movements under the banner of anti-colonial justice. The slogans “globalize the intifada” and “from the river to the sea” are not aberrations. They are the political offspring of an academic creed that teaches young people to view evil as context and freedom as privilege.
The proof of this distortion appears in how these activists talk about Israel itself. When they chant for a “Free Palestine,” they claim to seek one state with equal rights for all. In reality, that vision means the end of the world’s only Jewish democracy. The only nation in the Middle East where Jews, Muslims, and Christians all have full civil rights including the right to vote, to serve in parliament, and to worship freely.
That is no accident. It is the product of a people forced by history to build the one state in the region that guarantees equality under law. When critics say there should not be a Jewish state, they are really saying the Jewish people should remain the only people on earth denied sovereignty, the world’s repeatedly persecuted minority asked once again to entrust their safety to the mercy of others.
Those who make these demands must first confront the region’s record on equality. The great Jewish communities of Baghdad, Cairo, Damascus, and Tripoli, millennia old, were not merely emptied; they were destroyed. Synagogues were burned or converted, homes confiscated, citizens expelled. Nearly one million Jews fled with nothing but the clothes they wore. These were not the consequences of war. They were preludes to dictatorship.
Even in the West, where democracies pride themselves on tolerance, Jews remain the most targeted religious minority.
The need for a Jewish homeland is therefore not a relic of the past; it is a matter of civil rights in the present. Israel does not contradict universal human rights. It proves them.
The moral inversion is not an accident. It is a deliberate strategy, packaged in the language of social justice to make erasure feel like empathy.
Tomorrow, In Part 2: Packaging Hate as Social Justice, I will attempt show how this inversion is packaged for modern consumption. We examine the New York case, how “Islamophobia” is used as a shield, and how the “ethnostate” lie became the spear.
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The ledger of liberty is written in Jewish blood and Jewish gold, century after century, whenever tyrants reached for absolute power. And every time, the story is the same: the very people accused of “controlling the world with their money” are the same people who emptied their pockets, risked their lives, and died broke so the world could stay free.
The American Revolution was fought not only by soldiers and politicians; it was also fought by civilians. Some of these civilians bore arms; others provided supplies; still others, such as Haym Salomon, fought with their wits and their administrative skills. Haym Salomon, a Polish-Jewish immigrant imprisoned twice by the British and sentenced to death, escaped with nothing and still brokered about $650,000 in loans and personal guarantees (roughly $25 million today). Working beside Robert Morris, he paid congressional salaries out of pocket so the government could function. He raised credit for the French fleet at Yorktown. Congress acknowledged the debt several times but never repaid a penny. He died penniless at forty-five so a nation could be born free.
According to the Journal of the American Revolution:
During the 19th century the true nature of Haym Salomon’s wartime activities was lost. His accomplishments were buried under layers of misinformation, embellishment and myths. False claims made by the son of the revolutionary patriot, Haym Moses Salomon (1785-1858), wildly distorted the factual role of his father. Through the zealous, and misguided, efforts of the younger Salomon his father came to be known as a “Financier of the American Revolution.” It was construed that Salomon the elder loaned, or gave, vast sums of his own personal assets to the revolutionary cause to such an extent that he was greatly responsible for the survival of the Revolution.
In the Dutch Revolt against Spanish tyranny, Portuguese Sephardim in Amsterdam financed much of the Dutch East India Company and smuggled arms past the Inquisition, helping to establish the first modern republic grounded in religious tolerance. These former conversos were key to financing and smuggling during the revolt (1568–1648) and contributed to the Union of Utrecht (1579), which granted religious tolerance.
In the Glorious Revolution of 1688, Isaac Suasso loaned William of Orange two million guilders interest-free, declaring, “Liberty is priceless.” That act helped deliver the English Bill of Rights, the model Jefferson and Madison would later study when drafting the American one.
During the Greek War of Independence, Rothschild loans and David Pacifico’s Gibraltar-based arms routes helped break four centuries of Ottoman rule and inspired the first modern constitution to enshrine freedom of religion.
In the Italian Risorgimento, Isaac Artom negotiated French alliances while Moisè Finzi bankrolled Garibaldi’s Thousand, securing Jewish emancipation in the new Italian kingdom in 1861. Artom was Cavour’s diplomat for French-Italian alliance (1859). Finzi financed Garibaldi’s Expedition of the Thousand (1860).
In South Africa, Jews were again overrepresented amongst those who fought apartheid. Helen Suzman stood alone in parliament for thirteen years, while Joe Slovo and Arthur Goldreich co-founded the armed wing of the ANC (African National Congress), and Denis Goldberg faced the Rivonia gallows beside Mandela. The ANC is a South African political party that originated as a Black nationalist and liberation movement in 1912. It became a major force against the apartheid system, which was a system of institutionalized racial segregation and discrimination. The party was banned by the government, and its members, including Nelson Mandela, were imprisoned, but it continued to operate in exile and wage resistance. It was a key opponent of the apartheid government, and after the end of apartheid, it has been the ruling party in South Africa since 1994, with figures like Nelson Mandela and Cyril Ramaphosa serving as presidents.
Every time the moral law was on the verge of being strangled, Jewish networks wrote the check, ran the guns, or opened the safe houses. Not for profit. For repair. Tikkun olam in action. [Author’s Note: Tikkun Olam is a Hebrew phrase that means “repair of the world“ and is a central principle in Judaism, signifying a responsibility to make the world a better place through social justice, acts of kindness, and ethical actions. It has evolved from ancient rabbinic concepts to contemporary social action and human rights efforts, involving both individual and collective responsibility to partner with God in perfecting the world.]
This is the real Jewish conspiracy: a two-thousand-year refusal to let Pharaoh win.
The blood libel screams that Jews use money to control the world. The ledger screams the opposite: Jews have repeatedly used money to free the world—then walked away broke while the world kept the freedom and forgot the bill.
The same mouths that chant “Jews will not replace us” owe their right to chant anything at all to Jewish ledgers that paid for the very liberties they enjoy. The same voices that sneer “globalist bankers” stand on the shoulders of Jewish financiers who died poor so parliaments could sit, armies could march, and constitutions could be written.
Tyrants always target the repairers first. And every time they do, the repairers pay the price so others can stay free.
That is the moral inversion we now face: a movement that claims to fight “colonialism” while erasing the very people who bankrolled nearly every modern struggle against it.
Let the record stand. Let the ledger be read. Truth itself is the answer to the lie.