What Are the Prominent Sources of Antisemitism in America?
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When antisemitism becomes so widespread that millions of people feel forced to disguise their identity or hide their faith, it is no longer just a social issue—it is a cultural crisis.
A recent survey released by the Combat Antisemitism Movement (CAM) Antisemitism Research Center (ARC) found that 57 percent of Jewish Americans experienced antisemitism in the past year, equivalent to approximately 3.3 million Jewish adults, alongside an estimated 250,000 Jewish children. The threat is so real that Jewish Americans are changing their behavior: 38 percent said they now hide things that identify them as Jewish, and 23 percent had skipped Jewish events or observances out of fear.
The rate at which antisemitism is rising in America would have seemed unthinkable just a generation ago. To push back, we must look past the symptoms and ask the fundamental question: Where is this hatred coming from—and who is fanning the flames?
Foreign Interference
One primary cause is foreign interference, which has indoctrinated a generation of Americans to hate America, Israel, Jews, and Christians, and to believe that revolution is necessary and justified. Most concerning is that this generation is now entering the political arena, and candidates are openly proclaiming some of this dangerous ideology in their campaigns.
1. Red-Green Alliance
To understand this dynamic, we must look at the “Red-Green Alliance” between Marxists (communists and socialists) and Islamists. Both sides are authoritarian, and both want to take over the world. Both see America and Israel as standing in the way.
This means an anti-religion Marxist movement is working in tandem with a religion—and not just any religion, but one that wants to impose its belief system on the world, including the Marxist world. Hatred makes strange bedfellows. Marxists and Islamists have united in their quest to bring down Judeo-Christian America and the Jewish State of Israel. They are well-organized and financed by foreign—if not state—funding.
Marxists
Marxism is known for the use of propaganda to control the masses. Force and bloody revolutions are also part of their trademark, and they are responsible for the deaths of 100 million people around the world. President Trump just named the communist surge in America the greatest threat we have ever faced.
Muslims
Muslim authoritarian governments have long used Israel (the Jewish people) as scapegoats to deflect their people’s attention away from their own corruption and failures. A disturbing new survey from the Pew Research Center finds that 44 percent of Muslims living in America have a favorable view of Hamas. With approximately 4.5 million Muslims in the United States, this means nearly 2 million of them are sympathetic toward the bloodthirsty terrorist organization that slaughtered 1,200 Israelis on October 7, 2023—even though Hamas also routinely oppresses the Muslim people of Gaza, denies them basic human rights, and executes those suspected of disloyalty.
Today’s Red-Green Alliance links radical left-wing political movements in the West and Islamist terrorist organizations in the Middle East—a deadly combination.
2. Red-Green Foreign Funding of Education
This ideological alliance is backed by Qatari money. In the article “We Know Who’s Buying U.S. College Campuses,” authors Anila Ali and Dalia Ziada warn we should not take this lightly, given Qatar’s longtime backing of the Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas, and the Islamic Revolutionary regime in Iran. “Qatar is also the home of Al Jazeera, the premier propaganda outlet that has spent three decades fueling hatred toward Israel and Western democratic values,” Ali and Ziada state. “The money and ideology travel together.”
Higher Education System
Consider first our higher education system. Some $6 billion of Chinese funding of US higher education has been reported—and that’s likely just the beginning. Ali and Ziada state that a Senate investigation found that nearly 70 percent of universities receiving funds from Chinese government-linked Confucius Institutes failed to report it as required.
According to Ali and Ziada, Dr. Charles Small, founder of the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP), testified before Congress in 2024 that a team of forensic accountants and experts in terror financing estimated that Qatar invested $500 billion to $1 trillion USD in the United States—most of it in education. However, many US universities do not publicly disclose the full amount of funds they receive from Qatar. This interference targets higher education, one of our most important institutions, and it is a major source of antisemitism, influencing our young people.
K–12 Schools
Unfortunately, antisemitism in education isn’t confined to university campuses; it has also seeped into K–12 classrooms. Ali and Ziada reported that Dr. Small also exposed a program funded by Qatar Foundation International (QFI) that provided K–12 curricula framing Israel entirely through the lens of colonialism, imperialism, and occupation. Maps in the program designated Tel Aviv as Israel’s capital instead of Jerusalem, effectively erasing the deep religious and historical ties Jewish people have to the city. While that program was shut down after ISGAP's exposure, others remain—including a New York City high school program, also funded by QFI, that uses a Middle East map that omits Israel entirely.
3. Red-Green Foreign Coordination of Protests on Campuses
On October 7, 2023, Hamas infiltrated southern Israel, killing 1,200 Israelis and kidnapping 250 into Gaza—the worst slaughter of Jews in one day since the Holocaust. Within 24 hours, however, anti-Israel protests began popping up around the world, with similar slogans and professionally printed signs. Over the next 12 months, thousands of obviously coordinated protests surfaced globally.
In an article in The Times of Israel, Warren Kinsella, author of The Hidden Hand: The Information War and the Rise of Antisemitic Propaganda, writes that Hamas and its networks, along with their Western followers, “had thousands of social media accounts primed, protest banners ready, and talking points translated into multiple languages long before the IDF’s response to the carnage had even begun.”
The article cites Marc Ginsberg, head of the Washington-based online watchdog Coalition for a Safer Web, who claims Iran and Qatar were two of the top funders of paid protesters, professional organizers, and top-tier lobbying efforts, which worked together to disseminate messages designed to capture the support of legislators, voters, and the media.
Palestinian activists have worked on this for three decades, so the information isn’t surprising. Kinsella quotes Ameer Makhoul, executive director of Ittijah, a network for Palestinian non-governmental organizations. He said in 1995 that Palestinian activists planned to organize on campuses worldwide, recruit campus activists globally, and secure funding from Arab governments and wealthy donors. They have done exactly that.
The group established to head up the campus network is National Students for Justice in Palestine (NSJP). Neither NSJP nor its local SJP chapters are set up as charitable entities under 501(c)(3), or any other form of organization, which means they are not required to report where their funding comes from or whether any of it goes to terrorist organizations.
Coordinated campaigns go beyond campus protests, as was evident within hours of the September 30, 2026, terrorist attack aboard Flydubai Flight FZ1073. When a radicalized copilot attacked the captain and tried to crash a plane bound for Tel Aviv with over 150 Israelis on board, coordinated digital narratives and street responses mobilized quickly across the globe—accusing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu or Israeli intelligence of staging the whole thing—showing just how primed these networks are.
4. Red-Green Foreign Bot Influence on Social Media
Another source of foreign interference is online and found in Red-Green foreign bot networks. A 2018 Anti-Defamation League (ADL) study found almost 30 percent of accounts repeatedly tweeting against Jews on Twitter appeared to be bots. Kinsella writes that the digital forensics firm Cyabra analyzed social media after October 7 and found that 20 percent of pro-Hamas content came from fake or inauthentic accounts. Another recent study found 70 accounts of AI-generated fake rabbis spouting antisemitic nonsense.
Our young people get most of their information about current affairs and history through the lens of TikTok and X, and it’s a distorted reflection of reality. They see thousands of comments against Israel and don’t realize the commenters are not real people, but rather a digital army led by foreign governments and terrorist networks. They either become so confused that they back away from Israel altogether, or they become activists themselves, repeating what bots planted in their minds.
The major social media platforms are supposed to ensure that people do not use anonymity to cause harm, defame people, or spread racism, antisemitism, and hate. But they are not enforcing their own end-user agreements.
The Digital Deterioration of American Minds
What is motivating Western youth—American youth—to embrace patently self-destructive policies and ideologies to the point they would call for the fall of America, the elimination of Israel, and death to the Jews?
The answer is threefold: 1) being trained in godless school systems; 2) being indoctrinated by foreign players; and 3) living their lives in a false reality of algorithms and bots on social media.
Research confirms a strong link between heavy social media use and the mental deterioration of young people. Driven by addictive app designs, constant social comparison, and a lack of face-to-face interaction, teens and young adults face heightened risks of depression, anxiety, frustration, and anger.
A happy, hopeful young person is less likely to be drawn to hate movements and calls for revolution. We need more stable, secure, and hopeful young people. We must set safeguards and enact curricula reform to protect them from the lies, depression, and anger.
As Christians, we must put much greater effort into reaching our young people with the message of hope found in Jesus, leading them to faith, the power of the Holy Spirit, and a positive outlook on life. This is one reason the ICEJ USA is committed to taking Christian young people to Israel, where their Bible comes alive—and it is truly life-changing. We are also working on Christian college campuses to bring an understanding of the biblical significance of Israel and the Jewish people to them, explain the current explosion of antisemitism, and equip students on how to guard against it in their own lives.
Much needs to be done, but the first step is to inform ourselves and those we associate with. We invite you to learn more about antisemitism in this FREE, easy-to-read PDF download, and then share it with your friends.
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