This week, Nexus produced a wave of original analysis. From Jonathan Jacoby’s op-ed in The Hill on the antisemitic chain reaction sparked by the Iran war, to NCAR’s first published piece on Tucker Carlson’s influence among young Americans, to a new explainer on the manosphere as a pipeline to antisemitism, we are working to break down how antisemitism actually operates right now.
Antisemitism is a constantly shifting hatred. Adapting to the moment is essential for fighting antisemitism as a community. That’s what we’re here to do.
Nexus President Jonathan Jacoby wrote in The Hill about the dangerous pattern emerging from the Iran war. Discussion of Israeli influence on U.S. policy can begin as geopolitical analysis, but it shifts fast when figures like former counterterrorism director Joe Kent blame the war on “Israel and its powerful American lobby” and then go on Tucker Carlson’s show to imply Israel assassinated Charlie Kirk.
Jonathan argues that debating the war is essential, and that labeling critics antisemitic is its own form of distortion. Opposing war is legitimate; blaming Jews collectively for it is not. Read the full piece.
In the latest piece from the Nexus Center for Antisemitism Research (NCAR), director Aryeh Tuchman takes on a new poll that claims Tucker Carlson’s anti-war messaging has little traction among Republicans. Media outlets ran with it. Tuchman shows why that’s wrong.
The poll focused on older, cable-news-watching Republicans. But Carlson’s base skews young. A Yale Youth Poll found him among the most popular 2028 GOP nominees with 18-to-22-year-olds. And what he’s reaching them with matters: framing the Iran war as “Israel’s war,” blaming Chabad for American foreign policy, and pushing conspiratorial narratives about Jewish control that have fueled violence for centuries.
A new Netflix documentary, Louis Theroux: Inside the Manosphere, follows four influencers who built massive audiences selling fitness and self-improvement to young men. Beneath the hustle culture: misogyny, Holocaust denial, and conspiracy theories about Jewish power. Nexus has been tracking this for over a year, and our new explainer breaks down the influencers, the pipeline, and the numbers.
Nexus Fellow Emily Tamkin sat down with journalist and educator Rabbi Dr. Jay Michaelson for a conversation about the gap between how major antisemitism organizations have approached the issue and what the current moment demands.
Michaelson also published a piece in The UnPopulist that drew heavily on the Nexus framework for understanding when anti-Zionism crosses into antisemitism, citing the Nexus Document as a way forward.
Four Hatzola ambulances were set ablaze in London’s Golders Green neighborhood, home to the city’s largest Jewish community. The ambulances were parked next to a synagogue. Oxygen cylinders exploded, shattering windows in nearby homes. Ashab al-Yamin, an Iran-linked terror group, claimed responsibility. The same group has been linked to attacks on synagogues in Belgium and the Netherlands and a Jewish school in Amsterdam.
Hatzola is a volunteer organization that provides emergency medical care to Jewish and non-Jewish residents. British PM Keir Starmer called it a “deeply shocking antisemitic arson attack.” Counter-terrorism police are leading the investigation.
The Trump administration sued Harvard over alleged discrimination against Jewish and Israeli students, seeking to freeze grants and recover billions in federal funding. This follows a similar lawsuit against UCLA last month. Harvard called it “yet another pretextual and retaliatory action” for refusing to hand control of the university to the federal government.
The administration continues to exploit legitimate Jewish concerns over antisemitism as a thinly veiled excuse to attack and bully major academic institutions. This authoritarian abuse of power doesn’t make Jewish students safer.
Senators Welch and Durbin, along with Reps. Raskin and Scanlon and 39 other lawmakers, called on DHS and the State Department to end all attempts to deport Mahmoud Khalil, the Columbia student detained a year ago for his role in pro-Palestinian protests. The lawmakers noted that all available evidence shows Khalil was targeted for constitutionally protected speech.
Free speech and the right to protest are cornerstones of American democracy, a democracy that has kept American Jews safe for decades. Deporting student protesters over political disagreement doesn’t make American Jews, or anyone else, safer.
Nexus VP Kevin Rachlin was quoted in The Hill on the administration’s lawsuits against Harvard and UCLA, noting the pattern of using antisemitism claims to go after universities for unrelated political goals.
Nexus’s response to the Harvard lawsuit was cited in JTA and Haaretz, which led its story with Nexus’s criticism of the administration’s approach.
This is what we do: track real antisemitism, call out when it’s weaponized, and make clear the difference. If you’d like to support this work, you can donate here. We’d love to connect.
The word “antisemitism” is being stretched so thin it’s starting to tear. Actual Jew-hatred is finding its way into congressional primaries and left-wing coalition politics.
Antisemitism is not a feeling, and fighting it is not a vibe. It is concrete work. It looks like enforcing a content policy you wrote.
