With the midterms twelve days away, antisemitism has become campaign material, with accusations of it hurled at opponents and antisemitic tropes used to fire up crowds. Both treat a real danger to Jews as a partisan weapon, and the more often that happens, the more voters learn to tune it out.
That is why precision matters so much right now. Antisemitism has to be named plainly when it comes from people in power and described accurately everywhere else, because selective outrage teaches people that it only counts when the other side commits it.
Elon Musk has given roughly $369 million as of writing to boost Republicans in the midterms, more than triple what George Soros has given Democrats, making him the biggest known donor of the cycle. At the same time, he keeps casting Soros as a hidden threat, posting that Soros “wants to end Western Civilization” and comparing him to Magneto, the X-Men villain who, like Soros, survived the Holocaust.
Criticizing Soros’s political spending is fair game, as it would be for any billionaire. Portraying a Jewish financier as the secret hand behind elections, migration, and social unrest draws on the age-old conspiracy theory that Jews control the world. When the man pushing that theory outspends Soros more than three to one, it becomes clear the theory was never about money in politics.
At a Kansas rally Monday, President Trump defended Sen. Roger Marshall against reporting that Marshall’s medical practice sued more than 700 patients, complaining that critics had made Marshall out to be “some kind of a Shylock-type guy.”
Trump used the same slur in Iowa in July 2025 and told reporters afterward that he had never heard it was antisemitic. Now he has used it again, knowing otherwise. Marshall isn’t Jewish, yet Trump still reached for Shakespeare’s Jewish moneylender as everyday shorthand for a greedy creditor, keeping a centuries-old stereotype about Jews and money in circulation.
His administration has extracted hundreds of millions of dollars from universities in the name of fighting antisemitism, while the president himself keeps repeating a slur he knows is antisemitic.
Manhattan, NY: A Chabad Hasidic man was stabbed in the Diamond District Wednesday evening by a woman who, according to eyewitnesses, passed several other pedestrians before attacking him, possibly with a needle or syringe. The NYPD Hate Crimes Task Force is investigating, and the victim is in stable condition. (The Jerusalem Post)
Queens, NY: Prosecutors indicted Dawood Faisal on hate crime charges for twice vandalizing Bagels & Co., a Jewish-owned kosher shop in Fresh Meadows that displays Israeli flags. Faisal separately faces manslaughter charges over a May crash that killed Jewish journalist Cara Trager, though authorities have not alleged the crash was a hate crime. (Times of Israel)
Silver Spring, MD: A federal civil rights complaint says Montgomery County Public Schools failed to protect an Orthodox student at Montgomery Blair High School who got a phoned bomb threat at home calling him a “f***ing Zionist” and a “f***ing Jew,” and whose classmates told a friend to stop talking to him because he was a Zionist. (WTOP)
Manchester, NH: Police identified four juveniles as suspects in 15 incidents of antisemitic, racist, and homophobic messages found across the city last week, and their cases are now moving through the juvenile justice system. (Boston 25 News)
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