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Related: About this forum(JEWISH GROUP) Overt Antisemitic and Extreme Anti-Israel Rhetoric Continue to Spike After U.S. Strikes Iran Nuclear Site
(THIS IS THE JEWISH GROUP!)Escalating tensions in the Middle East continue to elicit antisemitic, conspiratorial and extreme anti-Israel reactions from extremists, activists and influencers. On Saturday evening, as the U.S. initiated airstrikes on multiple Iranian regime nuclear facilities, commentary quickly spread across online platforms, largely echoing the extreme antisemitic and anti-Israel rhetoric seen throughout the past ten days since Israel and Iran began exchanging airstrikes.
Echoing Classic Antisemitic Tropes
Mainstream anti-Zionist figures shared accusations that America is doing Israel and AIPACs bidding. Even without openly naming Jews, these reactions play into classic antisemitic tropes about alleged Jewish control of the U.S. and global governments.
Accusing President Trump of Bowing to the Interests of Israel and AIPAC
Nihad Awad, national executive director of the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR), posted on X: U.S. policy: America takes a back seat, Israel takes the wheel. Netanyahu calls the shots. Trump pretends to be in charge.
Basim Elkarra, executive director of CAIRs 501(c)4 affiliate CAIR Action, commented on X that President Trump bombed Israel on AIPAC marching orders.
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Max Blumenthal, an anti-Zionist conspiracy theorist and editor-in-chief of far-left publication The Grayzone, wrote: We live under a Zionist regime that hates us and which will sacrifice us for its ethnosupremacist agenda.

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(JEWISH GROUP) Overt Antisemitic and Extreme Anti-Israel Rhetoric Continue to Spike After U.S. Strikes Iran Nuclear Site (Original Post)
Behind the Aegis
Jun 2025
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madaboutharry
(42,031 posts)1. The long arch of Jew hate continues to prove:
History doesnt repeat itself, but it often rhymes.
Richard D
(10,018 posts)2. Here we are saving...
... Their arses, and they hate us even more.
