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I am worried that the “when” has come to the United States.

Mar 13, 2026

This is a difficult subject for me, and I know many of you tune out when I write this way. I won’t be offended if you choose not to read. But if you read all the way through, I promise you’ll get something out of this because I feel I need to address it (again).

Over the centuries, Jews have developed a fine-tuned dark humor. Just watch Borat and you’ll get a taste. Such humor is refined through continued actual persecution. My forebears, in the Baltics and Eastern Europe, found themselves caught between the anti-semitic White Russians, who called them Christ killers and traded blood libels, and the Bolsheviks (though some Jews were part of that group) who found them far too stiffnecked and tending to bourgeois values. What else can you do as you flee with the clothes on your back and whatever valuables you can sell to get to a better life? You laugh. They laughed, when they were not crying.

No matter how things turn out in the world, this is always true: some people will find a way to blame “the Jews” for it. Jews are blamed for toxic capitalism and communism (Marx was born to a Jewish family but raised Christian). When Jews adopt Christianity, many Christians are suspicious of their motives. When Jews stick with their own identity and religion, everyone else is suspicious of them. It’s always so, and eventually, even the U.S., which was almost the land of milk and honey for many generations of Jews, turns sour.

That’s not to say Jews have always been accepted in America. For the most part, Jews have been left alone to live as any American, though dealing with hate groups like the Ku Klux Klan. The prejudice was much softer: Jews were not welcome in the Ivy League, or at country clubs, or in certain professions or companies. Henry Ford was notoriously and publicly anti-semitic. Ford’s friend Thomas Edison shared many of the stereotypes and negative tropes surrounding Jews. Walt Disney was reported to be suspicious and extra-careful in business dealings with Jews, though he employed many in his company and worked alongside them. There are even half-hearted attempts to paint Disney as a Nazi sympathizer.

Perhaps that’s the “normal” view of Jews in the business and entertainment world. The stereotypical Jew is a canny and shrewd negotiator, and particularly fond of money. According to the latest polling (which, admittedly, is sparse), about 43 percent of Americans have never met a Jew, or have no personal acquaintances who are Jewish. That’s something around 117 million people in America. It’s not surprising that the stereotypes rule when Jews make up about 2 percent of the population, mostly living in the New York City area, Boston, and other urban centers. If you live in, say, Utah, you’re probably not going to meet a lot of Jews, if any.

The tropes find a place in people’s minds because rich, powerful Jews are always popping up in the news. I don’t have to work hard to come up with names in a positive or negative light. Jeffrey Epstein, Bernie Madoff, and Sam Bankman-Fried to name a few; or Mark Zuckerberg, David Solomon (CEO of Goldman Sachs), Jennifer Salke (head of Amazon MGM) in the business and entertainment world.

Even poor Jews are looked at with an eye toward “they have money, they just don’t want to show it.” Perhaps there’s some nugget of truth there. When your people have been turned away from just about every western nation on earth, stripped of their possessions, hunted to near extinction, and blamed for practically every calamity to befall modern man, there’s almost a genetic need to seek security, and that’s one thing money can buy.

I remember joining a synagogue in the south, and seeing their balance sheet. There was a lot of money and property there, and I asked what these large figures were for, when they could be used for various charitable or religious purposes. “The continuation of the community” was the answer. You just never know when the world will turn, when you’re Jewish. That’s why dark humor is funny to us, because it’s not about “if” the world will turn, it’s “when”.

I am worried that the “when” has come to the United States.

There is a particular nexus of hate that I see forming in America against Jews. Events like the guy who drove his truck into a reform synagogue in Michigan yesterday are just the outward signs of it. There’s also the guy who firebombed the governor’s mansion in Pennsylvania while Gov. Josh Shapiro and his family were home celebrating the holidays. In politics, Jews have always hit a glass ceiling. It’s fine to have Henry Kissinger as Secretary of State, or Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff as close advisers to the president, but when Democrats were faced with a choice in 2024, Kamala Harris chose Tim Walz over Shapiro, and don’t tell me it wasn’t because of Shapiro’s public Jewishness.

Neither Republicans or Democrats have ever nominated a Jew as a presidential candidate. Sen. Bernie Sanders came close—he’s not an observant Jew, and many of his positions are opposed to Israel, politically—but he is ethnically Jewish. Michael Bloomberg, Sen. Joe Lieberman, Arlen Specter and other Jewish politicians have run but never got the nod. Lieberman ran as Vice President on the 2000 ticket with Al Gore, and came very close to winning.

The dearth of personal experience with Jews for many, and the abundance of information, much of it false and derogatory, flying around, along with people whose worldview naturally biases them, is a powerful force in shaping a vague national position. The National Opinion Research Center’s 2000 General Social Survey found 9 percent of Americans would object to living in a neighborhood where “half of your neighbors were Jews,” while 13 percent would oppose having a close relative “marry a Jewish person.” Perhaps it’s not singling out Jews, because 98 percent of the U.S. population is not Jewish, and would rather live with people like themselves. But a 2006 Gallup poll still found 5 percent of Americans would rather not have any Jews as neighbors.

Jewish organizations are quick to point out that nearly 60 percent of hate crimes in the U.S., according to FBI data, are against Jews. If that’s not targeting, I don’t know what would be. But this has been fairly consistent, up some, down some, over the years. People with hate in their hearts and a grudge somehow find the Jews a convenient target.

I am worried that the “when” has come to the United States.

But that’s not the biggest problem, or the one that troubles me most. Worldwide, very well listened-to people with wide audiences are strident anti-semites. Some are artists like Roger Waters (I used to listen to Pink Floyd, and now I skip it when it comes up or turn if off on the radio), or Charlotte Church in the U.K. There’s Greta Thunberg, who isn’t outright a Jew hater but identifies closely with Hamas. In politics, there’s Jimmie Åkesson, leader of the Sweden Democrats party; Viktor Orbán, prime minister of Hungary; Jean-Luc Mélenchon, leader of La France Insoumise; George Galloway, leader of the Workers Party in the U.K.; and Jeremy Corbin, the notorious former Labor Party leader who enjoys massive support in England.

It’s interesting to note that both the far-left and far-right political positions in Europe share a hatred of Jews. I don’t think that’s an accident or coincidence.

These people influence tens of millions in Europe and around the world. And of course, many countries that identify as Islamic harbor rabid anti-semites, though that has softened with the Abraham Accords and the warming of relations between Israel and many Gulf and north African nations. But in most Islamic nations, which at one time included hundreds of thousands of Jews, there are practically none anymore. They were all expelled or emigrated to Israel.

There have always been Jew haters in Europe. It’s like an ever-present cloud (I mentioned dark humor). But that’s not the biggest problem either.

In America, three so-called conservative voices blare out anti-semitic garbage and blood libels against Jews. Candace Owens, Nick Fuentes, and Tucker Carlson are at the forefront of a new American Jew hater bloc. And they reach tens of millions of Americans’ ears. Owens’ Youtube channel sports 5.9 million subscribers (small by comparison to, say, Mr. Beast, but not inconsequential). Carlson’s independent show on X usually gets tens of millions of views. Fuentes has a smaller following but still hits into the millions of views; his followers are core “Groypers” who are steeped in conspiracies and Jew-bashing.

These voices have overlap in their audience, probably between 20 to 50 percent. What’s troubling is the echo chamber and reinforcement this creates among millions of Americans, many of whom have never met a Jew in person. It’s easy to blame and hate people who are forever “them”. This ecosystem normalizes hate and sometimes even violence by “just asking questions.” They deal in religious and historical falsehoods, spread blood libels, and claim conspiracies when no evidence exists.

The Pittsburgh synagogue massacre, the 2017 Charlottesville, the recent Michigan attack occurred during spikes in viewership and listenership of these voices. On the political left, a different audience hears Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, and outlets like The Intercept and Al Jazeera; podcasters such as Nina Turner; and of course, universities that allow anti-Jew teaching and sentiment to bloom.

Both the left and right enjoy spreading Jewish control conspiracies, blood libels, Holocaust denial, and scapegoating/victim blaming by saying Jews brought attacks on themselves. Many liberal celebrities add soft anti-Jew bias by taking up positions critical of Israel, including BDS (Boycott, Divest, Sanction).

The amplified voices of anti-semitism and Jew hatred (which are the same thing) have a very wide audience. We’re talking hundreds of millions of Americans. On the left, the language and reasoning is in terms of social justice; on the right, it’s “Christian nationalism” and replacement theology.

If anyone, from any point on the political spectrum, wants to hear ear-tickling that includes either subtle or strident Jew-hatred, it’s not hard to tune in. Every month, 50 to 100 million right-wing Americans do; and on the left, it’s 100-200 million. The drumbeat never stops, and the left/right audiences do not overlap. In fact, they hate each other in every way except agreeing about “the Jews.”

How is this different from my family just a few generations ago, fleeing the Pogroms in eastern Europe? It’s not. Since October 7, 2023, we’ve seen the pictures of hostages ripped down from light poles, university students having protests and sit-ins supporting Hamas, marches all over the country sporting Palestinian flags, and a general disdain for Israel. Now, when the U.S. is actively supporting Israel and its military, the far-right says we are “puppets” of Israel, and that Jews are “controlling” President Trump.

The facts are smothered by the lies. The Iranian regime hates both America and Israel. We are the “great Satan” and Israel is the “little Satan.” Both of us are considered to be the devil.

Now I’m going to get theological. I’ve said it before, and for many years believed this. God’s “Chosen People” are not chosen because God wants to shower them with roses and riches and comfort. They are being refined like gold and alloyed like steel to stand when the rest of the world opposes them. They are selected to survive even when they should be destroyed. This is the Jews. The reason Jews, who make up around 0.02 percent of the world population, win over 25 percent of Nobel Prizes is because Jews are gifted with stubbornness, along with a very strong sense of culture, supported by the Torah and the Old Testament prophets. God gave those to the Jews; even Muslims acknowledge Jews as “People of the Book.”

Jews are a very bright light in a dark world. That doesn’t mean all Jews are good, or super smart, or rich, but it means that most Jews get educated, work hard, and are kind, charitable, and rational in dealing with others, even non-Jews. The ones that go bad can go really bad, and there’s a spectrum of behavior like any people, but the bar is set higher. That’s what being “chosen” of God means. It means the “root of Jesse” that produced King David, and later, Yeshua, the Christian savior, didn’t die off or disappear. Jews now have Israel and have come roaring back into history.

I personally know there is a God—one God—and I believe in the Holy Trinity. I also know there is an enemy, Satan. Satan is a created being; he cannot overcome God, but he does hate his maker, and therefore, hurts God in the only way he can, by robbing glory and love and relationship from the only thing God created in His own image: mankind.

We always hear things referred to as “demonic.” Tucker Carlson claimed that a demon attacked him physically, and he had to pray that off of him. Moody Bible Institute professor Fred Dickason has argued that Christians can in fact be demon-possessed. One theologian (I don’t want to name because I’m not sure of attribution), when asked if a Christian can have a demon, answered, “a Christian can have whatever he wants.” I don’t know or claim to know if Tucker Carlson is demon-possessed, but he sure acts like it.

Jew hatred is beyond “demonic.” Things like witchcraft, adultery, pornography, child trafficking—those things are demonic. Jew hatred is satanic. It is the core of the devil’s mission, to rob God of glory and honor in the hearts of humanity. This is why Jew hatred involves dehumanizing others. It’s why people consumed with Jew hatred dehumanize themselves, like the Hamas terrorists who turned into beasts, raping, murdering, beheading, putting babies in ovens, in an orgy of blood and rage.

What’s going on in America is satanic. The podcasts, the videos, the constant stream of anti-semitism, the “just asking questions” about denying the Holocaust, or how Jews “control” the world, or have space lasers, or drink the blood of Christian children, or that Chabad is a sleeper cell penetrating the U.S. government. That’s satanic.

The devil’s best play is to convince people that he doesn’t exist, then have others do his bidding. The image of Satan with horns and a tail is a convenient myth the devil uses to make himself into a cartoon figure, a harmless trope for movies and television and books. But Satan is real, he is not dumb, and he has incredible power to bend the minds of people who are not wise to his ways. He has cultivated voices all over the world in service to himself and his objectives.

While Israel is beating its enemies militarily, and the U.S. is exhibiting more power than any nation in the history of the world, the devil has moved past that kind of power. America is moving away from its roots as a haven for Jews, and I believe the tip of the iceberg is all we are seeing. I hope that I don’t live to see Jews fleeing or being expelled from our shores, but I think it’s a “when” rather than an “if” at this point.

Satan isn’t a horns and tail devil. Satan is polished, “just asking questions” (like he did with Eve in the Garden of Eden), appealing to reason and justice and a sense of fairness.

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