MORNING GLORY: 2026 should be year antisemitism becomes unacceptable in America again

There has been a more-or-less changeless but comparatively tiny level of antisemitism successful the post-World War II United States, but it was wide shunned and those who gave dependable to it were marginalized. Opposition to antisemitism was portion of the "American Consensus" aft the warfare and the Holocaust. Along with the breakthrough successful contention relations that accompanied the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the crook against antisemitism was sharp, sustained and broadly shared.

Although relations betwixt the United States and Israel roseate and fell, the acceptability of Jew-hatred plummeted to adjacent zero successful the U.S., and from the 1967 Six Day War and the 1973 Yom Kippur War, American enactment for the State of Israel has been precocious and steady. 

Israel has go 1 of America’s astir important strategical allies — a atomic and quality superpower with the volition to task hard powerfulness erstwhile indispensable successful its ain nationalist interest, which usually coincides with America’s. Prior to Hamas’ penetration of Israel and the massacre and kidnapping that followed successful the Jewish State connected October 7, 2023, attacks connected Jewish synagogues and centers successful the U.S. had been infrequent, though sometimes tragically deadly. 

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From the shooting connected March 23, 1960, astatine the Congregation Beth Israel successful Gadsden, Alabama, erstwhile a achromatic supremacist wounded 2 of the congregants, to the deadliest antisemitic onslaught successful the country’s past astatine the Tree of Life Synagogue successful Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, successful October of 2018 successful which 11 victims were murdered and six much wounded –  attacks connected Jewish gatherings were rare. 

When different execution and wounding happened astatine Chabad of Poway successful Poway, California six months later, concerns roseate dramatically, but the United States did not thereafter witnesser much deadly attacks connected Jews, and the interest focused connected achromatic supremacist hatred groups. 

Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman greets Pittsburgh Mayor Ed Gainey astatine the Commemoration Ceremony connected the 5th day of the Tree of Life synagogue onslaught connected October 27, 2023, successful Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The shooting, the deadliest onslaught connected Jews successful U.S. history, near 11 dormant aft a gunman stormed a synagogue successful Pittsburgh's Squirrel Hill neighborhood. (Getty)

Compared to the immense water of antisemitism successful Europe and particularly the Middle East, American Jews lived successful bid and information — though with an consciousness of the request for vigilance against the deranged.

That has changed since the atrocities of 10/7.

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In the aftermath of Hamas’ invasion, Hezbollah attacked Israel from its stronghold successful Lebanon, arsenic did the Houthis successful Yemen and assorted Iranian-backed militias successful Iraq and Syria. When Israel began its counterattacks, the immense bulk of Americans saw a "just war." But opportunists successful the United States saw successful that conscionable warfare a accidental to usage the massacre and its aftermath to marque large bucks via the "attention economy," arsenic I archetypal heard my chap Fox News contributor Mary Katharine Ham picture it. They began truthful archetypal by attacking archetypal Israel’s counterattacks and efforts to retrieve its hostages and dilatory by expanding their rhetoric to age-old antisemitic tropes astir Jews. 

Israel’s "just war" continues. The ceasefire connected the Gaza beforehand successful that warfare is mostly holding though Hamas continues to interruption its terms. Hezbollah has repeatedly violated the presumption of its cease-fire, drafting Israeli responses, and Iran has rushed to physique ballistic missiles to regenerate the thousands it fired astatine Israel successful the 12-day nonstop conflict with Israel which President Trump brought to a accelerated extremity with Operation Midnight Hammer, which crushed Iran’s decades-long effort to make atomic weapons. 

A fistful of the station 10/7 attention-economy opportunists utilized their podcasts and websites to intentionally pursuit the "return-on-investment" that antisemitic contented abruptly offered arsenic the struggle astir Israel intensified. Those parasites benefitted from outright supporters of Hamas and enemies of Israel who staged demonstrations, marches, "occupations" crossed the state —mostly connected assemblage campuses. 

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Vile rhetoric against Jews skyrocketed online. So did "antisemitic incidents," successful the jargon of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Whether it was Jewish students trapped successful the Cooper Union assemblage room successful Manhattan oregon Jewish students denied entree to parts of the UCLA campus, the past 2 years person been afloat of overt assaults against American Jews that were antecedently unthinkable — until Hamas launched its massacre and Hezbollah successful Lebanon and the Houthis successful Yemen joined in, with each of the terrorists bankrolled and trained by "the caput of the snake" successful Iran. 

The planetary scope of the web allowed the enemies of Israel, the United States and the West mostly to instrumentality those U.S.-based voices/platforms which decided to monetize antisemitism successful the U.S. and amplify them globally, utilizing bots and integer stooges to thrust traffic. The extremity was to instrumentality marginalized, discredited views and unit them into the mainstream of American discourse. 

Even arsenic President Donald Trump returned to bureau – restoring the strongest protagonist of Israel ever to inhabit the Oval Office — and appointed superior prosecutors of hatred crime and amerciable discrimination, including Harmeet Dhillon, the adjunct lawyer wide for the Civil Rights Division to the Department of Justice, antisemitic rage continued to blossom online. While this improvement is chiefly rooted successful the American governmental left, immoderate elected officials in some parties have echoed antisemitic tropes oregon lent enactment to the anti-Israel jihad. 

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2026 should people the withering of American antisemitic platforms arsenic the wide American nationalist grows precise tired, precise accelerated of the anti-Jewish hatred and lunatic conspiracies, and yet realizes that arguing with oregon debating people who beryllium connected the "attention economy" is the past happening to do.

The twelvemonth 2026 should people the withering of American antisemitic platforms arsenic the wide American nationalist grows precise tired, precise accelerated of the anti-Jewish hatred and lunatic conspiracies, and yet realizes that arguing with oregon debating people who beryllium connected the "attention economy" is the past happening to do. (iStock)

Refusing to announcement overmuch little level the profiteers is the champion tactic. Starve them of existent attention. They cannot past connected bot farms alone. Ignore them. All of them. Do not prosecute online. Instead, to get from erstwhile Tennessee Republican Sen. Lamar Alexander, who borrowed from writer Alex Haley: "Find the bully and praise it." I’ll add: "And subscribe to it." 

Two examples from among galore which outgo a fewer dollars: "Call Me Back Insider," wherever Dan Senor is gathering a large enterprise, and the Patreon relationship of Israel’s mentation of the precocious Charles Krauthammer, Haviv Rettig Gur. These, on with the Commentary mag and its podcast, are the dense weights of anti-antisemitism and anti-anti-Israel hate.

I impulse you to wage attraction and see patronizing them. There is an effect akin to Gresham’s Law astir atrocious wealth driving retired bully money: Good speech, dependable logic and persuasive statement yet thrust retired bigoted rants and conspiracy theories each time. Bottom line: Shut the pipelines of bigotry off. You don’t request them. 

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Legacy media successful the U.S. simply doesn’t recognize what has happened successful the aftermath of 10/7. When it recognizes the antisemitic tidal question astatine all, it reflexively warns of a mostly non-existent anti-Islamic hatred crossed the land. This faux "balance" is conscionable the astir evident grounds of a diseased contented provider. 

Most of the bequest outlets are captained successful their assorted besieged castles by bequest journalists who came retired of bequest pipelines with worldviews formed by the aged near astatine the bequest elite schools who beryllium atop a DEI-poisoned "newsrooms." A fistful of affluent people/foundations are keeping the lights connected astatine a fewer of those platforms due to the fact that of their mistaken condemnation that determination is simply a immense conflict underway to undermine "democracy" successful the U.S. and that President Trump is immoderate benignant of modern-day Savonarola alternatively of a popularly elected president with 3 years remaining successful his term. 

They besides garbage to admit — overmuch little applaud — that President Trump has already achieved a palmy 2nd word by crushing Iran’s atomic ambitions and restarting the immense American economy, mostly by extending and expanding his archetypal taxation cuts, cutting regulations and supercharging vigor production, frankincense lowering the outgo of everything.

 "Trump Derangement Syndrome" has helped empower the antisemitic fringe by marginalizing antecedently important voices who are shackled by their anti-Trump sunk costs. They garbage to applaud thing "45-47" does though they erstwhile were vocal and influential supporters of Israel — and Trump remains the astir pro-Israel president successful U.S. history. 

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Like the British Tories who kept connected hating Winston Churchill agelong aft the penetration of Poland made each important prime crystal clear, the "Never Trump" rump person sidelined themselves successful this important epoch due to the fact that they cannot carnivore to enactment Trump oregon his appointees successful immoderate way. The years 2026 done 2028 volition beryllium choosing years astatine the ballot container connected antisemitism and enactment for Israel. Side with the Constitution and its extortion of each faiths and individuals — oregon don’t.

As has been the lawsuit for hundreds of years, the choosing begins with the Jews. Stand with them – and the world’s lone Jewish State – oregon basal with the different side, which, successful a word, is Mordor. 

Hugh Hewitt is simply a Fox News contributor and big of "The Hugh Hewitt Show" heard weekday afternoons from 3 PM to 6 PM ET connected the Salem Radio Network, and simulcast connected Salem News Channel. Hugh drives Americans location connected the East Coast and to luncheon connected the West Coast connected implicit 400 affiliates nationwide, and connected each the streaming platforms wherever SNC tin beryllium seen. He is simply a predominant impermanent connected the Fox News Channel’s quality roundtable, hosted by Bret Baier weekdays astatine 6pm ET. A lad of Ohio and a postgraduate of Harvard College and the University of Michigan Law School, Hewitt has been a Professor of Law astatine Chapman University’s Fowler School of Law since 1996 wherever helium teaches Constitutional Law. Hewitt launched his eponymous vigor amusement from Los Angeles successful 1990. Hewitt has often appeared connected each large nationalist quality tv network, hosted tv shows for PBS and MSNBC, written for each large American paper, has authored a twelve books and moderated a people of Republican campaigner debates, astir precocious the November 2023 Republican statesmanlike statement successful Miami and 4 Republican statesmanlike debates successful the 2015-16 cycle. Hewitt focuses his vigor amusement and his file connected the Constitution, nationalist security, American authorities and the Cleveland Browns and Guardians. Hewitt has interviewed tens of thousands of guests from Democrats Hillary Clinton and John Kerry to Republican Presidents George W. Bush and Donald Trump implicit his 40 years successful broadcasting. This file previews the pb communicative that volition thrust his radio/ TV amusement today.

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