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Behind the Aegis

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Thu Jun 26, 2025, 04:49 PM 10 hrs ago

(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 AIPAC’s 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 CAIR’s 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 10 hrs ago OP
The long arch of Jew hate continues to prove: madaboutharry 9 hrs ago #1
Here we are saving... Richard D 7 hrs ago #2

madaboutharry

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1. The long arch of Jew hate continues to prove:
Thu Jun 26, 2025, 05:38 PM
9 hrs ago

“History doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes.”

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