The US has seen the aggravation of contradictions surrounding genuine American identity.
Mohammed Amer
(It is characteristic that President Trump has sharply criticized South African leadership for allegedly “persecuting the white minority”: this was the reason for Washington’s boycotting the G20 summit in South Africa.)
Currently, heated and intense disputes are taking place within the American intellectual elite about the appeal of anti-Semitic ideas to young conservatives. Following Trump’s electoral victory, right-wingers adhering to the “America First” slogan came out against immigration and globalisation and grew skeptical of foreign military commitments, including the US alliance with Israel. The New York Times even raised the question: how soon will nationalism open the door to anti-Semitism?
Is Tucker Carlson Promoting Anti-Semitic Ideas?
The prominent political commentator Tucker Carlson found fault with a purely American concept of the 20th century: the Judeo-Christian consensus. In an August podcast, Carlson explained that after reading the Old Testament, he was shocked by its violence, vengeance, and genocide, adding that “Western civilization is derived from the New Testament: the main difference between the West and the rest of the world, not just Israel, but any other country, is that we do not believe in collective punishment.”
In recent years, many Americans have begun to express dissatisfaction with Israel’s excessively large role in US foreign policy
Interestingly, Trump defended T. Carlson for his interview with white nationalist Nick Fuentes, who explicitly supports anti-Semitic theories (Elon Musk reinstated Fuentes’s account on social network X, where he has over a million followers). Fuentes continues excoriating conservatives who support Israel and, according to The Washington Post, promotes racist and anti-Semitic ideas.
Radical right-wing conservatives are making use of global condemnation of the Israeli genocide in Gaza and the violent actions of Israeli settlers in the West Bank as a license to openly accuse Israel of expansionist policy.
In recent years, many Americans have begun to express dissatisfaction with Israel’s excessively large role in US foreign policy.
The trend is now gaining ground: on the evening of October 7, 2023, immediately after Hamas’s attack on Israel, a declaration was published and signed by more than 30 Harvard “solidarity with Palestine” groups. It stated, “We, the undersigned student organisations, hold the Israeli regime entirely responsible for all unfolding violence.”
As noted by the renown Israeli figure Avigdor Lieberman, leader of the “Our Home Israel” party, America is now undergoing a profound change of heart, as the MAGA (Make America Great Again) movement and many supporters of Israel are expressing their dissatisfaction with how Israel steers the giant machine of the United States of America.
The Jewish Lobby in America Is in Retreat
On the eve of his election, Z. Mamdani was called a “Marxist-Islamist” by a CNN commentator. President D. Trump, who made his fortune in New York real estate, labelled him a “communist.”
As of January 1, 2026, Mamdani, a democratic socialist drastically different from European social democrats, will lead the world’s financial capital. And this Muslim, a supporter of Palestine, has become the mayor of a city with a Jewish population roughly equal to that of Tel Aviv.
Given the new mayor’s growing popularity, Trump recently, refraining from insults directed at Mamdani, expressed his desire to speak with him at the White House. The meeting took place on November 21. And given Mamdani’s rising popularity, Trump attempted to reconcile with him by taking the deployment of the National Guard in New York off the agenda.
The election result should be largely put down to record turnout and the mobilisation of 100,000 volunteers: they “uprooted the cynicism that determines American politics” (Mamdani’s words, cited by Le Monde Diplomatique on 07.11.2025). Jewish billionaires such as Bill Ackman and Michael Bloomberg (the former mayor of New York) spent tens of millions of dollars in vain, trying to prove that municipal kindergartens, rent control, and free public transport are communist heresy in the United States.
The old guard of the Democratic Party was the one to have lost these elections, particularly New Yorker Chuck Schumer, the leader of the Senate Democrats, whose parliamentary career has been largely funded by the pro-Israel lobby, and who refused to endorse Mamdani.
The Israeli issue is increasingly prevailing in American media. According to a November 17 report by The Jerusalem Post, Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib and 20 other Democratic congressmen introduced a resolution calling on the US to officially recognise that Israeli military operations in the Gaza Strip since October 2023 constitute a genocide against the Palestinians. The draft states that US policy should aim at halting military hardware supplies to Israel due to concerns that a genocide is taking place in the country.
The majority of Americans come out in favour of US recognition of a Palestinian state. According to the Reuters polls, 59% of respondents backed the idea, while only 33% were against it; 80% of Democrats and 41% of Republicans (The Jerusalem Post, 24.10.2025).
Even staunch, well-known supporters of Israel are now beginning to put the blame for the rise in anti-Semitic sentiment on extremists in the Israeli government and the excessive activity of the US Jewish lobby. In this regard, the prominent Israel supporter Thomas Friedman made a very indicative move, by stating in his article in The New York Times on November 18 that “Israeli Prime Minister B. Netanyahu and his enablers (including pro-Israel lobby AIPAC, which provided air cover for Netanyahu in Washington during his 18 years in power) have done more to undermine the long-term security of Israel and the Jewish people than any Hamas fighter.”
Everything mentioned above testifies that supporters of strengthening white influence among Republicans are increasingly distancing themselves from the traditional policy of unconditional support for Israel, understanding that the continuation of such a course is not welcomed by the populace and only weakens the Republican Party’s positions. In fact, Trump’s own peace plan for Gaza sent a powerful signal on this path, showing the world that American interests may differ from those of Israel.
The American press has seen the growing condemnation of Israeli extremists who intend to create a Jewish state from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea, stripped of as many Palestinian Arabs as possible. Recently, the newspaper Politico ran an article on the contents of the discussions in a Telegram group chat involving leaders of young Republican groups in four states: they made anti-Semitic remarks, called Black people monkeys, and discussed sending their political opponents to gas chambers.
All this makes the alarm bells in Israel toll louder, especially since the American Middle Eastern Studies Association, which represents major economics departments, recently noted that Israel is a colonial project of settlers, and Jewish students have to veil their identity in an atmosphere created in the academic environment. According to the Israeli press, anti-Semitic content is exploding across social media.
There is no doubt that the activation of ties between the American administration and the wealthy Arab monarchies of the Persian Gulf plays a certain role in weakening the Netanyahu government’s clout in Washington.
Nevertheless, the influence of the Jewish lobby on US policy yet remains significant, but the struggle in this arena is set to intensify in the near future.
Mohammed Amer, Syrian publicist
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