Since his first term in office, President Donald Trump has made no secret of his excessive affection for Israel. Pro-Palestinian protests, which arose as a result of the war in Gaza at American universities under the auspices of young leftists, led him to label the Democratic Party as "supporters of Hamas" and Republicans as the "truly pro-Jewish" party.
However, this approach is gradually ceasing to pay off, as Generation Z Americans are increasingly turning away from support for Israel and Jews in general.
The return of anti-Semitism
Over the past year, the number of openly anti-Semitic posts has increased again, especially on the X network. The world's richest man, Elon Musk, bought it under the name Twitter in October 2022 and immediately canceled some key moderation processes.
This resulted in an uncontrollable increase in posts about "Jewish world domination," Holocaust denial, the excessive influence of Jewish donors on policymaking, and the claim that Israel allegedly "allowed" Hamas to attack in order to have an excuse for "retaliation" in the Gaza Strip.
As early as September 2023, more than a hundred Jewish activists called on advertisers to withdraw their advertising from X, which had become "a breeding ground for anti-Semitism." A few days after Trump's inauguration, 14 Jewish foundations from the United States and Canada announced that they were leaving the platform "that promotes hatred, anti-Semitism, and social polarization."
At the end of September 2025, the American Jewish Committee for Public Affairs (JCPA) published a study concluding that Musk's network "is historically the most dangerous means of spreading anti-Semitism."
According to the latest available data, former Twitter is used by about 95.4 million Americans, although only half of them visit the platform daily. According to a report by the JCPA and the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), only one percent of "anti-Semitic" content was flagged as "problematic."
Researchers used a competing model, ChatGPT-4o, to monitor posts, which calculated that over the total monitoring period from February 1, 2024, to January 31, 2025, more than 679,000 posts were added to the network that, according to X's own rules, fall into the category of "hateful content."
Despite the fact that these posts violated the "community rules" (a kind of internal platform law), they gained 193 million views in 11 months—despite the fact that the X network promised to limit their visibility.
"Of all anti-Semitic posts, 59 percent were identified as conspiracy theories," the researchers said, dividing them into three categories: Jewish world domination or holding real power in the country, Satanic conspiracies, and Holocaust denial. And although they were not as numerous as the JCPA and CCDH had originally expected, these posts received 73 percent of all "hearts" – positive reactions.
To a large extent, this is the result of generational change. The so-called zoomers no longer listen to individualistic slogans that resonated with older conservatives. Phrases such as "color-blind meritocracy" make no sense to zoomers, as they rely on America "being here for Americans."
At the beginning of the year, this backfired on Musk himself, who expressed support for Trump's plan to expand H-1B visas for highly skilled migrants. The threat of hundreds of thousands of Indians flooding the job market was unbearable for recent white American high school graduates, resulting in Musk being labeled with more than one racial slur.
One of the most significant shifts, however, was the reinstatement of well-known anti-Semitic activist Nicholas Fuentes on X. There, he is followed by 1.2 million people, on the Telegram platform he has approximately 115,000 (although these are often the same people), and on the Rumble platform (a video platform similar to YouTube) he has 630,000.
The rift
The rise of Fuentes is symptomatic of the generational divide that is currently growing on the right side of the American political spectrum. Former Fox News host and independent commentator Tucker Carlson is also trying to ride this wave, regularly condemning Israel in his Morning Note posts for "killing Palestinians with American money."
However, as he himself pointed out in several episodes of his podcast of the same name, the former presenter is 56 years old – and therefore no longer able to empathize with the Zoomers generation.
Carlson and Fuentes both praised Trump for recent reports of limiting credit card interest rates to 10 percent and potentially banning large investment firms from buying family homes. Both also criticized Ben Shapiro's recent statement that if young people can't afford to live in New York, they have no right to live there – regardless of whether they were born in the largest city in the US or not.
However, right-wing zoomers have shifted so much politically that even Carlson is no longer considered popular in these circles, similar to Candace Owens. She gained visibility by spreading claims that France's first lady, Brigitte Macron, was born a man, and later addressed the topic of Jeffrey Epstein and the allegations behind the assassination of Charlie Kirk.
Fuentes, however, is an ethno-nationalist. He considers Anglo-Saxon bloodlines, or white skin color, to be the basis of American national identity. This makes him a target of ridicule, as he himself is of Mexican descent on his father's side and Irish-Italian on his mother's side.
Although Carlson is also considered a moderate, he has become embroiled in a conflict that reveals the deeper divide between hardline "America First" nationalists and supporters of Zionism. For several months now, he has been targeted by his former colleague and Fox News commentator Mark Levin—and Carlson has not been shy about responding in kind.
Levin also took aim at Carlson and Owens, first hinting at it, but later openly calling for their "cancellation" (the well-known cancel culture).
"We'll write down the names. We'll find out who works with whom, who promotes whom, who supports whom, and we'll decide based on that. I've heard that 'we don't deplatform people'. Of course we do... We're not going to discuss it, you're the enemy," he declared as the unofficial representative of the Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC) in a debate organized by the Jewish News Syndicate (JNS) on November 3.
The day before, he spoke at the RJC plenary session, where he lashed out at Carlson and Fuentes and again called for their "cancellation." "What do you mean, 'we don't cancel people'? We canceled David Duke. Donald Trump canceled David Duke. We canceled Pat Buchanan. We canceled the John Birch Society. We canceled Joseph Sobran... We cancel things all the time!" he said openly to the audience.
Levin also called Trump "the first Jewish president."
Buchanan was an advisor and speechwriter to Ronald Reagan and ran in the 1992 primaries, but was defeated by George H. W. Bush. Bush was in turn defeated by Bill Clinton, but the conservative Republican was accused of anti-Semitism, which cost him the nomination.
Back in the 1990s, Buchanan recognized what political scientists John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt described in their book The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy (2008) when he said that, in addition to the West Bank and Gaza Strip, he also considered Capitol Hill to be among the "Zionist-occupied territories." His statement has been quoted most frequently in the last year since it was first made, particularly on American social media.
Jewish oligarchy
Another Jewish congressman, Randy Fine, also spoke at the RJC. The Florida politician declared that "Tucker is not MAGA," but this statement received virtually no response except from Fine's closest supporters. He recently submitted a bill to the House of Representatives that would authorize the White House and the Pentagon to occupy Greenland, which Trump allegedly desires.
In his biography, Fine states that he was involved in the casino and gambling industry, establishing his own casino chain in his native Arizona and neighboring Nevada. He followed in the footsteps of the men who "founded Las Vegas," namely Louis "Lepke" Buchalter, Meyer Lansky, and Bugsy Siegel.
These men were at the birth of the self-proclaimed National Crime Syndicate – an alliance of the Jewish and Italian mafias. And while the Italian mafia has weakened to the point where films like The Godfather are made about it, the Jewish mafia is practically never mentioned.
From the early 1940s, these mafiosi began to legalize their income through casinos. They then used this money to influence American politics through lobbying.
Prominent political donor Sheldon Adelson also came from the same gambling environment. Politico magazine described him as a "single-issue" donor whose only interest was whether the politician in question would unwaveringly support Israel.
"Adelson, who was a supporter of 'the right to choose' [abortion, ed.] and was socially liberal, in fact regularly supported pro-Israel Republican candidates whose views on social issues were at odds with his own," the weekly noted in an obituary in December 2021.
Another prominent Jewish donor who is pushing Trump to "acquire" Greenland is cosmetics empire heir and billionaire Ronald Lauder. He attended the same school as the president—the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania—and has also been a long-time supporter of pro-Israel politicians.
He was also one of the first investors in the mineral industry on the world's largest island. In addition to him, Forbes magazine named others who are apparently preparing for a new wave of American imperialism: Jeff Bezos, Sam Altman, Michael Bloomberg, Bill Gates, and Peter Thiel.
The donor activities of the late Sheldon Adelson have been taken over by his widow Miriam, whom Trump recently took on a visit to Israel. During a speech in the Israeli parliament, the Knesset, he recounted a "funny story" that sparked new "anti-Semitic" accusations, this time of dual loyalty.
The American Jewish Congress (AJC) defines this accusation as a "bigoted trope" based on one's own understanding of Jewish identity and the subsequent presumed affinity for the Jewish state (Israel), which may conflict with loyalty to the country in which one resides.
Trump said in the Knesset that Adelson "has $60 billion in the bank," which she uses to lobby for Israeli or Jewish interests. While Sheldon was still alive, the couple allegedly convinced him to move the US embassy to Jerusalem and recognize the annexation of the Syrian Golan Heights.
"She really loves this country. I'm probably going to get her in trouble for this, but I once asked her, 'So, Miriam, I know you love Israel. Which country do you love more, the United States or Israel? ' And she refused to answer — and that could mean Israel," he concluded.
Allies and opponents
Other Trump allies, especially in South America, are also openly and vehemently siding with the Jewish state. Argentine President Javier Milei unofficially converted to Judaism after winning the 2023 election and, according to a report in The Economist, "studies the Torah and attends synagogue."
Prominent Venezuelan politician and Nobel Peace Prize laureate María Corina Machado, meanwhile, has drawn a clear line between herself and the recently kidnapped President Nicolás Maduro.
"Since Hugo Chávez came to power, Venezuela has become one of the most hostile countries in Latin America towards Israel and Zionism," said the designated vice president of Edmundo González Urrutia, whom the US and the EU consider the winner of the last presidential election. "His successor has continued the anti-Israel course even more intensely," she added to the daily Israel Hayom.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán is equally pro-Israel, having received his Israeli counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu on an official visit last April, despite the fact that he was supposed to execute an arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal Court in The Hague.
At the beginning of the year, fires broke out again in southern Argentina and Chile, in a region known as Patagonia. As in 2011 and 2014, locals attribute these fires to "Israeli tourists" who buy burned land at a lower price. Retired Argentine General César Milani claimed the same, although he did not provide any evidence.
However, reports of the fires (which are still unclear whether they were started intentionally) immediately began to be linked on social media to footage of anti-Zionist protests in June 2025 and historical plans to establish a Jewish state in the area.
Trump's excessive support for Israel—which, according to his recent voters, is at the expense of the US—may cost him his place in the sun. Although his term would not end in the event of his resignation (and he would be replaced by Vice President JD Vance under the Constitution), any Republican with Trump's support would sooner or later become unelectable for young right-wingers.
At the end of March, the president himself expressed his desire for a third term, which is prohibited by the 22nd Amendment to the US Constitution. The Standard discussed ways in which this constitutional provision could be circumvented, as well as possible obstacles that would arise in the process of "entering a third term."
Growing anti-Semitism in the US is also fueled by Trump's cover-up of the files of the late pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. Many in America and around the world consider him to be an agent of the Israeli secret service Mossad. The Trump administration's unwillingness to release the Florida grand jury files thus appears to be "protecting Israeli interests."
According to Zoomers, American intervention in the Middle East, and recently against Iran in particular, is in direct contradiction to the slogan "Make America Great Again," whose agenda was supposed to focus primarily on domestic issues. Rejecting the eternal games of empire was a leitmotif that attracted undecided voters in the last election, who may turn away again this November.
The United States is awaiting the so-called midterms – elections for vacant seats in the Senate and House of Representatives, as well as elections to several state parliaments. Even before the elections on November 3, primaries are scheduled to start in March. All 435 congressmen and 35 senators (two substitutes for Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Vice President JD Vance) will be elected.
In thirteen states, Senate by-elections will be held before November 3. In Ohio, Georgia, California, Iowa, South Carolina, New York, Arizona, Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin—ten states in total—governors will also be elected.
Trump is counting on strengthening Republicans by publicly endorsing them, but in light of this radical shift, some candidates may see the opposite effect. This could result in the president's party losing its majority in one of the two chambers of Congress, paralyzing the government as a whole. Not so long ago, this happened to Barack Obama and Joe Biden.
This process has already proven to be realistic. Last year, New York City elected a mayor, and the three strongest candidates appeared in one of the pre-election debates. While two of them talked about Israel and Ukraine, the third answered the question "Where would you go after the election?" with "I would stay in New York and work for New Yorkers."
That candidate was Zohran Mamdani, who was sworn in on January 1 and became the first Muslim mayor of New York. The warning against imperialist adventurism "in favor of Israel" is therefore more than present.