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Category Archives: Anti-Semitism
One Night In Miami
Video: CBS News Miami’s Anna McAllister reports live from South Beach, where a group including far-right figures Andrew Tate and Nick Fuentes allegedly requested the banned Kanye West song “Heil Hitler” at Vendôme nightclub. The incident, which involved a song … Continue reading
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Hatred Scales Fast
David Pinsof notes: “Hatred is designed to detect negative correlations between our biological fitness and someone else’s.” According to the The Neutralization Theory of Hatred: Hatred is triggered by cues that an individual’s existence causes fitness decrements for the hater. … Continue reading
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How’s it working out for Jews to get laws passed making BDS illegal?
ChatGPT says: Alliance Theory says the anti-BDS laws were a short-term elite win and a long-term strategic loss for Jews in the United States. Here’s how it’s actually working out. First, it reframed Jews from a protected minority into a … Continue reading
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How are promiscuous and unfounded accusations of anti-semitism working out for Jews in America?
Tucker Carlson noticed in 2016 that his most intense critics, and those of Donald Trump, were pro-Israel, and this likely encouraged Tucker to turn on Israel. ChatGPT says: Alliance Theory gives a grim answer. This strategy has backfired, and the … Continue reading
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Reactions To Yoram Hazony’s Anti-Semitism Speech Reflect Pre-Existing Alliances
ChatGPT says: Pre-existing political orientation is doing most of the work here. Alliance Theory predicts this almost mechanically. Yoram Hazony is not being evaluated primarily on truth or consequences. He is being evaluated on coalition fit. Nationalist-leaning Jews tend to … Continue reading
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The Bridge and the Moat: Jewish Survival Inside Gentile Nationalisms (1-28-26)
01:00 Will Trump push for mandatory e-verify? https://www.aporiamagazine.com/p/the-trouble-with-trumps-deportations02:00 Tucker Carlson is The Most Powerful Man on the Right (w/ Jason Zengerle), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6hcq2n26oY10:00 Israel has never been stronger nor more unpopular, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=16730212:00 Yoram Hazony on Anti-Semitism and the American Right, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=16729014:00 … Continue reading
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Anti-Semitism and the American Right
Yoram Hazony says: My speech at the Second International Conference on Anti-Semitism in Jerusalem, January 27, 2026. I. Anti-Semitism in the Republican Party I’d like to say a few words today about the place of Jews—and of anti-Semites—in the Republican … Continue reading
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The Pro-Israel Strategy
ChatGPT says: Alliance Theory treats “the pro-Israel lobby” not as a single hidden hand, but as a loose coalition of institutions and networks that try to keep Israel embedded inside the dominant Western alliance system and to keep Western elites … Continue reading
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Jewish Conservatives Are Terrified Of Tucker Carlson
Jason Zengerle, the author of the new book, Hated by All the Right People: Tucker Carlson and the Unraveling of the Conservative Mind, says Jewish conservatives are terrified of Tucker. Zengerle says Tucker turned against israel when he noticed that … Continue reading
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How Will The Bondi Massacre Rewire Australian Jews?
ChatGPT says: Alliance Theory would predict three layered reactions, driven by how the massacre reorders ally and rival maps for Australian Jews. Boundary hardening and in-group consolidation A public act of violence against Jews sharpens identity. People who were loosely … Continue reading
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