Anti-Semitism
January 14, 2026 — Scott Johnson
A sick axis now deforms the conservative movement. I call it the Axis of Tucker. The symptom of the sickness is a familiar disparagement of the Jews and/or Israel. It is symptomatic of a lethal disease. It should in any event be called out, confronted, and refuted. That is what Michael Doran does in his masterful Tablet column “The Jewish test.” In this column Doran elaborates on the argument he
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January 11, 2026 — Scott Johnson
Jewish Insider’s Haley Cohen reports a scenario of Mississipi burning: A suspect is under arrest for an act of arson that significantly damaged Mississippi’s largest synagogue early Saturday morning, authorities reported. Local law enforcement arrested a suspect whom they believe purposefully set fire to Beth Israel Congregation shortly after 3 a.m. Saturday, Jackson Mayor John Horhn confirmed. The suspect’s name and motive have not been disclosed. Beth Israel Congregation is
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December 30, 2025 — Scott Johnson
At her Blacklisted site, Eve Barlow has posted a subtitled video of the full interview with released Israeli hostage Romi Gonen here. The interview appeared on Israel’s Channel 12. I posted a clip from the interview last week along with an excerpt from this Times of Israel story on what Gonen had to say. With the full interview now out, Barlow brings her brand of righteous fury to Romi’s story.
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December 28, 2025 — Scott Johnson
Is Tucker Carlson crazy like a fox or crazy like a psychopath? Following his descent into the gutter of anti-Semitic claptrap, I have long gone with crazy like a fox. I think his shtick is entirely calculated. He’s appealing to a particular audience. He hasn’t moved on from the anti-Semitic line that has worked so well for him, but Tucker has lately taken up the cause of Islam. We have
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December 28, 2025 — Scott Johnson
Is Candace Owens crazy like a fox or crazy like a psychopath? She appears to have developed a huge online audience for several varieties of insanity on her pocast. That’s quite an accomplishment. However, she will beat a retreat when called on one or another variety of her insane bull. That would suggest she is crazy like a fox. On the other hand, she obviously has no capacity for shame
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December 24, 2025 — Scott Johnson
I read thousands of columns in the course of the year in order to populate our Picks with worthy selections. This year I am taking the liberty of declaring David Azerrad’s “The Return of the Jewish Question” the column of the year. Published earlier this week by Compact, it’s a good one whether or not it’s the best of the year. Author David Azerrad is an assistant professor at Hillsdale
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December 23, 2025 — Scott Johnson
Ben Shapiro gave two speeches last week that urged leaders of the conservative moment to perform acts of intellectual hygiene. I posted both of them on Power Line. The response from those who disagree with Shapiro has not been impressive. Speaking at TUPUSA’s AmericaFest this past Sunday, Vice President Vance avoided explicit ad hominem attacks, but his response offered little more than pompous non sequiturs. Shapiro has sought to do
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December 22, 2025 — Scott Johnson
“Vanz Kant Danz” was the workaround title to the song John Fogerty wrote condemning Fantasy Records owner Saul Zaentz. It was originally “Zanz Kant Danz.” Forgerty was protesting Zaentz’s ownership of the publishing rights to the Creedence Clearwater Revival catalog. Fogerty altered the title and lyrics of the song to avoid a defamation lawsuit by Zaentz. Vice President Vance spoke at the TPUSA AmericaFest event yesterday. RealClearPolitics has posted the
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December 19, 2025 — Scott Johnson
A sick thread now runs through the conservative movement. It runs from Candace Owens to Tucker Carlson and Carlson’s friends. One can see one symptom of the sickness in its treatement of the Jews. The sickness should be called out, confronted, and refuted. Ben Shapiro has an argument to make against the sickness. That’s what he did in the case he made against Tucker Carlson at the Heritage Foundation. There
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December 15, 2025 — Scott Johnson
As the fog begins to clear from the Bondi Beach massacre, the facts are coming into focus. The attack was directed at Jews marking the first evening of Hanukkah. In total some 2,000 attended the event. It appears that hundreds of Chabad Jews were gathered at Bondi Beach for the annual “Chanukah by the Sea” event. As I write this morning, the death toll of Jews murdered at the beach
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December 14, 2025 — Scott Johnson
The murderer of two Brown University students is still at large this morning. Whoever he is, he injured nine more in his rampage. The New York Times live updates on the shootings reported a few minutes: “Officials indicated that they had not identified the attacker, who escaped the Ivy League school onto the streets of Providence, Rhode Island’s capital. They released a video that showed a person leaving the scene
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December 13, 2025 — Scott Johnson
Abe Socher is editor of the Jewish Review of Books. It’s become one of my favorite magazines. This week Abe sent out “Podcasts full of straw” (“Tucker, Fuentes, the algorithm & that good old-fashioned antisemitism”) to followers of the JRB Substack. It’s a preview of JRB’s forthcoming issue. I asked Abe if he would say something about it for us. He responded: “I wrote it to capture what it’s like
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December 11, 2025 — Scott Johnson
My law school classmate and friend Barry Anderson went on to serve with distinction on the Minnesota Supreme Court. He wrote me this morning to say I had appropriately praised Senator Cruz on the anti-Semitism front and to recommend “his great remarks at the Federalist Society national lawyers conference. He called out the offenders in [strong] language.” The Federalist Society has posted video of the Hon. Robert H. Bork Memorial
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December 11, 2025 — Scott Johnson
In the January issue of National Review Phil Klein salutes “Ted Cruz’s finest hour.” He writes: Senator Ted Cruz is trying to wake people up to what he sees as a growing crisis on the right. He has taken to saying that if he were to post “Good morning” on the social media platform X, within minutes he would be deluged by hundreds of blatantly antisemitic replies. It’s not much
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November 17, 2025 — Scott Johnson
Robert George is the highly regarded McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence and Director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals & Institutions at Princeton. Following up on “A fight for the soul of the right,” I want to add that Professor Geroge has just announced his resignation from the board of the Heritage Foundation. This is the statement he has posted on Facebook: I have resigned from the board of
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November 16, 2025 — Scott Johnson
Robert S. Wistrich was the Neuburger Professor of European and Jewish history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the director of the university’s Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Anti-Semitism. He may also have been the leading academic authority on anti-Semitism. Witness his histories A Lethal Obsession: Anti-Semitism From Antiquity to the Global Jihad (2010) and From Ambivalence to Betrayal: The Left, The Jews and Israel (2012).
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November 7, 2025 — John Hinderaker
This video is from an event that Jewish students tried to conduct at Toronto University. They were attacked by “Students for Justice In Palestine,” as you can see. “Broken glass. Blood everywhere. All because we’re Jewish — and tried to open dialogue.” Jewish students at Toronto University were attacked by a mob of Free Palestine students while hosting an event with IDF veterans. Free Palestine protestors, cosplaying as Hamas terrorists,…
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