Mick Hartley

Dave Rich on this week in antisemitism:

Nick Fuentes, the new star of the American far (and not so far) right, went on Piers Morgan’s show and insisted that “Hitler was very fucking cool”. Their interview has had over 4 million views on YouTube. Morgan clipped that part of the video and put it on X where it has 373,000 views.

Candace Owens was interviewed by Russell Brand and told him that Jews use incest to brutalise their children and normalise evil, so that Jewish children grow up to be evil psychopaths. This explains Israel, she said. Brand nodded along, then clipped that extract and put it on X where it has 364,000 views.

Primal Scream played at the Roundhouse, one of London’s best-known concert venues, and put on a show that included images of swastikas entwined with Stars of David. In other words, Jews are Nazis.

Sometimes antisemitism is coded, hidden behind ambiguous language and esoteric imagery. Not here. There’s nothing ambiguous about “Hitler was cool”. Nothing coded about saying Jews are evil psychopaths. As for combining the best-known Jewish symbol with a swastika: it’s as if a Jewish woman wearing a Star of David necklace is no different from a neo-Nazi skinhead with a swastika tattoo. Like I said, it isn’t subtle.

It goes on and on. Week after week.

This is just one week, and not an especially unusual one. And this is happening now, not decades ago. Antisemitism is out of control and not enough – nowhere near enough – is being done about it.