Trump campaigned on a pledge to fight antisemitism. “Antisemitic bigotry has no place in a civilized society,” Trump said at an event in 2024.

However, critics question whether antisemitism may have found a place within his administration.

NPR has identified three Trump officials with close ties to antisemitic extremists, including a man described by federal prosecutors as a “Nazi sympathizer,” and a prominent Holocaust denier.

Amy Spitalnick, CEO of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs, argues that the administration is using antisemitism as a pretext.

  • Preeble_E@lemmy.world
    5·
    20 hours ago

    I invite anyone to have a look at /r/conspiracy if there was ever any doubt about what lies below the thin veneer of civilization. The protocols and ehatever fuelled them never went away…

    • JasonDJ@lemmy.zip
      10·
      19 hours ago

      /r/conspiracy used to be such a fun community, until around 2015.

      Then it nosedived hard. Full maga and tons of theories that have roots in antisemitism and racism, many of which have been debunked time and time again.

      Really jumped the shark somewhere around pizzagate.

      Part of me still thinks that Ron Paul’s 2008 run and huge popularity on Reddit at the time was a trial run for leveraging social media platforms (especially those that leaned heavily left, like Reddit at the time) for attracting people who typically wouldn’t vote Republican.

      I’m a very left person, and was even then…but even I campaigned for Ron Paul, dismissed some of his writings as (what would later be called) “fake-news”, and was able to look past his pro-life stance.

      • Fondots@lemmy.world
        1·
        13 hours ago

        I don’t know about that, I was on Reddit for a few years before 2015 and /r/conspiracy always came across a little crazy to me. The specific brand of crazy fluctuated a bit over the years, and they definitely got worse at hiding it over time, but even when I first joined it seemed like you didn’t have to scratch the surface very deep to find some really weird and concerning shit.

        I’ve always been a conspiracy theory enjoyer, never really bought into any of them (besides a few pretty mainstream ones, but who doesn’t have a favorite Kennedy assassination theory?) So that was probably one of the first subreddits I checked out, I don’t think I ever bothered commenting on anything there, everything there pretty much immediately gave me the sense that “oh no, these people are actually crazy and maybe even kind of dangerous”