The resurgence of open antisemitism within sectors of the American right is inseparable from the current crisis of U.S. imperialism and the growing popular opposition to the genocide in Gaza. As outrage expands, particularly among younger workers and segments of the petty bourgeoisie over Washington’s unconditional support for Israel, reactionary demagogues have moved quickly to intercept and redirect this anger. Figures such as Nick Fuentes and Tucker Carlson posture as “anti-establishment” critics, but in practice they transform class anger and anti-war sentiment into antisemitic conspiracies that leave the foundations of capitalism and U.S. imperial power intact.

This follows a well established pattern within bourgeois politics. Rather than identifying capitalism as the force responsible for war, exploitation, and mass death, these ideologues substitute myths of “Jewish power”, and shadowy global elites as the cause of the social decay. By framing Israel’s role as the outcome of ethnic or religious influence rather than strategic necessity, they obscure the fact that U.S. imperialism requires Israel as a permanent military, intelligence, and political outpost in the Middle East. Washington will not abandon its client state; at most, it may seek to restrain or discipline Israel in order to curb its own independent imperial ambitions, a contradiction we have previously analyzed in the U.S.–Israeli alliance.

The Republican Party has repeatedly served as an institutional laboratory for this maneuver, combining isolationist rhetoric with uninterrupted imperial practice. So-called isolationism has never in practice opposed U.S. imperial aggression. The current wave is sharpened by the war in Gaza. Widespread revulsion at mass slaughter has opened a political vacuum that revolutionary communism has not yet filled. Into this vacuum step reactionaries who claim to oppose war while recycling the oldest lies of capitalist ideology. For communists, the task is neither to defend liberal hypocrisy nor to tolerate reactionary antisemitism masquerading as modern anti-imperialism. Antisemitism, like all racial ideology, diverts class antagonism away from capital and toward imagined enemies. Its revival within the American right signals only capitals further decay, one more symptom of a system that can reproduce itself only through division of the proletarian, mystification of reality, and war.