USA - ‘A Conspiratorial Right Is Rising’

“There is a part of the Right that is extraordinarily conspiratorial and sees Jews as a conspiratorial force… It is rising because social media rewards it,” Ben Shapiro said in an interview with The Jerusalem Post. “On X and TikTok, you often get more clicks if you push anti-Israel and antisemitic rhetoric.”

The Post met Shapiro during his recent visit to Israel, days after the announcement at the White House of a hostage release and ceasefire between Israel and Hamas. Shapiro said during the interview that while hostility toward Israel on the Left is well documented, Israel should not ignore a parallel danger growing on parts of the Right, where conspiratorial thinking finds a ready audience, and algorithms incentivize it.

“The important thing is the conspiracy itself,” he said. “Conspiratorialism is an incredibly seductive storyline, particularly for young people who are being told that the problems in their own lives are not their fault, and they can be solved by externalizing those problems onto a different group.”

-www.jpost.com, 10 October 2025

Commentary: There has been a disturbing trend of those on the “right” side of politics as well as the left, embracing conspiratorial, antisemitic views. These thoughts are primarily spread online, where social media has given a limitless platform to those who would blame the Jews for all societal ills. They describe the counteraction that Israel took toward Gaza as genocide, while ignoring the genocide that Hamas committed on October 7, 2023.

This has even made its way into supposedly Christian circles: Old tropes such as the “blood libel” become justification for turning against God’s chosen people, and in turn endorsing Replacement Theology.

God’s promises to the Jews are eternal, and remain unchanged by circumstances or what’s popular: “Thus saith the LORD, In an acceptable time have I heard thee, and in a day of salvation have I helped thee: and I will preserve thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, to establish the earth, to cause to inherit the desolate heritages” (Isaiah 49:8).