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Combating antisemitism and protecting democracy

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The Nexus Project @nexusproject.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
There must be no equivocation in mourning those killed and expressing solidarity with those who lost loved ones. Pain and sympathy are not zero-sum, and everyone should find the space in their hearts to hold these victims and their families.
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The Nexus Project @nexusproject.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Three years ago today, on October 7, 2023, Hamas invaded Israel and carried out a deadly, horrific attack, murdering around 1,200 people and taking over 250 hostages. Families were torn apart in a single morning. We remember every one of them.
A black text-based graphic reads, "Three years ago today, on October 7, 2023, Hamas invaded Israel and carried out a deadly, horrific attack, murdering around 1,200 people and taking over 250 hostages. Families were torn apart in a single morning. 

We remember every one of them.

There must be no equivocation in mourning those killed and expressing solidarity with those who lost loved ones. Pain and sympathy are not zero-sum, and everyone should find the space in their hearts to hold these victims and their families." At the bottom is the Nexus logo.
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The Nexus Project @nexusproject.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"If Jewish safety is the goal, engagement should be part of the strategy." In a new open letter on @timesofisrael.com, Nexus Project President Jonathan Jacoby asks ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt to reconsider the ADL’s response to the Mamdani administration’s new strategy to combat antisemitism.
blogs.timesofisrael.com
The Blogs: An open letter to Jonathan Greenblatt: This time, choose engagement
The ADL praised Trump while criticizing parts of his antisemitism policy. Why not take the same approach to Mamdani's new plan for safeguarding Jewish New Yorkers?
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ncarinsights.bsky.social @ncarinsights.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
NCAR Director Aryeh Tuchman examined what ADL’s faculty reports show about campus antisemitism, and what they don’t. Read the full piece here: ncar.us/papers/ncar-...
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The Nexus Project @nexusproject.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The Nexus Center for Antisemitism Research is now on socials! Give them a follow for data-driven insights on antisemitism and how it's discussed in culture, media, scholarship & more! 📷 www.instagram.com/ncarinsights/ 🧵 www.threads.com/@ncarinsights ✖️ x.com/NCARinsights ☁️ bsky.app/profile/ncar...
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The Nexus Project @nexusproject.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
We wrote one of the definitions of antisemitism listed in @mayor.nyc.gov's Strategy to Combat Antisemitism. We're glad our definition (or any definition, for that matter) is not being codified into law. This piece by @emilyctamkin.bsky.social sums up why.
forward.com
Mayor Mamdani's antisemitism strategy doesn’t define antisemitism. That’s a good thing.
Contrary to some critics' beliefs, we don't need a definition to fight hatred
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jstreetdotorg.bsky.social @jstreetdotorg.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
In our new guide produced in collaboration with @nexusproject.bsky.social, @n8w0lf.bsky.social .social 0lf.bsky.social breaks down six common tropes, how they’re used, and how we can name and challenge them. Read: jstreetdotorg.substack.com/p/six-antise... 2/2
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Six Antisemitic Tropes Conspiracy Theorists Use to Demonize Jews
This explainer is a collaboration between J Street and the Nexus Project.
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Victor Silverman @victorsilverman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This report should be required reading for every university president and board member in the country.
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The Nexus Project @nexusproject.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
ICYMI: This week, the US Commission on Civil Rights rebuked the Trump administration’s approach to campus antisemitism, confirming what we've been saying all along. For more, check out this throwback to Nexus Project VP of Government Relations Kevin Rachlin’s testimony to the commission.
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The Nexus Project @nexusproject.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This appears to be another example of an individual, this time an Israeli Jew, being targeted for anti-Israel advocacy. Withholding or removing someone's legal status over a constitutionally protected right to protest doesn't make Jews more safe. It erodes the protections we have long relied on.
nytimes.com
A Hasidic Jew Protested Against an Israeli Flag. He May Be Deported. (Gift Article)
Yehonatan Ovadia, who opposed the mounting of the flag in a small New York town, belongs to a Hasidic branch that is anti-Zionist. He is now in ICE custody.
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The Nexus Project @nexusproject.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Don't just take it from us: the Trump administration's approach to combating campus antisemitism is doing more harm than good. That's the finding from the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights’ new bipartisan, unanimous report. Our full statement here:
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Nexus Welcomes U.S. Commission on Civil Rights’ Call for a Balanced Response to Campus Antisemitism - Nexus Project
The Nexus Project welcomes the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights’ unanimous conclusion that combating campus antisemitism requires both protecting Jewish students from discrimination and safeguarding ci...
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The Nexus Project @nexusproject.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
BREAKING: Bipartisan federal commission has released a new report criticizing the Trump administration's campus antisemitism strategy.
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Nexus Welcomes U.S. Commission on Civil Rights’ Call for a Balanced Response to Campus Antisemitism - Nexus Project
The Nexus Project welcomes the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights’ unanimous conclusion that combating campus antisemitism requires both protecting Jewish students from discrimination and safeguarding ci...
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The Nexus Project @nexusproject.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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The Nexus Project Appreciates NYC's First-Ever Municipal Strategy to Combat Antisemitism, Encourages Its Implementation - Nexus Project
The Nexus Project appreciates and encourages the implementation of Mayor Zohran Mamdani's Strategy to Combat Antisemitism. We are pleased to see the Nexus Document included among the tools that the Ne...
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The Nexus Project @nexusproject.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This plan shows that Mayor Mamdani has listened to the concerns of Jewish New Yorkers — and put forward meaningful commitments and real funding to help keep them safe. Our full statement on NYC's first-ever municipal strategy to combat antisemitism:
A M N Y headlien: "Mamdani unveils long-awaited antisemitism strategy with $7.4M for prevention, security." "The Nexus Project appreciates and encourages the implementation of Mayor Zohran Mamdani's Strategy to Combat Antisemitism. We are pleased to see the Nexus Document included among the tools that the New York City government will utilize to identify and confront antisemitism."Quote from Jonathan Jacoby, President, The Nexus Project: "“This plan shows that Mayor Mamdani has listened to the concerns of Jewish New Yorkers — and put forward meaningful commitments and real funding to help keep them safe. Mayor Mamdani’s strategy is rooted in an important recognition that confronting antisemitism is a critical part of the wider struggle against bigotry. Jews have always thrived in pluralistic democracies. When we defend one another and build a society where no group can be singled out for discrimination, we're all safer and more secure.”Quote from Jonathan Jacoby, President, The Nexus Project: “We're proud and encouraged to see the Nexus Document is helping guide how New York City understands and responds to antisemitism.

Building this strategy on a strong, pluralistic framework will help stem the rise in antisemitism while protecting the free expression and civil liberties that keep all of us safe.”Quote from Jonathan Jacoby, President, The Nexus Project: “We are particularly encouraged to see the strategy double funding for the Partners Against the Hate (PATH) program as well as significant investment in new resources to secure synagogues, nonprofits and other vulnerable institutions as well as expanding Holocaust and Jewish history and culture education.

This is a very important first step. The strategy’s success now depends on implementation and turning a plan into real action with real impact. We call on everyone across the ideological spectrum to help make it succeed — by offering feedback, working with city and communal partners, and encouraging the mayor's office to deliver on this promise.”
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The Nexus Project @nexusproject.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Read the full story here:
momentmag.com
Moment Debate | Can Jewish Groups Work with the Democratic Socialists of America?
"You can get a lot more done when you're sitting at the table."
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The Nexus Project @nexusproject.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Our President, Jonathan Jacoby, was asked whether Jewish groups should work with the DSA. Here's his response.
Text-based graphic asks "Can Jewish groups work with the Democratic Socialists of America?" The response is attributed to Jonathan Jacoby, President of The Nexus Project. It reads "“Yes—with an ‘if.’ Jewish groups can work with the DSA if it is willing to engage with them. It’s OK to engage with people with whom we disagree on political principles when we also have shared goals. That doesn’t mean we’re endorsing them. Some people say we should not engage at all with the DSA unless it changes its position on Zionism, because they consider that position to be antisemitic. I don’t make that presumption. I know that there are people in the DSA who are not antisemitic. To say that anti-Zionists in the DSA are ipso facto antisemitic is as reductive and absolutist as saying that all Zionists are anti-Arab.”"Can Jewish groups work with the DSA. Continued." Jonathan Jacoby President of The Nexus Project's response continues: “One caveat: There are anti-Zionists in the DSA and elsewhere on the left who are willing to engage with people who believe in Israel’s right to exist—but not with Jews who hold that view. That’s crossing a line into antisemitism. I’m willing to engage in a conversation with them about why certain statements and actions are antisemitic. But I struggle to engage, even around common goals, with someone who is essentially denying my right as a Jew to have a certain view. To be clear, I’m not saying I believe, as some do, that Zionism is an integral part of Jewish identity. But a Zionist Jew shouldn’t have to check that part of themselves at the door to engage with the DSA.”
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The Nexus Project @nexusproject.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"97.6% of Americans are not Jewish. If we want to be safer, we need as many of those 97.6% as possible to want us to be safer too." Rabbi Rachel Timoner nailed it 💯
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The Nexus Project @nexusproject.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Bypassing Congress to levy massive fines on universities while cutting funding to the very office responsible for protecting Jewish students and faculty shows it was never about Jewish safety, but about using that safety as a weapon to carry out their anti-democratic agenda.
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The Nexus Project @nexusproject.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The forthcoming report from the bipartisan U.S. Commission on Civil Rights affirms what we have long said about the Trump Administration using antisemitism as a pretense for its crackdown on higher education.
haaretz.com
Bipartisan federal commission plans to rebuke White House antisemitism strategy
Unanimous report says the administration's crackdown rested on a tenuous legal theory and details cuts to the Education Department office that handled most post-October 7 antisemitism complaints
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ncarinsights.bsky.social @ncarinsights.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Nearly half of ADL's 2025 Audit was tied to Israel. A new report from NCAR breaks down what's in that number, from Jews harassed or attacked over Israel's actions to public expressions of hostility toward Israel that ADL considers antisemitic, like 'From the River to the Sea.'
picture of a wall with a Jewish star written on it all tinted blue.
The nexus center for antisemitism research logo is on the top left and the title is written in white text: "Counting Antisemitic Incidents: What the ADL Audit Reveals - and Obscures
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The Nexus Project @nexusproject.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Well said by Professor of Israel Studies at UCLA and Scholar in Residence at the Nexus Project, @dovwaxman.bsky.social
A tweet by Dov Waxman says "In the past couple of days we have learned about a potential mass shooting that was narrowly averted outside a synagogue in Belleville, Canada; a foiled terrorist plot to attack the Jewish community in Manchester, England (where a deadly attack took place outside a synagogue last year); and a thwarted ISIS-inspired plot to attack a synagogue in Pennsylvania (where a massacre took place in 2018 in the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh). This is why Jews are so worried about and fearful of antisemitism nowadays. This fear should not be ignored or dismissed, nor should it be politically exploited for partisan purposes. Jewish people need everyone's support and solidarity - regardless of their politics - just as much as other victims of violence do."
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The Nexus Project @nexusproject.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Watch and read the full sermon here:
ikar.org
When What We Love Falls
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The Nexus Project @nexusproject.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"If your love prevents criticism, I’m asking you to re-examine your love. And if your criticism lacks love, I’m asking you to re-examine your criticism." -Rabbi Morris Panitz, @weareikar.bsky.social Associate Rabbi, Yom Kippur 5787
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The Nexus Project @nexusproject.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
As details continue to emerge, we send our immense gratitude and wishes for a full and speedy recovery to the officer wounded as he protected the synagogue. And we send solidarity and strength to the Belleville and Canadian Jewish community.
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The Nexus Project @nexusproject.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
As we prepare to attend our own Yom Kippur services, we are horrified by the news of a shooting outside Sons of Jacob Congregation in Belleville, Ontario Sunday evening.
nytimes.com
Police Officer Injured in Shooting Near Ontario Synagogue on Yom Kippur
There was an exchange of gunfire near the Sons of Jacob Synagogue in Belleville as congregants gathered inside to mark Yom Kippur, the authorities said.
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The Nexus Project @nexusproject.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Today marks the sixth yahrzeit of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. As Justice Ginsburg reminded us, Jewish tradition and tzedek, the Hebrew word for justice, go hand in hand.
Graphic showing a picture of and quote attributed to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg: My heritage as a Jew and my occupation as a judge fit together symmetrically. The demand for justice runs through the entirety of Jewish history and Jewish tradition. I take pride in and draw strength from my heritage, as signs in my chambers attest…the command from Deuteronomy: ‘tzedek, tzedek, tirdof’ — ‘Justice, justice shall you pursue.’
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The Nexus Project @nexusproject.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Macklemore's most recent advocacy for Palestine may be uncomfortable, but it isn't necessarily antisemitism or hate speech, explains The Nexus Project's President, Jonathan Jacoby. Watch Jonathan's interview with DW News for our analysis.
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The Nexus Project @nexusproject.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
"Gutting anti-discrimination policies for most minority groups while supercharging them for Jews is hypocritical. The hypocrisy is the point. It turns civil rights law into a political protection racket, a tool [...] to attack higher education and other perceived enemies." - @jloeffler.bsky.social
nytimes.com
Opinion | For Trump, Jews Are Proving to Be a Very Useful Tool
Debates about Jews are never just about Jews.
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The Nexus Project @nexusproject.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
CT House candidate William Gifford asks if it's antisemitic to "not like someone because they are Jewish" given "what the Jewish religion says against white Christian men." This is hiding a dangerous canard behind "just asking questions." CT GOP and Rep. Tim Ackert, who endorsed him, must condemn.
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The Nexus Project @nexusproject.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
CT House candidate William Gifford asks if it's antisemitic to "not like someone because they are Jewish" given "what the Jewish religion says against white Christian men." This is hiding a dangerous canard behind "just asking questions." CT GOP and Rep. Tim Ackert, who endorsed him, must condemn.
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Crip Dyke @cripdyke.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
This is an excellent excerpt from Rabbi @sharonbrous.bsky.social . It's well worth two minutes of your time. I'll be reading her full text later today.
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The Nexus Project @nexusproject.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Watch and read @sharonbrous.bsky.social's full sermon here:
ikar.org
Zealots Are Driving Us to the Cliff’s Edge
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The Nexus Project @nexusproject.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
In a powerful Rosh Hashanah sermon, @weareikar.bsky.social's Rabbi @sharonbrous.bsky.social explains why she's become disillusioned with how we track antisemitism today.
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Jewish Council for Public Affairs @thejcpa.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
As we mark this painful anniversary, we are seeing extreme voices exploit 9/11 to renormalize Islamophobia. We know precisely where this leads – and that it makes all of our communities less safe. We all have an obligation to reject this hate.
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The Nexus Project @nexusproject.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
jta.org
Israeli consul general Ofir Akunis’ Rosh Hashanah message: ‘Wake up’ - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
The country's top diplomat in NYC is comparing Mayor Zohran Mamdani to the Nazis. Some on the left say that's not helping.
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The Nexus Project @nexusproject.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Comparing constitutionally protected boycotts to Nazism is absurd and exploits and trivializes the memories of those killed in the Holocaust for a cheap political jab. And to add the Islamophobic claim that "these people will force the Sharia laws on you..." is deeply harmful.
Screenshot from a Jewish Telegraphic Agency article.
Headline: Israeli consul general Ofir Akunis’ Rosh Hashanah message: ‘Wake up’
Subheadline: The country’s top diplomat in NYC is comparing Mayor Zohran Mamdani to the Nazis. Some on the left say that’s not helping.
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The Nexus Project @nexusproject.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
THREAD 🧵 This week, Elon Musk's America PAC launched hundreds of anti-trans ads, part of a $100 million midterm spend. In 2024, a Musk-funded PAC ran antisemitic ads reminding Muslim voters that Doug Emhoff is Jewish. That's not a coincidence.
Screenshot of an article headline reading, “Elon Musk Targets Democrats on Transgender Issues in Key Senate Races.” The subheadline says a political group associated with Musk is running attack ads against Democrats in Texas, Ohio, and Iowa.Screenshot of an article headline reading, “Antisemitic Ads About Doug Emhoff Target Muslim Voters in Michigan.” The subheadline says a Republican-linked group appears to be running ads reminding Muslim voters of Kamala Harris’s pro-Israel views and her husband’s Jewish faith.
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The Nexus Project @nexusproject.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
The antisemitic "dancing Israelis" conspiracy theory seems to be going around again. If you missed it, here's our explainer on it from our antisemitic myths series.
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The Nexus Project @nexusproject.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
"...being an American Jew is an identity and a commitment to ritual, to belief, to story, and to an understanding of what it means to be 'othered.'" Ahead of the High Holidays, The Nexus Project’s Becca Israel wrote about Jewish identity and belonging amid the fight to protect our democracy.
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The Blogs: Protecting Jews Means Protecting Democracy
From the blog of Becca Israel at The Times of Israel
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David Brody @dbrody.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Really insightful thread from @nexusproject.bsky.social about the parallels between anti-trans hate and antisemitism. The same propagandists use the same playbook for both forms of hate.
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The Nexus Project @nexusproject.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
In one week the man spending nine figures to make the midterms about trans people asked which Jews are really Jewish & endorsed Soros as the puppetmaster of American media. That's not an accident. We stand in solidarity with the trans community against this well-funded machine of hate.
Screenshot of an X post from Elon Musk saying “Accurate” above a reposted meme titled “How the anti-Elon narrative is made.” The meme depicts blue marionette figures controlling one another in a chain, labeled “Democratic Party,” “Team Soros,” “Alex Gibney,” “Hollywood,” and “Legacy Media.”Screenshot of an X post by Teddy Schleifer from September 8, 2026, reporting that Elon Musk’s America PAC launched its first connected TV ad of the cycle against Ohio Senate candidate Sherrod Brown. The embedded ad frame shows Brown beside a drag performer with text reading, “Sherrod Brown put the trans agenda ahead of Ohio’s values.”
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The Nexus Project @nexusproject.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Targeting trans people is wrong on its own, and we should call it out either way. But many of the people attacking trans people & many of the people attacking Jews are the same people, using the same story. When that's true, standing apart from each other is what they are counting on.
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The Nexus Project @nexusproject.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Musk says civilization is under attack by a "woke mind virus." Who's behind it? George Soros, who "wants to erode the very fabric of civilization." What does it do? It turns kids trans, including his own child, "killed by the woke mind virus." IOW: A Jewish financier & trans people as a symptom.
Screenshot of an X post quoting Elon Musk as saying he “lost” his son to the “woke mind virus” after his child transitioned and that he vowed to “destroy” it. Beneath the quote is a video still showing a man seated during an interview.
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The Nexus Project @nexusproject.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Borrowing the structure of antisemitic conspiracy theories is one thing. But they go further. They also puts trans people inside the antisemitic conspiracy itself, as one more thing George Soros is supposedly doing to the US.
Screenshot of a Blaze Media article page labeled “Opinion & Analysis.” The headline reads, “From Soros to Beijing: Unveiling the billionaires behind transgenderism,” by Glenn Beck, dated May 10, 2024. A partial accompanying photo shows protesters, including a sign referring to hormones as a right.
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The Nexus Project @nexusproject.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Trope three: they're infiltrators. Modern antisemitism runs on the fear Jews pass as members of the majority while working against it from within. The trans version runs on the fear trans women are infiltrating sports to “transvestigation,” the theory that celebs & politicians are secretly trans.
ohpi.org.au
“Transvestigation” and Online Hate - Online Hate Prevention Institute
"Transvestigation" is transphobic, and also leans into other forms of hate, such as homophobia, misogyny and antisemitism.
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The Nexus Project @nexusproject.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Trope two: The people being attacked are the real attackers. In 2023 Musk called it "the actual truth" Jews push hatred against whites. And he's posted for years that trans people are very violent. The reverse is true: trans people are over four times as likely to be victims of violent crime.
Screenshot of an X exchange from November 15, 2023. A user named Eric writes that Jewish communities have promoted hatred against white people and says he has little sympathy for Jews facing hostility from minorities. Elon Musk replies, “You have said the actual truth.”Screenshot of an X exchange from August 2025. Donald Trump Jr. jokes that a news story would disappear quickly, adding, “Only way it disappears faster is if he’s trans.” Elon Musk replies with claims that trans-identifying people commit violent crimes at much higher rates and that hormone treatments cause violence, arguing that the FDA should withdraw those treatments.
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The Nexus Project @nexusproject.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Trope one: Tiny group, enormous power Jews are about 2% of Americans and get cast as controlling banks, media and Hollywood. Trans people are under 1% and get cast as controlling schools, medicine and corporate America. Babylon Bee's CEO called trans people "the most powerful people in the world."
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The Nexus Project @nexusproject.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
An ad casting a targeted group as a threat to your daughters is a common bigoted attack. What makes this story different is what the movement behind the ads built on top of a full conspiracy theory, and its structure is borrowed from antisemitism piece by piece. Let’s look at three tropes. ➡️
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The Nexus Project @nexusproject.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
THREAD 🧵 This week, Elon Musk's America PAC launched hundreds of anti-trans ads, part of a $100 million midterm spend. In 2024, a Musk-funded PAC ran antisemitic ads reminding Muslim voters that Doug Emhoff is Jewish. That's not a coincidence.
Screenshot of an article headline reading, “Elon Musk Targets Democrats on Transgender Issues in Key Senate Races.” The subheadline says a political group associated with Musk is running attack ads against Democrats in Texas, Ohio, and Iowa.Screenshot of an article headline reading, “Antisemitic Ads About Doug Emhoff Target Muslim Voters in Michigan.” The subheadline says a Republican-linked group appears to be running ads reminding Muslim voters of Kamala Harris’s pro-Israel views and her husband’s Jewish faith.
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The Nexus Project @nexusproject.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Our strength is in our unity, our diversity, our disparate voices coming together to say Never Forget.
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