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The Nexus Project@nexusproject· 26d

Rep. Collins should respond to and condemn this blatant antisemitism from one of his advisors and family members - not wave it away by touting “support for Israel” while failing to even mention Jewish Americans at all.

Screenshot from the CNN article linked in the reply to this post.

"After a commenter on YouTube noted that his post had a note of “anti-Semitism and white nationalism that is disturbing,” Scheer replied, “There’s nothing wrong with White Nationalism.”

Collins’ campaign did not address CNN’s questions regarding Scheer and his comments across social media. In a statement, a spokesperson for Collins said, “Rep. Collins’ lifelong support for Israel is unquestionable and backed by his consistent record in Congress of standing up for Israel and her people.”"

The Nexus Project@nexusproject· 26d

Where it leads: The virulently antisemitic neo-Nazi network the Goyim Defense League prints and distributes flyers claiming Jews were responsible for the transatlantic slave trade, part of a propaganda campaign designed to convince Black Americans that Jews are their enemy. The "suppressed history" narrative is propaganda, not history, manufactured to turn one community against another.

The Nexus Project@nexusproject· 26d

The trick undernearth: The 1991 book is widely dismissed by historians as “pseudo-scholarship.” Henry Louis Gates Jr. has called it "the bible of the new antisemitism."

Its authors present isolated cases of Jewish slaveholders as proof of Jewish domination, rather than asking whether Jews played a disproportionate role relative to their small share of the population. No amount of slaveholding is morally defensible. But documenting that some Jews owned enslaved people is not the same as demonstrating that Jews dominated the transatlantic slave trade or slavery in the Americas.

The Nexus Project@nexusproject· 26d

Why it falls apart: The numbers are not close. Historians, including David Brion Davis and Seymour Drescher, have found the Jewish role in the transatlantic slave trade to be minimal, dwarfed by the European and colonial powers who ran it.

In the American South, Jews made up about 1.25% of slaveholders, in line with their small share of the population. In 1830, four Jews stood among the 11,000 Southerners who owned 50 or more enslaved people. In 1995, the American Historical Association, the leading body of professional historians in the U.S., formally rejected the claim that Jews played a disproportionate role in the Atlantic slave trade or slavery in the Americas.

The Nexus Project@nexusproject· 26d

Our Antisemitic Myths 101 series is back, and this week we're diving into the myth that Jews controlled or dominated the transatlantic slave trade. Read the full series here: nexusproject.us/nexus-resour...

Antisemitic myths 101: “Jews Ran the Slave Trade”. This week, we dive into the myth that Jews controlled or dominated the transatlantic slave trade and that this “secret” history is intentionally suppressed by academics.

The Nexus Project@nexusproject· 27d

Rogan: "Most people think Epstein was Mossad." Vance: "Ya." This theory has been pushed by Holocaust deniers, neo-Nazis, and Iranian state media. Conspiracy theorists on social media are already sharing the quote as proof that the White House is with them and validating their claims.

The Nexus Project@nexusproject· Jul 8

Saying someone can only support Israel because they’ve been bought is a clear example of anti-Zionism crossing into antisemitism. We caution El-Sayed and all candidates to refrain from making reductive statements like these that rely on harmful canards.

Screenshot from a CNN article:
"Not opposing Israel, El-Sayed said, is proof of being captive to corporate dominance and afraid of AIPAC. El-Sayed recently told Semafor that Stevens “is a suit with a large AIPAC bank account, that’s it. I hope maybe they find some way to teach her how to string together two coherent sentences.”

Asked whether he believed that support of Israel could not be about money, El-Sayed told CNN, “Not if you’re a Democrat and you believe in human rights.” Asked whether one could be a Zionist and a progressive, he said, “Every definition of a Jewish state ends up in some articulation of illiberal values, every single one.”"

The Nexus Project@nexusproject· Jul 6

The trick underneath continued: And it quietly trades a fair question for a poisoned one. “Should we be fighting this war” is a worthwhile discussion to have.

“They are making us fight it” is the conspiracy, and it ends the argument by handing the blame to Jews.

The first keeps you thinking. The second tells you you’ve been duped, and names the Jews as the ones who duped you.

When every road, wherever it starts, arrives at “the Jews,” you are not following the evidence. You are being walked somewhere, and it is worth asking who is doing the walking. Go to Nexus Project dot u s for the full series, and follow @ Nexus Project U S for more.

The Nexus Project@nexusproject· Jul 6

Why it falls apart continued: A rash of antisemitic claims about Israel controlling the U.S.’s military policy popped up in 2026 following the U.S. launching air strikes against Iran. But look at who actually has the upper hand.

Take for example this exchange in June 2025. When Israel kept striking Iran after a ceasefire Trump had announced, the President didn’t quietly petition his supposed master. He posted, in all capitals, “ISRAEL. DO NOT DROP THOSE BOMBS… BRING YOUR PILOTS HOME, NOW!” He told reporters flatly, “I’m not happy with Israel.” Within hours, Netanyahu’s office confirmed it had halted the strikes after the call.

This worldview that relies on the trope of the Israeli puppeteer controlling the United States government ignores reality and only serves to pin negative actions from the U.S. on the Jewish state and then extend that blame to the Jewish people.

The trick underneath: Strip it down and it is a victim complex dressed as analysis. The most powerful country on earth recasts itself as the helpless pawn of a nation smaller than New Jersey, because being secretly manipulated is easier to live with than owning your own choices. It is the same inversion that tells white Americans they are the true victims, being “replaced” and manipulated by Jews, while they hold the largest share of power in the country.

The move is identical both times: take the group with the most power, cast it as the group being controlled, and slot a hidden Jewish hand in as the reason.

The Nexus Project@nexusproject· Jul 6

The claim continued: In its crudest fringe form, people use the initialism “ZOG,” or Zionist Occupied Government, a term that’s been in use by white supremacist groups since the 1970s to claim that Jews control the U.S. government.

Why it falls apart: First, an important reminder: Criticizing American policy toward Israel is not antisemitic. Debating military aid, the alliance, or the decision to strike Iran is ordinary democratic argument, and people across the political spectrum do it in good faith.

The conspiracy works differently. It treats the policy as proof that the government was never really America’s to begin with, that it has been secretly captured, and that the hidden hand is Jewish.

The Nexus Project@nexusproject· Jul 6

This week, let’s dive into false claims that Israel, or a Jewish lobby acting on its behalf, secretly controls the U.S. government.

Text-based graphic: Antisemitic Myths 101 — “Israel Controls the Government.” This week, we dive into false claims that Israel, or a Jewish lobby acting on its behalf, secretly controls American foreign policy and drags the U.S. into wars that only serve Israel.

Text-based graphic: The claim: It is one of the oldest antisemitic charges in a modern suit: that Jews are never truly loyal citizens but agents of a hidden foreign agenda.

Real events feed it, and the 2026 U.S. strikes on Venezuela and Iran are recent examples. You can hear it in the language that followed: America “went to war for the benefit of Israel,” the country is “blackmailed” or “held hostage.”

The Nexus Project@nexusproject· Jul 3

🧵 Trump yesterday: "How a Jewish person can vote for a Democrat is beyond me. I've been the best president in the history of Israel and they acknowledge it." One sentence, several antisemitic assumptions packed inside. Let's break them down.

The Nexus Project@nexusproject· Jul 3

"...the Jewish tradition constantly reminds us that we were once strangers in a strange land. I take out of that a sort of universal commitment to protect the rights, the dignity, the ability to participate of everybody." -Justin Florence, @protectdemocracy.org

The Nexus Project@nexusproject· Jul 2

There are forces that want to pit trans & Jewish communities against each other. How can we build spaces that refuse to take that bait? @newisraelfund.bsky.social's Idit Klein, founder and former CEO of @keshetlgbtqjews.bsky.social, explains how we can begin to think about Jewish-trans solidarity.

The Nexus Project@nexusproject· Jul 1

Text-based graphic details why it falls apart: "The men worked for a moving company and were swept up in the dragnet that pulled in thousands across the New York area in the chaos of that morning. The FBI investigated them and concluded, in writing, that they had no advance knowledge of the attacks.

They were never charged with anything related to 9/11. They were deported for working in the U.S. without authorization, an immigration matter.

No investigation, in any country, has ever turned up evidence that Israel knew about the attacks or took part in them."

Text-based graphic details the trick underneath: "This is inflation in its purest form: take something tiny and blow it up into everything. Here is the whole seed of the theory, stated plainly. A few young men reacted stupidly to watching a catastrophe and got detained in a city that was detaining everyone.

From that pebble, the theory constructs a global intelligence operation in which Mossad, one of the most secretive agencies on Earth, supposedly chose to mark its triumph by sending agents to stand on a New Jersey rooftop, in daylight, on camera.

The story needs Israel to be powerful enough to attack America and erase every trace, and at the same time foolish enough to dance for the cameras. It cannot be both. A spy agency that good does not get caught celebrating; a crew that careless does not pull off the crime of the century. The theory survives only by never asking you to hold its two halves in your head at the same time."

Text-based graphic details where it leads: The Goyim Defense League, a network whose stated goal is driving Jews out of America, was built on this exact claim.

Its founder has said the first banner he ever dropped, the one that launched the group, read “GOOGLE 5 DANCING ISRAELIS.” The theory was not a passing curiosity for them. It was the recruiting pitch they used to gather a movement that now stands outside synagogues with megaphones.

This conspiracy has helped feed the memification of the “Jews Did 9/11” canard, turning both slogans into commonly used phrases on edgelord internet forums as well as among outspoken white supremacist groups. Conspiracies don’t care if the poster is serious or doing it “for the lulz.” It spreads regardless."

Text-based graphic says "When every road, wherever it starts, arrives at “the Jews,” you are not following the evidence. You are being walked somewhere, and it is worth asking who is doing the walking. Go to Nexus Project dot u s for the full series, and follow @ Nexus Project U S for more."

The Nexus Project@nexusproject· Jul 1

Welcome back to Antisemitic Myths 101 📝 This week, we’re diving into the five dancing Israelis who conspiracy theorists use as “evidence” to prove that Israel either knew about 9/11 beforehand or was involved in the attacks.

Text-based graphic from Nexus's Antisemitic Myths 101 series: 9/11 and the “Dancing Israelis.” "This week, we dive into the conspiracy theory that Israel knew about 9/11, and the alleged smoking gun is five dancing Israeli men."

Text-based graphic detailing the claim: "That five Israeli men were caught filming and celebrating as the Twin Towers burned on 9/11, proving Israel had foreknowledge of the attacks, or a hand in them. It has been a fixture of 9/11 conspiracy lore for over 20 years, kept alive by its one real detail: five Israeli men were detained while driving into Manhattan that day and questioned." It then shows a tweet by manosphere influencer Myron Gaines and a tweet showing A I slop from an account with over 550,000 followers.

The Nexus Project@nexusproject· Jun 30

As @bulldogshadow.bsky.social wrote in an essay for the Nexus Projects’ Shofar Report:

Text-based graphic with a quote attributed to Eric K. Ward, Executive Vice President at Race Forward, says “… President Trump has also faced little resistance in reframing birthright citizenship as a racial slur and launching a policy attack on the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) of 1965 — the very law that dismantled antisemitic immigration policies. These were the same policies that once barred Jews fleeing pogroms and the Holocaust from seeking refuge in the US. Now, those policies continue to be under attack by the Trump administration.” It is from the Nexus Projects’ Shofar Report.

The Nexus Project@nexusproject· Jun 29

Antisemitism and misogyny often go hand in hand. If you missed it, @fatimagossgraves.bsky.social, CEO of @nwlc.org, joined our recent America 250 webinar. Watch the full recording here: youtu.be/Cd6lBQWPgY0?...

3 rows with a photo of Fatima Goss Graves, C E O of the National Women’s Law Center, and a quote accompanying it. It reads as follows: "When democracies are not stable, the consequences of that are felt deeply, deeply by women at the intersections of multiple identities. It's not really a coincidence because of overlapping white supremacy and misogyny. It's not really a coincidence that people who hate women and people who hate Jews are like a circle that overlaps together."

The Nexus Project@nexusproject· Jun 25

NY GOP gubernatorial candidate Bruce Blakeman: "Even though he's Jewish, [Brad Lander] would be a camp guard in the concentration camp if he could" This is a truly vile, antisemitic attack on a Jewish candidate, his many Jewish supporters, and the memory of the Holocaust.

The Nexus Project@nexusproject· Jun 25

Joe Rogan painting Nick Fuentes as an expert on Israel-Palestine instead of a Jew-hating, misogynistic extremist is exactly how antisemitism becomes normalized.

The Nexus Project@nexusproject· Jun 22

Text-based graphic says "The trick underneath. Notice the theory does not start from facts and arrive at Israel. It starts at Israel and treats the total absence of any Israeli link as the proof.

No evidence? That is how you know the cover-up worked. A confession with a clear personal motive? Planted, or coerced, or a distraction from the real story. This is the sealed room every one of these theories eventually builds, where evidence for it counts as proof and evidence against it counts as proof too.

A claim that nothing could ever disprove is not a strong claim. It is not a claim at all. It is a verdict reached in advance, hunting for a body to pin to it."

Text-based graphic says "Where it leads. Watch how fast “Israel” became “the Jews.” Within days, the most viral posts had dropped the euphemism entirely, declaring “the Jews killed Charlie Kirk” and tying it to old conspiracies that “the Jews killed JFK,” folding his death into a fantasy of Jews as the hidden hand behind every American assassination. Posts blaming Israel or Jews for the murder drew more than 139 million views on X, according to the Center for Countering Digital Hate. The claim started at a foreign government and arrived, in under a week, at the Jewish people."

The Nexus Project@nexusproject· Jun 22

Welcome back to Antisemitic Myths 101 📝 This week, we’re unpacking the claim that the assassination of Charlie Kirk was secretly orchestrated by Israel, because Kirk had supposedly grown critical of it. Read the full series here: nexusproject.us/nexus-resour...

Text-based image with a photo of Charlie Kirk and Benjamin Netanyahu says "Antisemitic Myths 101: 'Israel Killed Charlie Kirk.' In this series, we’re unpacking some of the most common antisemitic conspiracy theories, how they’re used as recruiting tools, and how quickly they fall apart." A tweet by Jackson Hinkle says "Israel killed Charlie Kirk."

Text-based graphic says "The claim: that the September 2025 assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk was secretly orchestrated by Israel, because Kirk had supposedly grown critical of it.

This is a new turn on an old reflex: when a prominent figure dies suddenly, go looking for the Jew behind it. Far-right conspiracy theorists immediately wasted no time after Kirk’s death to start pointing fingers at Jews."

Text-based graphic says "The same was done with President Kennedy’s killing and with sudden deaths long before his. In Kirk’s case it spread through influencers who cast doubt on the official account and pointed, without evidence, toward Israel."

The Nexus Project@nexusproject· Jun 17

TONIGHT! Join us for a timely panel discussion with esteemed guests commemorating the 250th anniversary of American independence and the unfinished fight for democracy and civil rights. How far have we come? How far is there still to go? Register here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

The Unfinished Fight: 250 Years of American Democracy and Civil Rights. Wednesday, June 17 | 7:30pm ET
Fatima Goss Graves
National Women's Law Center
Idit Klein
New Israel Fund
Justin Florence
Protect Democracy
Adama Bah
Afrikana
Becca Israel
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The Nexus Project@nexusproject· Jun 15

The freedom to practice our religion and the freedom from religion are essential to Jewish safety and belonging in America, says Rabbi Rachel Timoner, senior rabbi of Congregation Beth Elohim in Brooklyn. 👏 📺: No Kings concert (June 14, 2026)

The Nexus Project@nexusproject· Jun 11

Our Panel: Idit Klein, VP of Public Engagement, @newisraelfund.bsky.social (and founder of @keshetlgbtqjews.bsky.social) Adama Bah, Founder/CEO, Afrikana Justin Florence, Co-Founder/Senior Advisor, @protectdemocracy.org Fatima Goss Graves, CEO, @nwlc.org Join us: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

The Nexus Project@nexusproject· Jun 7

Flattening all opposition to (or support for) a candidate to Israeli control isn't commentary, it's conspiracy. Removing agency from voters is a tool to prevent good faith discussion & debate. And dismissing concern about antisemitism as purely a product of Israeli influence is itself antisemitic.

A June 5, 2026 tweet by Cenk Uygur says "If you want a handy list of people who work for Israel, look at everyone criticizing Graham Platner now, especially Democrats. I get why Republicans want to tear him down. But Democrats attacking their own candidate only happens when they are ordered to do so by their handlers."

The Nexus Project@nexusproject· Jun 2

We are disgusted that Boulder SJP chose to celebrate the firebombing attack on a peaceful march. They dress up the language to make murder sound like liberation. The reality is they are celebrating the horrific killing of an 82-year-old woman who came out to march. Nothing excuses this.