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Antisemitic ideas endanger not only the safety of Jewish Americans but also the integrity and stability of the United States. America’s adversaries are engaged in coordinated campaigns to exploit antisemitism in the US to infiltrate institutions, sow domestic division, damage vital alliances, and spread narratives that weaken American global leadership.
“Meeting this challenge in a fragmented information environment with shifting political alignments will require a coordinated, multidimensional, and international strategy,” writes Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East Director Michael Doran.
To formulate such a strategy, Hudson convened policymakers and experts for a daylong conference on combating antisemitism to defend the American homeland and maintain global security, freedom, and prosperity. Discussions focused on:
- Antisemitism as a tool of US geopolitical adversaries
- Antisemitism as a key plank in transnational progressivism
- AI’s role in accelerating antisemitism
- Antisemitism as an affront to America’s founding principles
Key Insights
1. It is essential that the US confront antisemitism.
“A nation uncertain of its own legitimacy cannot sustain alliances, deter adversaries, or project force and influence abroad. Antisemitism therefore threatens not only Jewish Americans or the US-Israel partnership, it threatens America’s ability to act as a global power. Confronting this challenge is why we’re here today.”
— Michael Doran, Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East, Hudson Institute
2. Standing with Israel is unequivocally in America’s interest.
“As the chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee . . . I am always asking the question, How does our foreign policy put the United States of America first? . . . Any country that I am speaking to, I’m reflecting on three things. Number 1: What does the United States need from that country or from the region that they are a part of? Number 2: What do they want from us? And number 3: Does what we provide get us what we need? . . . [Regarding Israel], absolutely all of those questions are answered.”
— Congressman Brian Mast, Chairman, House Foreign Affairs Committee and US Representative, Twenty-First District of Florida
3. Antisemitism aligns directly with anti-Americanism.
“When you want to summarize antisemitism and national security, it’s impossible not to note that the more people who hate Israel and who hate the Jews, the more they hate capitalism and markets, and the more they hate the United States of America.”
— Walter Russell Mead, Ravenel B. Curry III Distinguished Fellow in Strategy and Statesmanship, Hudson Institute
4. Targeting antisemitic transnational organizations is a key step in ending Jew hatred.
“If Egypt and Jordan can ban the Muslim Brotherhood, don’t you think it’s about time we did too? . . . I want to get us back to a point at which terrorism is not a strategic threat. And we do that by stamping out the Muslim Brotherhood. And we do that by making Jew hatred and antisemitism history in civilized nations.”
— Sebastian Gorka, Deputy Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Counterterrorism, National Security Council
Quotes may be edited for clarity and length.
Go Deeper
“There is an urgent need for elected officials on the left and right to confront antisemitic falsehoods and declare without fear that America is right to stand with Israel for the sake of our own national security and theirs,” writes Nikki Haley in Fox News.
More than two years after Hamas’s brutal terrorist attacks, American Jews still find themselves in the crosshairs of many on both the political left and the political right. “To be for or against Israel is to choose among competing visions of the American future,” writes Michael Doran in The Free Press.
Many in the West believe that Israel’s unilateral operations to destroy terror groups in Gaza, Lebanon, and Syria have weakened the Jewish state by making it an international pariah. But Saudi Arabia—a vocal supporter of Palestine in international institutions—appears willing to normalize ties with Israel, contradicting these narratives.
In Mosaic, Zineb Riboua explains what Western analysts often miss: that Middle Eastern regimes make decisions based on hard power and military success rather than symbolic or moral issues.
