Neither the Biden admin nor the legacy media are…investigating politically inconvenient sources of antisemitism.

There is an epidemic of hate facing our country. We’re seeing a rapid rise in antisemitic rhetoric and acts,” said Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff at a roundtable on combatting antisemitism that he convened last month.

While he’s right about the epidemic of antisemitism, he and the Biden administration are entirely wrong about the cause. It’s not coming exclusively from right-wing extremists but also from other minority groups, leftists in higher education, and many openly antisemitic programs and organizations that the federal government is funding with our tax dollars.

A report last year by the Anti-Defamation League found that antisemitic incidents—including assaults, harassment, and vandalism—hit an all-time high since it began tracking in the 1970s: “an average of more than seven incidents per day and a 34 percent increase year over year.”

That might even be an undercount, as the ADL under Jonathan Greenblatt has too often looked away from left-wing antisemitism.

Some of the highest levels of antisemitic incidents are in solidly blue areas, like New York City. According to the New York Police Department, hate crimes against Jews in New York City in November 2022 were up 125% over the prior year and accounted for 60% of all hate crimes that month. That’s more than all the other hate crimes in the city based on race, gender, sexual orientation, and other religious affiliations combined.

Though some of the roundtable participants preferred to focus on the usual suspects—white supremacists like the murderers who attacked synagogues in Poway, California, and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania—threats to Jews are not confined to the far right.

It’s not skinheads who are perpetrating a crime wave against Orthodox Jews in Brooklyn—assaulting children and pregnant women, shooting Jews with BB guns, slashing them with knives, hurling rocks at their heads, and committing other violent acts. Nor is it white nationalists creating a hostile environment for Jews on college campuses.

While the legacy media spent countless hours breathlessly covering a few dozen dweebs with tiki torches chanting, “Jews will not replace us,” outlets like The New York Times couldn’t spare a column inch on the much larger crowds of so-called Black Hebrew Israelites marching in Brooklyn chanting, “We are the real Jews,” even though it was Black Hebrew Israelite cultists who shot up a kosher supermarket in New Jersey in 2019.

During 2022, the U.N. General Assembly passed more resolutions condemning Israel than all other nations combined—even as Russia engaged in war crimes in Ukraine, North Korea engaged in mass human rights violations and ramped up nuclear weapons production, and China was imprisoning 1 million Uyghurs in concentration camps. Nevertheless, the United States remains the largest financial supporter of the United Nations.

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