When Silence on Antisemitism and other Racsim Becomes Complicity

America didn’t just flirt with fascism once—and the receipts are hiding in plain sight. This episode of The Rant Network cracks open a buried chapter of the 1930s U.S., when mass rallies and mainstream figures normalized antisemitism, then spotlights the everyday Americans who pushed back—workers, veterans, shopkeepers, and organizers who refused silence. From there, it draws a chilling through‑line to today: after the October 7 Hamas terror attacks, antisemitic incidents surged globally while social platforms amplified old tropes with new speed. The lesson isn’t despair—it’s strategy. History shows that clarity, courage, and coordinated action can blunt hate, whether through rapid response, accountability, education, or broad coalitions. The script repeats, but so can resistance.

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Transcript

Reframing Holocaust Memory

SPEAKER_00 0:03

Oh boy. It's too far away, David. I'm gonna have to get like a little stick. Oh, well, let me ask you something. When you think about the Holocaust, what image comes to mind? Cattle, cars, camps, six million souls extinguished. The ultimate symbol of human evil meets human helplessness. But here's what they don't show you in most history classes. And what I'm gonna spend the next few minutes making sure you may never forget. Believe it or not, once upon a time, Jews fought back. Not just in Europe, not just in the Warsaw ghetto, right here in America on soil. In the streets of New York, Chicago, LA, Newark, and dozens of other cities in between. Jewish Americans, veterans, laborers, gangsters, rabbis, journalists, and ordinary citizens organized, agitated, boycotted, marched, and yes, when necessary, threw punches. They were a blend for dignity at the time when the rest of America was either asleep, indifferent, or actively sympathetic to fascism. And just so that you know, my grandfather was a golden glove boxer. And then I'm going to hold history up like a mirror and show you what starting back at us today, because the names have changed, the uniforms have changed, the language has changed, but the pattern, the patterns are chillingly familiar. This is something that David and I have been rambling on about long before October the 7th. To understand resistance, you have to understand what they are resisting. In the 1930s, fascism was not a fringe ideology in America. It had constantly had money and it was organized. The German American Bund, the America-Deutsch Waldbund, was the most visible face of American Nazism, founded in 1936 by Fritz Kun, a naturalized American citizen from Germany. The Bund as it peaked its claim between 25,000 and 200,000 members, wore uniforms. It was called Camp Siegfried on Long Island, Camp Nordland in Jersey, where they drilled the Nancy ideology and flew the swastika flag and sang the German national songs. Songs. On February twentieth, nineteen thirty-nine, six months before Hitler invaded Poland, the Bund held a famous rally in a very famous stadium, Madison Square Garden. Twenty thousand people showed up, hung a massive portrait of George Washington flanked by a swastika banner. And they gave speeches denouncing Jews, mocking President Roosevelt as D. Rosenfeld, and crowd just went nuts. They cheered. But the Bund wasn't alone. The Silver Legion of America was founded by William Dudley Pelley on the day Hitler took power, which tells you everything about Pelle's intention. Father Charles Cochlin broadcast pro-fascist anti-Semitistic content for 30 million Americans weekly. Charles Lindenberg blamed Jews for pushing America towards war. Henry Ford personally financed the distribution of the protocols of Elder of Zion. Hitler kept Ford's portrait in his office and cited him by name in Mein Kampf. Ford wasn't the only American mentioned. This is what Jewish America woke up to every morning in the 1930s. The most powerful country was harboring a massive, organized, well-funded movement openly called for the elimination of all Jews. Now, David, before I throw you the mic, I want to give you what fast forward looks like. Today, and let me tell you with a straight face, the threat isn't gone. On October 7th, 2023, Hamas slaughtered over 1,200 Israelis in a single day. The largest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust. They burned families alive, they took hostages, they murdered babies, kidnapped babies, murdered elderly, and they abducted them. They documented it with video cameras, GoPros, Insta360s, and they posted it online, whether it was YouTube, Facebook, or Instagram, and many others. And within hours, not days, but hours, they were celebrations on American campuses, Harvard, Columbia, NYU. Students would come lecture you endlessly about microaggression and safe places, held rallies celebrating murderers of Jews and their families. Student groups put out statements calling the massacre. It is a resistance. Faculty members and elite American universities posted messages of support for Hamas on social media. And there was even a more chilling institution that didn't stop them. It's the Democratic Party. And here we are in 2026, looking back at what has now been looked as another instance of massive growth of the Nazi Party here in America. David, I just started this off, but I'm sure your blood's a little bit more boiled.

Global Surge In Antisemitic Attacks

Social Media’s Role In Amplification

Calling Out Public Figures And Tropes

SPEAKER_01 6:54

Stuart, you uh let me just remind everybody the 1,200 that were murdered in uh in Israel were not only Jews, there were Muslims, there were uh Thai workers, there were a whole bunch of other people. The just the deaths were indiscriminate, and anybody who supported Israel or Jews was an enemy. And so here we are today in 2026, and I gotta ask the question how far how much better are we today than we were before October 7th, 2023, Stewart? And the answer is we're not globally 340, 340 increase in anti-Semitic Semitic incidents compared in 2024, for a two-year period compared to what was done in was uh um uh tracked in 2022. 340 percent worldwide, and there isn't a country, not a western country, that isn't impacted by this. The United States saw a 288 percent increase, which included murdering of people, shooting of a lovely couple in front of a in Washington, DC, in uh after a an icon an embassy event. We're talking about attacks on synagogues and massive amount of school school and university violence. Massive amount. Canada was worse, 562 increase in in that, including as I've said before, my synagogue, including absolutely incredible amounts of shootings at seniors' residences, elementary schools, you name it. The trend was not much better in France with 350 percent, UK 450. Where's this coming from, though? Because social media platforms like TikTok and others have flooded, flooded the social channels with this. Meta has done a terrifyingly bad job, along with X and others, to do to get eradicate anti-Semitism, all under the guise of free speech. In Brazil, the asshole president compared Israel's action in Gaza to the Holocaust in February, and it just ignited another wave of anti-Semitism. Chile, 325%. Only Argentina saw a decrease, Stuart, with President Malay, a conservative who's a pro-Israel, who has demanded to go the opposite route. South Africa, of course, 185%. They're the ones bringing Israel to the eye. Australia, 387% increase, Stuart, including the assassinations on Bondi Beach, which conveniently was swept under the rug yet again. Former Soviet blocs, same thing, disastrous attacks on Jews. What's insane, what's insane, Stuart, is that the world is upside down still, and unfortunately, many Jewish families have members of their family who have lost their sight on what is really there and have been bought swept up in the social media, political spheres, and commentaries to support Hamas. The Jews are still blamed for everything. We were blamed for the Black Plague, we were blamed for the stock market crash, we were blamed for world wars, we've been blamed, the Tsar blamed Jews when he it was convenient for the Tsar. Same thing in England and France historically, and nothing has changed. The one thing they continue to have in common is anti-Semitism. Blame the Jew. It didn't change, and on as I ranted about while you were away, even assholes like Spike Lee, who goes to the NBA All-Star game with his man purse talk with Palestine on it, this was a shot taken at Denny Abdia, the basketball player, for what purpose? When you look at different communities right now, it doesn't make a difference. Many communities are still swept up in old trope anti-Semitism. Still, you see this on social channels, podcasts. Candace Owen, that bitch, who at one point was employed by Ben Shapiro of the Daily Wire, a modern Orthodox Jew, and she went off on blaming Jews for everything that's wrong. That Hamas was in the right. Tucker Carlson, funded by Qatar allegedly, who goes to Israel and to shove it down Israel's throat, claims that he was detained and was denied entry to Israel, but all he was going through was a normal security check. All the while to just boil everybody's blood. Why am I doing this? Why am I bringing these stats and stories up? It's because Stuart, yes, it's the same. No, it's not. But anti-Semitism is still anti-Semitism. We were hated before 1948 because we didn't have a state. Now we're hated because we uh we have a state. We were hated before because we didn't pledge allegiance to any country we were in, and when we do, we're told we're not part of that, go back to Poland. And the wave of extremism that has come in through immigration, whether it's from Muslim countries or from other, that bring their old world ideologies to um to the West and is embraced by the left with open arms. I was in UK last week, Stuart, and I'm telling you, they opened their arms to embrace Muslim radicalism because the common enemy remains the Jew. What hold on, if I may. You brought up what can we do? What can we do? You talked about fighting back, and fortunately, Stewart, while many will deny this, for the next three years, we at least have a president in the White House who's actually looking out for Jews. You have countries such as Poland and Hungary and Argentina and Czechia and others that are ironically looking out for Jews because they recognized, they realized that if you start with Jews and it almost always starts with Jews, it festers into even worse for your country. We've seen this historically, it hasn't changed. But Jews need to stop crying, Jews need to stop whining about the situation and get educated, informed. And don't tell me you can't find information. Yes, Apple News is now allegedly under Tim Cook being investigated for biases in their in their article production because there's not a single conservative voice. But folks, there's plenty of information out there. When the United Nations admitted that there was no genocide, when Hamas admitted that the vast majority of the people killed of the so-called 70,000 were terrorists, the world didn't change the messaging. You gotta realize it's it's not true. You have been lied to and blinded by a group of people with a massive agenda. How they can so yell and scream that the Jews are responsible for a massacre, a genocide in Gaza, but ignore the tens of thousands of being murdered in the streets of Iran just shows you what's up. Families that are torn apart because they have members that are supporting the other side is really unfortunate. But that's because we stopped caring and educating ourselves about the truth. We've ignored the truth. Now, there are those who are not Jewish who are standing arm in arm with Israel and with Jews. Reza Pahlavi, the the real heir to the throne of Iran, was interviewed by Christiana Mampur, a card-carrying anti-Semite. And he said that we, the Jews and Iranians, have common values, not of terrorism, but of living peacefully. And he really recognized what Israel can bring to the table, what Jews can bring to the table. And Persians and Jews have been marching arm in arm steward, as much as 350,000 in Toronto alone, marching arm in arm for justice for Persians. Jews marched with Martin Luther King, which is not being taught to students of African-American descent because it's a convenience of DEI, it's a convenience of race theory, critical race theory. You are ignoring your terror, you're forgetting the past, and it's time to fight back. It's time to fight the school systems, the political systems. It's not time to beat people up with baseball bats as they did in the 1930s. But ladies and gentlemen, at a certain point, at a certain point, violence will bring out violence.

What Fighting Back Looks Like

Disagreement On Complacency Vs Action

SPEAKER_00 16:30

All right. So I gotta jump in. Listen, Meyer Lansky, who cleared the Bund Hall with his fists and his crew, felt no shame about it. NATO Arno in Newark with the Minutemen, who met fascist marchers with organized resistance. Samuel Uttemeyer, who called for the boycott of the Nazi Germany in 1933 when he thought he was just being alarmist. Ben Hecht refused to let America look away from the Holocaust while it happened. Jewish war veteran veterans who marched in uniform say we are here to serve our country and we will not be erased. Alongshoremen who refused to unload Nazi ships, the shopkeepers who pulled German goods off their shelf. They were called the troublemakers, David. They were called the agitators, they were called making things worse. History has rendered a verdict. They were right. The people who console patients were accommodating the wrong. The threat is different today, far more dynamic, far more fluid. The tools are far different and far more powerful. But the obligation, David, to clearly speak plainly and organize effectively and resist without an apology, something that I, you know, not on this topic that you've asked me in the past to do. And I don't apologize for being brutally blunt and honest. The question is, Dave, when and how will we fight back? And now, is it a call for violence? Well, I would say no more than the call to violence that's already been uttered and cried out. I don't think that a resistance of that magnitude could be looked at any differently than what has already happened. And is that complicating problems? Well, there are two types of Jews, David. Those that are worried about what's going to happen and those that were complacent. Do you know why today, David, there's more Jews that are worried than are less worried? Because they were annihilated in 1939 to 1945.

Strengths, Fears, And Political Will

SPEAKER_01 19:02

David, I'm oh, yes. I'm sorry, I don't understand your statement. Can you really clarify that last remark? Because the Jews that were worried left Germany prior to the Stuart, but your statement has there's it's a very interesting statement you make because you say there are only two types of Jews. I disagree. There are more than two types of Jews. There are those that are fighting back, Stuart. There are those that you have Hillel Neuer at the UN watch, who's been fighting for decades, fighting the United Nations, exposing the fallacies of the United Nations. He has got minions following him, working with him to literally disrupt, but not just for the Jewish cause, but for all kinds of racial causes. You have many who are fighting Stuart, whether it's with words, or in some cases, we are fortunate enough to have an IDF that fights even physically to support Jewry around the world. Don't I don't believe that we are as weak as we were in the 1930s. I think that we are stronger, we but our enemies have grown immensely. But it's not just the Jewish enemy, but Stuart, the public enemy. It's Western society's enemy. If Western societies continue to close a blind eye, and I have met quite a few people, quite a few people who've turned a blind eye and said, Oh, not in my neighborhood, I don't have to worry about it. They're now starting to worry because years ago, when they were told, watch out, they're now going, oh no, what do we do? We told you back then, but now people are so worried about public shaming. There are people worried about getting doxxed, people are worried about getting canceled, and so they're staying quiet. That's where it's wrong. When we get together in one voice to denounce anti-Semitism and other racism, as has been declared publicly by many political leaders, many folks in the media, other influencers, then we're good. But if we continue to close a blind eye, say not by me. And Stuart, I know Jews who are saying that. I know Jews who continue to say, it's listen, it doesn't affect me. I'm not worried. That's when I bring up Nazi Germany and say, Yeah, well, if you were good enough for Hitler, you're good enough for our current enemies. So don't tell me today you're sitting here cozy, Stuart. But the we need to really work by the crickets.

SPEAKER_00 21:32

Because that's the word that I hear.

Closing And Posting Schedule

SPEAKER_01 21:34

And it wasn't there. I'm sorry, maybe you're in a different circle. It's not entirely crickets, it's not entirely crickets. I think that there are quite a few fighting, we just don't have enough. And when you see, when you have a political leader with the intestinal fortitude that Donald Trump has put forward to crush anti Semitism, there was this week, you know, a pan um A committee on meeting in the Congress on anti-Semitism. We've seen things put into place to crush universities with their with their wokeism and with their anti-Semitic tropes and all that. Stuart, there is a little bit of movement. My fear going forward after 2029 is who is going to take on the reins? Who's going to take on the lead? Because we see in the Democratic Party way too much division. And on the Republican Party, we're starting to see cracks of that as well. Because I'm worried myself that your political leadership is being sucked into this idea that hating Jews gets you votes.

SPEAKER_00 22:44

On that note, David, I'm gonna say we rambled on for 22 minutes, and uh there's a lot of clipping to go on. All right, everyone. Thank you very much for joining us every Monday, Wednesday, Friday, New E shirt. David and I tear it apart, different topic. David, thank you for mixing it up with me. Let's hope we actually got someone to listen about this.