Antisemitic Narratives Flood X After Minneapolis ICE Shooting
Anti-Israel and foreign disinformation accounts link Jan. 7 killing of Renee Good to Israel, in another example of how radical circles reflexively invoke Israel after every violent or tragic incident
In the 24 hours after the fatal ICE-involved shooting in Minneapolis on January 7, 2026, in which Renee Nicole Good, 37, was killed during a federal operation, a wave of social media posts moved quickly to implicate Israel and “Zionists” in the incident. Using social-media listening tools, Jewish Onliner identified 40.5K posts on January 7 linking ICE discourse to Israel-related terms, generating 259.6K interactions and an estimated 2.6 billion potential views.
The shooting itself remains under investigation by the FBI and publicly contested, with federal authorities claiming self-defense and city officials disputing that account after video circulated online.
The dominant narrative in Jewish Onliner’s dataset claimed that ICE cooperates with Israel on security matters and learned extreme tactics through that relationship. Publicly documented U.S.–Israel security cooperation does not support claims that Israel trained the ICE personnel involved in Minneapolis or influenced the decision to use lethal force. Instead, ICE-related cooperation centers on transnational enforcement priorities such as countering terrorist financing, including a 2022 agreement signed during a DHS visit to Israel.
Key “Super-Spreaders” in the Dataset
Jewish Onliner’s monitoring identified several high-reach accounts as major amplifiers of the narrative on January 7. Among them is prominent communist-leaning streamer Hasan Piker, who quoted a tweet by the Department of Homeland Security, adding “united states of Israel.”
Max Blumenthal, editor of the anti-American outlet The Grayzone, commented on the shooting, writing the United States in the era of President Donald Trump resembles“ A regime of Terror Capitalism imposed on subjects across the Americas to protect economic plunder by a decadent class of Zionist tech plutocrats.”
Several of the most viral amplifiers of the narrative were users based outside the United States. An account known as “Suppressed News,” based in North Africa, posted that “ICE agents are acting just like IDF soldiers but maybe it’s because some of them actually are?”
The UK-based Adame Media, which was previously identified by the Network Contagion Research Institute as part of a Russian and Iranian-tied disinformation apparatus, posted that “Over 120 ICE agents in Chicago are straight from the Israeli Defense Forces!”
An account from El Salvador called “Truth Teller” echoed the same talking point — using nearly identical language as Adame Media — while the Italy-based Rula Jebreal tweeted that “We are witnessing the full Israelification of the United States.”
Israel as an All-Purpose “Explain Everything” Villain
The episode is notable less for the originality of the claim than for the speed and scale with which it spread. Variations of the allegation that U.S. law enforcement adopted brutal tactics from Israeli counterparts have circulated for years in radical circles, particularly after contested use of force incidents, because the framing redirects attention from domestic decision-making to an external actor.
Israel is also frequently used as the scapegoat in conspiracy narratives after violent incidents unrelated to law enforcement. After the September 2025 political assassination of conservative organizer Charlie Kirk, conspiracy theorists quickly sought to attribute the killing to Israel and have continued to push that claim even after an alleged suspect was arrested and is now standing trial.
Such narratives circulate following almost all significant, headline-grabbing international incidents, echoing the age-old conspiracy that Jews manipulate world events. This includes the Trump Administration’s recent arrest of Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro and the terrorist massacre at Australia’s Bondi Beach.
Chilling that it should be linked to Jews or Israel. Just like 1930s all over.
This is utterly disgusting.