Report: Online Antisemitism Goes Mainstream
Jewish watchdog organization Fight for Online Antisemitism disrupted a Passover terror plot and removed 35,700 antisemitic posts as digital hate surged in 2025.
The Fight for Online Antisemitism (FOA) documented a troubling normalization of digital hate in 2025, with antisemitic content becoming embedded in mainstream online discourse even as the organization achieved record removal rates across major social media platforms.
The FOA’s newly released annual report reveals that while they successfully removed 67% of flagged content through direct escalation channels, up from 53% in 2024, the volume and severity of online hate reached unprecedented levels, with explicit calls for violence comprising 22% of all monitored antisemitic material.
Most alarmingly, FOA’s intelligence unit disrupted an active domestic terror plot targeting Jewish communities during Passover 2026, demonstrating how quickly online incitement translates into physical danger.
From Digital Hate to Physical Threats
FOA’s 500-person volunteer network, spanning 27 countries, identified a white nationalist accelerationist cell using the slogan “Nova Now” to signal plans for mass-casualty attacks on Jewish families during the first night of Passover. Monitoring operational discussions on X, FOA’s team compiled evidence of specific weaponry discussions and holiday gathering targets before transmitting the intelligence to the FBI’s Detroit Field Office Hate Crimes Division, triggering a federal investigation that neutralized the threat.
The report chronicles multiple incidents where online antisemitism preceded or amplified real-world violence throughout 2025, including the December 14 Bondi Beach shooting in Sydney that killed 16 people at a Hanukkah celebration, the May 21 assassination of two Israeli Embassy staff members outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C., and the October 2 Yom Kippur attack on Manchester’s Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue that left two dead.
AI-Powered Disinformation Surge
During the 12-day Israel-Iran war in June 2025, hostile actors deployed AI-generated deepfakes at unprecedented scale, producing highly realistic antisemitic content faster than fact-checking mechanisms could respond. The weaponization of artificial intelligence marked what FOA CEO Tomer Aldubi describes as “a dangerous evolution from volume-based hate to the strategic manipulation of perception and emotion.”
The report reveals that incitement to violence increased from 13% of monitored content in 2024 to over 17% in 2025, a 33% year-over-year spike. Classic antisemitic narratives comprised 33% of detected material, followed by incitement or glorification of violence at 22%, with supporting terrorism and anti-Israeli content each accounting for 15%.
The NGO Advantage in Content Removal
FOA’s professional reporting channels achieved dramatically higher success rates than individual user reports across every major platform. On TikTok, FOA secured a 97% removal rate compared to 39% for volunteer reports; on Facebook, 59% versus 42%; on Instagram, 65% versus 45%; on YouTube, 63% versus 26%; and on X, 51% versus 22%. The organization attributes this disparity to trained intervention strategies and direct escalation partnerships with platform policy teams, though the data also highlights what the report characterizes as “preferential treatment” given to NGO flaggers versus individual users.
Evasion Tactics and Emerging Platforms
Users employed alternative spellings like “J*ws” or “j€ws” to circumvent algorithmic moderation systems, while the phrase “Death to the IDF,” popularized by punk-rap duo Bob Vylan at Glastonbury Festival, spread rapidly across platforms and normalized calls for violence.
FOA reported the social platform UpScrolled to Apple and Google for policy violations after documenting systemic failures to enforce community guidelines, prompting Google to open an investigation into the app.
Looking Ahead
For 2026, FOA plans to train 600 new volunteers as part of a global task force emphasizing OSINT techniques to detect incitement and intercept planned attacks before they occur. The organization’s shift toward monthly reporting and real-time threat intelligence represents an acknowledgment that online antisemitism has moved beyond a content moderation problem into an active security threat requiring intelligence-level intervention.
Chag Pesach Sameach to you all and your loved ones. May this Passover remind us that tyranny is never eternal, that truth outlives fear, and that freedom, once awakened, cannot be extinguished.
Global antisemitism is being fueled not only by state actors and terror proxies, but also by countless Marxist NGOs and cynical influencers who turn antisemitic slander into clickbait, money, and political theater. Figures like #TuckerCarlson, #CandaceOwens, and #NickFuentes do real damage by monetizing poison. This must stop, and it will.
The Second Act of #EpicFury has already begun. The rapid closure of MBaer in Zurich showed that Secretary #MarcoRubio and his teams are moving with speed and precision against shadow networks, illicit banking channels, and NGO structures tied to hostile regimes. A necessary and welcome development.
With every good wish,
#PascalNajadi & #Yael Eastman
#GeoStrat Agency
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