What is the fruit of this pedagogy of hatred? Not strength, not courage, not resilience, but bitterness, helplessness, and an endless cycle of blame. Like the grievance merchants of the left, these peddlers of right-wing resentment deny their followers the very agency they claim to champion. Their obsession with scapegoating “the Jews” serves as a catechism for learned helplessness.

Last November, prominent Christian leaders released and signed “The Antioch Declaration,” a document that directly confronted the rising tide of anti-Semitism among certain segments of the Christian right. It was written in response to a disturbing cultural shift: Anti-Semitism is not just re-emerging; it is metastasizing. It has found its way into the ideological bloodstream of groups that claim to champion Christian renewal, including Christian “masculinity.”

Since the horrific October 7 attacks, anti-Semitic incidents in the U.S. have reached unprecedented levels, and public attitudes worldwide show alarming acceptance of anti-Jewish attitudes. Figures like Nick Fuentes have built platforms on Holocaust denial, grotesque praise of Hitler, and conspiratorial ravings about Jewish control. Fuentes is no fringe figure; he commands a legion of anonymous sycophants online—“groypers”—who amplify and escalate his toxic ideas. Worse still, his rhetoric finds subtle endorsement from more mainstream voices, such as Candace Owens, a former employee of the Daily Wire who, with her 6.6 million followers on X, has flirted with Holocaust minimization, invoked blood libel tropes, and speculated about Jewish domination over American cultural institutions. The nonprofit StopAntisemitism named her “Antisemite of the Year.”

But this has moved beyond internet trolls and media provocateurs. Anti-Semitism has found unsettling traction within the new Christian dissident right, often under the banner of Christian nationalism. Andrew Torba, founder of the social media platform Gab and co-author of one of the most prominent Christian nationalist manifestoes, has openly declared contemporary Jews—which he regularly labels “the synagogue of Satan”—the primary enemy of America and the Church. His social media is rife with claims about Jewish conspiracies, white decline, and Christian subjugation. Another Christian nationalist text explicitly attributes America’s “steep decline over the recent decades” to Jewish domination of politics, media, and the entertainment industry. Apparently, “anti-white suicidal tendencies” are the result of “Jewish influence.” “Jewish hegemony in the West” is presented as a “clear and present danger” to whites. Christendom will continue to crumble if churches sell out “white people to a Jewish globalist regime” that is opposed to it. Some pastors have adopted similar rhetoric, presenting Jews as “parasitic” and a uniquely malevolent force hindering the revival of Christendom.

For these people to be obsessed with the “Jewish Problem” reveals an irony: While claiming to lead a resurgence of Christian masculinity, they have embraced a posture that is un-Christian and, frankly, unmanly. Instead of calling men to rise above hardship with courage and faith, they wallow in grievance, blame-shifting, and victimhood. It is a perverse mirror image of the very “wokeism” they so loudly decry.

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