The global rise in antisemitic hoaxes
Weaponized antisemitic hoaxes by Zionist Jews are rising in the West. In collaboration with Databases for Palestine, No Frontiers is releasing the first database documenting this phenomenon.
On Nov. 5, just hours after the New York City mayoral election was called, CCTV captured a bicyclist gliding down a Brooklyn sidewalk, wearing a distinctive black fedora and coat.
He stopped partway down the street, still straddling his bike, and began painting red lines on the wall of a Jewish K-12 school—one swastika, then another.
Aside from his identity, one question remains. The vandal wore the hallmark dress of Orthodox Jewish men common in Brooklyn. Did a Jewish person commit an antisemitic hate crime? The police still haven’t identified him.
Despite a billionaire-backed Zionist slander campaign, Mayor Zohran Mandani still beat Andrew Cuomo and gained one-third of the Jewish vote, in large part because of his pro-Palestinian position. Still, the Zionist moral panic persists in New York City, apparently in the form of two painted swastikas to frame Mamdani’s rise to mayoral office as antisemitic.
“There may be inadequate evidence to be certain in this specific instance, but the fact is it is a very common occurrence that Jewish people fake these hate crimes,” wrote Jenin Younes, legal director for the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, on X. She deleted the post soon after, clarifying that Zionist Jews often stage these crimes, and that it’s still uncertain who the vandal is. And she’s not wrong.
“I would say that, broadly speaking, there is a general attempt by many people high up in sort of Zionist positions, like the Anti-Defamation League, the government of Israel, a lot of people in our government to make it seem as though antisemitism is a scourge in the United States and in the West that needs extreme measures to be eradicated,” Younes told No Frontiers.
But why would a Jewish Zionist person stage a hate crime that may induce a climate of fear for Jews?
These hoax incidents, Younes says, are “a mass attempt to make it seem as though Jews are simply not safe in the West, and that justifies Israel in its existence and everything that it does, and also justifies suppressing speech critical of Israel by conflating these notions.”
A deceptive 2025 survey by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), an Israel lobby group disguised as a civil rights organization, asserts that nearly half the global population, an estimated 2.2 billion people, “harbor deeply entrenched antisemitic attitudes.” That’s nearly 1 in 2 people worldwide.
Western media widely considers the ADL a leading authority on antisemitism, despite being deemed a “generally unreliable” source by Wikipedia, its flagship antisemitism survey riddled with problematic methodology, and having admitted to counting criticism of Israel and pro-Palestinian activism as antisemitic hate1.
“The ADL reports these horrendous statistics in California schools, but then when you look at what counts as an antisemitic incident, and I’m not making this up, that’s one of a student wearing a Palestine flag on their t-shirt,” explained Younes. “A movie about the occupation in the West Bank being shown in class—these are reported as antisemitic incidents.”
While antisemitism certainly exists, it’s generally confined to the usual hate group suspects, like the alt-right, neo-Nazis, or QAnon, that Donald Trump mainstreamed in GOP politics since his 2015 presidential rise. Still, the perception of global antisemitism, when wielded, undermines civil rights causes and advances Israel’s colonial endeavors.
“Against this backdrop, there have been a lot of incidents where it turned out that once the perpetrator of the hate crime was found, it turned out that the person was a Jewish Zionist,” said Younes. “Not a Christian Zionist, a Jewish Zionist.”
The data
From synagogue vandalism to Oct. 7 atrocity hoaxes, Zionists have a long history of manufacturing their own “antisemitic” hate crimes, moral panic, and even state-sponsored false flag operations.
In collaboration with Databases for Palestine, No Frontiers is releasing the first database of hoax antisemitic incidents from around the world.
Across the West, vigilante antisemitic hoaxes perpetrated by Zionist Jews have become commonplace, especially during the global rise in Palestinian solidarity after Oct. 7. These actions are aimed at stoking widespread racist fear and hatred of imaginary Arab and Muslim “extremism,” and galvanizing support for white Jewish supremacy, the Zionist settler colony of Israel, and the genocidal massacre of Palestinians.
A news and social media analysis by No Frontiers found scores of hoax antisemitic incidents from the last decade. Between 2016 and 2026, there were 65 antisemitic hoax incidents across 14 countries.
20 antisemitic hoax incidents were staged attacks.
Incidents were spread across 14 countries: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, England, France, Germany, “Israel,” the Netherlands, New Zealand, occupied Palestine, Scotland, and the USA.
10+ incidents occurred at synagogues.
10 incidents occurred on university campuses.
9 incidents occurred at pro-Palestine protests.
9 are atrocity hoax Israeli propaganda narratives.
8 hoax incidents are incitements targeting specific Palestinians, Arab or Muslim individuals.
7 are suspected false-flag operations by Israel.
6 are false flags by individuals or groups, not sponsored by Israel.
2 Israeli Jews attempted a “suicide by cop” style attack at IOF checkpoints dressed like “Palestinians”—one succeeded in provoking their death.
Yet these documented hoaxes are likely just scratching the surface.
Inspect and download the data here or on Databases for Palestine’s site hoaxes.genocide.live.
Some hoaxes are easily sniffed out—why would a pro-Palestine activist draw swastikas or perform a Nazi salute?
Caught on camera, several of the hoaxers staging attacks are unconvincing to a confounding degree—one phoning the police, two running to the police, and another screaming on the ground, feigning pain. Police found that a Jewish man staged a hate crime at his synagogue, where he worked, by stabbing himself and reporting an attack by an assailant screaming antisemitic slurs at him. In fact, many hoaxes are self-inflicted.
Yet hoax attacks can and do have life-altering consequences to the unsuspecting intended targets.
In 2016, an Israeli Jewish woman admitted to police that she and her family lied that a Palestinian minor raped her while another Palestinian teen filmed, when it was reportedly a consensual relationship (with a minor).
That’s damaging enough, but one person alone created a climate of sustained antisemitic fear across Europe, North America, and Oceania (Australia and New Zealand) for half a year.
In 2017, Israeli police arrested 19-year-old American-Israeli dual citizen Michael Kadar after his 6-month international bomb threat campaign against Jewish centers, synagogues, as well as hospitals, airlines, shopping malls, police stations, and schools. He was paid over $1 million in Bitcoin on the ‘dark web’ by sending thousands of hoax bomb threats across Britain, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, Denmark, Norway, and the United States. In the US, the Jewish teenager made some 2,000 bomb threats in at least 37 states, over and over, until he was finally tracked down in southern Israel. He served seven years in prison.
Then there are the Israeli atrocity hoaxes.
After Hamas’ Al-Aqsa Flood attack on Oct. 7, 2023, Israel’s propaganda machine spun sensational and grotesque narratives of “mass rape,” “beheaded babies,” and babies “in ovens” that were echoed by Western leaders and mainstream media alike. In light of these atrocity hoaxes, the West gave Israel an unlimited license to commit genocide and invade Palestine, Lebanon, and bomb Iran.
In the end, these hoaxes were quickly debunked by independent journalists, but the power of the Israel lobby was firmly entrenched in America and Europe.
The suspected Israeli false-flag operations in Europe and Australia served a similar purpose, as did the fake antisemitic targeting at pro-Palestine encampments on universities: to provoke a reaction from Israel, America, or other Western powers, crush dissent against Zionism, and affirm Jewish supremacy.
And the list goes on and on.
As this phenomenon becomes more recognizable, some social media users have even created their own video compilations, splicing together numerous reports and footage of hoax incidents.
But so far, no one has systematically studied these hoax antisemitic occurrences or made a thorough running tally of these incidents, yet it’s clear to Palestinians that these hoaxes contribute to vitriolic paranoia and unrelenting violence against Palestinians, and further legitimize Israeli domination through Western eyes.
Antisemitism, a global scourge?
The truth of the matter is: Aside from a few short-lived instances, rates of antisemitism have always been low in the United States and have never risen to systemic discrimination or segregation as Jews across medieval Europe experienced or during the Nazi Holocaust (which sought the extermination of several other peoples, not just Jews).
Incidence of hate, violence, imprisonment, and systemic discrimination toward Indigenous, Brown, Black, immigrant, undocumented, LGBTQ, trans, and women communities are realities American and Euro-descended Jews could hardly fathom, much less experience on a day-to-day basis.
“I would say there’s basically no antisemitism coming from the government, which is probably the most important thing, right?” Jenin Younes told No Frontiers. “But you see tons and tons of Islamophobia from high-up government officials, you know, calling for deporting all Muslims, Arabs, and Palestinians and saying, ‘They’re not welcome here. They shouldn’t be here. They can’t assimilate.’”
She went on, “You don’t see any politicians saying that about Jews, as you know, should be the case, of course.”
As legal director for the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, Younes is quite familiar with hoax antisemitic incidents because they are part of a larger pattern of First Amendment violations, like suppressing freedom of speech and protest. In her experience, institutions like universities or state governments censor, punish, or criminalize speech—not because they are stopping true antisemitism, but to suppress criticism of Israel.
Again, antisemitism is woefully conflated with anti-Zionism.
“Of course, Jews in the diaspora do face antisemitism, and thus their loyalty to Zionism and opposition to antisemitism are contradictions,” wrote Tony Greenstein, historian and Jewish anti-Zionist activist for The Palestine Chronicle. “However, given that antisemitism in the West has declined almost to the vanishing point, and arguably only exists because the Zionist movement associates Jews with Israel’s genocide, they can live with those contradictions.”
By creating a us-versus-them worldview, Jews versus Gentiles (non-Jews), Israel has given Zionist Jews only one available community to feel safety and security—even if the global antisemitic threat is almost entirely imagined. Instead, Western entrenched Zionism (white Jewish supremacy) has created a privileged minority of people across civil and political life. Now more than ever in the 21st century, this privileged class of people is bombarded with messaging saying ‘the whole world, especially Arabs, wants you dead.’
It’s about maintaining power, sustaining Jewish supremacy.
Six days after the ADL released its flagship global antisemitism survey, which found over 2.2 billion people harboring anti-Jewish hatred, Elon Musk gave back-to-back Nazi salutes, unmistakable to the casual observer. Yet the ADL defended Musk.
“It seems that [at]elonmusk made an awkward gesture in a moment of enthusiasm, not a Nazi salute, but again, we appreciate that people are on edge,” the ADL wrote on X.
“Thanks guys [laughing emoji],” Musk replied. [*]
For more on the ADL, visit #DropTheADL’s historical ADL primer, the Institute for Middle East Understanding’s ADL explainer, and Jewish Voice for Peace’s Reject the ADL campaign.
Interesting, you call "them" Zionists. Funny way to cloak the reality of the neuroperverse religion (sic).
Bomb them back to the Stone Age. That's what Hegseth, a la his deputy Stephen Feinberg are calling for? Hmmm. Way beyond Zionism.
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Iranian President Pezeshkian released a lengthy text addressed to the American people ahead of Trump's address to the nation. This text stands out as an exemplary case of an ethical, harmonious, responsible and deep thinking state leader, something we didn’t see from a Western politician for a very long time.
He also warns: "Attacking Iran’s vital infrastructure—including energy and industrial facilities—directly targets the Iranian people. Beyond constituting a war crime, such actions carry consequences that extend far beyond Iran’s borders"
FULL LETTER BELOW:
"To the people of the United States of America, and to all those who, amid a flood of distortions and manufactured narratives, continue to seek the truth and aspire to a better life:
Iran—by this very name, character, and identity—is one of the oldest continuous civilizations in human history. Despite its historical and geographical advantages at various times, Iran has never, in its modern history, chosen the path of aggression, expansion, colonialism, or domination. Even after enduring occupation, invasion, and sustained pressure from global powers—and despite possessing military superiority over many of its neighbors—Iran has never initiated a war. Yet it has resolutely and bravely repelled those who have attacked it.
The Iranian people harbor no enmity toward other nations, including the people of America, Europe, or neighboring countries. Even in the face of repeated foreign interventions and pressures throughout their proud history, Iranians have consistently drawn a clear distinction between governments and the peoples they govern. This is a deeply rooted principle in Iranian culture and collective consciousness—not a temporary political stance.
For this reason, portraying Iran as a threat is neither consistent with historical reality nor with present-day observable facts. Such a perception is the product of political and economic whims of the powerful—the need to manufacture an enemy in order to justify pressure, maintain military dominance, sustain the arms industry, and control strategic markets. In such an environment, if a threat does not exist, it is invented.
Within this same framework, the United States has concentrated the largest number of its forces, bases, and military capabilities around Iran—a country that, at least since the founding of the United States, has never initiated a war. Recent American aggressions launched from these very bases have demonstrated how threatening such a military presence truly is. Naturally, no country confronted with such conditions would forgo strengthening its defensive capabilities. What Iran has done—and continues to do—is a measured response grounded in legitimate self-defense, and by no means an initiation of war or aggression.
Relations between Iran and the United States were not originally hostile, and early interactions between the Iranian and American people were not marred with hostility or tension. The turning point, however, was the 1953 coup d’état—an illegal American intervention aimed at preventing the nationalization of Iran’s own resources. That coup disrupted Iran’s democratic process, reinstated dictatorship, and sowed deep distrust among Iranians toward U.S. policies.
This distrust deepened further with America’s support for the Shah’s regime, its backing of Saddam Hussein during the imposed war of the 1980s, the imposition of the longest and most comprehensive sanctions in modern history, and ultimately, unprovoked military aggression—twice, in the midst of negotiations—against Iran.
Yet all these pressures have failed to weaken Iran. On the contrary, the country has grown stronger in many areas: literacy rates have tripled—from roughly 30% before the Islamic Revolution to over 90% today; higher education has expanded dramatically; significant advances have been achieved in modern technology; healthcare services have improved; and infrastructure has developed at a pace and scale incomparable to the past. These are measurable, observable realities that stand independent of fabricated narratives.
At the same time, the destructive and inhumane impact of sanctions, war, and aggression on the lives of the resilient Iranian people must not be underestimated. The continuation of military aggression and recent bombings profoundly affect people’s lives, attitudes, and perspectives. This reflects a fundamental human truth: when war inflicts irreparable harm on lives, homes, cities, and futures, people will not remain indifferent toward those responsible.
This raises a fundamental question: Exactly which of the American people’s interests are truly being served by this war? Was there any objective threat from Iran to justify such behavior? Does the massacre of innocent children, the destruction of cancer-treatment pharmaceutical facilities, or boasting about bombing a country “back to the stone ages” serve any purpose other than further damaging the United States’ global standing?
Iran pursued negotiations, reached an agreement, and fulfilled all its commitments. The decision to withdraw from that agreement, escalate toward confrontation, and launch two acts of aggression in the midst of negotiations were destructive choices made by the U.S. government—choices that served the delusions of a foreign aggressor.
Attacking Iran’s vital infrastructure—including energy and industrial facilities—directly targets the Iranian people. Beyond constituting a war crime, such actions carry consequences that extend far beyond Iran’s borders. They generate instability, increase human and economic costs, and perpetuate cycles of tension, planting seeds of resentment that will endure for years. This is not a demonstration of strength; it is a sign of strategic bewilderment and an inability to achieve a sustainable solution.
Is it not also the case that America has entered this aggression as a proxy for Israel, influenced and manipulated by that regime? Is it not true that Israel, by manufacturing an Iranian threat, seeks to divert global attention away from its crimes toward the Palestinians? Is it not evident that Israel now aims to fight Iran to the last American soldier and the last American taxpayer dollar—shifting the burden of its delusions onto Iran, the region, and the United States itself in pursuit of illegitimate interests?
Is “America First” truly among the priorities of the U.S. government today?
I invite you to look beyond the machinery of misinformation—an integral part of this aggression—and instead speak with those who have visited Iran. Observe the many accomplished Iranian immigrants—educated in Iran—who now teach and conduct research at the world’s most prestigious universities, or contribute to the most advanced technology firms in the West. Do these realities align with the distortions you are being told about Iran and its people?
Today, the world stands at a crossroads. Continuing along the path of confrontation is more costly and futile than ever before. The choice between confrontation and engagement is both real and consequential; its outcome will shape the future for generations to come. Throughout its millennia of proud history, Iran has outlasted many aggressors. All that remains of them are tarnished names in history, while Iran endures—resilient, dignified, and proud."