Florida Primaries Test Antisemitism in Both Parties

Florida’s Tuesday primaries present parallel tests of antisemitic politics. Republican candidates are running with openly anti-Jewish and pro-Hitler messaging, while DSA-aligned challengers are making opposition to the Israel records of Jewish Democratic incumbents Jared Moskowitz and Debbie Wasserman Schultz central to their campaigns.

• Dan Bilzerian, challenging Rep. Randy Fine, has said he entered the race because Fine is Jewish and has circulated pro-Hitler campaign content, according to Jewish Insider.
• Sen. Rick Scott publicly named Bilzerian, James Fishback and Jake Lang as antisemitic Republican candidates whom voters should reject.
• Reps. Jared Moskowitz and Debbie Wasserman Schultz face challengers aligned with the Democratic Socialists of America who have centered criticism of the incumbents’ Israel positions.
• The contests put right-coded antisemitic conspiracy politics and left-coded anti-Israel organizing before voters in the same state on the same day.

Florida provides an unusually clean electoral test of whether antisemitism can move from fragmented online ecosystems into viable campaigns on either flank. The results will distinguish social-media reach from actual constituency power without collapsing the right-wing and DSA-aligned vectors into one phenomenon.

The Republican Party is confronting a media ecosystem in which anti-Israel and antisemitic content can bypass institutional gatekeepers. At the National College Republicans convention, Rep. Byron Donalds warned young Republicans against social-media rabbit holes as Florida candidates tested the electoral reach of that content.

• Byron Donalds warned young Republicans not to let social media think for them and cautioned against online rabbit holes.
• The dispute is no longer confined to commentators; Florida ballots now include candidates identified by Republican officials as openly antisemitic.
• Fragmented media incentives allow candidates to build audiences around anti-Israel and anti-Jewish material without support from traditional party institutions.

The gatekeeping failure changes antisemitism from a reputational liability managed by party institutions into a decentralized audience-acquisition strategy. Florida’s vote will show whether that audience is electorally meaningful or mainly digital.

A bipartisan group of 36 House members says new conditions attached to the 2026 Nonprofit Security Grant Program may deter religious institutions from accepting federal protection funds. The lawmakers asked Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin to remove requirements they said remain from the prior application and add new federal discretion.

• The letter was led by Reps. Brad Schneider and Claudia Tenney and signed by 34 additional House members.
• The program funds physical security, staff training and emergency preparedness for nonprofits facing terrorism and hate threats.
• The concern is practical: compliance exposure can reduce participation even when appropriated security money remains available.

The policy risk is administrative attrition rather than a headline funding cut: security appropriations lose protective value if threatened institutions decline to apply. Bipartisan congressional resistance indicates the conditions are becoming a political liability for the department.

FBI data show total U.S. hate-crime incidents fell about 7%, from 11,404 in 2024 to 10,606 in 2025, while Jews remained disproportionately targeted. Of 2,572 religion-based hate crimes, 1,647—or 64% targeted Jews; recent synagogue incidents and expanded mass-casualty training show the operational burden behind those figures.

• Anti-Jewish incidents accounted for 15% of all reported hate crimes in 2025 despite Jews representing a small share of the U.S. population.
• A trained security team at Manhattan’s Central Synagogue helped apprehend an assailant after a recent attack.
• Magen David Adom veterans are training U.S. synagogue volunteers in mass-casualty response drawn from Israeli experience.

The national decline in aggregate hate crime masks a persistent concentration of religiously motivated threats against Jews. Community security is consequently shifting from static protection toward trained rapid response and trauma readiness.

A new study reports that Saudi Arabia has removed antisemitic content from its educational curriculum and now presents extremism as a threat while promoting coexistence. Separately, the United States and Argentina are working to expand adoption of the IHRA working definition across Latin America, with another country expected to announce adoption in the coming weeks.

• The Saudi curriculum review found antisemitic material had been fully removed, according to the study reported by JNS.
• Argentina is Latin America’s only full IHRA member, while six regional governments have adopted or endorsed the working definition.
• Educational reform and definitional adoption are distinct policy tracks, but both institutionalize standards against contemporary antisemitism.

Removing antisemitism from state curricula addresses the supply of hostile ideas, while IHRA adoption improves governments’ ability to name their contemporary forms. Progress on both tracks strengthens the policy infrastructure for normalization and Jewish security.