Maintaining American society's internal cohesion and preserving a strong strategic alliance with Israel are both vital to America's national security interests, according to analysis of foreign adversarial operations.
Unsealed Department of Justice affidavits addressing Russia's Doppelgänger network and threat assessment intelligence reports from OpenAI, Graphika and Microsoft tracking Chinese networks have documented that both China and Russia are actively deploying covert digital online campaigns to stoke antisemitism and drive a wedge between the United States and Israel, and divide American society itself.
Foreign intelligence agencies have identified classic antisemitic conspiracy theories - such as "secret cabals" And "puppet master" Tropes - as low-cost, high-yield tools. By convincing Americans that their government is controlled by the State of Israel or hidden anti-American interests, these campaigns systematically erode public faith in elections, national security policies and democratic institutions.
Foreign adversaries have turned generative AI into an engine of asymmetric warfare. Russian and Chinese operations use Large Language Models, AI image generators and synthetic voice cloning to produce thousands of fake news articles across spoof domains, deploy photorealistic caricatures and coordinate bot swarms that amplify real-world provocations. The objective is total civic paralysis - making Americans enemies of one another and paralyzing U.S. Foreign policy.
The recent surge in antisemitism across the United States has been linked to widespread use of social media and the internet. Digital antisemitism involves the spread of antisemitic hatred and conspiracy theories on online platforms along with harassment of Jewish users. Algorithmic amplification, generative AI systems and lax content moderation by platforms including Meta, X, TikTok and YouTube have enabled high-engagement emotional content pushing antisemitic tropes and calls for violence into mainstream feeds. AI tools have also been exploited to generate Holocaust denial and distortion.
Medieval blood libels and fabricated global conspiracies, such as The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, have been repackaged as modern memes and QAnon narratives. A report by the Gino Germani Institute traced how Russia has historically used antisemitic narratives as tools of disinformation and cognitive warfare, integrating them into its "active measures"-influence operations designed to manipulate public opinion and destabilize Western adversaries.
Following the October 7, 2023 Hamas-led massacre in southern Israel and the ensuing war, online vitriol against the United States, American Jews and the State of Israel has surged, with Big Tech serving as an amplifier of online antisemitism that has fueled real-life violence.