TORONTO—American pundit Ben Shapiro warned a Toronto audience that anti-Semitism isn’t just alive and well on the streets, but helped along by overseas agents.
The Chinese regime, Russia, and Iran are “still promoting extraordinary levels of anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism online,” he told 1,000 attendees at the World Symposium Against Antizionism on May 17.
“This is just a reality. So, pretending there’s no foreign aspect as to what’s happening here is untrue. It’s also true that the West has imported a huge number of people from countries that were dominated by this ideology for decades,” he said.
Different studies have shown Chinese regime-linked operations promoting anti-Semitism online. This includes a 2024 study by Taiwan’s Doublethink Lab and VOA Mandarin identifying ‘spamouflage’ networks with connections to China posting anti-Semitic conspiracy theories on social media, suggesting that America’s institutions are controlled by Jewish people….