We are living in an era where slogans replace strategy and influencers replace statesmen. Into this vacuum step the propagandists: groypers, rage-merchants, and self-anointed “truth tellers” who discovered that monetized outrage pays better than geopolitical literacy. Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens, Nick Fuentes, Ian Carroll, and the orbit of digital arsonists around them are attempting to hijack the MAGA/ America First movement the same way Marxists and radicals captured the Democratic Party—by hollowing it out from within, laundering extremism as courage, and weaponizing ignorance as identity. Their assault on the U.S.–Israel alliance is intensifying—and the damage they’re doing is strategic.
The fiction they’re selling is simple: that standing with Israel contradicts putting America first. The ease of the slogan is the point. It demands no history, no strategy, and certainly no moral courage. But the moment you press on it, it collapses.
Supporting Israel is not charity. It is national interest.
More than 75% of U.S. security assistance to Israel is spent here at home—supporting American factories, American engineers, and a defense industrial base that is already stretched thin. Joint missile-defense programs like Iron Dome, David’s Sling, and Arrow channel a large share of their production through U.S. facilities, strengthening our security and keeping much of the critical manufacturing on American soil. If America First means economic security and technological dominance, then the alliance with Israel is not a contradiction. It is a catalyst.
And none of this touches the piece the propagandists deliberately avoid: intelligence.
Israel is one of the United States’ most valuable intelligence partners—across multiple theaters, not just the Middle East.
- Israel has provided actionable intelligence that prevented attacks on U.S. troops.
- It monitors Iranian missiles, drones, terror financing, and cyber operations with a precision no other ally can match.
- It shares intelligence used by the U.S. to counter Russia, China, and North Korea.
- It has thwarted plots against American diplomats and civilians, including in Europe.
- Its tech innovations—from signal interception to counterterror analytics—flow directly into U.S. capability.
This is what real alliances look like: shared burdens, shared risks, shared survival. Anyone pretending this is a one-way street is either uninformed—or intentionally misleading their audience.
But instead of reckoning with these facts, the loudest voices have chosen to wage war on a word. Before October 7, “Zionist” was a descriptor. Overnight, it became a slur—a convenient linguistic dodge that allows old hatreds to wear new clothes. Swap “Jew” for “Zionist,” and suddenly bigotry can masquerade as moral superiority.
And let’s be clear: the anti-Zionist wave sweeping social media is not organic. It is being fueled by state-backed actors, anonymous botnets, troll farms, and extremist networks who recognized that algorithmic outrage is a delivery system. If you can launder hatred through a euphemism, it spreads faster, hits harder, and looks respectable to people who should know better.
This is not activism. It is digital antisemitism with a software update.
And yet, despite the noise, the distortions, and the conspiratorial theatrics, the strategic truth remains simple and immovable: America is stronger when Israel is strong. Our deterrence is stronger. Our intelligence is sharper. Our adversaries think twice. That matters in a world where Iran, Russia, and China are probing relentlessly for weakness.
To put America first is to stand with the democratic allies who stand with us—not to abandon them because a cluster of online extremists discovered there is money and influence to be made from sowing division. Israel is one of those allies. Pretending otherwise isn’t principle. It’s propaganda.
And it’s time we called it what it is.
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