Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg is the world’s second most dangerous antisemite, several spots ahead of white nationalist Nick Fuentes, according to a new report from the Israeli government.
The report contains an analysis of 10 “prominent influencers in the global anti-semitic and anti-Zionist arena in 2025, who were selected based on both the severity of their actions/statements and the scope of their influence.” While outside organizations have created similar rankings of antisemitic influencers, this appears to be the first one published by the Israeli government.
As evidence of Thunberg’s antisemitism, the Israeli government pointed to her use of “terms such as ‘genocide,’ ‘siege’ and ‘mass starvation’ in reference to Israel’s actions in Gaza.”
Many of these views are well within the American mainstream. A Quinnipac poll from August found that half of American voters believe that Israel is committing a genocide. Thirty-nine percent of Jewish Americans believe Israel is committing a genocide, according to an October Washington Post poll. Israel’s Ministry of Diaspora Affairs, which produced the report, deemed Thunberg a more dangerous threat than Fuentes, who has said Judaism is incompatible with Western civilization and called for a “total Aryan victory.”
The Israeli government’s rating system is based on two categories. The first is the person’s level of influence, which includes metrics like social media follower count, appearances on news channels, and perceived influence on public opinion. Second, each person was given a “Risk Score” — a rating assigned based on the frequency of posts that are antisemitic/anti-Israeli, terms that are often used interchangeably throughout the report.
The list also includes comedian Bassem Youssef, a frequent critic of Israel’s actions in Gaza, and conservative political commentator Tucker Carlson, who appears to score quite low on the Israeli government’s own risk score. Influencer Dan Bilzerian, who has said he wants to “kill Israelis,” tops the list.
In a separate section about American influencers, the Israeli government report also singles out Ms. Rachel, a YouTuber with nearly 20 million subscribers who makes educational videos for toddlers, as one of the most influential supposed antisemites. Ms. Rachel’s misdeeds include publishing “content dealing with the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, highlighting alleged harm to civilians and children, and condemning Israeli military actions.” The report also says Ms. Rachel has “promoted fundraising campaigns for emergency aid for children in Gaza and other conflict zones.”
Antisemitic incidents frequently spiked in relation to Israeli military action, according to the report. In Australia, the Bondi Beach shooting was the only “significant spike in anti-Semitic discourse observed during 2025 that is not related to Gaza.” In the United States, according to the report, there were significant spikes in antisemitic discourse on X after Israel breaking the ceasefire in Gaza in March, U.S.-Israeli military attacks in Iran in June, and Israeli airstrikes in Doha in September.
The report also asserts that this “clear link between Israeli actions in Gaza, Lebanon and the wider region and levels of anti-semitism” is not because of Israel’s actions, but rather because of war imagery, humanitarian narratives, and political campaigns.
Israel acknowledges it is in the midst of a public relations crisis, which Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu describes as the "eighth front.” The weapons of choice in Israel’s seven fronts in Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon, Iran, Yemen, Syria, and Iraq include artillery, missiles, and armored vehicles. But the eighth front is different: during a meeting last year with social media influencers in Israel, Netanyahu said that “weapons change over time” and “the most important ones [today] are the social media.”
To this end, the report takes aim at social media companies that have not fully adopted the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s definition anti-semitism, which critics argue is often invoked to label criticism of Israel as antisemitism and chill pro-Palestinian speech. YouTube, Reddit, and X have the lowest levels of compliance with the IHRA definition, the report says.
Amichai Chikli, the head of the ministry that published the report, has forged relationships with far-right European parties with historical ties to Nazi sympathizers, leading a number of Jewish organizations and antisemitism experts to boycott a conference organized by Chikli last March.
Tel Aviv University released a separate report about antisemitism this week, in honor of Holocaust Remembrance Day, that contained a sweeping criticism of the Israeli government’s approach to the topic. The Tel Aviv University report said that “Israeli politicians and media have, particularly in recent months, continuously expanded the scope of what qualifies as anti-semitism, at times in absurd or hasty ways.” Their report even called on the Ministry of Diaspora Affairs to be abolished for being, at times, an "embarrassment.”