Over the past three years, the Memorial Day holiday has increasingly been used as a backdrop for spreading antisemitic messages online. In recent years, the holiday, meant to honor U.S. military personnel who died while serving, has seen an increase in online conversations surrounding conspiracy theories that blame Jewish people for American wars, military deaths, and global power.
Command Center analysis found that from 2023 to 2025 the volume of online posts mentioning “Memorial Day” alongside terms related to antisemitism, Judaism, or Israel rose sharply. In 2023, there were around 12,360 posts connecting these themes. That number jumped to over 55,000 in 2024, before dipping slightly to 27,500 in 2025—still more than double the volume from two years earlier.
While fewer people may have posted about these topics this year compared to 2024, the tone and focus of the conversations became more explicitly hateful.
Using a targeted search for antisemitic posts, we found 1,370 posts matching the search terms in 2023. That number climbed to 4,699 in 2024. This year, however, it spiked to 15,991 posts, showing a dramatic rise in antisemitic content centered on Memorial Day.
Many of these posts pushed long-standing antisemitic conspiracies that falsely claim Jewish people control wars, foreign policy, and the U.S. government at large. One post read, “Happy Memorial Day to the generations of White men that unknowingly died in Jewish wars. Never again.”
Some went further, accusing Jewish people of using the U.S. military to advance a global agenda, with one viral message claiming, “You are signing up to serve international Jewish interests and to promote globalism, multiculturalism and homosexuality worldwide.” These types of narratives—once limited to fringe spaces—are now being repeated on mainstream platforms more widely, especially during national moments when public attention is high.
These narratives are often driven by well-known white supremacist influencers and fringe figures, such as Dan Bilzerian, who command large online followings and have echoed or amplified these claims commonly using cultural flashpoints to spread conspiracy theories that target Jewish communities.
By tying antisemitic messages to patriotic symbols and emotionally charged events, these actors aim to normalize hate, sow division, and reframe American remembrance through a lens of suspicion and resentment. The shift in how Memorial Day is discussed online is a reminder of how easily moments of national reflection can be distorted. What should be a day of honoring those who served is, for some, becoming an opportunity to amplify hate.
