Grasping Jews unable to resist the temptation of a few coins: the world had hoped the type of vile caricature so often seen in the pages of Der Sturmer in Nazi Germany had been consigned to history.
But now online influencers watched by many millions of teenage boys are peddling in exactly this kind of pure antisemitism, spreading hate through worryingly popular material.
Just in the past two weeks, three young male YouTubers based in Britain have amassed a vast number of views with clips of what they call “Jew traps”, in which they leave coins on the pavement in Orthodox Jewish areas and film oblivious passers-by.
Yet this is only the latest instance of an explosion of antisemitic online hate reaching a generation of young men who experts warn are at risk of being corrupted with far-right ideology.
The extremist creed embraces virulent misogyny along with anti-Jew hate and wider racism.
Influencers, each with many millions of followers, are the leading figures of the emerging phenomenon, as recently highlighted in the Netflix documentary Louis Theroux: Inside The Manosphere.
Antisemitism campaigners are now warning the government that action is urgently needed to stop today’s generation of young men being drawn into a “rabbit hole of hate”.
Already, the terrifying scale of the problem is measured in eye-watering figures revealing the extensive reach of extremist male-orientated influencers.
More than 65 million people are now encountering explicitly anti-Jewish material on platforms once centred on “masculine lifestyle” content, according to the extremism expert Michael Broschowitz of Middlebury College in the US.
He believes the size of the audience demonstrates how antisemitism is adapting to modern platforms, and achieving viewing figures “rivalling traditional media outlets”.
In a paper titled “how the manosphere manufactures modern antisemitism”, Broschowitz said proponents of antisemitism are able to “exploit technological infrastructure” in ways that render older containment strategies ineffective.
The result is an online ecosystem that seems to incentivise antisemitism and misogyny.
Influencers in the so-called manosphere frame their content as a reclaiming of masculinity with information on lifestyle and fitness.
They promote the idea that women are subordinate to men often and share conspiracies about “Jewish supremacy”, sometimes via coded references to the “Matrix” or “globalists”, but often with explicitly antisemitic language and imagery, blaming both women and Jews for the world’s ills and generating revenue from their bile.
US influencer Dan Bilzerian has 29.6 million Instagram followers and regularly posts images of himself surrounded by bikini-clad women.
Since rising to fame in the 2010s on Instagram, in recent years he has shared antisemitic conspiracy theories, including Holocaust denial, as well as claims that Jews orchestrated the 9/11 attacks and the assassination of John F Kennedy. He has described “Jewish supremacy” as the greatest threat to the US.
Another figure, Myron Gaines, whose real name is Amrou Fudl, has broadcast extended antisemitic tirades, including praise for Hitler as a “revolutionary leader”.
Co-host of the Fresh&Fit podcast streamed on Rumble, Gaines featured in Theroux’s documentary, branding the film-maker a “Jew” after he said the influencer’s comment about women holding genetic material from the men they have slept with was misinformation.
In one recent post to his 423,000 followers on X, Gaines reshared an image of petrol prices captioned “the Jews did this”, adding: “People are waking up.” In another, he promoted a book titled On the Jews and their Lies, timed “just in time for Rosh Hashanah”.
British-born Harrison Sullivan, known online as HSTikkyTokky, was also interviewed for the documentary. In one clip shown, he is seen chanting: “F**k the Jews.”
Sneako, whose real name is Nicolas Kenn De Balinthazy, also appears in Theroux’s film. In one scene, he stands outside a shop window explaining magazines are “Satanic symbols,” linking them to a “one-world government” founded by the Rothschild family, a conspiracy he denies has anything to do with antisemitism.
The US-based creator, who converted to Islam in 2023, has amassed 1.3 million YouTube subscribers and 423,000 followers on Rumble. Through long-form livestreams, he frequently promotes antisemitic narratives, including Holocaust denial and the claim that the United States is “a colony of Israel.” He has previously blamed Jews for “transgenderism”, chanted “Down with the Jews! Free Palestine” during a livestream and posted on X, “The Matrix is Israel”.
In February, during a ten-hour broadcast focused on Iran, he hosted influencer Warner, who echoed similar rhetoric, alleging that “true Muslims and true Christians” would unite against a shared “true enemy” and invoking conspiratorial claims about Jewish influence.
“You know who the common enemy is. It’s the Zionists, it’s the Jewish supremacy. Remember Jews are the ones who tried to kill Jesus, they’re the ones dividing Muslims and Christians,” Warner said.
Much of Sneako’s content continues to circulate across platforms even after moderation.
A clip in which he appeared dressed as Nintendo game character Luigi with a Hitler-style moustache, performing Nazi salutes and making jokes about the Holocaust, led to a ban from Twitch, but the footage later surfaced on X, reaching tens of thousands.
He has previously been removed from YouTube for repeated guideline violations and said in 2024 that Twitch banned him for “extreme hateful conduct”.
In January last year, Sneako was photographed at a Miami nightclub alongside other manosphere figures, including Gaines; Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan; Clavicular (real name Braden Peters), an influencer in looksmaxxing – an online trend focused on maximising physical attractiveness; and white nationalist Nick Fuentes.
A snap of the group shared by Gaines with the caption “N*ggas Against Talmudic Owners” has garnered 4.7 million views on X, and footage of the group singing along to Kanye West’s Heil Hitler circulated widely online, alongside clips appearing to show members of the group performing a Nazi salute.
In Britain, at least three fitness influencers have posted “Jewish trap” videos on TikTok and YouTube, filming themselves placing coins on the pavement to provoke reactions from passers-by.
One, Harry Marsh, known online as Penofein, is believed to have travelled to Stamford Hill from his home in Sussex to film clips of himself throwing money onto the ground and calling it a “Jew trap”, chasing after Jews jingling coins shouting “here boy”, and offering cash to women for their phone numbers in a video titled “Rizzing up Jewish women”.
The content has proved popular, doubling his YouTube subscribers to 40,000 in a week and attracting about 150,000 followers on TikTok, with videos across both platforms amassing tens of millions of views.
While it is not clear how extensive the reach of these influencers is in the UK, Penofein is just the tip of the iceberg. The duo Dan and Ish, who typically post gym content and pranks, have also begun publishing videos of Jews being accosted in Golders Green.
The influence of online antisemitism and misogyny on British boys is increasingly manifested in the classroom, it seems. Across schools, teachers are warning of an increase in antisemitism, with the Community Security Trust (CST) recording 204 school-related instances last year. Research from the National Association of Schoolmasters Union of Women Teachers (NASUWT) published this month found misogyny against female teachers had risen for four consecutive years, with a poll of more than 5,000 staff showing incidents at nearly a quarter in 2026, up from 17 per cent in 2023.
Danny Stone, chief executive of the Antisemitism Policy Trust, said online misogyny was acting as a “slip road” into anti-Jewish racism. He warns that legislation has not kept pace with the evolution of online antisemitism.
Stone told the JC: “A young person can start by engaging with fairly innocuous content and quickly fall down a rabbit hole of hate.
“Anti-feminism and misogyny can act as slip roads for anti-Jewish racism and have been weaponised by bad actors to do just that, fomenting deeper harm and radicalisation. Whilst in antisemitic spaces misogyny is widespread.
“Tech firms must be doing more to address these dual, intersectional harms. The government needs to amend the Online Safety Act to enhance the action that Ofcom can take to make our online environment safer,” he said.
The warning comes as a report from the Home Affairs Committee concluded that Prevent, the government’s counter-extremism strategy, was ill-equipped to address the radicalisation of boys and young men exposed to a “toxic” mix of manosphere influencers and generative AI.
The committee’s inquiry highlighted “male lifestyle gurus” who blend self-improvement messaging with ideologically driven and often misogynistic content.
MPs said algorithms are pushing a “steady stream of harmful content” to young users, drawing them towards new forms of extremism.
Research by the Global Network on Extremism indicates that gaming-adjacent platforms have become a key part of this pipeline, with online spaces linked to titles such as Grand Theft Auto V and Call of Duty being used as entry points for radicalisation.
Dr William Allchorn, senior research fellow at the International Policing and Public Protection Research Institute, said: “It’s about being steadily pulled into a toxic subculture through shared interests and gradual exposure to increasingly extreme ideas.”
Ian Acheson, a former head of community safety at the Home Office, said extremist groups were exploiting gaming environments to recruit and groom young men, “using live streams and online banter to inject fascist, racist, and misogynist propaganda into digital spaces with minimal scrutiny.
“These streamers aren’t just entertaining, they’re grooming – exploiting the blurred lines between fandom and fanaticism to radicalise young British men in real time,” he said.
The Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) said the new Online Safety Act requires platforms to protect users from illegal content, including antisemitism. But the Antisemitism Policy Trust has warned that the law is not equipped to deal with the volume of anti-Jewish hate on social media. Shadow media secretary Nigel Huddleston said he was “very concerned” about the spread of such material online.
“A lot of blatantly antisemitic content makes its way online and, sadly, finds an audience. But there is also a line where it can be considered harmful and even illegal. We expect social media companies to follow both the law and their own guidelines by monitoring and taking down inappropriate content. Members of the Jewish community should also report content to the platforms themselves or appropriate authorities,” Huddleston said.
Technology and science minister Liz Kendall wrote to Ofcom last November to demand the regulator did more to tackle online antisemitism.
She said Ofcom’s slow roll-out of online safety regulation in the act was hindering the government’s work to “protect users from antisemitism”.
A DSIT spokesperson said: “The antisemitic hate being spread online and the use of coded language to evade moderation is deeply disturbing.
“Let us be clear, antisemitism is a poison in our society, and we will not tolerate it – on our streets or on our screens. Under the Online Safety Act, all platforms have clear legal duties to identify and remove illegal content, including antisemitic material.
“Platforms must also take robust steps to protect children from harmful content. If they fail to protect their users, Ofcom has our full backing to act. We will not let platforms look the other way.”
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