Just over two years have passed since the harrowing events of October 7, and only a few weeks ago, Hamas released the last of the remaining hostages, who were found in dire conditions, suffering from malnourishment and abuse. Despite this backdrop, New York City, home to the largest Jewish population outside Israel, has elected Zohran Mamdani as its mayor. Mamdani, 34, has openly expressed his opposition to Israel’s right to exist and has refrained from condemning Hamas. He has also resisted denouncing calls to “globalize the intifada,” a phrase interpreted by many as inciting violence against Jews.

Mamdani has further stirred controversy by claiming that the Israeli Defense Forces exert control over the NYPD. He has pledged to reduce the power and size of the police force. Yet, despite these contentious positions, he has managed to convince a city known for its progressive values that the Jewish community and Israel are adversaries, positioning his election as a means of change. His rhetoric has resonated to such an extent that Jeremy Corbyn, the former UK Labour leader who faced criticism for alleged anti-Semitism, supported Mamdani’s campaign, raising little public concern.

Mamdani even shared a photo of himself beaming alongside the caption, “PHONE BANK FOR ZOHRAN WITH JEREMY CORBYN 6PM TONIGHT!” This open display of controversial alliances has not been widely covered in mainstream media. When a journalist from the Washington Free Beacon attempted to question Mamdani about his association with Corbyn during a campaign event in Queens, Mamdani declined to comment and swiftly left the scene in an SUV, embodying what some critics describe as “limousine liberalism.”

It’s dangerous and disgusting, to be sure, yet somehow less surprising from the far left, which long ago succumbed to a brand of identity politics that smears all white people as colonizers and racists. For such anti-Semitism to be embraced by the right, however, should cause grave alarm. Unto the breach steps the repugnant white supremacist Nick Fuentes. To be clear, most mainstream conservative figures want Fuentes and his rabid anti-Semitism — not to mention white supremacism, homophobia, racism and misogyny — ignored and expelled.

But not every GOP star agrees — least of all Tucker Carlson, whose recent interview with Fuentes has the party reeling. Carlson has come under siege for this soft-focus chat — ‘platforming’, in current parlance — from a slew of right-wing politicians, pundits, publications and thought leaders, including Ben Shapiro, who called Carlson ‘the most virulent super-spreader of vile ideas in America’. Shapiro called Carlson ‘an ideological launderer’ who is ‘normalizing Nazism’ with the help of conservative think tank The Heritage Foundation, whose president, Kevin Roberts, lauded Carlson after his chummy Fuentes sit-down.

Reports soon emerged that Heritage Foundation staffers were left ‘disgusted’ and ’embarrassed’ by Roberts’ statement. How can virulent, proud, full-throated anti-Semitism be the only thing that unites the right and the left in America? How can it still be controversial to call this out? To reject it wholeheartedly? Fuentes, 27, is amassing power. His followers, known as ‘groypers’, now number in the hundreds of thousands — if not well over one million. He has been kicked off all social media save X, where Elon Musk recently reinstalled him.

The well-known conservative commentator Rod Dreher, who is close to Vice President JD Vance, said Monday that he was told ‘by someone in a position to know that something like 30 to 40 percent of DC GOP staffers under the age of 30 are groypers.’ In addition to his Holocaust-denialism, white supremacism and anti-Semitism, Fuentes also hates women and gay people. He has said, on his own podcast, the following: ‘A lot of women want to be raped… there’s, like, a lot of women who want a guy to beat the [expletive] out of them, but part of it is they have to pretend that they don’t.’

On Hitler: ‘Really [expletive] cool.’ On contraception, women’s rights, gay rights, etc: ‘We want to go back to 1099. We want to go back to the Middle Ages.’ Now: could his deep, abiding fear and loathing of women and gay men have something, anything, to do with Fuentes himself getting caught streaming gay porn last year? Wait — what am I thinking? Fuentes has an explanation for that. It was the Jews! The IDF, specifically. The IDF set him up!

Oh, the narcissism. The IDF has more pressing enemies to eliminate. Nick Fuentes calls to mind Milo Yiannopoulos, another white supremacist and seemingly self-loathing gay man, brought down by his statements that sex between boys as young as 13 and adult men can be ‘perfectly consensual’. Fuentes had been sidelined and deplatformed, something of a circus freak, until Tucker Carlson aired that interview with Fuentes — who has called JD Vance ‘a fat, gay race-traitor who married a [expletive] [racist slang for Indian]’ and recently called Charlie Kirk’s widow, Erika, ‘a spook… a plant… [who was] shopping around for a political husband.’

Nick Fuentes wants to fill the vacuum left by Charlie Kirk — and Kirk reviled Fuentes. Days ago, conservative pundit Dinesh D’Souza shared texts from Kirk excoriating D’Souza for having a debate with Fuentes. Kirk called Fuentes ‘vermin’ and blasted D’Souza for giving him ‘one of the biggest boosts of his career… the damage you did.’ The damage is still being done. Nick Fuentes is as much a cancer to the right as Zohran Mamdani is to the left. But will the right do what the left will not? Will conservatives coalesce to renounce this malignant threat?