Nick Fuentes and Candace Owens are Good for Judaism

In the dark corners of the internet and the bright lights of mainstream political commentary, a strange phenomenon is taking place. Words that were once confined to the study halls of Jerusalem and Brooklyn are suddenly rolling off the tongues of the most unlikely characters.

Nick Fuentes is talking about "Midrash". Candace Owens is weaving conspiratorial webs around Frankists and Sabbateans. Jake Shields is "analyzing" the Talmud, and Tucker Carlson has made the critique of Zionism a staple of his nightly rhetoric.

Make no mistake: we are witnessing a global surge in antisemitism. But alongside the vitriol, something else is happening, an unprecedented exposure to previously unknown Jewish content. While this exposure is currently low-level, distorted, and often malicious, it represents a potential "historical correction" 2,000 years in the making.

For two millennia, the Jewish people existed as a persecuted minority, struggling to keep our truth alive within the walls of the ghetto.

Even in the 78 years since the birth of the State of Israel, we have struggled to communicate the spiritual depth of the Torah to a world that largely viewed us through the lens of conflict or tragedy. Now, the walls are down. Even if the lens is biased, the world is coming into contact with the Jews.

Historically, this is not a new pattern. If we look at the rise of Christianity and Islam, both were born from a complex, often negative contact with Judaism. Yet, as Maimonides famously noted, these "daughter religions" served a divine purpose: they prepared the world for the idea of the One God and the messianic era. They took the "raw material" of Jewish monotheism and distributed it, however imperfectly, to the nations of the world.

The Binary Choice: Envy or Truth

We are approaching a crossroads. As Jewish terms and concepts become part of the global lexicon, the "ignorance barrier" is dissolving.

This leaves the observer with two distinct paths:

In the past, the sanctions on joining or even studying with the Jewish people were immense, often carries the penalty of death or social exile. Today, those barriers have crumbled.

We are likely on the verge of a new phenomenon. As educated individuals realize that the "caricature" of Judaism presented by influencers is just that, a caricature, their natural intellectual curiosity will lead them to the source.

When a person of intellect tries to peer through the screen of ignorance to understand the Torah of Moses in its true depth, the result is often a profound shift in perspective. We are already seeing the beginning of a "movement" of non-Jews who, through their own research, are discovering the moral and spiritual clarity that only the Jewish tradition offers.

The antisemites think they are exposing us; in reality, they are merely introducing us. The truth of the Torah has a way of defending itself. For those with the eyes to see it, the current "exposure" is not the end of our isolation, it is the beginning of an era where the nations of the world may finally ask to learn what we have known all along.

And when that day comes - we must be willing and ready to teach.