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AI-generated “rabbi” personas are spreading across major social media platforms, using false Jewish identities to push antisemitic conspiracy theories to millions of users.
Presenting themselves as credible religious figures, these accounts recycle some of the oldest antisemitic tropes for the digital age. The messaging promotes claims of Jewish control over finance and depicts Jews as obsessed with money and wealth, while also portraying them as manipulating global systems for personal gain. In many cases, this material appears alongside commercial content, enabling those behind it to profit from both misinformation and prejudice.
Presented through a supposed “rabbi,” these claims recast antisemitic narratives as internal critique rather than external hostility, lowering skepticism and making them harder to challenge.
Users encounter this material through recommended feeds that place invented authority alongside legitimate voices and amplify it before it can be scrutinized. CAM’s Antisemitism Research Center (ARC) has documented how this material reaches millions, giving false personas significant reach and allowing even a small number of accounts to generate outsized visibility.
These narratives reinforce patterns that have consistently translated into harassment, intimidation, and violence against Jewish communities.
AI Is Amplifying Antisemitism
Artificial intelligence has made it easier than ever to create convincing identities and deploy them at scale. The result is a more pervasive form of digital antisemitism that is harder to detect, more difficult to trace, and faster to spread.
Following CAM’s outreach, Meta removed the identified Instagram accounts, demonstrating that targeted intervention can be effective when such activity is clearly exposed. Meta has been highly responsive in working with CAM to better understand this activity and identify ways to reduce its reach and minimize its exposure to users. The company is actively exploring additional measures to limit the spread of this content. CAM has since identified 26 additional accounts operating in Spanish, Italian, French, and German, reflecting the same structure, messaging, and tactics. CAM is continuing to work with Meta to address this expanding network.
However, these identities are easily recreated and quickly reappear. Visibility is not driven by credibility. It is driven by engagement, and engagement alone is enough to push it into wider circulation.
Comparable activity has appeared on TikTok, demonstrating that this threat is not confined to a single platform. The same structure can be reproduced quickly, with minimal effort and increasing sophistication.
Antisemitism does not disappear. It adapts, taking on new voices and formats while carrying forward the same underlying ideology. What once required coordination and resources can now be produced and distributed to large audiences with speed and precision.
The danger is not only the content, but the credibility these personas manufacture. These accounts do not just spread antisemitic narratives. They embed them within mainstream discourse, contributing to the normalization of antisemitism worldwide.
Without sustained monitoring and rapid response, these false identities will continue to shape online discourse, reinforcing hostility toward Jewish communities that can translate into real-world violence.
Read the full ARC report, “Engineered Exposure: How Antisemitic Content Is Pushed and Amplified to Millions Across Instagram,” HERE.
Take Action
CAM has launched Report It, a secure app to report antisemitic incidents anonymously and in real time. Don’t stay silent. Download it today on the Apple App Store or Google Play. See it. Report it. Stop it.
