From devil horns to Hitler: The far right’s antisemitic campaign against US Rep. Randy Fine

A far-right Republican candidate for Congress is running against a Jewish incumbent by calling him a “fat Jew,” depicting him with devil horns, invoking one of the most notorious Jewish stereotypes in history and producing a campaign video that flirts with rehabilitating Adolf Hitler.

No, this isn’t some anonymous neo-Nazi account operating from the dark corners of the internet. This is an actual Republican congressional campaign in Florida in 2026.

If you thought Hasan Piker was bad, wait until you meet social media influencer and full-fledged antisemite Dan Bilzerian.

Bilzerian is trying to defeat Republican Congressman Randy Fine in Tuesday’s GOP primary in Florida’s 6th Congressional District.

But what he is doing to Fine has moved so far beyond a normal political attack that it is difficult to describe it as anything other than an overtly antisemitic campaign against a Jewish member of Congress.

And that’s a mild way of putting it.

The most shocking example came in an AI-generated campaign video Bilzerian released in the closing days of the race. The roughly two-minute video attacks Fine as a “fat Jew,” depicts Jews growing devil horns, invokes the antisemitic Shylock stereotype and portrays Fine as “Satanic.”

Then comes this shocking moment. “Should we revisit that Austrian painter’s opinions?” The “Austrian painter” is Adolf Hitler. It’s all just so despicable and it’s coming from the antisemitic far right.

Bilzerian isn’t hiding from it. This isn’t an old social media post dug up from 15 years ago for which a candidate is now apologizing. It is campaign material being distributed while voters are casting ballots. Fine believes people should see it. In fact, rather than trying to suppress the attack, he reposted Bilzerian’s video himself.

“I encourage people to go watch it.” Congressman Fine told ALL ISRAEL NEWS.

“I’ve posted it on my own social media …I want people to see it because they need to understand that is the evil that we’re dealing with today. And I posted it in part because I said, if you want this, I don’t want your vote. But I think people need to understand that there’s evil out there and I’m going to fight it every day.”

The video is shocking, but here’s what makes this story more disturbing: it isn’t an aberration. Antisemitism has effectively become part of Bilzerian’s political brand. His campaign platform includes a section titled “End Jewish Supremacy” and attacks what it calls “Jewish Special Interests.” Another campaign priority calls for investigating politicians for supposed “dual loyalty.”

Then there is Bilzerian’s social media operation. The Combat Antisemitism Movement examined 657 posts from Bilzerian’s campaign 𝕏 account between May 12 and Aug. 10 and classified 33% of all of them as antisemitic.

Of 218 posts containing terms such as “Jew,” “Jews,” “Israel,” “Zionist” and “Holocaust,” CAM classified 215 as hostile. That’s 99%. CAM estimates the material generated roughly 12.5 million views.

The rhetoric goes well beyond opposition to Israel. Bilzerian has promoted conspiratorial claims about Jewish power, questioned Holocaust history and described Israel as “the greatest enemy within America.” CAM also identified a campaign post suggesting a census of Jews could supposedly “disprove the Holocaust.”

Bilzerian’s rhetoric didn’t begin when he entered politics, either. Before launching his congressional bid, he had already attracted attention for making sweeping claims about Jews and Judaism and questioning the accepted Holocaust death toll.

In a 2024 appearance with Piers Morgan, he called “Jewish supremacy” the “greatest threat to the world today.”

When given an opportunity to explain himself, Bilzerian didn’t simply apologize and say he had gone too far. He defended his rhetoric by portraying Fine as a “Jewish supremacist.”

To be clear, opposing Israel isn’t inherently antisemitic. Opposing American military assistance to Israel isn’t antisemitic. Thinking Benjamin Netanyahu is a terrible prime minister isn’t antisemitic. Believing America should dramatically reduce its involvement in the Middle East isn’t antisemitic either.

But calling your opponent a “fat Jew,” talking about “Jewish supremacy,” trafficking in conspiracies about Jewish control, questioning the Holocaust, depicting Jews with devil horns and then invoking Adolf Hitler while campaigning against a Jewish congressman isn’t a foreign-policy disagreement. It’s antisemitism.

We should also note that about a week ago, a Nazi swastika was spray-painted on a campaign sign for Rep. Randy Fine at one of the early voting locations in his district. Police are investigating the circumstances behind it.

There’s no doubt Congressman Fine has been controversial. He is one of the most combative members of Congress and has himself faced intense criticism over inflammatory rhetoric involving Muslims and Palestinians. His words and record are fair game. Voters can support him, oppose him, criticize him or vote him out. But none of that excuses antisemitism.

This episode exposes something conservatives can no longer afford to dismiss when it comes to hatred against Jews. “We’ve become accustomed to it on the left, but to see it come out on the right is very, very troubling,” Fine told me. He’s right.

There is a legitimate and increasingly important debate taking place on the American right over Israel, foreign aid, interventionism and the meaning of America First.

But there is also a smaller and much uglier element trying to smuggle old-fashioned Jew hatred into that debate under the banner of populism and anti-establishment politics. Bilzerian’s campaign may be the most grotesque example yet.

Republicans now face a very simple test. Fine told me what he thinks the answer must be. “I think we’ve got to repudiate, frankly, the side that says they hate the Jews. I mean, I don’t think that’s a choice. We can’t, we can’t have that in our party.”

Exactly.