By Joseph Marshall
A Republican candidate for the United States Congress has placed “End Jewish Supremacy” directly into his official campaign platform, released an AI-generated campaign video invoking Adolf Hitler and “Shylock,” and spent the closing days before Tuesday’s Florida primary openly attacking his Jewish opponent for being Jewish.
Dan Bilzerian, the social media personality once best known for pictures of women, guns, expensive cars and an extravagant lifestyle, is challenging Jewish Republican Congressman Randy Fine in Florida’s 6th Congressional District. What began several months ago as what could easily have been dismissed as another publicity stunt by a professional internet provocateur has turned into one of the most openly anti-Jew political campaigns seen in modern American federal politics.
There is very little subtle about it. On Bilzerian’s official campaign website, alongside promises to abolish the IRS and Federal Reserve, secure the border and end foreign aid, is item number eight of what his campaign calls “Dan’s Plan.”
It is titled “End Jewish Supremacy.”
The explanation beneath it claims the United States is being destroyed by “Jewish Special Interests” and says outsiders must be sent to Washington before, in Bilzerian’s words, “America is done.” This is not something attributed to him by an opponent, selectively clipped from an interview or dis]covered in an old social media post. It remains on the official website of a federally registered candidate for the United States House of Representatives.
Last week, Bilzerian took things considerably further. His campaign released a roughly two-and-a-half-minute AI-generated song and video attacking Fine. Fine is shown embracing a bag of money. Horns grow from his head. He is called “Shylock,” a centuries-old anti-Jew caricature synonymous with Jewish greed, and is accused of viewing his non-Jewish constituents as cattle. The video makes obscene allegations against him and, while showing an image of Adolf Hitler, asks whether people should reconsider the opinions of the “Austrian painter.”
By Monday, the video had reportedly been viewed more than 1.4 million times. Over the weekend, Bilzerian appeared in another video surrounded by supporters and declared that “District 6 understands the Jewish problem.”
None of this came out of nowhere. Bilzerian entered the race in April by publicly describing Fine as a “fat Jew.” When challenged about the remark during a TMZ interview, he refused to back away from it. He denied being anti-Jew and questioned the meaning of antisemitism itself, arguing instead that Palestinians were the “real Semites.” When TMZ founder Harvey Levin asked him whether Adolf Hitler was antisemitic, Bilzerian would not give him a direct answer. His fixation on Jews predates the campaign.
During a 2024 interview with Piers Morgan, Bilzerian questioned the established number of six million Jews murdered in the Holocaust and said he would bet his entire fortune that fewer had been killed. He accused Jews of controlling the media, blamed what he calls “Jewish supremacy” for many of the world’s problems and promoted conspiracy theories involving Jews and Israel. He has also described Hamas as a resistance organization and called its former leader Yahya Sinwar a hero.
Morgan eventually told him that he had spent much of the interview repeating the sort of things Nazis said about Jews. Nearly two years later, Bilzerian is no longer simply saying those things on podcasts, he is asking people to vote for him.
The Combat Antisemitism Movement recently examined 657 posts published by Bilzerian’s congressional campaign account on X between May 12 and August 10. Using its own methodology, the organization determined that approximately one-third of everything published by the account during that period constituted anti-Jew hate speech. CAM estimated that the material generated 12.5 million views.
The campaign is also real enough to have real money behind it, although most of that money is Bilzerian’s. Federal Election Commission records show Bilzerian has loaned his congressional campaign $1 million. His campaign has reported approximately $1.24 million in total receipts, while individual contributions amount to only about $36,000. Fine’s campaign has reported more than $4.28 million in receipts.
Fine has represented the district since winning a special election in April 2025. He is one of the relatively small number of Jewish Republicans serving in Congress, regularly wears a kippah in public and has made both Israel and fighting Jew hatred major parts of his political identity. The Republican Jewish Coalition has endorsed his reelection.
Fine is hardly without controversy himself. His comments about Muslims and Palestinians have generated repeated criticism, including from Democrats and Jewish organizations. But that has produced one of the more remarkable aspects of the Bilzerian controversy.
Fifteen Jewish Democratic members of Congress issued a joint statement Monday saying that they disagree with Fine on almost everything and have themselves condemned statements of his that they consider racist and Islamophobic. They nevertheless drew an absolute line at Bilzerian’s campaign, calling the video grotesquely anti-Jew and demanding that Republicans disassociate themselves from him.
They were joined from the other side of the aisle.
Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson condemned the attacks. Florida Republican Senator Rick Scott called Bilzerian’s rhetoric disgusting and said Republicans should condemn it. Republican Senator Ted Cruz called Bilzerian a “brazen Nazi.” Democratic House Leader Hakeem Jeffries said the campaign “shocks the conscience.” U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee described Bilzerian’s rhetoric as among the most disgusting he had seen.
The American Jewish Committee went even further, describing the campaign video as Nazi propaganda directed at a Jewish American running for office.
The atmosphere surrounding the election had already become ugly before the Hitler video attracted national attention. Last week, a Fine campaign sign outside an early voting location in Flagler Beach was spray-painted with a Nazi swastika. Police launched an investigation and the Anti-Defamation League condemned the vandalism as an act of intimidation. Bilzerian later circulated another AI-generated video accusing Fine of staging the incident, an allegation for which no evidence has emerged.
The Republican primary takes place tomorrow.
Bilzerian is unlikely to become the next congressman from Florida’s 6th District. Fine has considerably more campaign money, the advantages of incumbency and major Republican endorsements. But Bilzerian does not need to win for Tuesday’s results to matter.
For years Americans have debated whether increasingly open Jew hatred on the political fringes is merely an online phenomenon: anonymous accounts, podcasts, social media influencers and people who accumulate millions of views without ever having to discover whether anybody would actually vote for them.
Tomorrow one part of that question gets an answer.
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