Daniel Finkelstein on anti-Semitism, Nick Fuentes & viral hate
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The Spectator
4.4 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 18 December 2025
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Nick Fuentes is a 27-year-old American influencer with a growing following. He believes America has been subverted by rich, powerful Jews. He was recently interviewed by Piers Morgan, where these views were put to him directly. During the exchange, Morgan referenced a video made by Times columnist Danny Finkelstein about his parents – a clip that has since led to Finkelstein being inundated with thousands of antisemitic messages.
Danny Finkelstein joins The Spectator’s political editor Tim Shipman to discuss the growth of antisemitism, and what it reveals about modern Britain, America and the internet. They explore the pressures of multiculturalism, what this all means for liberal democracy, and the fragility of the political and media ‘mainstream’.
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| 0:28.3 | Hello, I'm Tim Shipman, the police clerk of The Spectator, and I'm delighted to say I've been |
| 0:32.7 | joined today by one of the great British political columnists, Daniel Finkelstein of the Times. Lord Finkelstein, |
| 0:40.2 | welcome. |
| 0:40.9 | Thanks, Tim. |
| 0:41.8 | Danny, you've written this very powerful column about the occasion where your kind of experience of |
| 0:49.6 | anti-Semitism was put to Nick Fuentes, one of the clarion voices of the sort of far right in |
| 0:56.6 | America, and you've reflected a little on that and on the Bondi Beach massacre. Just take our |
| 1:03.0 | viewers through what your argument is and how this has affected you. First of all, for those |
| 1:08.2 | people who don't know who Nick Fuentes is, he's a young 27-year-old |
| 1:11.9 | American who has become almost the de facto leader of a sort of young America First |
| 1:18.1 | movement. |
| 1:19.1 | He's followed by a sort of cult called the Groypers. |
| 1:22.5 | It's very online. |
| 1:24.3 | It proceeds by kind of mocking and flooding people with their political commentary. |
| 1:32.5 | He has on occasion, for example, said that he thought Hitler was cool, that Stalin's birthday ought to be celebrated. |
| 1:39.9 | And he was interviewed famously by Tucker Colson. |
| 1:43.3 | And when Tucker Colson interviewed him, he failed to ask him a |
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