“Elders Of Zion 2.0” - Antisemitic ‘Tired Islam’ Conspiracy Takes Root On Social Media

South Florida Sun Times

Nov 26, 2025

Tel Aviv – Cyberwell, A Nonprofit Trusted Partner Of Meta (Facebook, Instagram And Threads), Tiktok And Youtube, Focused On Combating Online Antisemitism, Has Identified And Flagged A Rapidly Growing Arabic-Language Conspiracy Theory Known As “Tired Islam.” Born Entirely On Social Media, The Narrative Falsely Claims That A Jewish Or “Zionist” Author Named Jacob Dunne Published A Book Titled “The Tired Islam,” Outlining A Secret Plan To Dismantle Arab And Muslim Society From Within. In Reality, No Such Book Exists In The U.S. Library Of Congress Or Elsewhere, Yet This Fabricated Claim Has Become Central To The Narrative’s Viral Spread.

“This trend is a modern-day digital replica of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. It revives century-old religious antisemitism, tailored to go viral on today’s platforms,” said CyberWell Founder and CEO Tal-Or Cohen Montemayor. “The narrative pushes the same antisemitic tropes that have historically led to mass violence against Jews, now wrapped in a pseudointellectual setting to appear credible and urgent.”

Videos promoting the conspiracy often feature a series of fabricated bullet-point “excerpts” from a fictional chapter titled “The End of the Arabs.” These include false claims that Jews aim to destroy Muslim society by promoting feminism, moral decay, attacking mosques, eroding family values and using technology to distract and dominate Muslim youth. The videos also display imagined publication details, such as “Volume 7, 4th Edition, 2011” and falsely state that the text is stored in the Library of Congress. The narrative frequently concludes by calling viewers to treat the video as a religious and moral obligation to share.

In many instances, the “Tired Islam” narrative is paired with or presented as a continuation of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, reinforcing the illusion of a long-standing Jewish blueprint for global domination. Some users explicitly frame the conspiracy as a hidden truth being implemented in real time, directly linking Jewish identity to the alleged moral and spiritual decline of Muslim communities.

“Digital platforms are facing a moment of reckoning due to the continued poisoning and abuse of the information economy. Antisemitic actors are using the virality of misinformation to inject age-old conspiracies into religious and political discourse. The fact that this narrative is being promoted as a ‘religious’ imperative makes it especially difficult to moderate and even more dangerous,” said Cohen Montemayor. “We are watching, in real time, the formation of new Protocols; but unlike 1903, this time the digital platforms governing content through Trust & Safety can still stop it before it spreads beyond control.”

Despite clear violations of hateful conduct policies, promoting classic antisemitic tropes and stereotypes about Jews and ulterior conspiracies, Social Media platforms are consistently failing to intervene against this harmful modern conspiracy theory. In multiple escalation cases from CyberWell, platforms concluded that the content did not violate community standards, illustrating that the platforms do not have a consistent policy around citation of anonymous or forged texts.

“Like any trending conspiracy theory or misinformation campaign, the window for effective containment on algorithmic charged platforms is brief. Unlike the myriad of misinformation and disinformation campaigns we have documented online since the October 7 Hamas massacre and ensuing war with Israel in the Gaza Strip, this harmful conspiracy is not tied to the news cycle or an active conflict. This creates an opportunity for more effective scalable intervention and enforcement of Trust & Safety standards with less concern for censorship and denial of access to information on the platform side of things,” added Cohen Montemayor. “However, the Tired Islam trend dehumanizes Jews and positions them as a collective enemy of Islam. Left unchecked, this will radicalize communities, incite division and fuel religious hatred across borders. Narratives like this could easily escalate into real-world violence, particularly if audiences are led to believe that their core belief systems and family values are under direct attack by a specific minority group. Comparable dynamics were observed in the lead-up to the Charlie Hebdo attack in France, where portrayals of perceived assaults on Islam contributed to radical extremist violence and terrorism.”

CyberWell is an independent, internationally focused, tech-rooted NonProfit combating the spread of antisemitism online. Its AI-technologies monitor Social Media in English and Arabic for posts that promulgate antisemitism, Holocaust denial and promote violence against Jews and their allies based on the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s (IHRA) working definition of antisemitism. Its analysts review and report this content to platform moderators while indexing all verified posts in the first-ever open database of antisemitic Social Media posts, democratically cataloging it for transparency at: https://app.cyberwell.org. Through partnerships, education and real-time alerts, CyberWell is holding Social Media platforms and their moderators accountable, promoting proactive steps against online Jew-hate. For more information, visit: https://cyberwell.org/.