In January 2024, watchdog organization StopAntisemitism named John Cusack its “Antisemite of the Week.”
The organization published a collection of Cusack’s social-media activity involving Hamas, October 7, Israel and Zionism. Its dossier highlighted posts it said included:
- material disputing reports of Hamas sexual violence during the October 7 attack;
- claims about Hamas’s origins;
- claims about Israeli support for Hamas;
- and additional anti-Zionist material.
The organization explicitly connected the 2024 material to the 2019 “Follow the money” post. In a follow-up, StopAntisemitism wrote that Cusack “hasn’t learned a thing from his 2019 apology after he shared a comic that featured dangerous tropes about ‘Jewish control’ and money.”
What the Organization Said
StopAntisemitism’s public thread, posted on January 28, 2024, listed three headline charges: that Cusack had denied the mass rapes of October 7; that he had called Hamas a “charitable organization”; and that he had claimed Hamas was financed by the Israeli government. The group tagged his talent agency and asked why it was representing him. It also circulated a graphic labeling him “Antisemite of the Week.”
The Times of Israel and Fox News both reported the campaign and Cusack’s reply. He called the list “complete lies” and accused the organization of “weaponizing racism against peace activists.”
StopAntisemitism “unequivocally stands by its decision to spotlight John Cusack as its ‘Antisemite of the Week.’”
The 2019 Thread
The 2024 campaign did not present itself as a first offense. It treated the new posts as a continuation. That is the editorial reason this archive keeps 2019, 2024 and 2025 in one file: the watchdog’s own argument was that the later material belonged with the earlier image.
Whether every cited post meets a given definition of antisemitism is a matter of public dispute. Cusack rejected the designation. The organization published archives it said supported the charges. John Cucksack records both the campaign and the denial, and points readers to the underlying reporting.
Documented examples cited in coverage
Verified public URLs for the original Cusack posts are unstable — many were replies, quote-posts, or later deletions. The following are the contemporaneous public records of what StopAntisemitism said it was documenting:
- StopAntisemitism, January 28, 2024 — “Antisemite of the Week” thread
- StopAntisemitism dossier: “John Cusack Denies He Questioned October 7 Atrocities, Despite Proof”
- Times of Israel report, January 31, 2024
John Cucksack does not reproduce the original social-media graphics here. The point of this page is the chronology of the campaign, the charges, the denial, and the explicit link back to 2019.
What followed
Eighteen months later, Cusack shared the Epstein–Maxwell–Mossad graphic on Bluesky. Coverage of that 2025 post returned, again, to 2019 and to the 2024 designation. The three dates now form a single public record, whether or not Cusack accepts the description.