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<\/a><\/p>\nDan Bilzerian was asked during a TMZ interview about referring to Rep. Randy Fine as a “fat Jew.” (Screenshot)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Bilzerian registered this week to run in the Republican primary against the Jewish far-right firebrand Rep. Randy Fine in Florida\u2019s sixth district. Bilzerian initially gained fame for his Instagram photos alongside bikini-clad women but has since become a vocal critic of Israel and Jews \u2014 and has repeatedly called Fine a \u201cfat Jew\u201d in the lead-up to his campaign launch.<\/p>\n
In a TMZ interview after Bilzerian announced his candidacy, the outlet\u2019s Jewish founder, Harvey Levin, questioned the influencer on whether his use of the phrase \u201cfat Jew\u201d was antisemitic.<\/p>\n
\u201c[Fine] literally talks about how Muslims are lower than dogs, so, is that Islamophobic?\u201d Bilzerian shot back. Fine drew bipartisan criticism for his comments earlier this year.<\/p>\n
\u201cYes,\u201d TMZ\u2019s Levin and Charles Latibeaudiere responded. (Bilzerian added that Fine \u201ctweets that, and he\u2019s a senator,\u201d though Fine is actually a member of the U.S. House of Representatives who was formerly a state senator.)<\/p>\n
Bilzerian responded to a follow-up question by denying that he\u2019s antisemitic \u2014 and questioning the term \u201cantisemitism\u201d altogether, saying it\u2019s been \u201chijacked to only talk about Jews.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo, I\u2019m not antisemitic. I think that that\u2019s kind of a made-up term, I think the Palestinians are the real Semites,\u201d Bilzerian said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWas Hitler antisemitic?\u201d Levin asked.<\/p>\n
Bilzerian did not say.<\/p>\n
\u201cLike I said, the term is focused solely on Jews, but actual Semites are the Arabs,\u201d he answered. \u201cAnd Palestinians are Semites as well. They actually have more DNA lineage to that region than any of the Eastern European Ashkenazi Jews that have taken it from them.\u201d<\/p>\n
The comments were nothing new for Bilzerian, who has 30 million followers on Instagram and 2 million on X. He regularly tweets opinions like \u201cJewish supremacy is the greatest threat to the world today,\u201d questions the accuracy of the statistic that 6 million Jews died in the Holocaust, and reposts clips of avowed antisemite Nick Fuentes.<\/p>\n
But now, Bilzerian\u2019s foray into electoral politics could serve as a test of the popularity of an emerging, anti-Israel faction within the Republican party headlined by figures like Tucker Carlson and Fuentes, who\u2019ve espoused conspiracy theories about Jews.<\/p>\n
Those figures\u2019 opposition to the war in Iran have sped up their dissent from President Donald Trump. During the TMZ interview, Bilzerian said Fine should be tried for treason for putting \u201cIsrael before America,\u201d and also criticized Trump for being \u201cIsrael first.\u201d He has tweeted that Trump \u201cneeds to be impeached.\u201d<\/p>\n
(Ironically, Fine introduced a bill that would ban dual citizens from serving in Congress, and Bilzerian is a dual American-Armenian citizen.)<\/p>\n
Bilzerian is not the only anti-Israel Republican challenger to Fine, a staunch Israel supporter who\u2019s been backed by AIPAC and the Republican Jewish Coalition.<\/p>\n
\u201cI appreciate @DanBilzerian\u2018s zeal to take @RepFine out of Congress. I\u2019ve been working tirelessly for one year on the same goal,\u201d wrote Aaron Baker, who\u2019s been endorsed by the Anti-Zionist America PAC. \u201cI would however also appreciate if Dan ran for FL-16 much closer to where he grew up. Make @AIPAC spend $ defending more seats. Divide and conquer.\u201d FL-16\u2019s current representative, Vern Buchanan, was endorsed by AIPAC in 2024.<\/p>\n
But Bilzerian, with his 29.6 million followers on Instagram and 2.1 million on X, brings a larger national audience to the congressional primary.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019d never heard of this guy before, until a couple of days ago, but having watched your interview, it\u2019s clear that he simply doesn\u2019t like Jews. In America you\u2019re allowed to do that,\u201d Fine said on a TMZ appearance following Bilzerian\u2019s. But, he continued, \u201cI don\u2019t think it\u2019s going to work out to become a congressman, having that perspective.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bilzerian gained many of his followers when he was the \u201cking of Instagram,\u201d posting photos of himself surrounded by scantily clad women, sports cars and with large guns. In June 2015, Bilzerian said he would be running for president, though by December he\u2019d gotten behind the candidacy of Trump.<\/p>\n
Before that, he\u2019d served four years in the U.S. Navy starting in 1999, and dropped out of the University of Florida to play professional poker. His father, Paul Bilzerian, is a businessman who, as a corporate takeover specialist, was sentenced to four years in prison for federal crimes including fraud and criminal conspiracy.<\/p>\n
In the months after Hamas\u2019 Oct. 7 attack and the ensuing war in Gaza, Bilzerian\u2019s social media presence began taking its current shape of focusing predominantly on Israel and, eventually, Jews.<\/p>\n
\u201cDo you think the Israeli attacks on Gaza are justified or f\u2013ked up?\u201d Bilzerian asked his followers on Nov. 6, 2023. By 2024, the occasional surveys he took of his followers became pointedly focused on Jews.<\/p>\n
\u201cWho causes the majority of the worlds problems,\u201d he asked, with users overwhelmingly voting for the multiple-choice option \u201c16 million Jews.\u201d<\/p>\n
In January 2025, Bilzerian asked his followers whether Hitler was a \u201cgood person,\u201d a \u201cterrible person,\u201d or if they didn\u2019t know. A third of the 178,000 voters said Hitler was a \u201cgood person,\u201d and another 23% said they didn\u2019t know.<\/p>\n
Bilzerian laid out his views on Jewish people in a 2024 interview with conservative commentator Patrick Bet-David, during which he said Jews \u201cknew about 9\/11\u201d and \u201chad JFK assassinated.\u201d<\/p>\n
Later that year, conservative media personality Piers Morgan asked Bilzerian how many Jews he believed died in the Holocaust.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t know, but I would bet my entire net worth that it was under 6 million,\u201d Bilzerian said.<\/p>\n
According to FEC filings, Bilzerian\u2019s campaign treasurer is Patrick Krason. Krason was also the treasurer for the short-lived presidential campaign of Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, another public figure who\u2019s spread conspiracy theories about Jews.<\/p>\n
Bilzerian has promoted the \u201cGreat Replacement\u201d conspiracy theory, claiming that Jews control the media and are using that position to push an \u201canti-white agenda\u201d and replace whites with non-white immigrants.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt started with the jewish owned news stations telling us \u2018white supremacy is the greatest threat to America,\u2019\u201d Bilzerian wrote last year. \u201cWhites were replaced in movies & streaming networks. Then the Jewish exec run Blackrock forced DEI on all major corps.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bilzerian often cites passages from the Talmud to make claims about Jewish beliefs, such as that Jews approve of stealing and raping as long as the crimes are committed against non-Jews. Other figures like Candace Owens have similarly taken passages from the Talmud, but rabbis have criticized those figures for using quotes that are mistranslated and often taken out of context from the text, which includes centuries of rabbinic debates and is not a formal code of laws.<\/p>\n
During a stream with the influencer Sneako, who has also spread antisemitic conspiracy theories, Bilzerian said he supports \u201cexterminating Israel\u201d and that he \u201cwould sign up tomorrow and go f\u2014king put boots on the ground and go f\u2014king kill Israelis.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cGive me a rifle and send me the f\u2013k over there,\u201d he said, adding, \u201cI truly believe that the majority of that country is evil.\u201d<\/p>\n
On Morgan\u2019s show, Bilzerian said Judaism innately promotes \u201cJewish supremacy,\u201d and pointed to the State of Israel as being the result of that ideology.<\/p>\n
\u201cIsrael is a manifestation of that religion,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd I think that religion is terrible.\u201d<\/p>\n