Seated in a luxurious home with a lion cub on his lap, “Rabbi Finance” explains that “the Jews” are about to get very rich because of the Iran war. It sounds like a run-of-the-mill antisemitic caricature, but it is part of a new wave of AI-generated videos that have been proliferating since mid-February 2026 on Instagram, and also on Facebook, YouTube, and TikTok. They have found particular traction on Instagram, where some of the videos have been viewed millions of times. Their creators appear to be motivated primarily by profit.
Some AI rabbis sit in expensive cars, others on the beach, still others in private jets. Some sport side curls. A few are holding gold bars. Most speak English; a handful also speak German. The content is nearly identical across accounts, and in some cases, the scripts have been copied verbatim. Most of the accounts became active around mid-February and post videos that traffic in antisemitic stereotypes: all Jews are wealthy and own at least one property as a matter of course. That, the narrative goes, makes them uniquely qualified to offer financial advice to their followers. In at least one case, a video invokes the Holocaust to promote financial advice. One video states: “My grandfather survived the Holocaust with nothing but the shirt on his back and died with an $8 million fortune.”
Disinformation and conspiracy theories about the Iran war and Jeffrey Epstein
Interspersed between tips on buying real estate and building a successful family life, current events are a recurring theme. And with the outbreak of the Iran war, the tone has shifted sharply. The content has grown more extreme, with the AI rabbis pushing familiar antisemitic conspiracy theories: that Jews are responsible for the Iran war and for all wars in general, and that they instigate conflicts because they profit from rising oil prices and movements of refugees. The latter closely echoes the “Great Replacement” conspiracy theory, which holds that there is a secret plan to replace the white population of countries like Germany with refugees and migrants, with Jews cast as the orchestrators. The theory has been cited repeatedly by right-wing terrorists as motivation for their attacks.
The Epstein files and Jeffrey Epstein’s networks also feature prominently across the videos. Here, too, Jews are portrayed as all-powerful: the majority of those involved, the videos claim, are Jewish, and they use their alleged power to evade all consequences. Russia is another topic. In a German-language video by “Nathan Goldmann” — one of the few accounts not presented as a rabbi — the narrator states: “Russia is the strongest country in the world, much stronger than the United States or Israel, have a much stronger mentality than the American people.” The same script was also used in English, by an account called “Rabbi Goldrich.”
The accounts have also picked up on baseless speculation about the reported death of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The accounts “Rabbi Goldman,” “Rabbi Silverstein,” and “Solomon Blackstone” use identical language: “Benjamin Netanyahu was killed in an Iranian drone strike, and Israel is covering it up with AI videos. Whether it’s true or not: Here’s what Jews understand that you don’t.” Together, those videos have been viewed more than 1.4 million times and liked more than 59,000 times. The content remains flexible across all accounts and videos. “Rabbi Bernstein,” for example, warns against manipulation online: “This is the age of manipulated perception.”
Millions of clicks for dubious investment advice
At least 35 accounts are spreading AI rabbi videos on Instagram. Since March 2026, they have published hundreds of videos and together have amassed more than 2.3 million followers. The largest account belongs to “Rabbi Goldman,” with 1.3 million followers. One of its videos, titled “Jews Don’t Buy Nike Shoes,” has been viewed more than 8.9 million times. His AI counterparts — “Rabbi Goldsteyn,” “Rabbi Goldstein,” “Rabbi Goldberg,” and “Nathan Goldmann” (spelled with two n’s, and not presented as a rabbi) — reach far fewer users but still rack up tens of thousands of views on individual videos. “Evelyn Rothstein,” one of two accounts using female AI avatars, has more than 42,000 followers.
The AI videos are designed to generate revenue: 25 of the 35 accounts link to online shops selling e-books, typically priced between $9 and $29, promising tips for wealth and success. No authors are listed. Instead, the books double down on antisemitic stereotypes, purporting to reveal secret Jewish financial wisdom.
Oblivious commenters and Nazi glorification
The fact that the videos are AI-generated barely registers in the comment sections. Only a handful of users point out that no real people appear on screen. Instead, thousands of users do exactly what the videos ask, typing “Money” or “Wealth” in the comments, because the video descriptions promise that commenters will receive valuable financial tips via direct message. This tactic is common among influencers of all kinds, AI-generated or otherwise, as a way of driving engagement that in turn boosts views.
Other users engage with the content itself, some expressing disappointment that an AI rabbi downplayed racism, others using the comments to share their opinions on the Iran war or the Epstein files. Antisemitic and Holocaust-glorifying comments are especially prevalent beneath the German-language videos. One user writes “I’m buying Zyklon B”, the poison gas the Nazis used to murder hundreds of thousands of people at the Auschwitz extermination camp alone. Another uses emojis to simulate a Hitler salute. And yet even these users do not appear to realize they are interacting with AI-generated content. That is telling: even when the accounts are driven by purely commercial motives, antisemitic conspiracy theories and disinformation reliably produce exactly that kind of response.
One AI slop trend ends, another begins
AI slop entrepreneurs like these try to ride current events or manufacture new trends. When the clicks dry up, they pivot. The account “Daniel Rothus” illustrates the point: after ten AI rabbi videos with modest success, the account has switched to posting videos of supposedly desperate single mothers. The weeping AI mothers are not meant to tug at Instagram users’ heartstrings, they are meant to drive traffic to a website where users are told they can win a Target voucher by completing surveys.
Another account has likewise reinvented itself: instead of rabbi content, an AI-generated doctor named “Haruto” now warns about the effects of elevated cortisol levels and promotes a magnesium supplement. That same TIkTok account had previously been used for other content entirely: in January, it posted AI-generated videos of Black police officers and female Black pilots purportedly raising awareness about racism. Some of these videos still feature a watermark of Sora AI. On another TikTok account, AI-generated clips mimicking the German public broadcaster Tagesschau, featuring anchorman Jens Riewa, promote the financial expertise of “Rabbi Goldsteyn.” That same account had previously been used to sell jewelry bearing the logos of various car brands.
OpenAI’s tools no longer appear to be in use for the rabbi videos. A sample analysis of videos from multiple channels using Google’s Gemini chatbot confirmed that the videos contain SynthID watermarks, indicating they were produced with Google AI tools. None of the videos have been flagged by Meta as AI-generated. On YouTube, the sole video uploaded by “Rabbi Finance” was labeled as AI-generated, but videos from other accounts received no such label, even though a Gemini analysis identified a SynthID watermark.
AI Transparency Notice: This post was translated from German with the help of a chatbot.