The video
“F—ed Up” attacked Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Benjamin Netanyahu, US financing of Israel, immigration policy, corporate power and perceived platform censorship. The lyrics referred to an oligarchy and powerful people controlling information.
The official video paired those messages with political and financial imagery and included a juxtaposition involving the West Bank and an iconic Holocaust-era photograph.
Why critics called the imagery antisemitism-adjacent
The Forward/JTA argued that the audiovisual package echoed conspiracy themes involving control of banks and media. Such claims are central to classic antisemitic conspiracy theories when attributed to Jews or Jewish power.
Here, the lyrics themselves identify an oligarchy and named political and technology figures rather than explicitly saying Jews control banks or media. The criticism is therefore directed at the combination of language and imagery, not a literal anti-Jewish lyric.
The Holocaust issue
The Holocaust-era imagery created an additional dispute. Some antisemitism frameworks identify Nazi comparisons involving Israel as potentially antisemitic, while other frameworks provide wider latitude for historical comparison depending on context.
Whatever interpretation a reader adopts, the visual comparison made the video an important part of the broader record.