The United States Office to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism has denounced the spread of kosher slaughter bans in Europe as "disgraceful", "intolerant", and tantamount to "a forced expulsion of Jewish communities from the countries that adopt such legislation.
One Alt-Right website claims that consumers have been "kept in the dark" about kosher certification and advance the conspiratorial view that "the tax exempt revenue flows to many programs and institutions worth examining for its effect on you and your interests."
The Twitter account for the KosChertified" app is followed by the neo-Nazi Richard Spencer and other white supremacists, and frequently posts antisemitic and anti-Israel content.
[3] In 2020, the French interior minister Gérald Darmanin was widely ridiculed and denounced on social media after claiming that kosher and halal aisles in supermarkets promote "separatism" and should therefore be removed.
The French legal scholar Rim-Sarah Alouane declared Darmanin's statement to be "absurd" and ignorant, accusing him of instrumentalizing laïcité to promote separatism rather than oppose it.
The platform declared that "all such Mosaic and rabbinical laws as regulate diet...originated in ages and under the influence of ideas entirely foreign to our present mental and spiritual state.
[8] According to the Orthodox rabbi Nathan Lopes Cardozo, because non-mevushal wine cannot be touched by a non-Jew, some Jews have become uncomfortable with these laws because they "feel that it is discriminatory and perhaps racist.