Republican Congresswoman Shared Video Promoting Antisemitic 'White Genocide' Conspiracy Theory in 2018
Updated January 1, 2021:
Marjorie Taylor Greene officially won her congressional race on November 11, 2020, and was sworn into office in January 2021.
In 2018, Marjorie Taylor Greene, the Republican nominee for Georgia’s 14th Congressional District, shared a racist propaganda video that used antisemitic conspiracy theories to promote Islamophobia and fuel anti-refugee sentiment. Media Matters first broke this news on August 26, 2020 (one day before Greene attended Donald Trump’s acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention, at his invitation).
The video in question, With Open Gates: The Forced Collective Suicide of European Nations, went viral in 2015, three years before Greene shared it. It includes footage of Nick Griffin, a Holocaust denier and member of the fascist British National Party, claiming that an “unholy alliance of leftists, capitalists and Zionist supremacists have schemed to promote immigration and miscegenation.” The film also includes fear-mongering tropes, presenting immigration as part of an alleged Jewish plot to bring about ‘white genocide.’
The day after news broke that Greene had shared this video, she was at the RNC, on the front lawn of the White House, as an invited guest of Donald Trump’s, and posing for photos with Trump campaign advisor Kimberly Guilfoyle.
Marjorie Taylor Greene and her husband, Perry Greene, at the RNC on the White House front lawn.
Marjorie Taylor Greene with Trump Campaign Advisor, Kimberley Guilfoyle, at the RNC.
Greene’s penchant for antisemitic conspiracy theories has not decreased in the years since she shared With Open Gates. On August 30, 2020, she described a viral video of activists confronting people at a restaurant as “the Harris-Biden Soros-funded ground game.” George Soros is frequently invoked by right-wing actors as a sort of liberal and anti-American boogeyman lurking in the shadows. Greene posts about the Jewish philanthropist once every few days, making claims such as “George Soros funds the destruction of America by supporting BLM / Antifa / Fake News Media, the true enemy of the American people.”