Sen. Kelly Loeffler Grants an Interview to Nazi Sympathizer Jack Posobiec
Sen. Kelly Loeffler sat down for a friendly interview with One America News Network’s Jack Posobiec, who, as the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) recently reported, has spent years collaborating with “white supremacists, neo-fascists and antisemites.”
As SPLC’s Hatewatch resource revealed, Posobiec has spent years promoting and associating with far-right extremists. In addition to his record of harassing Jewish journalists and issuing racist attacks online, Posobiec notably spent the 2016 Republican National Convention with white nationalist Richard Spencer, and other far-right actors. In 2017, he promoted an event hosted by a Polish pro-Nazi movement, Obóz Narodowo-Radykalny (ONR). He then participated in a march staged by ONR, during which participants chanted “white power.” In 2018, Posobiec interviewed a neo-Nazi poster on Gab, who praised Hitler, once wrote “we need more hatred and fear,” and bemoaned the dissolution of Atomwaffem, a neo-Nazi terrorist group.
A sample of some of Posobiec’s antisemitic tweets
During her friendly interview with Nazi-sympathizing Posobiec, Loeffler falsely accused the Black Lives Matter movement of antisemitism. This was far from the first time Loeffler used Jews to attack the movement; for weeks prior to the interview’s release, she had been levying specious charges of antisemitism against Black Lives Matter.
Loeffler was sworn into the U.S. Senate on January 6, 2020. Until early July, when she began issuing these false charges to smear the movement, she had not publicly expressed concern about antisemitism while in office. Not only do Loeffler’s cynical accusations reduce Jews to a political tool; they also put Jews in the stereotypical “middleman” position, using Jews to as an excuse attack a powerful Black-led movement for liberation. Attempting to divide Jewish and Black communities (communities that are not mutually exclusive) is anti-Black and antisemitic.
Jewish organizations expressed outrage at Loeffler’s sit-down with Posobiec. When the Atlanta Journal-Constitution (AJC) reached out to her team to ask if she had been aware of Posobiec’s extremist ties, Loeffler’s staff instead accused AJC of engaging in “cancel culture” for asking the question. Instead of condemning Posobiec, Loeffler condemned the SPLC for reporting on Posobiec, calling it a “group of left-wing extremists with one objective: Silencing conservatives.”
Loeffler made headlines in April 2020 when she was exposed and investigated for selling over $18 million of stocks the same day she received a private briefing about COVID-19.
As outrageous as Loeffler’s association with Posobiec is, she is far from the only Republican elected who has engaged with him. Donald Trump has retweeted Posobiec multiple times, as have other Republican politicians. Loeffler is also not the only Republican to attack the SPLC: Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) has called the organization — which tracks hate and extremism — a hate group.