On Fox News, Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) repeats tropes referencing Replacement Theory, a white supremacist conspiracy that alleges non-white people are coming into the United States to replace existing white populations, causing “white genocide” For white supremacists, Jews are the supposed masterminds behind this imagined conspiracy.
Read MoreRep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) states: “Black Lives Matter is not about police, it’s not about race, it’s not about justice. It’s about making us hate America so we can replace America. Because as long as we love her, we will not allow someone to replace her.” This echoes chants of “You will note replace us!” and “Jews will not replace us!” from neo-Nazis who marched in Charlottesville.
Read MoreDonald Trump shares a tweet from the “America First” account run by Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes, and adds a note thanking white nationalist Michelle Malkin. “America First,” a term popularized by Trump and whose origins come from Nazi-sympathizing, is the leading white nationalist movement in the United States.
Read MoreTrump says he “wouldn’t be surprised” if George Soros is paying immigrants traveling towards the southern border, “a lot of people say yes.” A few days later, he tweeted a video that right-wing pundits widely claimed was evidence that Soros was funding the “migrant caravan.”
Read MoreIn the deadliest antisemitic attack in U.S. history, a white nationalist murders eleven Jews at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, PA, citing a false belief that Jews are bringing immigrants into the country to replace the white Christian population as his inspiration. This lie is called Replacement Theory, and it is regularly promoted in right-wing media and by Republican electeds, many of whom use George Soros as a stand-in for Jews.
Read MoreRep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL), posts a video on Twitter of someone supposedly handing cash to migrants to “storm the US border,” and suggests that Jewish billionaire George Soros is behind it. This is the same antisemitic conspiracy theory that, ten days later, motivates a white nationalist to commit the deadliest antisemitic attack in U.S. history.
Read MoreRep. Steve King (R-IA) tweets an article arguing that people have a “Christian duty” to stop “Soros’ plan” to bring migrants into Europe and America.
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