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In Bizarro World, Far-Right Jews Fight Alongside Neo-Nazis

White nationalism makes strange bedfellows

Manny Otiko
5 min readApr 10, 2021
From left, former President Donald Trump, Jared Kushner and Benjamin Netanyahu (Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs/Flickr)

Ialways thought Stephen Miller, the immigrant-hating offspring of Jewish refugees, was the only Jew who socialized with neo-Nazis. But it turns out he’s not alone.

You would think that Jews and neo-Nazis would be natural enemies, like snakes and mongooses, or Black people and the police. Attempting to exterminate a race tends to make permanent enemies. And even though the Holocaust happened almost 80 years ago, neo-Nazi views are still with us, and they still contain a large element of anti-Semitism.

The delusional QAnon conspiracy theory is recycled anti-Semitic slurs. Elites drinking blood? That’s been around for hundreds of years and also motivated the European pogroms. And code-words such as “elites,” and “cabal of bankers” refer to Jewish people with money. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.,) who’s in the running for the dumbest person in Congress, even believed “the Rothschild's laser” started the California wildfires — proving that she’s not only anti-Semitic but also can’t think critically.

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Manny Otiko
Manny Otiko

Written by Manny Otiko

Manny Otiko writes about race, politics and sports. He has been published in Salon and LA Weekly. Follow him at @mannyotiko.bsky.social

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