November 2023, halfway between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. A few weeks after the October 7 attacks, Keti Shitrit – a Likud MP, the party of Benjamin Netanyahu – appears live on television. Wearing a smart purple suit with matching jewelry and immaculate manicure, the Israeli politician chooses her words carefully. Calm but firm, she declares: […]
As the hunt for fugitive ‘sovereign citizen’ police killer Dezi Freeman continues in Australian bushland, the double murder has highlighted the deadly threat from the globalised far-right conspiracist movement. On August 26, police officers arrived at Freeman’s rural property in Porepunkah to execute a search warrant into child sex allegations. Freeman, 56, opened fire, killing […]
Born in 1936 in Haynau (Silesia), Mahler grew up in Berlin after his family was forcibly displaced in 1945. A brilliant legal mind, he studied law at the Freie Universität Berlin, where he became active in left-wing politics during the 1960s. Initially a member of the Social Democratic Party (SPD), he mingled with figures such […]
When the most notable victim of MAGA-approved conspiracy merchant Candace Owens announced a decision to fight back against her bullying, the response came in typical style. “Today I have been sued by the First Lady-Man of France,” announced a gleeful Owens, an unrepentant peddler of anti-women, gay and transgender slanders as well as Holocaust denial, […]
It took barely 24 hours following the weekend assassinations of Democratic lawmakers from Minnesota, Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark, and the attempted murders of state Senator John Hoffman and his wife. While the suspected killer was still on the run, a swarm of far-right pro-Trump voices scrambled to spread conspiracies pinning the blame […]
For almost a century, right-wing extremists have been trying to introduce their conspiracist ideas into popular discourse. Through a number of central concepts, they want to dominate and distort political discussion and public opinion. ‘Umvolkung', a term used by the Nazis for the ‘re-Germanization’ of the diverse populations of Eastern Europe, has more recently been […]
It was once a fringe conspiracy theory confined mostly to the milieus of white supremacists and neo-Nazis. Now the purely invented ‘white genocide’ concept— inspiration of far-right terrorists from the Christchurch mosque killer to the Pittsburgh Tree of Life synagogue murderer, and the ideological evil twin of the racist ‘Great Replacement’ narrative— has gone mainstream. […]
Dan Bilzerian is a misogynist social media identity and cannabis merchant who markets a gun-toting, porn and gambling jetset lifestyle while hawking Holocaust denial and multiform anti-Jewish hate to his tens of millions of followers. The Florida-born 44 year-old is a failed Navy SEAL candidate who acquired Armenian citizenship in 2018. Bilzerian has been dubbed […]
Before emerging as a far-right antisemitic conspiracy media figure, Stew Peters chased fame in the rap scene. After failing to break through musically, he pivoted to political provocation, finding in social media the perfect springboard. During the COVID-19 pandemic, he rose to prominence by posting viral videos that fused health misinformation, conspiracy theories, and hate […]
A far-right racist conspiracy theorist who once claimed that “Hitler actually had some decent points” is now being welcomed as a thought leader by the U.S. Secretary of State. Michael Benz’s ideas—once confined to anonymous white nationalist forums—are now being cited to justify the dismantling of American institutions like the foreign aid agency USAID and […]
