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Stew Peters surged to prominence in the pandemic and now hosts a popular daily show platforming Holocaust deniers and crackpot extremist conspiracy theorists
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 speech.
Today, Peters hosts The Stew Peters Show, a daily program streamed across multiple platforms. Openly extreme right Christian nationalist and an admirer of Vladimir Putin, he delivers with striking virulence a toxic cocktail of contemporary extremism: antisemitism, Holocaust denial, conspiracy rhetoric surrounding vaccines, 2020 election denialism, lies about Ukraine being fake and the moon landings having been fabricated, and anti-LGBTQ discourse. Peters is a concentrated embodiment of these narratives—a case study for anyone studying how radicalization unfolds and burgeons online. In a recent provocation, on May 1, 2025, Peters published a video on X that garnered over 672K views. In it—by interviewing Fred Leuchter, a seminal figure in Holocaust denial—he claimed that gas chambers were never used to kill Jews during the Second World War. Even more troubling, the video received more than 20,000 likes.
Peters’ meteoric rise began in 2020 with the launch of The Stew Peters Show, just as the COVID-19 crisis reached its peak. He quickly became a key figure in the online disinformation ecosystem, producing videos that spread some of the most dangerous conspiracy narratives of the pandemic. His 2022 pseudo-documentary Died Suddenly baselessly claimed that mRNA vaccines were responsible for sudden deaths worldwide.
The film, streamed on the far-right platform Rumble, was viewed over 16 million times.
This was not his first foray into disinformation cinema. Peters had previously released These Little Ones, which recycled QAnon tropes about child trafficking and blood rituals, and Watch the Water, which alleged that snake venom had been inserted into the COVID-19 virus. All three films premiered on Rumble, where Peters’ half a million followers amplified them across Twitter and Facebook, bypassing moderation.
Analysts Devin Burghart of the Institute for Research and Education on Human Rights and Imran Ahmed of the Center for Countering Digital Hate, have pointed out that Peters understood early on how to turn vaccine skepticism into a political weapon. He used anti-vax propaganda to mobilize followers beyond traditional far-right circles and to sow distrust in public health institutions. His success shows how alternative platforms—combined with strategic cross-posting—allowed conspiracy influencers to reach mass audiences.
Offline, Peters built ties with the most radical segments of the American far right. In 2023, at the America First Political Action Conference (AFPAC) organized by white nationalist Nick Fuentes, he delivered a diatribe laced with racist rhetoric. He accused Democrats of spreading “blood libel against white people,” mocked the rival CPAC (Conservative Political Action Committee) as “queer pac,” and insulted political figures from far left Democrat Ilhan Omar, to former Georgia Republican congressman Vernon Jones, and far right Republican conspiracy theorist Marjorie Taylor Greene. Referring to Dr. Anthony Fauci, he shouted: “Why is this man still running around free instead of hanging by the end of a noose?”—prompting the crowd to chant, “Hang him up!” Katie McCarthy, an extremism researcher with the Anti-Defamation League who has closely followed Peters’ rise, warns that Died Suddenly could have a ripple effect far beyond the anti-vaccine sphere. For her, “Stew Peters is sort of the new Alex Jones,” blending sensationalism with radicalization on a mass scale.
Since Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022 Peter has emerged as an influential voice in pro-Putin circles. He promotes conspiracy theories and libels about Kyiv and its leadership and parrots Kremlin talking points about Ukraine being a fake country and a Nazi regime.
For years, Stew Peters has been a prolific spreader of pseudoscientific beliefs. He is known for promoting flat Earth theory, falsely claiming that the Earth is not round—a belief often embraced within the conspiracy world as a rejection of scientific and institutional authority.
Peters frequently targets LGBTQ+ individuals. He notably called Vernon Jones, a Black Republican gubernatorial candidate in Georgia, a “homosexual homewrecker”. His discourse regularly veers into white supremacist ideology: he has championed the white genocide and Great Replacement conspiracy theories, which claim that white populations are being deliberately replaced by non-white groups through immigration and cultural subversion.
His antisemitism is especially virulent. On September 13, 2024, Peters posted a photo of himself on X (formerly Twitter) holding Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf, with the caption “Visionary leadership”. In a video from May 2025, he attacked Jewish bar owner Dave Portnoy, calling him a “little Jew” and caricaturing him as a global Jewish power broker. In the same video, Peters blamed Jews for orchestrating the 9/11 attacks, recycling a classic antisemitic conspiracy trope. He has been quoted as urging a “final solution” for American Jews to be deported from the US and he has described Judaism as “a death cult built on the blood of murdered babies”.
Peters also openly platforms Holocaust deniers—a logical extension of his worldview, in which admiring Hitler, glorifying Nazism, and harboring hatred toward Jews go hand in hand with efforts to whitewash Nazi crimes and portray Jews as liars and profiteers. On October 15, 2024, he hosted Germar Rudolf, a convicted Holocaust denier and a central figure in contemporary denial networks. In February 2025, Peters aired a two-hour interview with Rudolf on X, widely circulated among Holocaust denial and far-right sub-cultures.
Fred Leuchter, the author of the infamous 1988 “Leuchter Report” commissioned by Holocaust denier and neo-Nazi Ernst Zündel, who appeared on Peters’ show, has falsely claimed engineering expertise, arguing that the gas chambers at Auschwitz could not have functioned as instruments of mass murder. These claims have been extensively debunked. A 1994 forensic study by the Institute of Forensic Research in Kraków, led by Jan Markiewicz, Wojciech Gubała, and Jerzy Łabędź, proved that cyanide residues behave differently depending on materials and exposure conditions—invalidating Leuchter’s flawed sampling. Leuchter also failed to understand the chemical properties of Zyklon B, which disperses quickly into the air, further invalidating his conclusions.
Other detailed refutations include:
Despite all this, Peters continues to promote Leuchter’s theories as “scientific truth” — and receives tens of thousands of likes for doing so.
Peters is part of a broader wave of denialism that emerged in the wake of Hamas’s October 7 attacks. Like neo-Nazi influencer Lucas Gage—who has explicitly modeled his denial of the October 7 massacres on Holocaust denial—Peters promotes “false flag” theories claiming that Israel orchestrated the attacks itself. The parallels are striking: both deny or downplay the atrocities committed by Hamas, reject survivor testimonies as fabrications, and invent conspiracies about Jews manipulating global opinion.
Gage stated in November 2023: “If Jews are lying about Hamas right in your face, what makes you think [they] didn’t lie about their greatest enemies before them?”. Peters, who maintains contact with Gage, amplifies similar messages across his platforms, suggesting that evidence of Hamas atrocities is doctored and that Israel is engaged in mass deception. In doing so, both figures not only exonerate terrorist perpetrators but also reinforce Holocaust denial itself—arguing that if Jews “lied” about October 7, they likely lied about the Shoah. Their discourse uses familiar tactics: selective evidence, appeals to fringe ‘experts’ false equivalences, and the weaponization of free speech to spread denial narratives. This convergence marks a new form of denialism—one that fuses contemporary antisemitic conspiracy theories with older denialist strategies to undermine both historical truth and current events.
Stew Peters has more than 800,000 followers on X, 566,000 on Rumble, 179,000 on Telegram, and tens of thousands more on Truth Social and Gettr. His reach surpasses that of many politicians. He also sells merchandise, testosterone supplements, and even his own cryptocurrency, $JPROOF which he labels “the start of a movement to break free from the Rothschild-run banking cabal.”
As reported by The Forward, the coin is “branded as “Jew Proof” and marketed to Peters’ followers as a weapon against “usurious Jewish bankers”. Mohammad “Mo” Khan, a Temple University student suspended over an antisemitic incident at a Philadelphia bar, made an appearance on May 6, 2025 on Peters’ podcast. The two chatted about “Jewish supremacy,” and then Peters offered Khan one million $JPROOF tokens, worth roughly $100,000. Peters added: “F— the Jews.”
In a single week, Peters will deny the Holocaust, claim that Hollywood is controlled by Jews, praise Vladimir Putin, and declare that Gaza is “the new Auschwitz.” He is not a fringe provocateur, but a central actor in a galaxy where conspiracy theories, ideological extremism, and hate-fueled denialism feed off each other. Peters’ reach and nefarious impact in spreading hate and conspiracy theories underscore the urgent need for constant vigilance in the face of this evolving landscape of denialism and extremist manipulation.
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