August 15, 2019

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ISRAEL LET FAR-RIGHT PROUD BOYS FOUNDER IN, BUT SAYS NO TO REPS. ILHAN OMAR AND RASHIDA TLAIB (ANDREW WHALEN, 8/15/19, Newsweek)

Gavin McInnes, founder of the white nationalist Proud Boys, was allowed to visited Israel in 2017. He described his personal animus toward Jewish people in a video shot in Tel Aviv that was originally titled "10 Things I Hate About Jews."

"I'm becoming anti-Semitic," McInnes said during his visit, before reiterating common talking points used by Holocaust deniers. "I felt myself defending the super far-right Nazis just because I was sick of so much brainwashing and I felt like going, 'Well, they never said it didn't happen. What they're saying is it was much less than six million and that they starved to death and weren't gassed.'"

McInnes is far from the only far-right nationalist welcomed by Israel: Former Breitbart columnist Milo Yiannopolous--who sang "America the Beautiful" for American neo-Nazi Richard Spencer--was also allowed into the country, as was former Trump adviser Sebastian Gorka, who appeared on Fox News on the night of Trump's inauguration reportedly wearing the badge of the Order of Vitéz, a defunct Hungarian group "under the direction of the Nazi government of Germany," according to the State Department.

Those are favors to Donald too.

Posted by at August 15, 2019 5:52 PM

  

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