Far right influencers are supporting Palestine for all the wrong reasons.
My colleague Kiera Butler reports on the right-wing extremist influencers who have seized on the Israel-Hamas war to invoke antisemitic conspiracy theories—and ultimately try to outdo prominent MAGA lawmakers like Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert over who is worse.
Or as Kiera bluntly puts it, "white nationalists with a racist agenda are trying to curry favor by peddling vile forms of antisemitic trash."
One such white nationalist is Stew Peters, who, you might recall, is the far-right bounty hunter responsible for the explosion of "died suddenly." Now, amid the crisis in Gaza, Peters is out with more awfulness, having suggested that the Oct. 7 Hamas attack was fake, that Israeli Jews are anti-Christian, and that the war is being orchestrated by Rupert Murdoch and the Rothschilds.
As if there weren't enough disinformation already—thanks, Elon—influencers like Peters are only further poisoning the well of public debate. Kiera's reporting shows that none of this rhetoric stems from genuine concern over human life. It’s simply a new strategy for a hateful grift.
—Sophie Hayssen