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Israel, Israel, Israel: Trump Derangement on the Right
Jason Kessler943 words 
Trump’s recent actions on South Africa, ending aid to their government over attacks on White farmers and granting them refugee status in the United States, is one of the most direct actions yet to reward the pro-white elements of the MAGA coalition. A recent executive order (“Addressing Egregious Actions of The Republic of South Africa”) took aim at the African government’s Expropriation Act of 2024 which “enabled the government of South Africa to seize ethnic minority Afrikaners’ agricultural property without compensation.” And yet some nationalists are still not satisfied, exhibiting the clearest indication yet of Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) on the right.
Nick Fuentes claimed on X that Trump’s South African policy is mostly “a pretext to punish South Africa for its genocide case against Israel at the ICJ (International Court of Justice).”
Emily Youcis wrote, “Once again the MAGA base has amnesia after Trump’s catastrophic Ben Gvir-tier speech and are back to seal-clapping because Big Balls got rehired and Trump may resettle white South Africans.”
The assumptions seem to be that Israel is the only issue that matters (it isn’t) and Trump’s South Africa policy is meant to distract from an administration that has failed to deliver to its core constituency (it hasn’t). That is far removed from the beliefs of actual Trump voters who are extremely excited about everything Trump has been doing compared to his first administration, with perhaps the exception of Israel. His Israel policy, which may include a plan to redevelop bomb-scarred Gaza under United States ownership, is the deviation from success, not an exemplar of continuous failure.
Another argument by nationalist anti-Trumpers claimed that his policy accomplished nothing and wasn’t even welcomed. Offered as evidence was a clip of Joost Strydom, a representative from Orania, the white-only enclave in South Africa, saying essentially, “We’re not leaving. We would prefer official United States recognition of our community.” While I fully support the Oranians, both in their right to demand recognition and their project generally, they are but one small segment of white South Africans and there are others who feel like the executive order brings much-needed attention to a humanity crisis. Several hundred of them recently gathered to show their support outside the U.S. embassy in Praetoria. The fact that something isn’t perfect doesn’t prove it isn’t a big step in the right direction.
Hundreds of Afrikaners lining up at the US Embassy in Tshwane to apply for Donald Trump refugee status.
In a few decades, South Africa will no longer be able to feed itself. Luxuries like running water & power will be distant memories. They will blame the White man wondering… pic.twitter.com/MtsA8dDGHq
— garbaggio (@dark_garbaggio) February 16, 2025
The obstinacy on this issue is part of a larger Trump derangement among nationalists who have decided that the Jewish Question trumps all other issues and have a one-dimensional analysis of the political situation boiling down to one word: Israel.
Trump is helping White South Africans? He’s just punishing them for condemning Israel to the ICJ (International Court of Justice).
Banning trannies from the military? So this is how they get white conservative men back to fighting for Israel!
Reducing aid to Leftist operatives like BLM & Antifa through USAID & Department of Education? I see that’s where they’re getting the money to redevelop Gaza for Israel.
It’s true that Trump’s policy on Israel is less than ideal, but it is too simplistic to view every domestic issue through this prism and, indeed, shoehorn Israel into every possible political conversation. The present Trump administration is not like every other Republican administration which has thrown red meat at the base only to betray their elitist loyalties with support for the “Civil Rights” Industrial Complex. Trump is the first one to actually scale it back and that is a significant breach with precedent.
So far we’ve gotten:
- -January 6 pardons
- –Dismantling of DEI throughout the federal government
- -Firing of left-wing, Democrat-aligned federal prosecutors and FBI agents
- -An Israeli-Palestinian Ceasefire
-Very serious peace talks between Russia and Ukraine - –DOGE purportedly cutting $1 billion per day from largely subversive federal programs
- -Restricting government favoritism to left-wing media companies
- -While deportation numbers have been much less impressive than advertised, border crossings have decreased by 64% to the lowest level since July 2017
While imperfect, these are not insubstantial accomplishments and in no way analogous to, for example, Nixon dog-whistling to White grievance during the 1968 presidential campaign, only to enforce school desegregation, the expansion of the Voting Rights Act, and the initiation of affirmative action through the Philadelphia Plan. Another major departure is Trump signaling that this time he will resist the myriad attempts by activist judges to usurp the power of the executive branch through court orders and injunctions. “He who saves his country does not violate any laws,” he posted on X echoing a quote attributed to Napoleon. The fact that the quote is related to Napoleon justifying his imperial crown only further enraged the proponents of the authoritarian federal bureaucracy he is sheering. “I found (the crown) in the gutter, and I picked it up with my sword, and it was the people who put it on my head.”
Perhaps I will be proven wrong in my assessment that Trump would not become the American Caesar, but I was certainly correct in my prediction that he stokes the same fires as those which motivated the rise of Julius Caesar and Napoleon himself.
He who saves his Country does not violate any Law.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 15, 2025
Jason Kessler is the author of Charlottesville and the Death of Free Speech, available now from Dissident Press. Follow him on Telegram, Twitter,Youtube, Odysee, and Gab. Also follow Dissident Press on Twitter/X.
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“The present Trump administration is not like every other Republican administration which has thrown red meat at the base only to betray their elitist loyalties with support for the “Civil Rights” Industrial Complex.”
If it is not the Civil Rights Industrial Complex the Trump administration pays homage to then it is Israel. There is no other north star. Trump Derangement Syndrome was an irrational fear and hatred of Trump, largely based on perceptions implanted by the media rather than the actual man. To suggest the right has some sort of derangement syndrome with Israel is to say the right has an incorrect perception that Israel’s agenda guides Trump’s policies, including those gains you listed. Because the right is so desperate for wins, many are only too happy to redefine red meat as victory rather than our movement being coopted. That this red meat still constitutes the greatest wins on the right in decades does nothing to change the fact that it is in service of an anti-white agenda.
His loyalty to Israel was recently evident when he announced that Palestinians could be transferred to neighbouring countries, turning Gaza into a Riviera.
Clearly he wanted to signal to Hamas that he could uproot them completely. But such a “solution” could prove to be worse for Israel as they would then have Hamas alongside their borders.
If you are suggesting Israel has dictated all those policy achievements I listed, I would challenge you to provide evidence or, I would suggest, you have fallen victim to conspiracy theorizing.
Israel is an important issue in a number of respects. Its true that the Israel Lobby is a parasite on governments throughout the West.
It should certainly be addressed. But it does not overshadow everything else.
There is a smart version of the JQ that is based on things which can be proven with evidence
There is also a low IQ version positing Jews as responsible for every bad thing that happens & thinking about nothing but racially cleansing Whites.
The situation is much more complex than that and the conspiracy theory version is so dogmatic and absolute that it borders on religious fervor rather than cool analysis.
I agree with much you say, Jason, I just think it’s difficult to be too extreme in one’s critique of Israel and the Jews given the extreme power they hold in our country right now. It is possible to go overboard, to be sure, but not easy.
What do you think of Vance?
I have issues with Vance due to his defamatory comments about me after Charlottesville:
https://www.bitchute.com/video/CcV5B1HDZKsE
And his Indian wife.
That being said, he seems to have changed for the better in recent years and is a valuable figurehead in his role as VP so far.
Warms my heart seeing those beautiful white people heading our way.
We are clearly winning right now.
You’re a wise man, Kessler. The sad part is, All-or-Nothing Nationalists won’t even give you credit for the nuances you’ve clearly communicated here.
Personally, I’m just about to the “who needs them” phase, at this point; anyone so hung up on “owning” his pet enemy (the Jews) more than he is committed to cultivating dispassionate discernment (that will more likely improve his chances of recognizing and defeating not just the Jews but rather all of his many enemies) is more of a liability than an asset.
If anyone deserves the old Bowden step-over, it’s them.
I am by nature a skeptic. I will only accept thoughtful, evidence-based analysis. I will never succumb to the bullying of pseudo-religious fanatics who have taken the JQ to a counter-productive and conspiratorial level based on assuaging their feelings.
Jews are a hostile rival ethnic group, nothing more. They are not demons in some apocalyptic morality play. They are not monolithic. Not everything can be traced back to them. They are not our only enemies.
Let’s apportion blame without disconnecting ourselves from reality.
I’m one of those who thinks Jews control the weather, but in spirit I agree with this article. I do think the MAGA ascendency that is going on has a lot to do with Jews turning away from the left over Gaza. I immediately thought the same thing Fuentes said about South Africa. It seems that most of the fanaticism and ingenuity the left exhibited during trump’s first term is gone and must have emanated from those quarters. I think we should be grateful for the wins and make the most of them, but we shouldn’t hubristically assume it indicates any true self determination.
Clearly when Jews voted ~80% for Kamala they have a nasty left-wing agenda in aggregate. Also clearly, it seems the situation is more complicated with the minority faction that has attached themselves to Trump.
We have to keep getting performance for the White constituents here in America though. That is the only thing that matters.
He has been surrounded by the you-know-who’s since he was a child. His daughter is married to one. Were whites in South Africa not being oppressed between 2016-2020? The only difference between SA now and then is that back then they hadnt opposed Israel as strongly as they did now. Only ones who seem to have TDS are the people who lap everything up Trump now does without giving it a second thought why. Hint: it’s not for your benefit, that’s for sure
A lot has happened to change Trump since 2020 including prosecutions and lawsuits. He seems to have a better team around him than he did in 2016.
The evidence this administration is a different animal is abundant and I listed some reasons why in the article.
What serious White racial nationalist gives a shit what Nick Fuentes writes on X? Is that all you’ve got?
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The obstinacy on this issue is part of a larger Trump derangement among nationalists who have decided that the Jewish Question trumps all other issues and have a one-dimensional analysis of the political situation boiling down to one word: Israel.
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Maybe, if you repeat that one word three times loud enough, often enough, a few of your former alt-right half-wits might follow you wherever you plan to lead them.
You sure do hyperbolize, Mr. Kessler. FYI, In our eternal racial struggle Israel is not a race, Jewry is.
Some racial nationalists who focus on Jewry as the primary enemy of our race — those you criticize as “bullies,” as “pseudo-religious fanatics” who are in your way — will not be leaving the field. You will have to come through us and you, sir, do not have the game.
I don’t use the term ZOG because Zionists include lots of Whites like Trump and the crew of advisors, cabinet members and ambassadors he has gathered around him. Israelis do not control America’s mass mind unless they are dual Israeli-American citizens, like the “American” hostages recently released by Hamas, and if they happen to work for Jewish-controlled mass media or other controlled industries.
You want facts of Jewish media control in America? Read this and weep: https://nationalvanguard.org/books/2010-Who-Rules-America-01.pdf There’s the usual changing of the Jews up top, but they’re still up top.
Maybe 80% of Jews voted for Biden, so what? They still control the news and entertainment media that is vigorously opposing Trump, and control half of politicians in Congress, the Democrats, and most Republicans. They control the political process through their control of mass media. Trump is effectively a Shabbos goy. He is in their service. Fact!
It’s not Israel or her boosters that control America, it’s organized Jewry and their collaborators — therefore JOG. Why protest their genocide of fellow Semites in the homeland they stole from them — protesters should instead be exposing Jewish control of mass media.
As for some of the anti-White issues Trump has taken on, great! Keep up the good work, Donald, for as long as you can. Fort Liberty is back to Fort Bragg again. Whoopee!
As for Trump encouraging White South Africans to seek asylum here. Good. It’s about time. For years southern African Whites were denied asylum, including Rhodesians, because they were the wrong color! I take it you were not born in 2000, or were still pooping yellow when Dr. Pierce pointed this out 25 years ago here: Horror in Rhodesia | National Vanguard America’s immigration policy was no different than the UK’s then.
…About 20,000 of the 75,000 Whites remaining in Rhodesia are entitled to claim British citizenship, and thousands of them are rushing now to renew their passports [like you point out Africaners are lining up now to apply for Trump’s refugee status]. The problem is that the British government doesn’t want them. If they move to Britain, they are hardly likely to be supporters of the Blair government. Instead they undoubtedly will be staunch opponents of all of Tony Blair’s very progressive programs for integrating the United Kingdom into the New World Order.
It’s not that Blair and his government don’t want more immigrants. Oh, my goodness, no! They love immigrants! It’s just that the Rhodesian farmers are the wrong color. Some of them, having been exposed for so long to the racial realities of Africa, may even be racists! Therefore, the Blair government is not at all happy about the prospect of their coming to Britain. And as for the 55,000 or so White Rhodesians who are not entitled to British passports, don’t even mention them! There’s no chance at all that they will be allowed into Britain, even as refugees. Where will they go? Well, that’s not Tony Blair’s problem, is it. It’s their problem. Tony Blair doesn’t want to hear about it.
And for the most part the [Jew-]controlled media in Britain are helping him not hear about it by not reporting on events in Zimbabwe any more than they absolutely must. Britain’s mincing, prancing, smirking little prime minister… is absolutely determined to ignore the ethnic cleansing now occurring in Rhodesia…. The little man’s eyes flashed as he announced to the world that ethnic cleansing would not be tolerated.
And it’s just about the same story in the United States… Have you heard Mr. Clinton say anything harsh about Robert Mugabe? Have you heard the little Jewish troll in charge of his State Department, Madeleine Albright, speak out against the ethnic cleansing going on in Zimbabwe? Have you heard her call for Mugabe to be tried as a war criminal?
Of course, not. And it’s quite plain that the refusal of Western governments to criticize him has emboldened Mugabe. He sees the silence of Blair and Clinton as a green light to do whatever he wants to do to the White minority in Zimbabwe. The day after the murder of [White Rhodesian farmer] David Stevens and the beating and torture of his neighbors, Mugabe announced publicly, specifically in response to complaints from other Whites about his government’s failure to take action against the murderers, and I quote: “We warned the White farmers. We cannot protect you if you provoke the war veterans. You must expect the consequences.”
Now, if that is not a call to further ethnic cleansing by his followers, I don’t know what is. And so far neither Mr. Blair nor Mr. Clinton has said a word. Mrs. Albright has not waddled in front of the cameras and announced that the civilized world will not tolerate any more ethnic cleansing….
More from Pierce about the merits of ethnic clensing at the link.
You “fully support the Oranians,” but their well-intended redoubt will not last indefinitely — not just because it’s landlocked, surrounded by kaffirs who want to exterminate them, but because they still foolishly embrace the failed Dutch Reformed Church that had betrayed them. A must read, quoting William Pierce 27 years ago about this betrayal is here: Spiritual Man and South Africa | National Vanguard
And the Dutch Reformed Church had sapped the moral strength of the Boers to the point that they just couldn’t bring themselves to do what needed to be done. For at least 11 years before 1993 the Church had been back-pedaling on its racial doctrine. The Church would have made the Boers feel guilty if they had taken the hard measures against the Blacks that were called for to ensure the future of their own people. It was easy for the Blacks to contemplate massacring the Whites — the African National Congress had the slogan “one settler, one bullet” — but the Whites could no longer contemplate massacring the Blacks without feeling guilty.
The Jews, of course, were pumping their own spiritual poison into the White population through the mass media, urging them in a thousand subtle ways to surrender rather than fight. But it was betrayal by the Boer establishment — the Boer politicians and Church leaders and big businessmen — which sealed the fate of South Africa…
I don’t need to “go through you” because you’re totally inconsequential.
Also TLDR. No one is going to sit around reading endless copypasta.
Ah yes, critcizing jews and semitisim is a complex nuanced subject that needs to be addressed by those like yourself with the intellectual prowess and not the “inconsequential” types who actually want to face the enemy instead of bad mouthing anyone who see’s through the recalibration of the current system to convince the plebs that “we’re winning”.
Of course when will the little people see this “effectual” and “reasonable” argument established? Sometime, somewhere, after you’ve done your best to brow beat anyone who doesn’t fall under your provincial (Americuh)perspective.
Your “shut up about jews” articles and other ramblings are tiresome. Take them to the Daily Wire where you’ll be more appreciated.
The fact that you people have to make unhinged personal attacks on the messenger instead of calmly and politely explaining your point of view says more than I ever could.
No one has ever changed anyone’s mind with that kind of barnyard behavior and yet you persist because it is more about venting your emotions than engaging in constructive debate.
Kessler, did I read where you received a college degree in psychology? Do you not recognize in yourself the trait of projection?
Projection is a psychological defense mechanism that involves attributing one’s undesirable behaviors, feelings, or impulses to other people. For instance, someone who is dishonest might accuse others of being dishonest, thereby shifting attention away from his own dishonesty.
I wouldn’t follow you to a worm wrestle. Nor should others.
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Jason Kessler: February 18, 2025 The fact that you people have to make unhinged personal attacks on the messenger instead of calmly and politely explaining your point of view says more than I ever could… [Y]ou persist because it is more about venting your emotions than engaging in constructive debate.
Jason Kessler: February 18, 2025 I don’t need to “go through you” because you’re totally inconsequential.
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I see. First allow me to apologize for writing that you were probably not born before 2000, and if you were, you’d be pooping yellow. That was inconsiderate of me. I see now that you are around 42, a grown man.
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Also TLDR. No one is going to sit around reading endless copypasta.
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I had to look up “copypasta” and TLDR, presumably terms from social media, something I don’t participate in.
Differences between you and me that I deduce from your writings and your comments under them:
I try to use this wonderful new tool, the Internet, to reach and teach our people to become racially responsible, to get involved. The best way I see for me to do this is to sometimes quote mentors, especially Dr. William Pierce, who I had sought out and who taught me. I know who and what motivated me to become active for our cause and know that by posting the teachings of our greatest leaders who came before us, those lessons will resonate with some, not many, certainly not with you, and those few will respond positively to my teachers’ lessons and become committed themselves.
You are unimpressive to me, Jason, not just because you claim to know from the experience from your Unite the Right debacle what the White resistance movement needs to be going forward — your plan is full of holes in my opinion — but that you make this thing of ours all about you.
You are incapable of arguing against the irrefutable facts I point out from William Pierce about Jewish control of mass media and of reasons why White southern Africa fell to Blacks. You’re smart and talented enough, but will not listen to advice — just bluster, hot air, projecting your own shortcomings onto others, and you seem to not get along with practically everyone you meet.
I know you’ve read the following profile piece about you from the Washington Post, even though it’s too long for you to read. Considering the source of that Jewish medium, found at the WikiJew site, stiil, I feel I know you better now: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/inside-jason-kesslers-hate-fueled-rise/2018/08/11/ I post it here for others to read. There are 52 other articles about you, listed as sources by Wikijews, including #52 saying you and a few other Unite the Right knuckleheads were judged liable for $26 million in damages for your actions. That’s a lot: Spencer, Kessler, Cantwell and other white supremacists found liable in deadly Unite the Right rally – The Washington Post
Inside Jason Kessler’s hate-fueled rise
August 11, 2018
By Ian Shapira
CHARLOTTESVILLE — Jason Kessler needed a friendly media outlet to vent and portray himself as a victim. So he dialed Stormfront Action, a white-nationalist online radio show. He wanted to promote Sunday’s “Unite the Right 2” rally across from the White House, the sequel to last year’s deadly demonstration in Charlottesville.
During the hour-long interview last month, he unloaded a litany of hate-fueled grievances: The police in Charlottesville, he said, “screwed” him and other white nationalists last year. The media has turned him into “Damian, the son of Lucifer.” White people are “up against a wall.” Jews, he charged, “control the currency” and are “over-represented in Congress and the Supreme Court.”
“What’s happening to us is unjust right now,” Kessler told Stormfront Action listeners. “That’s why I don’t want to back down.”
In the year since Kessler, 34, organized the rally that flooded his hometown with hundreds of white supremacists and neo-Nazis and ended in bloodshed, the University of Virginia graduate has faced crushing criticism from within and outside his movement.
Prominent racists have broken ties with him. Friends have also parted ways, saying they don’t recognize the man they once knew as an Obama supporter. His father, in his first interview, told The Washington Post that he vehemently disapproves of Kessler’s actions and has tried to persuade him to stop. Many of his private messages planning the rallies have been leaked online. And Charlottesville residents have filed numerous lawsuits against him.
[The story behind the searing photo of Charlottesville’s worst day]
Wherever he goes in town, the man who bills himself as a “white civil rights” leader is often shouted at.
“I’ve been turned into an avatar of hate,” Kessler told The Post in a telephone interview. “I’ve made some powerful enemies, and I’ve gotten involved in some things that I didn’t know I was getting involved in. I think the alt-right thinks I am a cuck and not extreme enough and [liberals] think I am a white supremacist. None are true.”
It’s a deceptive statement for someone who touts his anti-Semitism on Stormfront Action and once told a crowd of white nationalists aligned with Richard Spencer, “I don’t give an g–d— about being called a racist.”
‘Exchange your pride for fame’
Kessler didn’t seem destined for a career in uniting the right.
A decade ago, he worked the phones at night for Secrest Strategic Services, the now-defunct Democratic polling outfit. He voted for Barack Obama in 2008. He spent time at the Occupy Wall Street encampment in Charlottesville in 2011, until he was kicked out for trying to register homeless people, according to Luis Oyola, a fellow Occupy activist. He lived for a time in government-subsidized housing in Charlottesville with a roommate who was African and Muslim, according to a public Facebook post written by a former college friend, Jenny Rebecca.
Although he’d graduated from U-Va. in 2009 with a psychology degree, he struggled to find full-time employment. Kessler couldn’t get or keep a job for a long time “because of his social anxiety and he had trouble getting along with certain people,” Rebecca wrote in her Facebook post.
At one point, Kessler was rejected for a position at a local government agency that provides mental health services. He was upset he lost the job to a woman, explaining in a deposition for one of his lawsuits in June that, “I had been passed over due to protected characteristics.”
“He would write posts on Facebook about how women hated nice guys and asked why women wouldn’t give him a chance,” Rebecca wrote on Facebook. “Then he’d delete his Facebook for a few months, join again, delete it, and join.”
One year ago, racial violence during a white-nationalist rally resulted in the death of a female counterprotester. Police are making an effort, with heightened security, to prevent a repeat of that tragedy.
He started to dabble in creative writing. One of his poems, in a self-published book titled “Midnight Road,” seemed to presage his own future in the limelight: “[S]tupidity is ca-ching, ca-ching!/exchange your pride for fame./ignorance means ratings/they’ll put you on TV and doll you up for viewers’ perversity.”
His novel later that year, “Badland Blues,” is about “a homeless dwarf madly in unrequited love with a local waitress,” according to its Amazon page. The customer reviews are brutal: “I’m putting more effort into this review than the author put into this steaming pile of crap,” wrote one person. “A classic read . . . said no one ever,” wrote another. “Why buy a book from the scum that organized the alt right rally in Charlottesville?” asked someone else.
‘Sir, your time is over’
By the time Donald Trump announced he was running for president in 2016, Kessler’s political conversion was complete.
As he sought to make a name for himself in the alt-right world, Kessler looked for a political foe. He found it in Wes Bellamy, an African American teacher serving as the vice mayor of Charlottesville. In March 2016, Bellamy had angered Kessler when he held a news conference calling for the removal of the Robert E. Lee statue in a downtown park.
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So, in late November, two weeks after Trump’s presidential victory, Kessler published an article on his website excavating Bellamy’s old tweets that had mocked white people. Then he went further.
At a Charlottesville City Council hearing the next month, Kessler slow-walked from the back of the room to the speaker’s dais. He blasted Tom Petty’s “I Won’t Back Down.” Before he took his turn to condemn Bellamy as a “black supremacist,” he rotated to face the crowd, lifting his arms. People laughed. Some carried signs that read, “No to White Supremacy” and “White Supremacist Go Home.”
“You’re finished. . . . Sir, sir, your time is over. Your time is over,” then-Mayor Michael Signer kept saying until Kessler took a seat.
Bellamy, who remains on the council, said Kessler whipped up the controversy to promote racism.
“He was mad because there was someone his age who was vice mayor, who was black, while he’s at home without work,” Bellamy said. “He wanted to bring me down all so he could become some national white hero.”
In 2017, Kessler befriended Richard Spencer, a fellow U-Va. graduate well-known for leading followers into chants like “Hail Trump” and declaring, “Let’s party like it’s 1933.”
They teamed up in May 2017 for a demonstration in Charlottesville protesting the council’s vote to remove the Lee statue. At one point, Kessler told the crowd: “I think one thing that I have in common with all of you here today is that I don’t give a g–d— about being called a racist.”
His new friends whooped and clapped.
[Finding the white supremacists who beat a black man in Charlottesville]
Two weeks later, Kessler applied for a permit for his own rally. In the category of “Event Purpose/Brief Description,” all he wrote was: “Free speech rally in support of the Lee Monument.”
‘Get ready for a fight’
A month before the “Unite the Right” rally, about 50 Ku Klux Klan members and supporters came to Charlottesville to protest the removal of the Lee statue.
David Caron, a computer and printer technician who has known Kessler since childhood and agreed with him about the statue, urged him to disavow the Klan.
Instead, as Kessler stood before news cameras after the Klan event, he denounced antifa, an anti-fascist group, as a “terrorist organization.” As for the Klan, Kessler gave them the benefit of the doubt.
“No one wanted them here,” Kessler said, “but they at least came and peaceably assembled.”
But Kessler knew there could be clashes at the rally, according to his private messages with other white nationalists on Discord, a group-chat app popular among far-right radicals.
“We should bring picket signs that can be used as sticks to bludgeon our enemies if they get violent,” he wrote in June, according to batches of the messages leaked to the alternative media site, Unicorn Riot — some of which are being used against Kessler and his cohorts in a federal suit accusing them of violating civil rights laws.
[He once defended the poor in court. Now he defends white supremacists]
“Get ready for a real fight,” he wrote the next month.
On Aug. 12, the day of the rally, Charlottesville was transformed overnight into the country’s capital of white supremacy and Kessler into one of the movement’s most prominent leaders. Just as he had anticipated, there was violence.
One counterprotester, Heather Heyer, was killed when a car allegedly driven by a neo-Nazi rammed into a crowd downtown. A black counterprotester, DeAndre Harris, was savagely beaten in a parking garage, and others were pepper-sprayed by white nationalists at a torch-lit march the night before the rally on U-Va.’s campus.
For Kessler’s father, his son’s transformation has been devastating.
“I support him as a son, but not politically,” said Eric Kessler, 58. “The family is dismayed across the board about this situation. We’ve never identified with racial politics.”
He divorced Jason’s mother when Jason was about 10, he said, adding that at one point later, he was married to a black woman.
“I consider myself a Christian person, and I think everyone is equal,” Eric Kessler said. “I’ve always raised my sons that way, and anything that departs from that is something I have never done.”
Since he learned of Jason’s radicalism shortly before the rally, father and son have had little contact. Eric said his son earns money by working for a local contractor whose identity he does not know. He’s been staying, on and off, with his grandmother.
One thing, however, haunts the father. Eric said that when he learned the identity of the woman who had been killed at Jason’s rally, the name instantly clicked. Heyer was in the church youth group he volunteered for 20 years ago.
“It was shocking,” he said. “I felt bad for her and her mother. It was a terrible thing.”
For his son, though, Heyer’s death was an occasion for mockery.
“Heather Heyer was a fat, disgusting Communist,” Kessler tweeted just days after the rally. “Looks like it was payback time.”
‘There will be violence’
As Kessler ramped up to hold a second rally, his friend, Hannah Zarski, a mother of five who lives near Charlottesville and supports white nationalism, kept telling him: Enough was enough.
“[Y]ou’re involved with the wrong people. Just saying,” Zarski, 32, wrote Kessler in private Facebook messages she shared with The Post.
“We’re on the cusp of changing our society and history forever and some people want to run away from that back to the status quo,” Kessler replied.
“Activism should be servicing our people,” she wrote. “We still have men in jail from the first go round . . . ”
Kessler was getting peeved. He told Zarski, who says she opposes violence, that “you might just want to go your own way and do something else.”
“Take a chance to make it something positive like fundraising,” she pleaded. “Jason your inability to have these discussions with the people closest to you is an issue.”
In May, he began courting the attendance of a Virginia man whose Facebook profile page says “Only crew 38 and people met off fb” — a reference to a support group for the Hammerskin Nation, a skinhead organization, according to messages obtained by prominent counterprotester Emily Gorcenski.
On Monday, Gorcenski tweeted images of Kessler’s conversation and of the man’s Facebook page, which is emblazoned with a logo of silhouetted figures brandishing weapons and the words, “Hospitalize Your Local Antifa Scumbag.”
“Mr. Kessler my boys and me will be there. Keep me updated on email,” the man wrote.
“Awesome, man. I’ll add you to the email list,” Kessler replied.
Kessler needed to boost his crowd numbers for Sunday.
One of the movement’s key figures — Christopher Cantwell, better known from Charlottesville as “The Crying Nazi” — wrote a blog post in late June warning, “Follow Kessler At Your Peril.” Spencer also declared he was out. Even Andrew Anglin, founder of the Daily Stormer, a neo-Nazi website, recently told readers to avoid the event, saying that “everyone knows that there will be violence” and that participants will “look like ruffians” and that no matter what “we get blamed for it.” He added: “You need to protect yourselves. You need to lay low.”
But, on Stormfront Action radio, Kessler urged listeners to bring flags on poles. Law enforcement, he said, will keep them safe from counterprotesters.
“Everyone,” he claimed, “is going to be protected.”
This is what makes jews more than a hostile rival ethnic group. It’s the disproportionate control and S(ocially)TD’s that’ve permeated every pore of our civilization by aggressive jewish pushing. I don’t know of anyone who thinks our problems would be insta-solved with jews permanently disempowered and removed from our societies, however, the other poisons allowed to seep in by their presence (islamification of Europe, the warping of male-female polarity, open borders, the anti-White guilt n’ shame complex, wars for any reason than a reconquista of our worlds, White racelessness cutting blood bonds for consumerism) would be much easier to cure and resolve without their boot stamping on a European face forever under threat of a ‘hate speech’ inquisition. Other racio-ethnicities are not less hostile to White interests, but it’s this particular one that’s been most responsible the longest. I doubt other groups even have the furious predeliction and deception genes capable for spellcasting such traumaturgy to quite literally invert the values of a civilization where everything is backwards and upside down from how it ought to be. Other groups lacking such compulsive legerdemain just steal and kill by base reptilian urge but are not elevated to a sorcerer’s science like Nym Pymplee the little koshgoblin hoarding his esoterrors in shadowy corners of the crypt. And volunteer traitors among us for a cut of the bloodgold are worse than any kleinbergfeldstein and co. cause they should know better. I agree with many of Jason’s takes but not that laser-focused judeohate is comparable to an obsessive paranoid mind watching conspiravision without proof grasping at straws all day.
Trump’s stated intention to use the moral, military and financial resources of the USA to ethnically cleanse 2 million Palestinians from Gaza is the single worst idea any president has ever enunciated, for several reasons.
First, creating refugees is a bad idea. Given the current legal, political and moral landscape, a large portion, if not all, refugees will migrate to the West where they will be taught to blame White people for all their woes. Our primary foreign policy interest is creating the conditions which will entice existing refugees to return to their own homelands. At the bare minimum we should avoid uprooting people who want to stay in their ancestral homelands.
Second, Gaza cannot be ethnically cleansed without a war. At a minimum, the USA would provide large amounts of military foreign aid to Israel for use against Palestine, and bomb the Houthis in Yemen, and the US garrison in Iraq would face harassment. At worst, the situation could easily escalate to a full scale war with Iran. The American taxpayer will pay the financial costs, American servicemen’s lives will be put at risk, American export opportunities will be lost, our real enemy, Al-Qaeda, will benefit, and a flood of refugees will be created.
But worst of all is the moral cost. It had always been my understanding that White Nationalism is based on the moral ideal of universal nationalism, as defined in chapter 7 of Frank Salter’s On Genetic Interests. We demand nationalism for our own people, and we respect the right of all other peoples to have nationalism for themselves. Was this ever serious, or was it just a cynical pose, a hypocritical cloak temporarily adopted for purely tactical reasons? Could there be any worse crime against universal nationalism than helping the Jews, the one group which has done us the most harm, eradicate the national existence of a people who have never done us any serious harm?
The moral high ground is our only asset. An intellectually coherent and morally defensible White American nationalism is the one weapon we dare not relinquish.
The silence of White Nationalists on this topic has been deafening – and shocking.
The ethnic cleansing already happened under Biden.
I did not get out of Jason Kessler’s article that the Jewish Question was not important, nor even that it was not of crucial importance.
However, I agree that the JQ isn’t the only thing of importance. Some of us are unfortunately prone to miss the depth of the forest for the brickbats flying in front of our faces.
Also, while Trump is doing things for us that could not have even been imagined eight years ago, most of us do understand that he is NOT our savior.
We have to stay vigilant and not get distracted.
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