Thread by @MsEntropy

Look into Identity — the literal Neo Nazi interpretation of Christianity which teaches that:

- “Aryans” are the lost tribes of Israel
- Jews are Satan’s children (from Eve and the serpent)
- minorities aren’t human
- believers are obligated to spark race war for Jesus

https://twitter.com/johnpaulpagano/status/1397737596898447360

As always, a preemptive warning that will doubtlessly go ignored:

https://twitter.com/msentropy/status/1365497630600486914?s=21

The first Tweet in the QT thread implies (imo) that antisemitism is a result of conspiracy theories in the Black community at large — vs. the extremely small fringe Black group “the Black Israelites.”

Christian Identity (Neo Nazi Christianity) is older and far more dangerous.

Christian Identity Movement is rooted in British Israelism (philosemitic), which transformed into a virulently antisemitic theology in the US.

CI (literally Neo Nazi Jesus) has played a major foundational role in the American white supremacist movement violence since WWII.

https://twitter.com/MsEntropy/status/1360679766404210689

Lots to say about this Tweet, which prompted the thread.

White supremacists — Christians and non — have long viewed the Civil Rights Struggle as a Communist and Jewish plot to destroy white supremacy by manipulating Black Americans.

That fact is key.

https://twitter.com/msentropy/status/1397835217214132224?s=21

Antisemitism in Black American religion has never come anywhere close to the outrageous level of white Christians — both overt white supremacists and non.

Not by a long shot.

“50% over the last 2.5 years” presents a remarkably distorted picture of the problem.

Take just one case among many:

The assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. is linked to both white supremacist police and Christian Identity (Neo Nazi Jesus) Movement actors.

Read @wexlerwriting’s incredible book, “America’s Secret Jihad” for details.

Bruce Hoffman was one of the first to recognize the enormous danger posed by white supremacist Christian Identity.

By 1988, CI was linked to every single far right extremist organization in the United States.

Every. Single. One.

https://twitter.com/MsEntropy/status/1351375486039937026

White supremacist, antisemitic Christians pioneered the use of Internet technology for political violence...

...well over a decade before Al Qaeda.

https://twitter.com/msentropy/status/1367005054859812865

There’s another reason related to Christian Identity that demonstrates why the numbers here are extremely misleading in painting an inaccurate image of Black antisemitism as more dangerous.

White supremacists have long used infiltration as a strategy.

“50% of antisemitic murders were committed by Black perpetrators” assumes homicide is the bar for “bad,” ignoring:

1) more insidious covert (harder to combat) violence & oppression
2) white supremacist infiltration strategy (especially Christian Identity post-93)

Exhibit:

https://twitter.com/msentropy/status/1365400169672437762

White supremacists used the name “Christian Identity Movement” as a smokescreen to better enable violent, racist, antisemitic theology via plausible deniability.

Rockwell (American Nazi Party founder) saw the name as a great way to recruit unsuspecting “idiots” on the sly.

https://twitter.com/MsEntropy/status/1365410159745400832

After the post-Ruby Ridge white supremacist summit (the origin of the modern militia movement), Christian Identity leaders embraced a more covert approach in the interests of mainstreaming.

Pete Peters told followers to “be as wise as serpents” and drop the CI label to “pass.”

Recap:

White supremacist Christians have long engaged in covert infiltration of establishment jobs — like the State Department, military, police, and law — alongside efforts to gradually mainstream vile, antisemitic, racist, genocidal religion.

https://twitter.com/msentropy/status/1365406464307732481

Back to the problematic Tweet in question.

In addition to overt white supremacists like CI, evangelical Christian “I’m not racist” Zionism (overwhelmingly white) is another dangerous and abhorrently antisemitic ideology.

https://twitter.com/msentropy/status/1396299615004098563?s=21

In sum:

Misleading statistics about Black antisemitism are harmful.

A fringe group like the Black Israelites has never - and will never - come anywhere near the dangerous antisemitism of white American Christians —

— overt white supremacists and evangelicals alike.

https://twitter.com/MsEntropy/status/1397842144912576513

I really need a better outlet for migraine-induced insomnia other than writing about violent bigoted ideology

Relevant and interesting thread by an ex-Christian Identity member on antisemitism, Israel, conspiratorial culture and white supremacy:

https://twitter.com/SethDaire/status/1397956174230736896

Anyway, to sum my rant up:

Personally, I think drawing on 2/4 in 2.5 years to argue that Black antisemitism is indicative of broader Black conspiratorial religious tendencies (whatever the hell that even means) is…

…heinously racist.

[but maybe that’s just me]