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Former KKK Leader David Duke Joins Anti-Israel Protesters, Says He’s ‘Saving Our Country From Jewish Supremacy’
David Duke is seen protesting against Israel and the Jewish people while supporting Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes in Detroit in June 2024. Photo: Screenshot
Former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke was spotted alongside supporters of fellow white supremacist and Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes, an online personality, in Detroit on Friday protesting a conservative political conference, which they lambasted for supporting Israel.
In a video posted to X/Twitter, Duke declared that he was protesting to “save our country from Jewish supremacism and genocide, because we are being genocided [sic] like the Palestinians — just a different form.” Duke also said he was there to support Fuentes, who he described as a “comrade in the fight for our people.”
Former KKK Grand Wizard David Duke joins a protest in Detroit after AFPAC, run by Neo-N*zi Nick Fuentes was shut down.
“Save us from Jewish supremacism. We’re being genocided just like the Palestinians.”
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Turning Point USA — a politically conservative, pro-Donald Trump, organization — was holding its “People’s Convention” in downtown Detroit. Speakers included former Trump advisor Steve Bannon, Turning Point founder Charlie Kirk, former 2024 Republican presidential hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy, and Trump himself.
Video posted to social media showed Fuentes trying to enter the conference. After security quickly escorted him out, Fuentes shouted, “This is America first, not Israel first!”
Nick Fuentes (@NickJFuentes) kicked out of TPUSA event in Detroit.
“This is America first, not Israel first.”
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The white nationalist continued his protest outside of the conference with his coterie of “groypers” — white nationalist and neo-Nazi followers of Fuentes online — suggesting he was banned from the event because of his anti-Israel activism.
Addressing a jeering group of supporters, Fuentes claimed, “Donald Trump is taking a hundred million dollars from Miriam Adelson, and I would like to remind everybody that Miriam Adelson is a single-issue voter. She only cares about one country … She only cares about the Jewish state of Israel.”
Adelson is a Jewish physician, philanthropist, and wife of the late Sheldon Adelson. In addition to heavily donating to Trump, she also supports the Zionist Organization of America, the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem, and various charities supporting Jewish and Israeli causes.
Nick Fuentes addresses supporters in Detroit. Photo: Screenshot
Fuentes continued to rebuke Trump in the video, criticizing his release of the “traitor Israel spy” Jonathan Pollard. Pollard, who was found guilty of spying on behalf of Israel in 1987, was released on parole from prison in 2015. Trump allowed him to immigrate to Israel in 2020.
Outside of the Turning Point USA convention, a group of Fuentes supporters assembled, including Duke, and claimed that they too were denied admission to the convention because of their views on Israel.
According to the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), Fuentes is a white supremacist and has made numerous antisemitic and racist comments. Fuentes routinely denies the Holocaust.
Duke is a former Grand Wizard of the KKK. He is banned from all major social media platforms for hateful conduct.
Fuentes was set to hold his own event — the America First Political Action Conference (AFPAC) — on Saturday but said it was abruptly canceled. “We finished setting up our stage and then the venue called the cops to kick us out 24 hours before the event,” he wrote on X/Twitter.
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Treasure Trove: How a Polish-Jewish artist told Canadians about the horrors of Nazi Germany and produced beautiful illustrations
Arthur Szyk (1894-1951) was a Polish-Jewish artist whose work reflected the historic times he lived: the two world wars, the rise of totalitarianism in Europe and the birth of the State of Israel. In 1940, with the support of the British government and the Polish government-in-exile, he visited Canada to popularize the struggle against Nazism. […]
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Biden hits Fundraising Trail in Show of Strength after Dismal Debate Performance
FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Joe Biden speaks during a campaign rally in Raleigh, North Carolina, U.S., June 28, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz/File Photo
President Joe Biden embarks on a series of fundraising events across two states on Saturday as he works to stamp out a crisis of confidence in his re-election campaign following a feeble debate performance that dismayed his fellow Democrats.
Biden and First Lady Jill Biden will visit the upscale New York beach enclave known as the Hamptons for a campaign fundraiser hosted by hedge-fund billionaire Barry Rosentein. Later in the day, he will travel to New Jersey for a fundraiser hosted by wealthy New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy, a Democrat.
Fellow hedge-fund founder Eric Mindich and his Tony Award-winning producer wife Stacey, celebrity couple Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick, and actor Michael J. Fox are all listed as members of the host committee at the New York event, according to an invitation seen by Reuters.
Biden told a rally in North Carolina on Friday he intended to defeat Republican rival Donald Trump in the November presidential election, giving no sign he would heed calls from Democrats who want him to drop out of the race.
Biden‘s verbal stumbles and occasionally meandering responses during Thursday night’s debate heightened voter concerns that the 81-year-old might not be fit to serve another four-year term.
The Biden campaign on Saturday boasted it had raised more than $27 million between debate day through Friday evening, but questions remain about whether the debate performance will hurt fundraising, at least in the short term.
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Arab League Rescinds the Classification of Hezbollah as a Terrorist Group
Mourners carry a coffin during the funeral of Wissam Tawil, a commander of Hezbollah’s elite Radwan forces who according to Lebanese security sources was killed during an Israeli strike on south Lebanon, in Khirbet Selm, Lebanon, Jan. 9, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Aziz Taher
i24 News – The Arab League no longer defines Hezbollah as a proscribed terrorist group, an official said on Saturday.
Hezbollah, a Lebanon-based Shiite militia and a proxy of the Islamic regime in Iran, boasts the world’s largest rocket arsenal of any non-state actor. It is animated by the antisemitic ideology of jihad and is committed to the destruction of Israel.
“In earlier Arab League decisions, Hezbollah was designated as a terrorist organization, and this designation was reflected in the resolutions,” Hossam Zaki, the assistant secretary-general of the Arab League, was quoted in Arab media as saying.
“The League’s member states concurred that the labeling of Hezbollah as a terrorist organization should no longer be employed,” Zaki said, adding that the regional body “does not maintain terrorist lists and does not actively seek to designate entities in such a manner.”
Hezbollah has unleashed numerous rockets, mortars and drones on northern Israel in the past eight months starting on October 8, a day after the Jewish state suffered the worst antisemitic massacre since the Holocaust at the hands of the Palestinian jihadists of Hamas.
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