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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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Lebanon Must Disarm Hezbollah to Have a Shot at Better Days, Says US Envoy
Thomas Barrack at the Brooklyn Federal Courthouse in Brooklyn, New York, U.S., November 4, 2022. Photo: REUTERS/Brendan McDermid/File Photo
i24 News – Lebanon’s daunting social, economic and political issues would not get resolved unless the state persists in the efforts to disarm Hezbollah, the Iranian proxy behind so much of the unrest and destruction, special US envoy Tom Barrack told The National.
“You have Israel on one side, you have Iran on the other, and now you have Syria manifesting itself so quickly that if Lebanon doesn’t move, it’s going to be Bilad Al Sham again,” he said, using the historical Arabic name for the region sometimes known as “larger Syria.”
The official stressed the need to follow through on promises to disarm the Iranian proxy, which suffered severe blows from Israel in the past year, including the elimination of its entire leadership, and is considered a weakened though still dangerous jihadist outfit.
“There are issues that we have to arm wrestle with each other over to come to a final conclusion. Remember, we have an agreement, it was a great agreement. The problem is, nobody followed it,” he told The National.
Barrack spoke on the heels of a trip to Beirut, where he proposed a diplomatic plan for the region involving the full disarmament of Hezbollah by the Lebanese state.
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Report: Putin Urges Iran to Accept ‘Zero Enrichment’ Nuclear Deal With US
Russian President Vladimir Putin meets Iranian counterpart Masoud Pezeshkian on the sidelines of a cultural forum dedicated to the 300th anniversary of the birth of the Turkmen poet and philosopher Magtymguly Fragi, in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan, Oct. 11, 2024. Photo: Sputnik/Alexander Scherbak/Pool via REUTERS
i24 News – Russian President Vladimir Putin has told Iranian leadership that he supports the idea of a nuclear deal in which Iran is unable to enrich uranium, the Axios website reported on Saturday. The Russian strongman also relayed the message to his American counterpart, President Donald Trump, the report said.
Iranian news agency Tasnim issued a denial, citing an “informed source” as saying Putin had not sent any message to Iran in this regard.
Also on Saturday, Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi stated that “Any negotiated solution must respect Iran’s right to enrichment. No agreement without recognizing our right to enrichment. If negotiations occur, the only topic will be the nuclear program. No other issues, especially defense or military matters, will be on the agenda.”
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Syria’s Al-Sharaa Attending At Least One Meeting With Israeli Officials in Azerbaijan
Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa speaks during a joint press conference with French President Emmanuel Macron after a meeting at the Elysee Palace in Paris, France, May 7, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Stephanie Lecocq/Pool
i24 News – Syrian President Ahmed Al-Sharaa is attending at least one meeting with Israeli officials in Azerbaijan today, despite sources in Damascus claiming he wasn’t attending, a Syrian source close to President Al-Sharaa tells i24NEWS.
The Syrian source stated that this is a series of two or three meetings between the sides, with Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani also in attendance, along with Ahmed Al-Dalati, the Syrian government’s liaison for security meetings with Israel.
The high-level Israeli delegation includes a special envoy of Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu, as well as security and military figures.
The purpose of the meetings is to discuss further details of the security agreement to be signed between Israel and Syria, the Iranian threat in Syria and Lebanon, Hezbollah’s weapons, the weapons of Palestinian militias, the Palestinians camps in Lebanon, and the future of Palestinian refugees from Gaza in the region.
The possibility of opening an Israeli coordination office in Damascus, without diplomatic status, might also be discussed.
The source stated that the decision to hold the meetings in Azerbaijan, made by Israel and the US, is intended to send a message to Iran.
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