What has felt like a very recent spike in antisemitism, with high-profile incidents involving West and basketball player Kyrie Irving, is primarily a continuation of events dating back to 2015 kicked off by Trump’s rise. But even if this does mark a turning point in Trump’s political standing, other Republicans can’t unring the antisemitic bell the former president has been banging for years.
Whether this round of Republican condemnation will end differently than previous ones remains to be seen. Leading Republicans are now acting shocked, with some of Trump’s allies in the Jewish conservative world turning on him over the dinner. Hosting West and Fuentes at Mar-a-Lago is the logical extension of what he’s been doing since the beginning of his political career. He has regularly deployed antisemitic rhetoric during his time in public life, and become even more willing to directly engage with his more extreme followers since leaving office (by, for example, regularly promoting QAnon content on his Truth Social website). That Trump sat down with West and Fuentes should not be surprising, his own Jewish family notwithstanding. Meanwhile, West has recently emerged as the highest-profile proponent of antisemitic conspiracy theories in the country, a turn that has generated tremendous backlash - at least from most corners of society. He gets me,” Trump said of Fuentes, per Axios’s Jonathan Swan and Zachary Basu. This weekend was Fuentes’s biggest victory yet, a sit-down with the party’s most important leader - who reportedly came away impressed. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and Paul Gosar (R-AZ) to attend his America First Political Action conference in February. “Because what comes out of this is going to be a lot uglier and a lot worse for them than anything that’s being said on this show.”įor the past few years, Fuentes has been attempting to insert himself and followers (called “ groypers”) into the Republican Party, getting figures like Reps. “The Jews had better start being nice to people like us,” Fuentes said in a mid-November broadcast. Kent Nishimura/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images Fuentes’s smirking, “just kidding” demeanor on his America First webcast barely hides his eliminationist antisemitism - and sometimes the mask falls off entirely.įormer President Donald Trump finishes his speech at the America First Policy Institute’s America First Agenda summit on July 26, 2022.
Nearly 100 years later, Donald Trump - also an avowed fan of Henry Ford - would sit down with Fuentes, a man who denies that the Holocaust happened. “I regard Henry Ford as my inspiration,” the soon-to-be Führer replied, a framed portrait of the American industrialist over his desk. In 1931, with the Nazis on the brink of taking control of Germany’s government, a Detroit News reporter asked Hitler about Ford. The impact was enormous according to historian Norman Cohn, “The International Jew probably did more than any other work to make The Protocols world famous.” Ford’s propaganda set the stage for a wave of American antisemitism in the runup to World War II, including the rise of infamous antisemitic demagogue Father Charles Coughlin.
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The series included excerpts from The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, an infamous Russian forgery that purported to be records of the Jewish conspiracy’s worldwide activities.īecause Ford required Ford Motors dealers to distribute the paper, turning it into the second-largest in the United States at the time, his pet conspiracy theories were sent to a massive audience. In 1920, the paper published a series of articles, titled “The International Jew,” on the alleged nefarious activities of Jews in the United States and elsewhere. He was also a hardcore antisemite, blaming Jews for everything from World War I to an alleged decline in the quality of candy bars.įord turned the Dearborn Independent into a vehicle for promoting his antisemitic obsessions. Ford was a brilliant businessman, the inventor of the Model T and founder of the iconic car company bearing his name. In 1918, industrialist Henry Ford purchased his hometown newspaper, the Dearborn Independent. For Jews, the dinner was more than simply shocking: It was a reminder of an old and very ugly history of influential Americans mainstreaming antisemitism. President Donald Trump’s weekend dinner with Kanye West and Nick Fuentes - two figures who have become the face of modern-day antisemitism in America - has shocked the political world.
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