(JEWISH GROUP) Amid raids, vitriol and violence, the great replacement theory rears its head in Minneapolis
It’s a truly grotesque moment in American political history: A fundraising campaign supporting Jonathan Ross, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent who shot and killed Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis, injected overt antisemitism against Minneapolis’ Jewish mayor into its pitch.
While a parenthetical noting Frey’s Jewishness — in the phrase “anti-American traitors like Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey (who is Jewish)” — was eventually removed from the fundraiser after public condemnation, the insertion was not merely accidental. Rather, it was a deliberate dog whistle to an audience steeped in the conspiratorial logic that has fueled deadly recent far-right attacks. And its presence tells us something significant about the ideology behind our current wave of anti-immigrant rhetoric and activity.
It all comes back to the great replacement conspiracy theory, which suggests that a cabal of elites — often interpreted, by the antisemitic, as “Jews” — is deliberately flooding the United States with immigrants to “replace” white Americans. The conspiracy posits that immigration and demographic change are not organic shifts that emerge as a result of historical and economic processes that lead to migration. Instead, they are the result of a deliberate conspiracy to erode white dominance.
That theory, first articulated by French writer Renaud Camus, has migrated from the niche domain of online extremists to the rhetoric of mainstream Republican politicians in the U.S. For instance, during his first presidential term, President Donald Trump falsely suggested that the Jewish political donor and Holocaust survivor George Soros might be behind Central American migration to the U.S.
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At least the right is consistent and open with their anti-Semitism in regard to the ICE actions in Minneapolis. It is this shit that led to the Tree of Life massacre.