Too Antisemitic To Celebrate Trump’s Win

Canadian Anti-Hate Network

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On November 6, Donald Trump was declared the winner of the 2024 United States presidential election, making him the 45th and 47th commander-in-chief of the US Republic. 

While many in and outside America are worried about a future of policies and appointments that may roll back many of the hard-fought rights and gains made by so many, the reaction among the far-right runs the gamut of outright joy to angry antisemitism.

Some far-right extremists had hoped a Harris win would destabilize the country faster, which they find desirable. However, they are the outliers. Trump winning was the preferred outcome for most of the far-right in North America, even those who are angry at what they perceive as Jewish influence over the new administration. 

This is despite Trump’s use of antisemitic tropes, and his threats to Jewish Americans that if he lost the election, he would hold them personally responsible. 

Tyler Russell, former leader of the group Canada First used his X account to claim that the Trump administration would be ultimately seeking to punish the “far-right” and nationalists. 

Screenshot taken of Tyler Russell’s account on X. Source: X

Just ahead of the election, Russell posted to X, “trump [sic] traded radicalized nationalist White men for hippie liberals who care about seed oils” following up with a second post saying “and jews.”

Russell, who is Canadian, previously relocated to the US to work for white nationalist Nick Fuentes. Fuentes made headlines of his own when he posted “Your body, my choice” to X the night of the election. In the 24 hours after Fuentes’ post, the Institute of Strategic Dialogue reported a 4,600% increase in misogynist language to the platform.  

On X, in response to a post denouncing Fuentes saying “yeah how about your jaw, my fist,” Russell replied, “how about her jaw, my fist.” 

A post of support went out from the central Active Club Telegram channel before the election. The Active Clubs are a neo-Nazi collective of white-only workout clubs, founded by violent white nationalist Robert Rundo. Active Clubs have formed across multiple countries and cities, including in Canada. The club’s national central organizing point, Active Club Canada, shut down its social media after the arrest of two of its members for associations with the terrorist-designated Atomwaffen Division and Terrorgram Collective, a small group of publishers releasing materials instructing would-be mass shooters on carrying out attacks. 

“Robert Rundo is asking all Nationalists to go out and vote for Donald Trump. He may not be the cure for all our issues at hand, but it could be the difference between freedom and incarceration for many young Nationalists,” the message read. 

Diagolon, a Canadian network of white nationalists who are also prominent boosters of the Active Clubs, made sure to remind their followers of Trump’s connections to prominent Jewish individuals. Within Diagolon spaces, Trump is viewed as a preferable choice to Kamala Harris and the Democrats, but still ultimately subservient to the infiltrated “Zionist Occupied Government”—a slang term common in conspiratorial and white supremacist spaces, referring to the antisemitic conspiracy theory that Jews control the levers of power.

“Nothing says MAGA like having your cabinet chosen by a Jewish billionaire in contradiction to campaign promises,” Diagolon leader Jeremy MacKenzie wrote on his Telegram, referencing a tweet that billionaire Howard Lutnick, who is Jewish, would be running Trump’s campaign team.   

“We all know who really calls the shots in Washington and it isn't Americans.”

Screenshot taken from Alex Vriend’s Telegram channel. Source: Telegram

Another prominent member of Diagolon, Alex “Ferryman’s Toll” Vriend, posted an alleged breakdown of racial voting demographics. Showing that a majority of Trump voters were white men and women, the image is captioned “Trump better get deporting.” Fiercely opposed to immigration, Diagolon members frequently advocate for all peoples not of European descent to be removed from Canada. 

Other figures in the Canadian far-right expressed an intense disdain for Trump, including failed Toronto Mayoral candidate Chris “Sky” Saccoccia. Once a protest leader against the COVID lockdowns and health restrictions, he has since moved to Mexico and is in ads on X (formerly Twitter) encouraging others to follow him to “avoid wokeness… and creeping socialism.”

Saccoccia has been claiming online that a mass culling of people is coming, led by figures like Bill Gates. While listening to Saccoccia and relocating to Mexico can save you, according to him, those who do not or disagree with him, “deserve to be culled.” 

Rarely shy about his adherence to conspiracies blaming Jewish conspiracies for the problems of the world, Saccoccia rejects Trump on the basis that he, like all other politicians, is infiltrated by Jewish power. Claims that “Jews that placed Trump in power, he warns to prepare for “Internet censorship and govt mass surveillance.”

“The US govt is run …with the two main political parties acting as fake opposing foils, when, in actuality, they both work for the same Jewish masters,” a post to Saccoccia’s Telegram channel read. 

Other messages show him berating and insulting followers who posted support for Trump on the eve of his election in long strings of profanity while referencing Jewish people.