QAnon Is Becoming Even More Antisemitic
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The organizer of a major QAnon conference in Las Vegas later this week, where at least four sitting GOP lawmakers speak on stage, shared a neo-Nazi film with his 70,000 followers on Sunday evening.
John Sabal, who is known online as QAnon John, is preparing for the “For God and County: Patriots’ Doubledown” conference that starts Thursday, but on Sunday night, he took time out of his busy schedule to share a post about people who had praised “Europa – the Last Battle.” It’s a 10-part film that claims Jews created Communism and deliberately started both world wars as part of a plot to found Israel by provoking the innocent Nazis, who were only defending themselves.
“If you want to know the truth, well look no further, here it is, escape the matrix and watch it today,” Sabal told his Telegram followers.
Moments later, Sabal shared a direct link to allow his followers to watch the film on the alternative video-sharing site Rumble.
While this film has been shared by some of QAnon’s more fringe and extremist figures, the fact Sabal feels emboldened to share it so publicly is a testament to how anti-Semitic thinking has become normalized within the movement.
This was reflected in the comments under the posts from Sabal’s followers who offered no pushback against his support of such anti-Semitic content.
When one follower did attempt to criticize Sabal for posting the link, other members of the channel quickly attacked that user, claiming they were some sort of undercover agent of the “deep state.”
Others credulously claimed the user criticizing Sabal had misunderstood the film: “I'm sorry that's what you took away from our neo-Nazi film. It's really about how killing the Jews is necessary and good because they're not real Jews,” one of Sabal’s followers wrote.
After Sabal’s comments were highlighted by extremist researchers on Twitter, the posts mysteriously disappeared from his channel. Sabal did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Later this week, Sabal will host a raft of GOP lawmakers, including sitting Arizona Reps. Wendy Rogers and Sonny Borrelli. Also scheduled to speak are multiple Republican candidates running for secretary of state, including candidates in the swing states of Michigan, Arizona, and Nevada.
Despite calling himself “QAnon John,” and even though many of the movement’s biggest influencers will be sharing speaking time with members of the Republican Party, Sabal has in the past claimed this is not a QAnon conference. Among them will be Ron Watkins, who facilitated the rise of QAnon and who last week announced his plan to run for Congress.
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