White nationalist accuses: Jews blocked end of Roe v. Wade

Published date30 June 2022
Fuentes, who founded the America First Political Action Committee and the "groyper army," a radical fringe group, made the comments on his website's livestream on Friday, according to Right Wing Watch. He added "we need a government of Christians" and "Jewish people can be here, but they can't make our laws."

"If Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a Jewish woman, didn't die last year, so that Amy Coney Barrett, a Catholic woman, could be appointed to the bench, we would still have Roe v. Wade," Fuentes said. "Now you tell me that this is a Judeo-Christian country… You tell me that it doesn't matter that we have a lot of Jewish people in government."

Extremism trackers like the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and Southern Poverty Law Center have long classified Fuentes as a hate group leader who advocates antisemitism and Holocaust denial, in addition to racist and nativist ideologies. His YouTube channel was previously banned for hate speech.

Yet several Republican elected officials were featured speakers at Fuentes' AFPAC conference in February, including sitting members of Congress Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia and Paul Gosar of Arizona; Idaho Lieutenant Governor Janice McGeachin; and Arizona state Sen. Wendy Rogers (who was censured by her state Republican party for her appearance at the conference). When they were confronted with Fuentes' views after their conference appearances, all four declined to condemn Fuentes or...

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