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> he is a vocal anti-semite (whilst at the same time claiming to be Jewish)

You know, there's a name for this. It's called a black Israelite.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Hebrew_Israelites

> According to the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), "Some, but not all [Black Hebrew Israelites], are outspoken anti-Semites and racists." As of December 2019, the Southern Poverty Law Center "lists 144 Black Hebrew Israelite organizations as black separatist hate groups because of their antisemitic and anti-white beliefs". Tom Metzger, a former Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, once remarked to the Southern Poverty Law Center, "They're the black counterparts of us."

Interesting...

I think one key difference between the BHI and the KKK is that the BHI never killed anyone or carried out any terrorist attacks.

A man associated with the BHI killed 3 people at a Kosher supermarket in New Jersey in December of 2019[1]. That said, they aren't doing this in any organized fashion.

[1] https://www.congress.gov/116/meeting/house/110723/documents/...

These guys are prevalent in nyc. You can always spot a group of these zealots in hot spots like times sq preying on unknowing passersby baiting them into conversation and bullying them

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