
A GiveSendGo crowdfunding campaign for Jonathan Ross — the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent who killed Renee Good, a queer mother of three — has raised over $250,000 as of Tuesday afternoon. It is also raising eyebrows because of its racist and antisemitic messaging.
Slate writer Molly Olmstead noted that that campaign, entitled “Stand With Our Brave ICE Hero,” was started by an avowed white supremacist who goes by Tom Hennessey. He has asked if Good was a “negrophile,” used the #DeportThemAll and “TheyAllMustGo” in his crowdfunding campaign, and initially said that Good’s slaying was “a direct result of anti-American traitors like Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey (who is Jewish) fanning the flames of resistance” before he removed mention of Frey’s Judaism.
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“America First patriots!” the campaign states. “In the frozen streets of Minneapolis, our fearless ICE agents were out doing the job the invaders and their enablers hate most: rounding up and deporting illegal aliens who have no right to be flooding our nation, draining resources, and threatening our sovereignty.”
This xenophobic and anti-immigrant rhetoric evokes the Great Replacement Theory, a debunked white nationalist conspiracy theory that a cabal of rich Jewish people wants to “replace” white Americans and Westerners with non-white immigrants and people of color (especially Black people and Muslims) to fundamentally change the nation’s racial makeup and political culture.
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On his X social media account, Hennessey writes about defending “White American bloodlines” and how Jewish people are ruining white nations by “flooding” them with immigrants. He has also previously created crowdfunding campaigns for people who gained media infamy for screaming anti-Jewish and anti-Black comments at people.
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