Former KKK Leader David Duke Joins Anti-Israel Protesters, Says He’s ‘Saving Our Country From Jewish Supremacy’
David Duke is seen protesting against Israel and the Jewish people while supporting Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes in Detroit in June 2024. Photo: Screenshot
Former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke was spotted alongside supporters of fellow white supremacist and Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes, an online personality, in Detroit on Friday protesting a conservative political conference, which they lambasted for supporting Israel.
In a video posted to X/Twitter, Duke declared that he was protesting to “save our country from Jewish supremacism and genocide, because we are being genocided [sic] like the Palestinians — just a different form.” Duke also said he was there to support Fuentes, who he described as a “comrade in the fight for our people.”
Former KKK Grand Wizard David Duke joins a protest in Detroit after AFPAC, run by Neo-N*zi Nick Fuentes was shut down.
“Save us from Jewish supremacism. We’re being genocided just like the Palestinians.”
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Turning Point USA — a politically conservative, pro-Donald Trump, organization — was holding its “People’s Convention” in downtown Detroit. Speakers included former Trump advisor Steve Bannon, Turning Point founder Charlie Kirk, former 2024 Republican presidential hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy, and Trump himself.
Video posted to social media showed Fuentes trying to enter the conference. After security quickly escorted him out, Fuentes shouted, “This is America first, not Israel first!”
Nick Fuentes (@NickJFuentes) kicked out of TPUSA event in Detroit.
“This is America first, not Israel first.”
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The white nationalist continued his protest outside of the conference with his coterie of “groypers” — white nationalist and neo-Nazi followers of Fuentes online — suggesting he was banned from the event because of his anti-Israel activism.
Addressing a jeering group of supporters, Fuentes claimed, “Donald Trump is taking a hundred million dollars from Miriam Adelson, and I would like to remind everybody that Miriam Adelson is a single-issue voter. She only cares about one country … She only cares about the Jewish state of Israel.”
Adelson is a Jewish physician, philanthropist, and wife of the late Sheldon Adelson. In addition to heavily donating to Trump, she also supports the Zionist Organization of America, the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem, and various charities supporting Jewish and Israeli causes.
Nick Fuentes addresses supporters in Detroit. Photo: Screenshot
Fuentes continued to rebuke Trump in the video, criticizing his release of the “traitor Israel spy” Jonathan Pollard. Pollard, who was found guilty of spying on behalf of Israel in 1987, was released on parole from prison in 2015. Trump allowed him to immigrate to Israel in 2020.
Outside of the Turning Point USA convention, a group of Fuentes supporters assembled, including Duke, and claimed that they too were denied admission to the convention because of their views on Israel.
According to the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), Fuentes is a white supremacist and has made numerous antisemitic and racist comments. Fuentes routinely denies the Holocaust.
Duke is a former Grand Wizard of the KKK. He is banned from all major social media platforms for hateful conduct.
Fuentes was set to hold his own event — the America First Political Action Conference (AFPAC) — on Saturday but said it was abruptly canceled. “We finished setting up our stage and then the venue called the cops to kick us out 24 hours before the event,” he wrote on X/Twitter.
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