Antisemitic Accelerationist Terrorists Targeted Trump at the Freedom 250 Fight Night
Daily Antisemitism News Briefing: two of the men arrested live in California. Plus other stories on the Iran war, Elon Musk, Nick Fuentes, Marjorie Taylor Greene, and more...
This is the third installment in our ongoing Woke Reich Neo-Fascists Rising Series monitoring and analyzing Far Right extremist ideology in America. See the previous parts:
Inroduction: The 10 Most Dangerous Far-Right Figures in America Today
June 16 Daily News Briefing: JD Vance Defends Iran Receiving a $300 Billion âReconstruction Fundâ
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1. Men Alleged to Have Plotted Terrorist Attack Against White House UFC Event Embraced Neo-Nazi Ideology and Targeted Pro-Israel Lawmakers
On Tuesday, the Department of Justice announced the arrests of five men in Ohio, Missouri, Nebraska, and California who allegedly targeted elected officials and others attending the Freedom 250 UFC fight on Sunday in celebration of President Donald Trumpâs 80th birthday.
Here are those named as suspects:
Tycen C. Proper, 19, of Danville, Ohio
Bryan Omar Roa, 24, of Calimesa, California (Located an hour away from us.)
Michael Alan Thomas, 32, of Pinon Hills, California (Two hours away from us.)
Daniel K. Eskridge, 32, of Kidder, Missouri
Abraham Hermosillo Alvarez, 31, of Omaha, Nebraska
The group allegedly conspired to use drones armed with explosives to strike the event, causing an evacuation which they would then enable snipers to kill congressmen and other âhigh-value targets.â
Proper has reportedly confessed. Investigators say he collected âfirearms, thousands of rounds of ammunition, and tactical gear at his home in Ohio, and he identified potential targets, including multiple members of Congress.â His father and grandmother told police that he had expressed support for Nazi leader Adolf Hitler and posted antisemitic material on social media.
Here is a picture of his gun:
The Combat Antisemitism Movement reported yesterday that Proper allegedly said in a group chat that one of the legislators to target should be Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) because âsheâs taken money from the Israel pro Israel [sic] lobby and supports them.â
Later Proper would suggest other targets on the basis of the Israel advocacy: Senators Jim Justice (R-WV) and Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV) and Representatives Carol Miller (R WV-1) and Riley Moore (R WV-2). He shared their images and found their information at TrackAipac.com
Eskridge reportedly also armed himself extensively and prepared tactical gear:
The DOJ identifies Alvarez as the groupâs organizer, using the handle âShepherdâ to signify his role in the conspiracy. He reportedly provided directions to an old church in Nebraska as a safe zone.
The five conspirators allegedly hoped their attack could inspire a violent uprising across the country, an expression of a neo-Nazi ideology called accelerationism.
The Anti-Defamation League describes this form of genocidal antisemitism:
Accelerationism is an extremist belief rooted in some segments of the white supremacist movement that society is irredeemable, and that acts of violence and destabilization can âaccelerateâ a perceived inevitable societal collapse and usher in a white ethnonationalist state in the chaotic aftermath.
The ideology originated with the 1990s writings of an American neo-Nazi and saw a resurgence in the mid-2010s with the rise of the alt-right extremist movement. Accelerationist adherents subscribe to a mix of racist, antisemitic, Islamophobic, anti-immigrant and anti-LGBTQ+ beliefs and conspiracy theories.
Accelerationist white supremacists may be hostile to other white supremacist groups and adherents who may not openly embrace violence as a tactic.
Since the late 2010s, white supremacist accelerationism has inspired dozens of terrorist plots and attacks across the world, with most targeting Jews, Muslims, immigrants, people of color and the LGBTQ+ community. Some have also targeted critical infrastructure to sow chaos.
One FBI investigator wrote that the groupâs members âbelieved that the United States needed to be torn down so that it could be rebuiltâ and that some âexpressed a desire that people who were involved with Jeffrey Epstein should not govern the country.â
Law enforcement disrupt accelerationist-inspired terror plots on a regular basis. In February last year, a jury convicted Brandon Russell, 29, a resident of Orlando, for plotting to sabotage Marylandâs power grid.
2. Police in Toronto Reveal Young People Have Been Hired to Attack Jews
In a press conference on Tuesday updating about multiple shooting investigations, Torontoâs police chief Myron Demkiw told reporters that âwhat we are dealing with in this case and in other unrelated incidents, including shootings at synagogues and Jewish schools, is a recurring and similar modus operandi, and that is criminals for hire.â
Demkiw said that âthrough encrypted messaging apps, young people are hired to carry out attacks against various targets. And in order to get paid, theyâre required to film their attacks.â
Discussing motive, he said âand it is clear that some of the people hiring these criminals want to create a sense of fear in our communities, including in the Jewish community.â
3. The Pentagon Admits Using Grok For Targeting More Than 2,000 Strikes on Iran and Declares
According to a sworn statement from Cameron Stanley, the Pentagonâs chief digital and AI officer, trillionaire Elon Muskâs Grok âenabled US forces to deploy over 2,000 munitions to 2,000 distinct targets within 96 hours during Operation Epic Fury.â
So, a large language model owned by the worldâs wealthiest man, trained on twitter posts, which has declared itself âMechaHitler,â and cannot stop generating sexualized images of children⌠is being used by the most powerful military in world history to bomb human beings.
Iran War News
The terms of the so-called âpeace dealâ with the Islamic regime in Iran which the Trump administration intends to sign on Friday have provoked an epic fury of opposition from across the ideological spectrum, including from former Vice President Mike Pence.
âCalling for the United States and others to arrange for a $300 billion reconstruction fund, when the IRGC and radical Islamists continue to be at the helm in Iran, is deeply ill-advised,â Pence said. âAnd again, I believe it smacks of the kind of appeasement that we saw during the Obama years, the kind of appeasement that Joe Biden tried to accomplish and was ignored by the Iranians, and we rejected categorically during the first Trump administration.
Pence said that Trump âshould just simply stand firm, draw that red line, and if the Iranians wonât come to those fundamental terms that are in the interest of our security, Israelâs security, and the peace and stability of the region, then I think we ought to let the armed forces of the United States open the strait and eliminate the threat on our terms.â
Antisemitic Hate Crime News
On Tuesday, prosecutors charged Bruce Lion, a noted figure in Californiaâs raisin industry, with three felony charges after a series of antisemitic threats allegedly made since March against his neighbor, Rabbi Zushe Cunin.
In Zurich, prosecutors have filed charges against a teenager who allegedly declared his allegiance to the Islamic state before attacking a Jewish man with a knife and attempting to break into a synagogue with the internet of murdering Jews. The suspect was 15 at the time of the crime.
International Antisemitism News
In Germany, a report from the Federal Association of Departments for Research and Information on Antisemitism (RIAS) reveals that antisemitic acts reached a record high of 8,725 in 2025.
In the United Kingdom, the BBC reported on Tuesday that Jews in Gurnsey â one of the channel islands which has a population of 63,950 and 24 square miles â have described fear of identifying as Jewish in public. Ariel Levy said of her Star of David necklace that âyou almost make a horrible conscious decision that Iâm just not going to wear it today, especially when you donât know the crowds youâre around.â The island has a Jewish population of roughly 60 people.
In Belarus, the countryâs authoritarian President Aleksandr Lukashenko, a prominent ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, compared Israelâs war to defeat Hamas in Gaza to the Holocaust. Israelâs Foreign Ministry responded saying that âthe remarks made by the President of Belarus â a country that knows all too well the horrors of the Holocaust committed on its own soil â in his interview with Al Arabiya are unacceptable and deeply disturbing. Any comparison between the Holocaust of the Jewish people and Israelâs just war against terrorism must be unequivocally rejected.â
In Australia, police have begun an investigation after someone wrote antisemitic messages at a Gold Coast beach. Australia has some of the worldâs most aggressive penalties for hate speech with sentences reaching as high as seven years.
In Brazil on Monday, demonstrators staged an antisemitic protest outside an event presented by Major Rafael Rozenszajn, Portuguese-language spokesperson for the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). Protesters used Nazi flags and burned the flags of Israel and the United States.
In Canada, new research from the Association for Canadian Studies shows that 31% of Canadians believe that antisemitic beliefs in their country have grown more acceptable.
The study found that 22% of respondents agreed that âIsraelâs military actions in Gaza justify negative attitudes toward Jewish people in Canadaâ while 49% disagreed.
For Canadians aged 18-34 â the ages of the men arrested for allegedly planning the attack on the UFC White House fight night â 26% agreed.
United States Antisemitism News
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has announced an investigation into allegations of antisemitism at the American Psychological Association, following charges from Jewish and Israeli members who reported the tolerance or promotion of antisemitic ideas.
Rebecca Harris, litigation staff attorney at the Brandeis Center, said that âwe want to see the APA brought into compliance with federal civil rights laws.â
On Tuesday, the ADL announced the filing of a federal lawsuit against the Boulder Valley School District (BVSD) in Boulder, Colorado, alleging that the district failed to respond to a Jewish middle school student victimized by antisemitic bullying and violent abuse.
James Pasch, the ADLâs vice president for litigation, said in a statement that âthe record here is overwhelming: Written pleas from the studentsâ parents, formal school reports, and a police investigation all point to the conclusion that antisemitic harassment at Southern Hills Middle School was pervasive, escalating, and severe.â
The Woke Reich Neo-Fascist Watchlist:
Tucker Carlson
On Wednesday night, neo-fascist podcaster Tucker Carlson released an 84-minute video episode on Muskâs X platform, writing âthe Iran war seems to be ending, along with our uncritical support for Israel, and not a moment too soon. No wonder the neocons are hysterical.â
In the opening monologue, Carlson said regarding the text of the released Memorandum of Understanding, that âto get right to the point, you can see why neocons are upset. I mean, they have cause to be upset. Iâm not taking their side, just being honest here. Wow.â
Candace Owens
On Wednesday, antisemitic podcaster Candace Owens wrote on X that âno one could ever make me hate Russia after this experienceâ along with a heart, American flag, and Russia flag emojis.
Owens had reshared a post featuring a clip of her discussing an American veteran who went to Russia to receive treatment allegedly denied to him by the VA.
Nick Fuentes
Gen-Z Neo-Nazi podcaster Nick Fuentes has declared Trump has lost his war in Iran, in a clip spotlighted by left-wing activist group Media Matters for America:
Like I said at the very beginning, however, any way that you cut it, we lost. Any way that you cut it, whether itâs the worst version of it that Iran has said to their state broadcaster, or itâs the best version of it that we are talking about it on TV, we have lost the war. We are paying them to open up the Strait, which was already opened, but which they now have gained in the war in exchange for us not bombing them any longer. I donât know what else you call that other than a surrender on Iranâs terms.
Kanye West
Yesterday, USA Today reported that neo-Nazi rap artist Kanye West had now announced five concert dates in the coming weeks and months in America: June 26 and 28 in Tampa, July 4 in San Antonio, and Sept 3-4 in Chicago. The cheapest tickets start at $137.
Marjorie Taylor Greene
On Tuesday, Marjorie Taylor Greene, the former Georgia congresswoman with a long history of advocating antisemitic positions, announced the launch of her new show âLife with MTGâ which debuted on Wednesday morning.
Greene described the first episodeâs topic on X with the teaser âWhy are Americans leaving the U.S. for medical treatment? For the first episode of Life With MTG, I traveled to Mexico to explore medical tourism, rising healthcare costs, and stem cell therapies Americans canât access at home. Is our healthcare system failing the American people?â
JD Vance
One of the trends which progressives have begun to note in their media is the theme that the MAGA movement has chosen to blame Vice President JD Vance for the unpopular terms of the Iran âpeace deal.â
Media Matters highlighted that Fox News host Brian Kilmeade said on Wednesday âvery vague and concerning â All Iâm going to say the vice president was here and did a wonderful job on every outlet, including The View. But this is his deal. Itâs not the presidentâs deal. And itâs his deal and Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner together. I just hope they didnât let the president down. Because the president is putting a lot of stock in them. He canât do everything himself. I just hope they didnât let him down.â
On the âThe Daily Blastâ podcast from The New Republic, host Greg Sargent articulated a similar view.
âJD Vance is having a moment. Heâs selling his new book and he just appeared on The View, where the hosts worked him over pretty hard. In a telling exchange, Vance found himself defending Trump in the context of the Iran war in a way that will come back to bite him later.â Sargent said. âIndeed, there are several other signs that Trumpworld is setting up Vance to take the eventual fall on Iran in a number of different ways.â
Sargent explained that ânew leaks from inside the administration are making Trumpâs Iran deal look even worse, and theyâre also shedding light on what this shivving of Vance really entails.â
Steve Bannon
Media Matters is certainly doing a good job of highlighting the various right-wing figures who are expressing their anger about the Iran war. Thatâs Media Matterâs ideological objective - to further weaken the Right by highlighting divisions within it, and aiming to get those divisions launched further to Trump himself.
Hereâs them again highlighting someone else disagreeing with the war, commentator Eric Bolling appearing on far right organizer Steve Bannonâs podcast on Tuesday:
None of it sits good with me, Steve. I sent you a note this morning, we talked about a New York Times article saying hereâs the re-mapping of the global geo-political map. And I said, look, hereâs my take on it. I think Iran is the biggest winner of all of this. China is the second-biggest winner, because Iran is going to be made whole eventually. Theyâre going to pump oil again, aggressively, probably more â 300 billion will come their way for infrastructure. China is going to benefit from that oil.
Neutral, I would say â Europe is neutral.
Iâd say the biggest â I hate to say this. In this deal, the biggest loser is the United States and India. I mean, we were the ones who paid high oil prices. Gasoline prices are still $4.10 a gallon, and probably â our inflation is ripping because of it. We wonât be able to move interest rates down. So, I think we spent the money on the war. I donât see any recovery from that. So in essence, I think we lost the most here.
Thomas Massie
On Wednesday, Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) joined the chorus of cross-ideological condemnations of Trumpâs peace deal, writing on X that â$300 billion is 5 X as much as Congress spends on our roads & bridges annually. Iâm tired of winning.â
I would have thought Trump would be hiring or orchestrating these attacks himself (speaking of the Freedom 250 thing) since it would allow him to wave a bloody shirt and rally what remains of his base.