White nationalism

Afrikaner nationalism

Afrikaner nationalism (Afrikaans: Afrikanernasionalisme) is widely considered a modern example of White nationalism. It is an ethnonationalist ideology originated in 19th-century South Africa among a European ethnic group called the Afrikaners, who descended from mainly Dutch settlers.^[5]

Thumb — A sign in Durban stating that the beach is reserved for Whites only under section 37 of the Durban beach by-laws. The languages are English, Afrikaans and Zulu, the language of Black South Africans the Durban area.

Idea

Afrikaner nationalism is the idea that Afrikaners are the chosen people and that Afrikaners who speak their language should unite to fight off foreign influences from Jews, British-descended English-speaking settlers of South Africa, Black people and Indian people.^[5]

Proponents

A major proponent of the ideology was the secret group Broederbond and the National Party (NP) that ruled the country from 1948 to 1994.^[6] Other groups that supported the Afrikaner nationalist ideology included but not limited to the Federation of Afrikaans Cultural Organisations (Federasie van Afrikaanse Kultuurvereniginge , FAK), the Institute for Christian National Education (NE) and the White Workers' Protection Association (WWPA).^[7]

Academic views

The historian T. Dunbar Moodie described Afrikaner nationalism as a type of civil religion that had combined the history of the Afrikaners, their language and Afrikaner Calvinism as key symbols.^[source?]

Islamism

1960s

In the 1960s, White nationalist groups partnered with Elijah Muhammad, then the leader of the influential^[8] American Islamist group Nation of Islam (NOI), due to their mutual support for racial separatism.^[9] Elijah worked with the KKK to buy farmland in the Deep South with a view to building Black-only colonies,^[9] one of which was founded as the Temple Farms, now called the Muhammad Farms, in Terrel County, Georgia.^[9]

In the following 10 years, Elijah received huge funding from White supremacist Texas oil baron H. L. Hunt, which was used by Elijah to build luxurious homes for his own family.^[9] George Lincoln Rockwell, American Nazi Party's founder, praised Elijah Muhammad as "the Hitler of the Black man".^[9]

Prominent Black American activist Malcolm X was also an NOI member until March 8, 1964.^[10] Malcolm X had made a series of antisemitic speeches,^[11] which promoted the The Protocols of the Elders of Zion among Ivy League-based academics and Black Americans.^[11] X accused Jews of being "bloodsuckers [...] perfecting the modern evil of neocolonialism".^[11]

X also engaged in Holocaust denial^[12] by blaming Jews for having "brought it upon themselves", based on his distorted view of certain events.^[11] In 1961, X spoke at an NOI rally along with George Lincoln Rockwell, the leader of the American Nazi Party, who claimed that Black nationalism and White supremacy shared a common vision.^[13]

1970s

Elijah Muhammad passed away in 1975.^[9] Louis Farrakhan succeeded him as the leader of the NOI.^[9]^[14]

1980s

In September 1984, former KKK member Tom Metzger^[15] donated $100 to Farrakhan's NOI after being impressed by his antisemitic rhetoric at a Los Angeles event.^[14]^[16] The donation was followed by Metzger's gathering of 200 White supremacists to pledge support for Farrakhan's NOI.^[11]^[16]

1990s

In 1995, Farrakhan repeated the common White nationalist Holocaust deniers' claim that the Jews caused the Holocaust themselves^[17]^[18] by alleging that "German Jews financed Hitler right here in America [...] International bankers financed Hitler and poor Jews died while big Jews were at the root of what you call the Holocaust".^[19] In October, he mobilized 440,000 men to attend the Million Man March in Washington, D.C.,^[20] the tenth-largest march in American history,^[20]^[21] when he called himself "a prophet sent by God to show America its evil".^[22]

2000s

David Duke, the former KKK leader, also has deep connections with Islamist groups, especially the Iranian regime. On December 11 – 13, 2006, Duke attended a Holocaust-denying conference in Iran upon invitation from the Iranian regime,^[23] when he repeated the common Islamist rhetoric of "Zionists weaponizing the Holocaust to deny the rights of the Palestinians" and engaged in Holocaust denial by claiming that "[T]he Holocaust [...] is the pillar of Zionist imperialism, Zionist aggression, Zionist terror and Zionist murder."^[23] He was one of the 70 participants of the conference.^[23]

2010s

On September 11, 2012, Duke was interviewed by the Iranian state television Press TV, during which he alleged that "the Jews created the 9/11 attack and Iraq War in the media, the government and international finance".^[24] He repeated the claim in another Press TV interview in 2013,^[24] insisting that "Jews' control of the U.S. is the world's greatest single problem"^[24] – a claim made by Henry Ford in the 1920s and later adopted by Adolf Hitler to justify WWII and the Holocaust.^[25]

2020s

In June 2024, Duke attended a pro-Palestine event along with radical traditionalist Catholics Nick Fuentes^[26] and Jake Shields,^[27] during which they preached to Muslim attendees about the following:^[27]

The "Jews plan to set up 'greater Israel' by war, revolution and subterfuge"
Muslims and White nationalists share the same fight against "Jewish supremacy"
The "Jews are genociding Palestinians in Gaza just as they are genociding White people in America"

Meanwhile, Goyim Defense League (GDL), one of the most active KKK-allied American White nationalist groups as of February 2025, which regularly denies the Holocaust and harasses American Jews by holding violent marches and dropping antisemitic flyers over Jewish neighborhoods,^[28] supports the Islamist groups Hamas, Houthis, Hezbollah and the Iranian regime.^[29]^[30] The GDL celebrated the October 7 massacre in 2023 during a live episode:^[29]

Come on guys, it's time to dance! Get those Jews! [...] Let's go Lebanon, Iran! Wipe Israel off the map!

Then, GDL members attended pro-Palestine events to recruit new followers and adopted anti-Zionist rhetoric to expand their influence.^[29]^[30] While some critics expressed confusion over this,^[29] often due to the popular perception that White nationalists are anti-Muslim,^[29] it is not a historical anomaly. Collaboration between Nazis and Islamists happened during the Holocaust^[31]^[32] and in post-war America,^[9]^[33] despite the relative lack of coverage in history textbooks.^[34] Just as the GDL, the Traditionalist Worker Party (TWP) – a White nationalist party seeking to build a "national socialist" ethno-state for White people^[35] – endorsed the October 7 massacre by adopting the anti-Zionist Islamist rhetoric in their antisemitic propaganda:^[29]

[The attack was ... ] Breaking out of a concentration camp [. ...] solidarity with the Palestinian [. ...] Jews are welcome [. ... if they] cease and desist their genocidal campaigns. Free Palestine.

Meanwhile, the White nationalist group National Socialist Front (NSF) Florida, also known as the Natsoc Florida,^[36] took a step further by selling T-shirts that featured Hamas paragliders and rifles alongside the slogan "F*** Israel" – a popular image among Islamists since October 7, 2023.^[29]

White nationalism

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History

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