The House Homeland Security Committee held a hearing Monday on rising extremism in New Jersey and across the U.S., as the racist replacement theory spreads. - thereidout Blog
” in 2017 before the deadly Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, which Torres rightly called an “odious reference to the ‘great replacement theory.’” He also noted the 2018 massacre at a Pittsburgh synagogue, in which a gunman said to be motivated by the replacement theory killed 11 people and injured six others in the deadliest act of antisemitism in U.S. history. The suspect, Robert Bowers, has pleaded not guilty and is awaiting trial.
Lorie Doran, a Department of Homeland Security official based in New Jersey, said that her agency had identified “homegrown violent extremists” and “white, racially motivated extremists” as high-level threats. But she emphasized that antisemitism is espoused across racial lines and added that her office is concerned with “managing potential threats of targeted violence regardless of motive.”
Still, she and other witnesses testified that antisemitism as a central political motivation was most likely to be found in white nationalist groups, which frequently target Jews and other ethnic or racial minorities. Scott Richman, the ADL’s regional director for New York and New Jersey, drew attention to overtly antisemitic groups with links to New Jersey, such as the hate group
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