Nazi infiltrators lurk at Democratic National Convention protests

CHICAGO — While hundreds of hard left, pro-Palestine activists faced off against Chicago police officers in riot gear outside the Israeli consulate on Tuesday night, agents of chaos lurked nearby. The protest, organized by a group called Behind Enemy Lines — a militant alternative to the more moderate Coalition to March on the DNC — named the protest outside the Israeli consulate “Make it great like ’68.” The term is a direct nod to the troubled legacy of the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago, when street violence marred the city and doomed the Democratic Party’s prospects ahead of that year’s general election. “We’re here to make it great like ’68,” one of the protest leaders shouted, as rows of Chicago police flanked the protesters at either end of the 500 block of Madison Street. Get AIDS and die!” Siegel explained to a reporter that her presence at the protest was meant as a response to both the pro-Palestine protesters’ insistence that Americans care about the suffering in Gaza and a “globalist, interventionist agenda” that sustains U.S. support for Israel. They’re ANTI-AMERICA.” Making the issue of Nazi provocateurs even more murky, some Nazis have claimed that Siegel is a Jew, notwithstanding the fact that her sign on Monday included the invective, ‘F— off Jews.” The banner that Siegel displayed promoting the false Great Replacement conspiracy theory included an address for a Telegram channel of a white supremacist group that calls itself “White Lives Matter.” On Wednesday morning, the white supremacist group disavowed Siegel.