The head of Trump’s antisemitism task force just re-posted two antisemitic X accounts

Leo Terrell, the Department of Justice lawyer who heads the Federal Task Force to Combat Antisemitism, has made multiple appearances on the network and other conservative outlets to unapologetically press the Trump administration’s case for deporting Columbia University graduate Mahmoud Khalil and for yanking federal funding from the university. First, on Wednesday, Terrell re-posted a comment by Patrick Casey, the former leader of the now-defunct white nationalist group Identity Evropa, whose members chanted, “Jews will not replace us,” during the violent 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Va. Casey’s post nested a video of President Trump calling Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer “a Palestinian.” Trump’s comment has drawn condemnation from both Muslim and Jewish groups for using the word “Palestinian” as a racial slur. Stop Antisemitism re-shared Terrell’s Feb. 28 post, adding that the group “stands ready to support the Justice Department’s Task Force to Combat Antisemitism.” They added, “American Jews appreciate the ongoing efforts to crush this violent hate at its root,” tagging Terrell at the end of the post. As a basis for the designation, the watchdog group says that Act for America “pushes wild anti-Muslim conspiracy theories, denigrates American Muslims, and sows fear about Islam in the United States.” Gabriel wrote in her 2008 book, They Must Be Stopped, that “the portent behind the terrorist attacks is the purest form of what the Prophet Mohammed created,” adding that the ideology behind Islamic extremism is “not radical Islam; it’s what Islam is at its core.” Around the same time, according to the SPLC, Gabriel said during a presentation at the Department of Defense’s Joint Forces Staff College that a “practicing Muslim who believes the word of the Koran to be the word of Allah… who goes to mosque and prays every Friday, who prays five times a day — this practicing Muslim, who believes in the teachings of the Koran, cannot be a loyal citizen of the United States.” Meanwhile, the Hodgetwins have hosted several white supremacist guests, including former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke, Nick Fuentes and Stew Peters. Terrell went on to disparage Khalil, who was arrested by U.S. Immigration Customs & Enforcement while his green card was revoked based on a State Department finding that his activities in the country “would have potentially serious adverse foreign policy consequences for the United States.” “If this guy, when he was applying for a green card or visa said, ‘I support Hamas, I want to disrupt Columbia University, and I’m going to make it impossible for Jewish Americans to get an education at Columbia, this guy would have never gotten a green card or student visa,” Terrell said.