Occidental Observer
Type of site | White nationalist, anti-Semitic online cultural magazine |
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| Available in | English |
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| Editor | Kevin B. MacDonald |
| Parent | The Occidental Quarterly |
| URL | www |
| Launched | October 2007 |
| Current status | active |
| Part of a series on |
| Antisemitism |
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The Occidental Observer is an American
Kevin B. MacDonald, a retired American professor of evolutionary psychology, is its editor.[2][3] It is an offshoot of The Occidental Quarterly.[4]
Racist and anti-Semitic content
The
Jewish phenomenon", and a September 12, 2008 article titled "The Washington Post's Willing Executioner?" which, according to the ADL, "argued that that Jews want to exterminate American whites."[1]
A 2015 article in The New York Times examining the use of websites by white supremacists said that "Several organizations — the National Policy Institute, American Renaissance, the Charles Martel Society and its website The Occidental Observer — try to take a more highbrow approach, couching white nationalist arguments as academic commentary on black inferiority, the immigration threat to whites and other racial issues."[6]
The Occidental Observer's
ethnic group.[7] Its editor, MacDonald, is known for asserting that "Jews engage in an evolutionary strategy that enhances their ability to outcompete others for resources." He has also regularly argued that Jews "are a hostile elite in American society" who seek to undermine "traditional European roots of American society by fostering measures that have led to increased nonwhite immigration into the United States."[8]
The website has praised the
Spartans' ideals of racial superiority and eugenics.[9] The publication also posts transphobic content.[10]
Contributors
- Virginia Abernethy
- Alain de Benoist
- Kevin DeAnna
- James Edwards
- Drew Fraser
- Richard Hanania, under the pseudonym "Richard Hoste"
- Alex Kurtagić
- Kevin Lamb
- Kevin B. MacDonald
- Richard McCulloch
- Merlin Miller
- Richard B. Spencer
- Tomislav Sunić
- Martin Webster
See also
References
- ^ a b c "The Occidental Observer: Online Anti-Semitism's New Intellectual Voice". Anti-Defamation League. Archived from the original on February 12, 2011. Retrieved February 20, 2011.
- ^ MacDonald, Kevin (February 20, 2010). "A New Webzine: Introducing The Occidental Observer". Occidental Observer. Archived from the original on February 25, 2011. Retrieved February 20, 2011.
- ^ "Kevin MacDonald" (PDF). Anti-Defamation League. November 2013. Retrieved March 6, 2020.
- ISBN 978-0-253-01869-4.
- ISBN 978-1-78535-544-8.
- ^ Wines, Michael; Saul, Stephanie (July 5, 2015). "White Supremacists Extend Their Reach Through Websites". The New York Times. Retrieved February 2, 2016.
- ISBN 978-1-4408-5949-6.
- ISBN 978-1-4408-5275-6.
- ISBN 978-981-16-0247-4.
- ^ Greenesmith, Heron (April 2021). "Antisemitism Meets Transphobia". Progressive. 85 (2): 40–41 – via EBSCOhost.