Malkin’s firing from Young America’s Foundation marks the latest battle between supporters of Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes and more establishment conservative figures.
A conservative group cut ties with right-wing columnist Michelle Malkin on Sunday over her support for an anti-Semitic internet personality, ramping up a growing conservative civil war centered on college campuses.
Malkin’s firing from Young America’s Foundation, whose speaker’s bureau had booked Malkin for speeches across the country for the past 17 years, marks the latest battle between supporters of Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes and more establishment conservative figures.
“Michelle Malkin in no longer part of YAF’s campus lecture program,” a YAF spokesman said in an email to The Daily Beast.
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Since October, Fuentes’s fans have been showing up at conservative college speeches and heckling speakers booked by YAF and another, rival conservative group, Turning Point USA.
The alt-right activists, who call themselves “groypers” in a nod to a meme about an obese toad similar to Pepe the Frog, typically ask the speakers questions about United States aid to Israel and immigration in an attempt to push their racist and anti-Semitic beliefs into more mainstream conservatism. On Nov. 10, the activists booed Donald Trump Jr. at a Turning Point event after organizers refused to hold a Q&A.
Right-wing figures like former Fox News host and Trump campaign adviser Kimberly Guilfoyle and podcaster Ben Shapiro have slammed the activists, with Shapiro highlighting Fuentes’s history of bigoted remarks in a recent speech. Among other things, Fuentes marched in the 2017 “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, and praised what he called a “tidal wave of white identity” after the rally. Fuentes has also used his internet video show, America First, to deny the Holocaust, and claimed that segregation was “better.”
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Malkin has praised Fuentes and his fans, calling on establishment conservatives to engage with them. In a speech last week, Malkin called Fuentes “one of the New Right leaders.” In another, she praised Fuentes fans and called their conservative critics “cringe.” She has also frequently echoed their talking points calling for further restricting legal immigration, claiming that continued immigration will doom the Republican Party.
“We’re the majority in this room, and we’re the majority in this country,” Malkin said at a Thursday speech at UCLA organized by YAF.
Malkin’s praise for Fuentes appears to have been too much for YAF, which sent a tweet distancing themselves from Malkin on Sunday without mentioning her by name.
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Malkin shot back on Twitter, calling YAF the “Keepers of the Gate” and calling Fuentes’s activists “patriotic.”
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NEW: A conservative group has fired Michelle Malkin over her support for Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes. https://t.co/L8uUCp7t00
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) November 18, 2019
Good to see YAF has cut ties. Conservatives have to send a strong message that people who defend and try to normalize open bigots have no place among mainstream conservatives.
We didn't spend years fighting liberal smears to now see them made accurate.https://t.co/YGinCSf0bj
— (((AG))) (@AG_Conservative) November 18, 2019
This is the person who Michelle Malkin is openly defending against criticism and identifying as "patriotic" and a "truth-teller".
This really isn't complicated. https://t.co/1MA8pRZQDv
— (((AG))) (@AG_Conservative) November 18, 2019
There is no room in mainstream conservatism or at YAF for holocaust deniers, white nationalists, street brawlers, or racists.
Our full statement below: pic.twitter.com/b5EB7P53v3
— YAF (@yaf) November 17, 2019
So here @michellemalkin says I was either lying or defaming her by saying she covers for anti-Semites. Three days earlier, she had refused to disavow a Holocaust denier she says is a leader of the new right. https://t.co/S48LkukhaM
Just thought I'd clear that up. pic.twitter.com/eQJ8gPNCUu— Jonah Goldberg (@JonahDispatch) November 16, 2019
YAF released a rather tame statement denouncing "holocaust deniers, white nationalists, street brawlers, or racists"
The fact that Michelle Malkin is offended by this statement tells you everything you need to know about who she is and what she chooses to defend nowadays. https://t.co/6wc0DgulPV
— (((AG))) (@AG_Conservative) November 17, 2019
Michelle is not very bright. Seems to me there is a whole bunch of unsavory types who call themselves conservatives these days. The term “conservative” has been redefined to include Trump supporters and extremist groups like the KKK, Holocaust deniers and white nationalists. Michelle has made a bad choice there and like the rest of the phony conservatives, she will share in their ultimate destruction.
Matt is correct. They use slogans like “America first” to get conservatives to sympathize with them. But after personally dealing with them, it’s pretty obvious they are vehement racists, anti-semites & ethnic-nationalists.
Conservatives need to know the difference. https://t.co/9PHwWumnU0
— Dan Crenshaw (@DanCrenshawTX) November 19, 2019
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