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Aaron Smith-Levin Confesses to Being an Antisemite, Extends His Religious Bigotry Beyond Scientology
A proud misogynist and violent bully, Aaron Smith-Levin has spent nearly a decade engaging in daily harassment of the Church of Scientology and its members.
But in a YouTube video on July 20, 2023, Smith-Levin came out as an antisemite as well, doubling down on his decision to join notorious Islamophobic, homophobic and anti-Jewish bigot Rick Wiles on an October 22, 2021 podcast.
Wiles—an antisemite with multiple pages on the Anti-Defamation League’s website cataloguing his history of hate speech—has insisted that “America has been Judaized,” “Judaism rules America,” “Our culture has been decimated ... by the synagogue of Satan,” and “Who’s the enemy of this Republic right now? Jewish Antifa ... They have to be crushed.... They’re destroying the Republic.”
“Don’t all evangelicals think the Jews killed Jesus?”
When Smith-Levin’s support of Rick Wiles recently resurfaced on social media, Smith-Levin took to YouTube to laugh about it and make the following antisemitic excuse: “Don’t all evangelicals think the Jews killed Jesus?”
Like Smith-Levin, Rick Wiles’ hate extends beyond one religion. Wiles has said the following, for example, about Islam: “The left is calling for gun control. What we need is Muslim control. We don’t need to confiscate guns, we need to confiscate Muslims. You’re not going to solve this problem until you round up the Muslims and ship them out of this country. End of discussion. Outlaw Islam. Make it an illegal religion. Don’t tell me it can’t be done. Pass a constitutional amendment that says we’re a Christian nation and Islam is illegal. Done. Get rid of it. Stamp it out before it destroys civilization.… Anyone who is a practicing Muslim is mentally ill.”
Smith-Levin’s support for Rick Wiles comes as a surprise to no one, considering that Smith-Levin spends his days promoting this exact same dehumanizing antireligious hate against Scientologists.
