ABSTRACT

This chapter explores the various views within the broad alternative right towards Jews, antisemitism, and the Holocaust. It looks at those elements of the more moderate “alt-lite” who profess to reject antisemitism, through to the extreme hard end of the movement which denies the Holocaust. Heavily inflected by the internet culture in which many within the alt-right emerged – a culture that venerates and encourages offense – the alt-right’s antisemitism is not unique in form but it is new in style. However, whether it is “humorous” antisemitic memes, the shocking casualness of their approach to the Holocaust or the consciously extreme language of sites like the Daily Stormer, the alt-right’s antisemitism is merely old wine in new bottles.