Jews and Muslims in the White Supremacist Conspiratorial Imagination By Ron Hirschbein and Amin Asfari Routledge, 105 pages [Review essay by Abba A. Solomon, https://hollywoodprogressive.com/literature/white-supremacist-conspiratorial-imagination] Peggy Maley: Hey Johnny, what are you rebelling against? Marlon Brando: Whadda you got? –The Wild One (1953) FIRST, the surprising good news. In the main, they don’t hate Jews and Muslims. They fear grotesque caricatures, characters in a drama. What is implicit in the title of this book could have been explicit, because now the internet is conduit for everything: Jews and Muslims in the White Supremacist Conspiratorial ONLINE Imagination If this book were written 30 years ago, its research would be based on variably printed newsletters and literature from assorted groups. Now it draws from social apps and websites, because online is where we live now. Exchanges in the white supremacist world that would have required days to complete now take seconds, and fantasies of genocidal mayhem have a contagious velocity and social cachet. This book describes how online conspiratorial imagination leaks into the real world in violence. This survey by two academic researchers examines digital “next-gen” hate, and how it has transmuted traditional fears of Jews and Muslims into something new in tenor and practice. The book begins with chapters reviewing classical anti-Jewish conspiracy theories, and the evolution of Muslim (often conflated with Arab) images in Western culture. It describes the explosive growth of an “industry” defining Islam as a worldwide conspiracy after the 9/11 attack in New York, replacing the classical Red menace – an industry promoting the idea that every Muslim family, mosque, and community in the “Christian” world is part of a long-term Muslim Brotherhood plot to impose the Quran and “sharia law.” Then, it describes the qualities of the white supremacist world online, finding more an international world frat house, skewing youthful, than a coherent political movement. The book discusses the communications and history of three notorious murderers of Jews or Muslims: ● a man who slaughtered worshipers in a synagogue in Pittsburgh October 2018, ● a man convicted of shooting worshipers in a synagogue and setting fire to a mosque in southern California April 2919, ● and a man who killed many worshipers in two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, while livestreaming the crimes on Facebook March 2019. All of these men were steeped in the particular online world of anxiety of “white” Western Civilization under attack by Jews and Muslims – Muslims increasing their numbers to bring countries to “Islamic rule,” and Jews craftily enabling immigration from the Third World to extinguish white majorities.