Chapter 69: Identitarian

273      the keynote speaker  Marcus Bensmann et al., “Secret Plan Against Germany,” Correctiv, January 15, 2024, correctiv.org/en/latest-stories/2024/01/15/secret-plan-against-germany/.

273      “did not engage in political activism, did not seek to connect . . .”  Martin Sellner, X, December 21, 2024, 6:09 a.m., x.com/Martin_Sellner/status/1870426397048553532, archived at archive.today, February 9, 2026 capture, archive.ph/wip/EnOk2. For Sellner’s initial reaction to the Hanau attack, see Joe Keady, “Hatred Made Him Do It: The Tobias Rathjen Murders,” The Battleground, February 21, 2020, thebattleground.eu/2020/02/21/hatred-made-him-do-it/.

273      interacted with Brenton Tarrant  Katrin Bennhold, “Donation from New Zealand Attack Suspect Puts Spotlight on Europe’s Far Right,” New York Times, March 27, 2019, www.nytimes.com/2019/03/27/world/europe/new-zealand-attack-europe-far-right.html.

273      In 2018 . . . donated €1,500 euros to Sellner  Bennhold, “Donation From New Zealand Attack Suspect Puts Spotlight on Europe’s Far Right,” www.nytimes.com/2019/03/27/world/europe/new-zealand-attack-europe-far-right.html.

273      encouraged Tarrant to check out . . . YouTube videos  Bennhold, “Donation From New Zealand Attack Suspect Puts Spotlight on Europe’s Far Right,” www.nytimes.com/2019/03/27/world/europe/new-zealand-attack-europe-far-right.html.

273      reflected the title . . . “The Great Replacement” Bennhold, “Donation From New Zealand Attack Suspect Puts Spotlight on Europe’s Far Right,” www.nytimes.com/2019/03/27/world/europe/new-zealand-attack-europe-far-right.html.

273      the UK and the U.S. denied entry to Sellner Ben Quinn and Jason Wilson, “Anti-Islamic Extremist Permanently Excluded from Entering UK,” The Guardian, June 26, 2019, www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jun/26/anti-muslim-extremist-martin-sellner-permanently-excluded-from-entering-uk; and “Austrian Far-Right Extremist Refused US Entry,” Deutsche Welle (DW), March 28, 2019, www.dw.com/en/austrian-far-right-extremist-denied-us-travel-permit-after-christchurch-link/a-48107733.

273      investigated Sellner, raided his apartment . . .  Bennhold, “Donation from New Zealand Attack Suspect Puts Spotlight on Europe’s Far Right,” www.nytimes.com/2019/03/27/world/europe/new-zealand-attack-europe-far-right.html.

273      “If you take people’s right to debate away . . .”  Martin Sellner quoted in Bennhold, “Donation from New Zealand Attack Suspect Puts Spotlight on Europe’s Far Right,” www.nytimes.com/2019/03/27/world/europe/new-zealand-attack-europe-far-right.html.

273      “Then people might say, ‘Tarrant is right’”  Sellner quoted in Bennhold, “Donation from New Zealand Attack Suspect Puts Spotlight on Europe’s Far Right,” www.nytimes.com/2019/03/27/world/europe/new-zealand-attack-europe-far-right.html.

273      “Catholic American nationalist”  Brittany Sellner quoted in Josh Kelety, “An Alt-Right Figure Who Pushed the Pizzagate Conspiracy Theory Finds Allies Among Kootenai County Republicans,” Inlander, May 9, 2019, www.inlander.com/news/an-alt-right-figure-who-pushed-the-pizzagate-conspiracy-theory-finds-allies-among-kootenai-county-republicans-17585165.

273–274 her first political tweet . . . West’s support for Trump’s campaign  Ico Maly, "Metapolitical New Right Influencers: The Case of Brittany Pettibone" Social Sciences 9, no. 7 (July 2020), www.mdpi.com/2076-0760/9/7/113.

274     “an alt-right writer who pushes . . . of ‘white genocide’” Shane Bauer, “I Went Behind the Front Lines with the Far-Right Agitators Who Invaded Berkeley,” Mother Jones, April 18, 2017, www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/04/far-right-white-supremacists-berkeley-protests-antifa-trump/#correction.

274     authored a 2021 book  Brittany Sellner, Patriots Not Welcome (Gilroy, CA: Chrysanthalix Press, 2021). Find the library book at search.worldcat.org/title/1503765035?oclcNum=1503765035.

274     like “The War on Men”  Eviane Leidig, “From Incels to Tradwives: Understanding The Spectrum of Gender and Online Extremism,” Impakter, May 21, 2020, impakter.com/from-incels-to-tradwives-understanding-the-spectrum-of-gender-and-online-extremism/.

274     “These various ‘wars’ are often folded into one another” Michael Feola, The Rage of Replacement: Far Right Politics and Demographic Fear (Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2024), 136. To the library book at search.worldcat.org/title/1440045133.

274     “Each of these formulations reflects a single essential grievance . . .”  Feola, The Rage of Replacement, 136. Find the library book at search.worldcat.org/title/1440045133

274     “In a world of chosen gender identities . . .”  Pamela Paul, “Opinion: The Far Right and Far Left Agree on One Thing: Women Don’t Count,” New York Times, July 3, 2022, www.nytimes.com/2022/07/03/opinion/the-far-right-and-far-left-agree-on-one-thing-women-dont-count.html.

274     “Some might even call this kind of thing erasure”  Paul, “Opinion: The Far Right and Far Left Agree on One Thing,” www.nytimes.com/2022/07/03/opinion/the-far-right-and-far-left-agree-on-one-thing-women-dont-count.html.

274     has authored several books  Sam   Jones, “Martin Sellner: Austrian Extremist Stirs Up Political Storm in Germany,” Financial Times, January 19, 2024, www.ft.com/content/bbdf305d-0852-4c7c-8cb8-0ccb106ba812.

274     set to be published early the next year Martin Sellner, Remigration: ein Vorschlag (Schnellroda [Germany]: Verlag Antaios, 2024), available at archive.org/details/remigration-ein-vorschlag-martin-sellner/mode/2up; and Felix Bayer, “How the Trade Deals with the Book of a Right-Wing Extremist,” Der Spiegel, February 2, 2024, www.spiegel.de/kultur/remigration-von-martin-sellner-buch-des-rechtsextremen-toppt-amazon-charts-was-tut-der-konzern-a-fcc3c581-baab-4739-b579-563c6b4b2be4?sara_ref=re-xx-cp-sh, via Google Translate.

274     number one on Amazon’s . . . Bayer, “How Trade Deals with the Book of a Right-Wing Extremist,” www.spiegel.de/kultur/remigration-von-martin-sellner-buch-des-rechtsextremen-toppt-amazon-charts-was-tut-der-konzern-a-fcc3c581-baab-4739-b579-563c6b4b2be4?sara_ref=re-xx-cp-sh.

274     of 7.5 million asylum seekers and foreigners . . . “unassimilated” German citizens  Julia Klaus et al., “The Dangerous Plans of Martin Sellner,” ZDFheute, March 23, 2024, accessed via Wayback Machine, September 17, 2025 capture, web.archive.org/web/20250917091708/https://www.zdfheute.de/politik/deutschland/remigration-martin-sellner-afd-buch-einreiseverbot-100.html, via Google Translate.

274     suggested opening “homecoming centers” Klaus et al., “The Dangerous Plans of Martin Sellner,” web.archive.org/web/20250917091708/https://www.zdfheute.de/politik/deutschland/remigration-martin-sellner-afd-buch-einreiseverbot-100.html.

274     estimated . . . eighty-six Boeing flights . . . the majority of people of Afghan descent Klaus et al., “The Dangerous Plans of Martin Sellner,” web.archive.org/web/20250917091708/https://www.zdfheute.de/politik/deutschland/remigration-martin-sellner-afd-buch-einreiseverbot-100.html.

274     By 2040, only 2,500 “non-assimilated Afghans” . . .Martin Sellner quoted in Klaus et al., “The Dangerous Plans of Martin Sellner,” web.archive.org/web/20250917091708/https://www.zdfheute.de/politik/deutschland/remigration-martin-sellner-afd-buch-einreiseverbot-100.html.

274     aimed to remigrate anyone refusing . . . to White German culture Klaus et al., “The Dangerous Plans of Martin Sellner,” web.archive.org/web/20250917091708/https://www.zdfheute.de/politik/deutschland/remigration-martin-sellner-afd-buch-einreiseverbot-100.html.

274     have to take five-year “assimilation courses” . . . “assimilation contract” Martin Sellner quoted in Klaus et al., “The Dangerous Plans of Martin Sellner,” web.archive.org/web/20250917091708/https://www.zdfheute.de/politik/deutschland/remigration-martin-sellner-afd-buch-einreiseverbot-100.html.

274-275 more than one million Uighurs by 2022 Eva Dou and Erin Cunningham, “Who are the Uyghurs, and what’s happening to them in China?” Washington Post, May 24, 2022, www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/02/11/china-uighurs-genocide-xinjiang/. See also Ivan Watson and Ben Westcott, "Watched, judged, detained," CNN, February 2020, www.cnn.com/interactive/2020/02/asia/xinjiang-china-karakax-document-intl-hnk/.

275      one of the leaders of the growing “Identitarian” movement  Simon Cox and Anna Meisel, “Martin Sellner: The New Face of the Far Right in Europe,” BBC News, September 19, 2018, www.bbc.com/news/stories-45572411.

275      largely emerged out of the so-called New Right  Jason Wilson, “With Links to the Christchurch Attacker, What Is the Identitarian Movement?” The Guardian, March 27, 2019, www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/28/with-links-to-the-christchurch-attacker-what-is-the-identitarian-movement.

275      “attempted to repackage racist thought . . .” Wilson, “With Links to the Christchurch Attacker, What Is the Identitarian Movement?” www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/28/with-links-to-the-christchurch-attacker-what-is-the-identitarian-movement.

275      The pioneering figure . . . Alain de Benoist  Dana Kennedy, “The French Ideologues Who Inspired the Alt-Right,” Daily Beast, December 5, 2016, www.thedailybeast.com/the-french-ideologues-who-inspired-the-alt-right/.

275      founded . . . in 1968 Robert Zaretsky, “A United Europe Was Once a Racist, Far-Right Project,” Foreign Policy, March 7, 2017, foreignpolicy.com/2017/03/07/european-union-was-once-a-racist-far-right-project-national-front/; and Jean-Yves Camus and Nicolas Lebourg, Far-Right Politics in Europe, trans. Jane Marie Todd (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press, 2017), 43. Find the library book at search.worldcat.org/title/959648415.

275      short for. . . or Research and Study Group for European Civilization Camus and Nicolas Lebourg, Far-Right Politics in Europe, 43. Find the library book at search.worldcat.org/title/959648415.

275      identify as the birthplace of Western civilization Historian Robert Zaretsky writes, “Not surprisingly, given his institution’s acronym, [de] Benoist locates the proper European heritage in ancient (and pagan) Greece. While he portrays this as a cultural legacy, racism is never far from the surface. As the scholar Anne-Marie Duranton-Crabol observes, GRECE (if not ancient Greece) tends to ‘exalt racial values, which presuppose racial differences.’” Zaretsky, “A United Europe Was Once a Racist, Far-Right Project,” foreignpolicy.com/2017/03/07/european-union-was-once-a-racist-far-right-project-national-front/.

275      envisioned a segregated world . . . separated and unequal In the 1960s, Alain de Benoist wrote in support of apartheid in South Africa and segregation in the United States. Scholar J. G. Shields writes that after a visit to South Africa, de Benoist, along with another columnist for Europe-Action, published Vérité pour l’Afrique du Sud (Truth on Behalf of South Africa), “vigorously defending apartheid and the racist rationale sustaining it.” Similarly, following a trip to the United States, de Benoist “deplored the suppression of racial segregation there, anticipating that a de facto segregation would nonetheless continue to prevail beyond the law.” J. G. Shields, The Extreme Right in France: From Pétain to Le Pen (Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 2007), 121. Find the library book at search.worldcat.org/title/63703942.

275      “What I here call the ‘right,’ purely by convention . . ."  Alain de Benoist, Vu de droite (Seen from the right), quoted in Camus and Lebourg, Far-Right Politics in Europe, 43. Find the library book at search.worldcat.org/title/959648415.

275      “and the gradual homogenization of the world, advocated . . .”  de Benoist, Vu de droite (Seen from the right), quoted in Camus and Lebourg, Far-Right Politics in Europe, 43. Find the library book at search.worldcat.org/title/959648415.

275      developed in the United States, Australia, Great Britain, and New Zealand  Camus and Lebourg, Far-Right Politics in Europe, 122. Find the library book at search.worldcat.org/title/959648415.

275      first used the English term “New Right” . . . his 1964 campaign  Camus and Lebourg, Far-Right Politics in Europe, 122. Find the library book at search.worldcat.org/title/959648415.

275      One month after . . . emerged  “Exactly one month after Goldwater had lost [conservative public relations operative Marvin] Liebman and [Young Americans for Freedom chair Robert] Bauman had the legal papers drawn up for the founding of the ACU [American Conservative Union] . . .Two weeks later eight men and one woman gathered at the Statler-Hilton Hotel in Washington to launch the operation.” Jonathan M. Schoenwald, A Time for Choosing: The Rise of Modern American Conservatism (New York: Oxford University Press, 2002), 234. Find the first edition at a library near you at search.worldcat.org/title/787533784.