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But Hatewatch tied Balch to a Twitter account that also indicates he was immersed in white supremacist propaganda prior to traveling to Kenosha. Balch published to Twitter on Feb. 3, 2017 a link to a website that featured a video of explicit Nazi propaganda, as demonstrated here in these two archives: 1 and 2. The video Balch’s account linked to, “Truth Will Triumph: Adolf Hitler,” circulated on fringe white supremacist websites around the time he posted it. The video relies heavily on footage of Hitler speeches. White supremacists embedded that video within the domain “antifascism.org,” and employed carefully phrased and misleading content, enabling it to be circulated without being easily detected as Nazi propaganda. White nationalist Richard Spencer is among the people who shared it to Twitter, one day earlier than Balch did.
Balch’s Twitter account, which he hasn't tweeted from since December 2018, also follows and has retweeted Spencer. It also tweeted at Lauren Southern on the same day he shared the link to the Hitler video. Southern is a Canadian woman who frequently promotes the so-called great replacement conspiracy theory, which suggests that white people are being systematically replaced by non-white people in Western countries. Accused and convicted white supremacist terrorists – like the New Zealand mosque shooter – who adhere to this theory have murdered scores of people in recent years in its name.
Balch demonstrated an awareness of extreme far-right, antisemitic conspiracy theories on Twitter too. He referred to himself as a “goy” in one tweet. Goy is a Jewish name for a non-Jewish person, and it’s sometimes used by white supremacists ironically to signal their acceptance of those conspiracy theories. Balch wrote his “goy” tweet as one of a series of tweets directed at a man named Daniel Cohen, who describes himself in his Twitter bio as a rabbi. Balch appeared to focus his commentary at Cohen on that man’s views urging for gun control. At one point in the Nazi propaganda video Balch drove traffic to, the subtitles proclaim, “Beyond Europe and the whole world, the international Jewry will be recognized as its entire demonic threat,” before cutting away to an image of Jewish billionaire philanthropist George Soros. Soros is at the center of numerous antisemitic conspiracy theories peddled by far-right extremists.
Balch also shared a meme on Twitter that proclaimed, “Commies Can’t Punch You with a Hole in their Head. ” The meme, which Balch posted March 27, 2018, featured an illustration of a heavily armed man holding a hat with a blood soaked bullet hole in it.
