Men behind Tennessee’s Christian nationalist settlement: ‘This country belongs to Jesus,’ not the Jews
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GAINESBORO, Tenn. (WTVF) — Here, in a small red-brick office building purchased by the developers trying to build a Christian nationalist community in rural Jackson County, two men are also attempting to build a right-wing podcasting business.
As NewsChannel 5 previously revealed, Pastor Andrew Isker and his sidekick C.Jay Engel want to “repeal the 20th Century.” They want to go back to America as it existed before the civil rights movement. They want to take away the rights of women to vote. And they are prepared to accept a Protestant dictator to achieve their goals.
But a recent guest on their Contra Mundum podcast — which they bill as the “Number One Christian Nationalist Podcast in the World” — also highlights their willingness to flirt with ideas that critics call antisemitic and with characters who engage in Holocaust denial.
Isker himself believes Jews should be treated as second-class citizens because, as he puts it, “this country belongs to Jesus.”
“We deny accusations of antisemitism and see them as evidence that there is no actual story here, but merely the obsession of an activist journalist in the midst of Legacy Media’s decline,” Isker and Engel responded in a written statement.
Still, critics say that recent podcast and other public pronouncements by the pair suggest otherwise.
“Today, we will be talking about one of the great American heroes of the 20th Century, Charles Lindbergh,” Engel declared at the beginning of a recent show that launched a subscription service for their Contra Mundum podcast.
A part of the America First movement of the 1930s, the famed aviator opposed U.S. entry into Europe’s war against Adolf Hitler. Lindbergh faced public backlash after he blamed Jews and what he saw as Jewish-controlled media for pushing the nation into war.
Isker and Engel’s guest defending Lindbergh, American technology entrepreneur Ron Unz, runs a controversial website that publishes often-vile white supremacist and antisemitic screeds, including articles mocking the murder of millions of Jews at the hands of the Nazis.
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