Identitarian Leader Martin Sellner and Violent Italian Neo-Nazi Guido Taietti Scheduled to Appear at American White Supremacist Conference

Notorious racist Jared Taylor is inviting two special guests to his annual November gathering. One of Europe’s most notorious advocates for ethnic cleansing, Martin Sellner and violent neo-Nazi Guido Taietti are scheduled to speak at this year’s white supremacist American Renaissance (AmRen) Conference at the Montgomery Bell Inn and Conference Center near Nashville, Tennessee from November 15-17, 2024. Both speakers have clear criminal histories, including acts of moral turpitude which seemingly would put into question their eligibility to be admitted into the United States. The AmRen conference they are planning to attend is a gathering of prominent eugenicists, white nationalists, and other extreme far-right figures that has been organized by Jared Taylor for the past 30 years. Taylor, who has fostered ties between disgraced eugenicists, members of the racist ‘Alt-Right,’ and extreme far-right leaders from Europe, is an influential figure in the far-right scene in the United States and abroad and appeared as one of the most influential white nationalist individuals in the transnational far-right network in a recent report published by the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism (GPAHE). Sellner, arguably the most prominent leader within the European Identitarian movement, will be traveling to the U.S. to deliver a lecture titled “Remigration — A Hope for Europe,” expounding on the theory that involves mass deportation of migrants and ethnic minorities back to their supposed “home countries.” Remigration has long been purported by Identitarians and their allies, even political parties like Alternative Für Deutschland (Alternative for Germany, AfD), which is under surveillance by the German authorities, as a “solution” to the apparent “Great Replacement” of white people in European countries. The “Great Replacement” conspiracy theory alleges a conspiracy to “replace” the “native” European population of Western countries with non-white migrants. Believers in the “Great Replacement” have engaged in serious and targeted mass violence. American Renaissance is no stranger to the idea of “remigration,” as it recently celebrated the mainstreaming of the term, calling it a “necessary” policy “if the West is to be saved.” Sellner’s presence at the conference is concerning for a plethora of reasons. He once belonged to a neo-Nazi group called “Stolz und Frei” (Proud and Free), and was mentored by Gottfried Küssel, who was imprisoned twice in Austria for “Nazi revivalism.” In 2006, Sellner admitted to sticking a swastika poster on a synagogue in Baden bei Wien, Austria, and was mandated to community service as penalty. His rise to fame came during his time as the de-facto leader and founder of Identitäre Bewegung Österreich (Identitarian Movement Austria, IBÖ), part of the transnational white nationalist movement Generation Identity (GI), until he announced his “retirement” from IB in February 2023, although he is still active on the scene and described as a spokesperson. (Sellner claimed that he would concentrate on the “information war” instead).  He is a relentless propagator of the Great Replacement conspiracy theory and uses this racist framework as the basis for his activism. Consistent with the conspiracy theory, Sellner and GI focus primarily on the baseless notion of “Islamization,” the idea that Muslims are taking over the culture of traditionally “white” countries, and purports that all non-white and non-Christian citizens, migrants, or residents should be remigrated.  In 2017, Sellner fired two shots at an alleged attacker at a metro station in Vienna, apparently acting in “self-defense.” He was subsequently banned from possessing weapons in Austria. Sellner most infamously received a nearly $1,700 donation from the Christchurch mass murderer in 2018. The killer also donated money to two other GI branches in France. Sellner and the shooter were reported to have exchanged emails, and even invited each other to visit their home countries. Generation Identity symbols have been banned in Austria.

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