(Jewish Group) Antisemitic Troll Tries to Infiltrate Idaho School Board

David Reilly has already been disavowed by one school district. In August 2017, Pennsylvania’s Berwick School District cut ties with a radio station where Reilly worked after Reilly attended a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.

In the ensuing years, Reilly tweeted that women’s voting rights were “a mistake,” that women should not be allowed on social media, that more Americans should believe antisemitic stereotypes, that “Judaism is the religion of anti-Christ,” and that “all Jews are dangerous.”

Now Reilly is running for school board in Idaho—this time, with backing from a local GOP that doesn’t seem to mind his tweets.

Reilly’s candidacy for the Post Falls school board was first reported last week, by the website Eyes On The Right. Reilly, the site noted, is a longtime fixture of the far right. In 2017, while working for a Pennsylvania radio station that his father owned, he attended the deadly Unite The Right rally in Charlottesville.

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Later that month, he shared an article that claimed 61 percent of Americans agreed with at least one antisemitic stereotype. “Good news! Let’s get those numbers up!” he tweeted. When Poland announced its withdrawal from a Holocaust event in January 2020, Reilly expressed his approval (“Poland FTW”), and when he was questioned again about his attendance at Unite The Right, he claimed that criticizing his presence alongside white supremacists was inherently Jewish behavior (“the idea that one can be contaminated by association is Jewish,” he wrote).

Reilly also tweeted two pictures of billboards, which had been doctored to read “when Jews hold power they abuse it” and “all Jews are dangerous,” and promoted conspiracy theories about “Jewish subversion.” “Judaism is the religion of anti-Christ,” he tweeted at one point in February 2020.

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