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| Available in | English |
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| Headquarters | United States |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Owner | New Century Foundation |
| Created by | Jared Taylor |
| Founder | Jared Taylor |
| Editor | Jared Taylor |
| Services | Online magazine,conferences |
| URL | amren |
| Launched | November 1990; 34 years ago (1990-11) |
American Renaissance (AR orAmRen) is awhite supremacist website and former monthly magazine publication founded and edited byJared Taylor.[1][2][3][4] It is published by theNew Century Foundation.
Since the magazine's first issue in 1990, it has become linked to various white supremacist people and organizations. It hosted conferences attended byneo-Nazis andwhite nationalists. Starting in 2017, the magazine and Taylor's accounts were suspended by multiple social media platforms. TheSouthern Poverty Law Center listed American Renaissance as a "white nationalist hate group".
The magazine and the New Century Foundation were established byJared Taylor; the first issue ofAmerican Renaissance was published in November 1990.[5]
Both the magazine and foundation, as well as Taylor have had links with organizations such as theCouncil of Conservative Citizens, thePioneer Fund, and theBritish National Party. FormerGrand Wizards of theKu Klux KlanDon Black andDavid Duke have attendedAmerican Renaissance conferences and have been seen talking with Taylor.[6][7]Proud Boys founderGavin McInnes has also written forAmerican Renaissance.[8] The organization has held bi-annual conferences that attractneo-Nazis,white nationalists, white separatists,Holocaust deniers, andeugenicists.[9] Attendance at the conferences has varied; in February 2008, some 300 people attended.[7]
American Renaissance is awhite supremacist publication.[1][2][10][11][12] It has been described as "alt-right" byThe Guardian.[13] On December 18, 2017, the accounts for the magazine and its editorJared Taylor weresuspended by Twitter.[14] Before the suspension, the magazine's account had 32,800 followers.[15]
The publication promotespseudoscientific notions "that attempt to demonstrate the intellectual and cultural superiority of whites and publishes articles on the supposed decline of American society because ofintegrationist social policies."[3]
According toCarol M. Swain, "American Renaissance has become the leading intellectual journal of contemporary white nationalism with a small but highly educated readership which sees itself as the vanguard of a new race realism that seeks to rescue America from the harmful effects ofmulticulturalist dogmas."[16]YouTube banned theAmerican Renaissance channel, along with those of individual white nationalists, in late June 2020 for violating the website's policies againsthate speech.[17]
American Renaissance and the New Century Foundation appear on a list of 115 "white nationalist hate groups" published in theIntelligence Report of theSouthern Poverty Law Center (SPLC).[18]
Mark Potok, editor-in-chief of theIntelligence Report, has said: "Jared Taylor is the cultivated, cosmopolitan face of white supremacy. He is the guy who is providing the intellectual heft, in effect, to modern-dayKlansmen." Taylor stated in a radio interview: "I've never been a member of the Klan. I've never known a person who is a member of the Klan." An article in thePittsburgh Post-Gazette reported that Taylor had at least met former KlansmanDavid Duke at an American Renaissance conference, and sat withDon Black, a formerGrand Wizard of the Klan, at Taylor's kitchen table.[6]
An article in theIntelligence Report by Potok and Heidi Beirich, head of the SPLC'sIntelligence Project stated: "American Renaissance has become increasingly important over the years, bringing a measure of intellectualism and seriousness to the typically thug-dominated world of white supremacy. Today, it may be the closest thing the extreme right has to a real think tank. Whether or not it survives, and in what form, genuinely matters."[19]
The Americannon-governmental organizationAnti-Defamation League (ADL) describesAmerican Renaissance as a "white supremacist journal".[20] The ADL also writes: "Taylor eschewsanti-Semitism. Seeing Jews as white, greatly influential and the 'conscience of society', Taylor rather seeks to partner with Jews who share his views on race and racial diversity" and "Jews have been speakers or participants at all eight American Renaissance conferences" although controversy followed accusations byDavid Duke, who was not a scheduled presenter, at the 2006 conference.[20]
American Renaissance has held conferences since 1994. Anti-racist activists were sometimes successful in persuading private hotels to cancel their reservations withAmerican Renaissance.[21] In 2011, the publication planned to hold a three-day conference at a Sheraton Airport hotel inCharlotte, North Carolina. The hotel canceled the group's booking amid plans by anti-racism activists and theJewish Defense Organization (JDO) to protest at the conference site. The mayorpro tem of the city also reportedly contacted the hotel.[22]
Since 2012, theAmerican Renaissance has held its conference atMontgomery Bell State Park Inn inBurns, Tennessee, a state-owned site. Protests have often taken place outside the conference facilities.[21]
In 2017,Helmuth Nyborg spoke at anAmerican Renaissance conference.[23][24][25]
A document—initially claimed to be a leakedDepartment of Homeland Security (DHS) memo—alleged thatJared Lee Loughner, the accused gunman in the2011 Tucson shooting that wounded CongresswomanGabby Giffords and killed six bystanders, may have had ties to American Renaissance, which it called an "anti-ZOG (Zionist Occupational [sic] Government) and anti-semitic" group.[26][27] In an interview withFox News, Jared Taylor denied the organization ever used the term "ZOG" and said Loughner had no connection to them.[26]
DHS officials the following day reported: "the department has not established any such possibility, undercutting what appears to be the primary basis for this claim". Furthermore, no such memo had been issued.[28]
Major David Denlinger, commander of theArizona Counter Terrorism Information Center acknowledged that the document came from his agency, but contained errors. He said that he has no reason to believe that Loughner had any direct connection with or was being directed byAmerican Renaissance.[29]
In the 50-second robocall, Johnson, along with Christian talk show host Ronald Tan and white supremacist magazine "American Renaissance" founder Jared Taylor, urges listeners to support Trump in the Iowa caucuses
