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The Rise of Jackson Hinkle: Is Twitter’s #1 Anti-Zionist Influencer /OurGuy/?

7-11-2023 < Counter Currents 29 1831 words
 

Jackson Hinkle


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One knows that criticism of Jews is the ultimate taboo by virtue of the fact that the establishment never bothers to cultivate a controlled or approved opposition to Jews. There are people such as Tommy Robinson, who act as controlled opposition to mass migration, and there are even some Con Inc. operatives such as Charlie Kirk and Matt Walsh who dabble in controlled/approved opposition to anti-whiteness. But Jews are so paranoid about a backlash against them that thy refuse to allow the public access to even impotent criticism of them.


The closest thing we have in the United States would be The Squad (Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Ayanna Pressley, and Rashida Tlaib), who occasionally offer some tepid criticisms of Israel but fold like a deck of cards at the slightest pushback. Other outlets such as The Young Turks might grumble about Israeli war crimes, but even then they have to pull their punches and load up on qualifiers — “I don’t support Hamas buuuuut,” “I’m not anti-Semitic, buuuuut,” etc. — if they want to stay in business. They are certainly not going to be quoting any passages from the Talmud.


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The consequence of this is that since the beginning of the latest kerfuffle between Israel and the Palestinians, there has been a surge in demand for thought leaders who are critical of Israel. Because the establishment failed to cultivate a controlled opposition to Zionism, those are filling that demand all come from outside their ranks. Many of these people are either dissident Right or are in adjacent communities. Most on the dissident Right are more focused about the mischief that Jews instigate outside of Israel, and to the extent that they care about Israel at all, it’s because our leaders are beholden to it and wage wars on its behalf. But there are others for whom Israel has always been one of their pet issues, and they have been making big waves over the past month.


Among those who have risen to prominence include White Nationalist Keith Woods, who now has 125,000 X/Twitter followers after gaining 50,000 new followers just in the last 30 days. The month before that, Keith gained 25,000 followers as a result of the exposure he received when he led the #BantheADL movement. Even more impressive is the social media growth of nationalist Lucas Gage, who has gained a cool 100,000 new X/Twitter followers, bringing him to 175,000. Jake Shields, a former mixed martial arts champion, has become an unlikely anti-Israel activist since the conflict began and has gained 83,000 to bring him to just shy of half a million. Ryan Dawson, while not a White Nationalist, nevertheless moves in White Nationalist circles, where he is tolerated due his encyclopedic knowledge of all things Israel. Dawson is up 34,000 followers, taking him past the 100,000 mark. Syrian Girl is another anti-Israel specialist such as Ryan Dawson, albeit a shade spicier; again, she is not White Nationalist but engages with us and has appeared on Millenniyule. Syrian Girl is up by 77,000 followers post-bellum, taking her over the 300,000 mark.



To call these rapid gains in such a short period “impressive” is an understatement. They are unheard of in dissident circles. But as astonishing as they are, they pale in comparison to the meteoric rise of Jackson Hinkle, who has gained 1.5 million new followers to become the face of anti-Zionism in the West, and the most viral X/Twitter account in the world.




But is Hinkle /Ourguy/? That’s not an easy question to answer. He’s only 24 years old, and during the brief career he’s had so far, his beliefs have evolved considerably. He started his career decidedly on the Left. In 2018 he appeared in a documentary produced by the Sierra Club profiling six young environmental activists, another one of whom was Parkland High School shooting survivor and anti-gun activist David Hogg. His original area of interest was environmentalism, but he later came to disavow it as “anti-human.” As a teenager, Hinkle organized a pro-gun control protest, but has since reversed his position, stating that “Gen Z is pro-gun.”


Hinkle was a Bernie Bro in 2020, took up an interest in Marxist theory, and continues to describe himself as an anti-woke Marxist-Leninist today. Contrary to popular belief, orthodox Marxism is anti-woke on the grounds that it undermines worker solidarity, and that by making everything about race, culture, and such it obscures class conflict as the real driver of events. “Cultural Marxism” is actually an oxymoron, and it is annoying to still see conservatives describe wokeness as “Marxist.”


Jackson Hinkle and Anna Linnikova


Hinkle was fairly well known before the latest Israeli-Palestinian conflict for his pro-Russia stance in the Ukraine War — he is dating Anna Linnikova, who was Miss Universe Russia in 2022 — as well as his defense of the Assad regime in Syria. Like many commie Leftists, he opposes the military-industrial complex and American intervention without exception. Arguably, however, Hinkle’s biggest claim to fame is the creation of what he calls MAGA Communism.


OAN Host BEWILDERED by Grifter Pushing MAGA CommunismOAN Host BEWILDERED by Grifter Pushing MAGA Communism

I have written extensively on the Bernie Left and pondered the possibility of them defecting to the dissident Right. After all, the Democrats have crushed the populist wing of their party, but the populist wing of the GOP still has some life in it. Tucker Carlson-style, class conscious Left-wing populism might be the closest thing to socialism that can realistically be hoped for in the United States. As it turns out, many Bernie Bros did in fact break with the Left and the Democratic Party, but rather than moving into our circles, they set up their own distinct communities. For the Dirtbag Left (X/Twitter and podcast-based), that community is what is called the “Post-Left,” which includes characters such as Aimee Terese and Anna Khachiyan of the Red Scare podcast. MAGA Communism was the BreadTube (the name applied to a group of Leftist online content creators) manifestation of the same phenomenon of Bernie Bros moving to the GOP.



It’s worth noting that if this Reddit thread from r/socialism is anything to go by, Jackson Hinkle is not held in very high esteem among orthodox Communists who consider his MAGA Communism to be crypto-fascism. As one redditor explains:


He’s a right-wing grifter who figured out that being pro-Palestine is the most popular position right now (cause, you know, hello hello, most people are against genocide), so instead of his usual grift, he’s surprisingly grifting from this angle (the grift is to get people to pay to subscribe to his twitter thing). Nothing wrong with him posting pro-Palestine stuff per se, but be aware he’s not an ally in any way, shape or form and should not be supported, so don’t follow him, don’t RT him, don’t like his tweets, don’t interact and so on and so forth, cause that boosts him in the algorithm and also gives him more money from the blue checkmark thing (that gives some pittance based on engagement).


"MAGA Communism" is just Fascism.“MAGA Communism” is just Fascism.

Okay, so the Communist thinks he is /OurGuy/. But here’s the real kicker: It has recently surfaced that in 2020, Jackson Hinkle tweeted out the 14 words:



He has also stated that George Floyd died of a drug overdose, which suggests that he has a degree of resistance to race cuckery:




So is he a secret agent? A White Nationalist hiding his power level? It’s possible. Many of the dissident Rightists who managed to avoid YouTube bans did so by not talking about race anymore and shifting their focus to issues tangential to White Nationalism: economics, geopolitics, culture, and so on. There is a faction of White Nationalists who believe that the capitalist system is part of the problem and must be reformed if white genocide is to be averted. It could be that Jackson Hinkle promotes Communism because he sincerely believes that it will advance white interests.


In the end, I can’t read the guy’s mind. He may very well be /OurGuy/, but at minimum, he is not the enemy. I for one am happy to have a non-explicit White Nationalist figure become the face of anti-Zionism, as it makes it harder for the Jews to come up with effective counter-propaganda and play the Holocaust card. I’m weary of once again placing too much faith in a 24-year-old, but if you had to pick someone to be the face of anti-Zionism, we could do a lot worse. He’s young, movie-star good-looking, unwoke and the amount of his output is incredible. He’s definitely an upgrade from Ilhan Omar and AOC.







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