Donald Trump’s chief strategist was responsible for a documentary proposal which labelled the “American Jewish community” as being part of a group of “enablers” of Jihad, it has emerged.
Steve Bannon, the former editor of the far-Right Breitbart news site, made several right wing documentaries during the 2000’s. As reported by the Washington Post on Friday, in 2007 a draft was put together for a documentary called “The Islamic States of America”, which warned of radical Muslims and “their enablers among us”. Despite having the “best intentions”, said the documentary outline, groups such as major media outlets, the “Universities and the Left”, the “American Jewish community” and national security organisations” were paving the way to “the establishment of an Islamic Republic in the United States.”
The movie outline lists Mr Bannon as both the project’s director and co-writer, together with Julia Jones. Ms Jones confirmed to the Post that the script was real and described the contents as “all his [Bannon’s] words”.
Mr Bannon has been accused of both antisemitism and islamophobia in the past. His ex-wife testified under oath that when they were sending their children to school, Mr Bannon “said that he doesn’t like Jews and that he doesn’t like the way they raise their kids to be ‘whiny brats’ and that he didn’t want the girls going to school with Jews.” A spokeswoman for Mr Bannon denied the allegations.
