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One of QAnons most prolific, popular, and antisemitic influencers has been revealed to be a deeply religious 39-year-old Trump supporter in Florida.
Researchers at Logically on Friday published an investigation into the identity of GhostEzra, an antisemitic QAnon figure, identifying him as Robert Randall Smart of Boca Raton.
Smart also appears to be deeply religious. His online accounts show him checking into several evangelical Baptist churches in his area, and his familys social media accounts are filled with religious images and memes.
But the online persona of GhostEzra, which Smart has crafted since it first emerged in December 2020, is deeply disturbing.
The account has made claims about Jewish control of Big Pharma, the media, and central banking. The account has also claimed that Jews are responsible for both world wars and that the people who identify as Jewish but are not actually even Jews have a goal of total world domination and control. He has linked his followers multiple times to neo-Nazi propaganda, including a 12-hour film that, among other claims, asserts that Jews created communism with a goal of total world domination.
Smart was unmasked by the investigators after he posted several of his own photos through his GhostEzra account. One of the photos showed the Florida Emergency Alerts Systems displayed on a television set.
While the image posted to Telegram showed only the portion of the picture with the screen, by altering the exposure on the image, Logicallys researchers were able to reveal the rest of the imagewhich included pictures of Smarts family lined up above the TV.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/93yvmv/qanon-ghostezra-is-robert-randall-smart
and a twitter thread about how he was identified:
Link to tweet
full article: https://www.logically.ai/articles/exclusive-ghostezra-florida-man-largest-antisemitic-forum
SidDithers
(44,228 posts)Sid
soldierant
(6,846 posts)It looks like this crazy is one of the ones who motivated Jimmy Carter to move from the Southern Baptist Convention to another Baptist group which was more rational.
UpInArms
(51,280 posts)With this information, we were able to identify Google and Yelp review accounts, where a Robert S with the same profile picture had posted over 100 reviews in the Boca Raton area, including a review of the Shell gas station that was included in the GhostEzra post, as well as a number of restaurants, amenities, and other locations in the area. Notably, Robert S reviewed the local Jewish Center with one star, writing not nice.
crickets
(25,962 posts)Does he just keep on Q-ing, with the only difference being people know his name?
TheBlackAdder
(28,183 posts).
QAnon is already international and will pose a threat to Israelis and other Jews around the globe.
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SidDithers
(44,228 posts)about the squad Meir put together to avenge the 1972 Olympic killings.
Sid
Vogon_Glory
(9,117 posts)every hidden thing, whether it be good, whether it be evil.
(Ecclesiastes 12:14, in case you wanted to know)
It looks like this twerp has just found out that what with the net these days, whatever BS he posted can be traced back to him.
I bet he thought he was covered by his IOKALAYAAR card.
Tsk. Tsk.
Chainfire
(17,530 posts)Behind the Aegis
(53,949 posts)It is also of little surprise how few know, or more importantly, acknowledge this. These "classic" anti-Semitic tropes are making a roaring comeback, not just in original form, but in coded forms as well.
forgotmylogin
(7,527 posts)I wouldn't imagine Boca Raton would at the top of the list.
I worked there in the 1990s and it and the surrounding area is a haven for adorable theater-loving Jewish snow-birds wintering from the upper east coast.
AllaN01Bear
(18,151 posts)they have been malaligned for years .
KS Toronado
(17,198 posts)soldierant
(6,846 posts)It did not start with "they killed Christ" - it was long before that.
Looked at in one way, it lends credence to the theory that the Jews are "the chosen people" - of whom everyone else is envious and therefore out to get them.
I have occasionally heard of a Jewish person praying, "God, couldn't you please choose somebody else?"
And, no it's not funny.
Grins
(7,212 posts)Theyre the best!!
And many of them are realizing exactly that. And why their membership is going down.
dlk
(11,549 posts)Especially given TFG routinely breaks all Ten Commandments. Also, how does one square being a follower of Christ, a Middle Eastern Jew, and being rabidly anti-Semitic?
soldierant
(6,846 posts)inside the individual's head.
I'm with you - but obviously, GhostEzra isn't.
dlk
(11,549 posts)I never knew there were so many completely irrational Americans. Its mind-boggling!
UTUSN
(70,681 posts)The negligible amount of attention I've given the Q thing was that they had been identified as father-son idiots founders of a (different) wingnut website. The article says the Q departed to pursue more "mainstream"-acceptable content? So they're gone?
bucolic_frolic
(43,128 posts)Seems to be an American thing nowadays
relayerbob
(6,544 posts)CAn we just airlift out the normal Floridians and then just cut it off from the mainland?
wryter2000
(46,036 posts)And giving them to the Taliban?
relayerbob
(6,544 posts)Trade them Q nut jobs for each Afghan refugee
rickyhall
(4,889 posts)It'll disappear under the ocean in a century anyway.
ShazzieB
(16,368 posts)You know you can't talk like that without somebody posting this, right?
Jilly_in_VA
(9,965 posts)has it ever occurred to anyone that Boca Raton translates literally as "mouse mouth" (and actually should be "Boca de Raton" ? I suppose it's at the mouth of the Raton River, but still.
Also, when my dad was doing his PhD research in Baja California, he reported that Mickey Mouse was referred to there as "Miguelito Ratoncito". Is he still so called in Spanish speaking communities?
Justice matters.
(6,925 posts)Probably not, eh?
appleannie1
(5,067 posts)Have the switched Boogeymen? And where do the Black Lives Matter people fit into this?