(Jewish Group) Alleged Nashville school shooter appears to have praised Hitler and shared neo-Nazi content

Police in Tennessee are investigating whether an antisemitic manifesto posted online was written by a teenager accused of carrying out a fatal school shooting in Nashville on Wednesday.

The alleged shooter at Antioch High School appears to have posted a livestream of the shooting as well as content on his social media accounts prior to the attack, in which one student was killed. The material was removed after its connection to the shooting became known.

According to The Tennessean newspaper, the materials attributed to the shooter, identified as Solomon Henderson, included statements praising Adolf Hitler and opposing “race-mixing,” as well as materials related to past school shootings, including a deadly one at a Nashville Christian school in 2023. Authorities say Henderson, a 17-year-old student at Antioch, killed himself during the incident after fatally shooting another.

“Our analysts located a sprawling manifesto full of anti-Black content, references to accelerationism and antisemitism,” Carla Hill of the Anti-Defamation League’s Center on Extremism, told the newspaper. “It also plagiarized from various far right manifestos and publications, including Terrorgram Collective and a manifesto by Matthew Harris.”

Harris is a former philosophy instructor who was arrested in 2022 for making a mass shooting threat against the University of California, Los Angeles, where he had worked. Harris, who is Black, posted an 800-page manifesto that included explicit calls for violence against Jews and white people. The Terrorgram Collective is a white supremacist group whose leaders were arrested in September.

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