Leo Terrell, who runs the Department of Justice antisemitism task force, shared a post from Patrick Casey, the former leader of Identity Evropa who is pictured above. by Southern Poverty Law Center

By Arno Rosenfeld March 17, 2025

Leo Terrell, the civil rights attorney in charge of President Donald Trump’s antisemitism task force, shared a post on the social platform X Friday from a notorious white supremacist leader.

“Trump has the ability to revoke someone’s Jew card,” said the post, which included a video of the president saying that Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is “not Jewish anymore. He’s a Palestinian.” The author of the post was Patrick Casey, who led Identity Evropa, a now-defunct organization founded in 2016 to promote the “Nazification of America.”

The group called on Trump supporters to become “racially aware and Jew Wise.” Casey was part of its presence at the deadly 2017 far-right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, according to the Anti-Defamation League, and took control of it a few months later.

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He tried to distance Identity Evropa from its reputation for racism and instead focused on white “identitarianism,” according to the Southern Poverty Law Center, renaming it in 2020 as the American Identity Movement.

Casey has since launched a podcast featuring guests like Nick Fuentes, one of the country’s most prominent white nationalists and a Holocaust denier.

Terrell did not respond to a text message asking why he shared Casey’s post. He appears to have unshared it.

Trump tapped Terrell, a Black civil rights lawyer, to run the Department of Justice’s antisemitism task force last month. He has since told the conservative podcaster Charlie Kirk that he would consider creating a new committee on “anti-white bias.”

Terrell also invited Kirk, who has accused Jews of financing “anti-white causes,” to join him on a tour of colleges and universities accused of fostering antisemitic environments.

Amy Spitalnick, chief of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs, which helped sue Identity Evropa for its role in the Charlottesville rally, criticized Terrell on social media Monday. “This admin doesn’t care about countering antisemitism,” Spitalnick said. “They care about exploiting it to attack democracy.”

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