Jason Jorjani

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Jason Reza Jorjani
Born (1981-02-21) February 21, 1981 (age 43)
Manhattan, New York, U.S.
Occupation(s)Writer, lecturer, former editor-in-chief of Arktos Media
Known for Alt-right, Prometheism
Academic background
Education Dalton School
Alma mater
Influences

Jorjani's ideas have been described by journalist Olivia Goldhill as influenced by Dark Enlightenment philosophy, particularly that of Nick Land. [32] In a 2023 Break the Rules livestream, Jorjani denied being influenced by Land. [33] [ non-primary source needed ]

The Prometheist Manifesto

In "The Prometheist Manifesto", Jorjani criticised the modern concept of God as a "jealous and tyrannically wrathful God-Father, archetypally identical to Zeus". [34] Instead, Jorjani supported the idea of the myth of Prometheus as the creator of Man and likened the fire that he stole from Olympus as a symbol of the power of technology and science to free humanity from scarcity and ignorance.

In the Prometheist Manifesto, Jorjani endorsed the claim that COVID-19 was created as a bio-weapon at the Wuhan Virology Laboratory in China. [35] [ non-primary source needed ]

Views on white nationalism

Speaking at a conference organized by Richard Spencer in 2016, Jorjani referred to the collapse of the Sasanian Persian Empire as the "first and greatest white genocide." [7] In 2018, Jorjani identified himself as an "Iranian Zionist". [36] [ non-primary source needed ] Jorjani has written in support of eugenics and has claimed that Iran cannot culturally, technologically, and scientifically advance unless it restores its "pre-Arab and pre-Mongol genetic character". [7] In 2017, he predicted that Muslim citizens and immigrants would be deported from Europe by 2050. [37]

He has however stated that he deliberately infiltrated the Alt-Right movement at the behest of individuals who were very close to the Donald Trump 2016 presidential campaign to steer it away from Spencer-style White Nationalism. [38]

In 2017, Jorjani stated that he is not a white nationalist or racist. [15] He identifies himself as a progressive and a feminist. [17] After resigning from AltRight, he stated that the organization was "reduced, basically, to a platform for organizing alt-right rallies attended by some very questionable individuals who I want not very much to do with". [15]

According to Harrison Fluss and Landon Frim writing in Jacobin , Jorjani has promoted various antisemitic and white nationalist fringe conspiracy theories, despite disputing the label:

Jorjani's writings, political activities, speeches, and media appearances have drawn charges of antisemitism and Islamophobia. In one instance, he suggested that Yahweh and Allah were actually space aliens who enslaved their believers and tricked them into committing genocide. He has openly characterized certain high-ranking Nazi officials as akin to supermen with psychic powers. While Jorjani has vehemently denied the charges of bigotry leveled against him, his public statements do make you wonder. [39]

Iran and Geopolitics

Jorjani has said that he was involved in an attempt to build a new Persian Empire, which he claims was lead by organisation known as the "Iranian Renaissance Organization". With regards to the project Jorjani claimed that the new Iran would be in a struggle against a nascent Islamic Caliphate. [40] Specifically he has said about this project that it was intended:

to create an economic and security corridor from the Baltic Sea to the Black Sea and across to the Caucasus. This "Neo-Scythian" Ukraine-based approach to the lon-term revitalization and liberation of Europe [was] linked to a future, post-Islamic Greater Iran via the Caucasus. [40]

Islam

According to Jorjani everything that was supposedly achieved in the Islamic Golden Age was misappropriated from ancient Iranian culture. [41] Furthermore he is critical of the entirety of the Abrahamic Religions, emphasizing that the modern Judeo-Christian West only produces materialism and meaningless technology, while Islam has been a source of tyranny White Genocide. [42]

Furthermore Jorjani is critical of Alexander Dugin for his support for Islam and the Islamic Republic of Iran as part of his goal to spread Traditionalism. [42]

Belief in Psyschical Phenomena

Jorjani has expressed the belief that "psychical pheonmena as key to developing a postmodern or archaeofuturist science that would deconstruct the distinction between science and spirituality". [43]

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References

  1. ↑ @Jason_Jorjani (July 6, 2023). ""Intellectuals are the field army whose head or commander-in-chief is the philosopher. The philosopher, the man who defines the basic or fundamental ideas of a culture, is the man who determines history."" (Tweet). Retrieved July 28, 2023– via Twitter.
  2. ↑ @Jason_Jorjani (July 5, 2023). "The greatest American Philosopher of the 20th century was a Russian woman of Jewish descent" (Tweet). Retrieved July 28, 2023– via Twitter.
  3. ↑ "Jorjani, Jason Reza, 1981-". Library of Congress Linked Data Service . Retrieved November 12, 2020.
  4. ↑ "The Persian Influence on Western Civilization with Jason Reza Jorjani".
  5. 1 2 Mazzola, Jessica (September 27, 2017). "I'm a leftist, not a Nazi, says N.J. professor at center of Hitler video controversy". NJ.com.
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  7. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Schaeffer, Carol (March 18, 2018). "Jason Jorjani's Rise and Fall in the "Alt-Right" Movement". The Intercept . Retrieved November 12, 2020.
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  14. 1 2 Mazzola, Jessica (September 26, 2017). "NJIT prof suspended over video of him discussing Hitler's legacy". NJ.com.
  15. 1 2 3 4 "Richard Spencer's Alt Right Group is Due for "Implosion," Says Ex Business Partner". YouTube . October 19, 2017.
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  22. ↑ "About the Iranian Renaissance". October 16, 2019.
  23. 1 2 Teitelbaum 2020, p. 203-212.
  24. ↑ Teitelbaum 2020, p. 217.
  25. ↑ Teitelbaum 2020, p. 219.
  26. ↑ Teitelbaum 2020, p. 220.
  27. ↑ Teitelbaum 2020, p. 218.
  28. ↑ Teitelbaum 2020, p. 268-269.
  29. ↑ Teitelbaum 2020, p. 259-270.
  30. ↑ Teitelbaum 2020, p. 266.
  31. ↑ @Jason_Jorjani (October 9, 2023). ""The time has come to release this. It was delivered to Israel's Defense Minister by the Mossad. Shortly thereafter, PM Netanyahu fired Lieberman and assumed the DM position himself. (FYI, I never took a shekel from the Israelis. In fact, I cut them off when I was offered money.)."" (Tweet). Retrieved October 17, 2023– via Twitter.
  32. ↑ Goldhill, Olivia (June 18, 2017). "The neo-fascist philosophy that underpins both the alt-right and Silicon Valley technophiles". Quartz.
  33. ↑ Polyakov, Lev (July 28, 2023). "BTR Live: Jason Jorjani - "The Alien Truth"". Break The Rules.
  34. ↑ Jorjani, Jason (July 4, 2020). "The Prometheist Manifesto" . Retrieved January 4, 2023.
  35. ↑ Jorjani, Jason (July 4, 2020). "The Prometheist Manifesto" . Retrieved January 4, 2023. At the time of writing, in the year 2020, we are already witnessing the first of these: an artificially engineered pandemic. Although COVID-19 was engineered at the Wuhan Virology Laboratory in China, those who invested in the "Gain of Function" research that produced it were Western corporatists, such as Bill Gates. Their main aim in producing a pandemic with such a long incubation period and low mortality rate is to bring about a protracted global lockdown that would most adversely effect dense metropolitan areas.
  36. ↑ "Why I Am An Iranian Zionist". January 24, 2018. Archived from the original on February 10, 2018.
  37. ↑ "Identity Evropa and Arktos Media — Likely Bedfellows". Southern Poverty Law Center. September 26, 2017.
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  39. ↑ "Aliens, Antisemitism, and Academia". Jacobin . March 2017. Retrieved November 14, 2020.
  40. 1 2 Beiner 2022, p. 191.
  41. ↑ Beiner 2022, p. 194.
  42. 1 2 Beiner 2022, p. 195.
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