In recent weeks, pro-Trump troll and self-proclaimed “proud Islamophobe” Laura Loomer has spread white supremacist conspiracy theories about HIAS, a Jewish nonprofit organization providing aid to migrants at the southern border, even going as far as calling for its employees to be imprisoned on charges of human trafficking. 

She has also cited the racist “great replacement” myth when attacking the aid organization, posting on X (formerly Twitter) that “HIAS IS FACILITATING THE INVASION OF AMERICA AND THE GREAT REPLACEMENT!” On her Rumble show yesterday, she stated, “We are being replaced. We are being washed away by a flood of migrant invaders, and it is all happening with the tacit support of Joe Biden and much of the D.C. establishment.”

Originally the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, HIAS is a humanitarian nonprofit organization that works to provide aid and assistance to refugees across the world. Created in the late 1800s, the group was founded to help Jewish immigrants escaping persecution in Europe to come to the United States and today it assists refugees across the globe, in some cases providing legal, mental health, and economic aid programs.

On the February 6 edition of her Rumble show, Loomer Unleashed, the host advocated for directly targeting individual aid workers, saying, “We need to start putting a name to the faces and faces to the names of these NGO officials who are doing this. I mean, we can make these people famous. And when I say ‘make them famous’ — not in a good way.”

“A lot of people, they’re just completely unaware of all these different organizations,” Loomer continued. “They disguise themselves like Red Cross, HIAS, Catholic charities, right? It’s a manipulation of semantics.” 

“These are not religious, moral people,” Loomer said. “These are demonic people.” 

Earlier in that same episode, Loomer claimed HIAS is aiding migrants who have ties to Hamas and Hezbollah. Claiming that HIAS is “another one of these NGOs that is bringing in invaders, criminal illegal aliens, under the guise of charity,” she added, “I find it to be especially egregious that you have Jewish organizations like HIAS that are willingly helping these people even though they know that they are tied to the very same people who carried out, you know, the most — one of the most barbaric attacks on Jewish people since the time of the Holocaust.” 

Antisemitism and white nationalist conspiracy theories are not new to Loomer. In January, she claimed on her podcast that “so many rich Jews have a fixation on trying to destroy America,” adding, “I'm really sick and tired of watching all of these Jews with large amounts of money in our country donate to fund the destruction of our nation and the communist takeover of America.” Earlier this year, Loomer said, “The great replacement is not some conspiracy theory like the left-wing media wants it to be. ... It's very real.”

Loomer is currently closely connected to the Trump campaign, and she has been repeatedly promoted and praised by former President Donald Trump. NBC News reported that this has worried some of Trump’s allies and advisers, who view her extremism as a “liability.”