YouTube has reversed its initial ban on a prominent white nationalist site, claiming the site’s channel did not actually violate YouTube policies. Yet a host on the channel has repeatedly used language that was also invoked by the manifestos of multiple mass shooters and has given credence to the conspiracy theory that the Sandy Hook mass shooting was fake.

Earlier this summer, YouTube announced that it would prohibit “videos alleging that a group is superior in order to justify discrimination, segregation or exclusion based on qualities like age, gender, race, caste, religion, sexual orientation or veteran status,” specifically mentioning content that promotes “Nazi ideology.” YouTube also said the new policy would prohibit “denying that well-documented violent events, like the Holocaust or the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary, took place.” In August, the platform banned a handful of channels that were tied to white nationalism. One of those was VDare, a well-known white nationalist site. But on August 27, YouTube reversed its ban of VDare, emailing the site that the channel “is not in violation of our Terms of Service” and later telling CNN that while the channel featured potentially “offensive” content, “after a re-review of the content, we reinstated” it.

A review of VDare’s channel, VDare TV -- which started posting regularly only late last year -- finds multiple videos that echo white supremacist rhetoric used in the posted manifestos of the alleged Christchurch, New Zealand, and El Paso, Texas, mass shooters, who killed more than 70 people combined. One such video includes a claim that the alleged El Paso shooter’s use of the word “invasion” to describe immigration in his manifesto was “apt,” and other videos push anti-Semitism and invoke Nazi termonology.

• In an August 10 video, VDare host Wilson Hewlett said the alleged El Paso shooter used the “apt term” of “invasion,” adding that because the shooter “is alleged to have cited the unwelcome Hispanic influx into our country, it's now off the table for anyone to mention this phenomenon, even if it's actually happening.” And days after the Christchurch mass shooting, Hewlett said that “the nation-wrecking policies” that are causing “Americans and others” to come “under invasion” are “as much to blame for the Christchurch incident as the shooter himself.” In another video, he mentioned President Donald Trump’s attempt to fund a wall on the southern border via executive order, saying, “With this peaceful opposition to invasion thwarted, it’s no wonder that one Aussie regrettably chose another path. The shooter in Christchurch, New Zealand, let the world know, via manifesto, the reasons for his actions.”

• Hewlett has repeatedly pushed the white nationalist “great replacement” conspiracy theory that motivated the alleged Christchurch shooter. In a July 24 video, Hewlett claimed that “voters on the left want to undo the historic American nation by replacing them with the new people,” whom he had called “invaders” earlier in the video. On July 15, he said, “Leftists across the board are unmasking themselves as advocates for our replacement.” On July 5, he called “great replacement” “a term that so well reflects the reality of global population shuffling that it must be demonized at every turn,” adding that it is part of “our homelands … being taken from us and handed over to those whose ancestors didn't quite accomplish what ours did.” In May, he said “third-worlders” “breed a fifth column” and fearmongered about “being overrun, outbred, and replaced.” And last October, he discussed a VDare piece saying Democrats “believe that if they can change the composition of the American electorate, they can control America forever.” In November, he even said, “It looks like the United Nations is failing to snare all developed countries in its demographic-replacement clutches.”

• Hewlett has repeatedly expressed anti-Semitism on VDare’s channel. An image for a March video showed Hewlett dressed up as an orthodox Jew and holding money, and in the video, he mocked “the chosen people’s totally nonexistent knack for the acquisition of sway and riches.” In April, after saying that a citizenship question on the census could “check the influence invader-heavy districts have,” Hewlett criticized “American Jews” for “more often than not support[ing] opening our gates to every corner of the earth.” In February, Hewlett suggested that someone who connects “Jews and money” may be “onto something,” and that the stereotype may be not “wrong but … perceptive.” And in December, he discussed an article suggesting that “Jews may want to dial back on their own anti-white rhetoric, if just to avoid good Jewish Beccas getting lumped in with goyish Beckys when anti-whiteness rears its ugly head.”

• On September 2, Hewlett criticized YouTube for banning conspiracy theory outlet Infowars because host Alex Jones “dared to question the events surrounding the Sandy Hook school shooting,” saying, “Whether he was onto something or off his rocker shouldn’t matter. Jones was deplatformed for his sins against the narrative.”

• In June, Hewlett called the media “lügenpresse,” a slur used in Nazi Germany that means “lying press” and is associated with anti-Semitism.

• In an August 20 video, while criticizing Democratic presidential candidates, Hewlett said they want “health care for invaders,” a term the alleged El Paso shooter used in his manifesto. Later, while claiming that the “globalist project is an utter failure as it tries to mend incompatible cultures and peoples,” Hewlett listed the “invasion of Europe” as “doing more harm than good” and criticized “most intercultural mixings in clown world,” a reference to a racist and anti-Semitic meme from 4chan. The video’s description also mentions “bribing invaders.”

• In an August 15 video, while discussing what he termed a “war on” U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Hewlett claimed billionaire George Soros and his son are “behind this dismantling of our sovereignty,” an anti-Semitic conspiracy theory that mirrors the motivation of the alleged Pittsburgh synagogue mass shooter.

• In an August 12 video, Hewlett said acting U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Director Ken Cuccinelli was “taking on illegal invaders and their deep state co-conspirators.” Later, Hewlett, referring to ICE raids in Mississippi, mocked “the poor little niños separated from their invader parents,” said that much of Europe was “willingly succumbing to alien terror,” and said the rights of attendees of the white supremacist Unite The Right rally were “subject by the government to the worst anarcho-tyranny.”

• In an August 7 video, Hewlett bemoaned that “even white positive Americans who denounce violence are called supremacists” and “peaceful white nationalists are lumped in here too.” He also claimed that “Blacks, browns, reds, and yellows are encouraged by both the left and the cuck right to engage in ethnic solidarity,” but “when whites do it, it's deemed inexcusable hatred and prelude to genocide.”

• In a July 30 video, Hewlett said Los Angeles was “getting a glimpse of de facto Mexican colonization” because of MS-13.

• In a video uploaded on July 26, Hewlett attacked “the GOP’s spinelessness in the face of demographic war” and called Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) “our replacement” and said she has “anti-white hatred.”

• On July 23, Hewlett claimed that “third-worlders have no qualms with littering up the public space” and defended rallygoers who chanted “send her back” about Omar, arguing that she belongs “to a group with a higher propensity for antisocial behavior.”

• On July 8, Hewlett argued there are “general differences in aptitude across racial lines” and railed against the casting of a Black woman as the main character in the remake of the Disney movie The Little Mermaid, calling it part of an effort to “make sure that virtually any tale the descendants of Europe have any fondness for will be altered” and describing it as “psychological violence” and, ultimately, “destruction.” Last November, Hewlett also touted a VDare article saying “minority problems” were “obviously caused by low IQ.”

• On June 21, while discussing a New York Times article on refugees in St. Cloud, Minnesota, Hewlett said it showed “what happens when formerly cohesive areas are punished with third-worlders” and accused the Times of having “grand replacement designs.”

• On June 10, Hewlett praised white nationalist Lauren Southern for making “some informative, if overly centrist, documentaries on white displacement, South African anti-white violence, and the nefarious work of NGOs to flood Europe with third-worlders.”

• On April 10, Hewlett praised an Italian politician who “wants to form a block of commonsense Europeans who oppose invasion of the continent.”

• On February 11, Hewlett said the “American people” “never voted for the destruction of our forefathers and our homeland” due to an “invasion.”

• On February 4, the host, referring to refugees in Portland, Maine, said the city residents “had their kindness repaid with invasion” by “replacement Mainers.”

• And last October, Hewlett pointed to the “success of the children of Europe and the abject failure of the children of sub-Saharan Africa” as proof that there is an “actual biological component to race.”