Social media personality Dan Bilzerian, who has spent the past two years feeding his tens of millions of followers a steady diet of antisemitism, Holocaust denial and neo-Nazi content, filed last week to run for a U.S. House seat in Florida.

The 45-year-old registered as a Republican primary candidate in Florida’s 6th Congressional District, where he will challenge incumbent Rep. Randy Fine, who is Jewish and a strong supporter of Israel.

Bilzerian has 30 million followers on Instagram and more than 2 million on X. Among the views he regularly shares with them: that “Jewish supremacy is the biggest threat to the world today,” that Israel should be destroyed, and that his Jewish opponent should be tried for treason for “putting Israel before America.” He has said President Donald Trump should be impeached over an “Israel First” policy he argues contradicts the president’s “America First” campaign promise.

Asked by TMZ whether his description of Fine as a “fat Jew” was antisemitic, Bilzerian said the term itself is “kind of a made-up term,” arguing that “Palestinians are the real Semites.” Pressed on whether Adolf Hitler was antisemitic, he declined to answer directly, repeating that Arabs and Palestinians have a stronger genetic link to the region than “any Ashkenazi Jew from Eastern Europe.”

A year ago, Bilzerian said he wanted “to kill Israelis.” Asked on his feed who causes most of the world’s problems, his followers were offered options that included “16 million Jews,” which they selected overwhelmingly. In another poll of 178,000 respondents, one-third said Hitler was a “good person” and another 23% said they did not know.

In a televised interview with conservative commentator Piers Morgan, Bilzerian said he believed fewer than six million Jews were murdered in the Holocaust. He told Morgan that Judaism inherently promotes “Jewish supremacy” and that “Israel is an expression of that religion, and I think that religion is terrible.”

He has shared content from neo-Nazi figure Nick Fuentes and promoted the “Great Replacement” theory, which holds that Jews are orchestrating nonwhite immigration to replace white populations. He has also echoed the antisemitic trope that “Jews knew about the 9/11 attacks” and declared, “Give me a gun and send me there to kill Israelis. I truly believe most of that country is evil.”

Bilzerian’s candidacy extends a trend in which internet personalities leverage large online audiences into Republican primary bids. It also reflects a broader shift within the Republican Party, where openly antisemitic voices, Holocaust deniers and figures aligned with the neo-Nazi right have grown into a measurable political constituency, a trajectory that sharpened during the war with Iran.

Known online as the “King of Instagram,” Bilzerian built his brand around a hedonistic lifestyle. He has long said his fortune, estimated in the hundreds of millions, came from high-stakes private poker games with billionaires. Professional poker players have disputed that account, saying his skill level does not match the winnings he claims. His father, Paul Bilzerian, was a Wall Street financier who went bankrupt and served prison time for fraud in the 1980s.

Bilzerian enlisted in the U.S. military and washed out of Navy SEAL training shortly before completion, but has built a tactical, military-style image into his brand. That persona was undercut during the 2017 Las Vegas mass shooting, when he filmed himself fleeing the scene rather than helping the wounded.

He is not the only anti-Israel Republican challenging Fine. Another primary candidate, Aaron Baker, criticized Bilzerian’s choice of district, saying on X that Bilzerian should have filed in Florida’s 16th Congressional District, where he grew up, to force AIPAC to spend more money defending the seat.

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