And They Said White Supremacist Satire Was Dead

I read a post recently at Jesus' General, about the death of a white supremacist leader named James “Yankee Jim” Leshkevich who wrote a Goodbye Cruel World entry at his blog, then murdered his wife, and hanged himself.

You can't read his final blog entry anymore in situ, as Blogger is now denying public access to the Leshkevich blog (The Hudson Valley Freeman). But when The General wrote his post it was still available, and when I clicked through to the site I happened to make a screen capture, because there's something rather odd about that blog.

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I don't know the first thing about white supremacists in general or James “Yankee Jim” Leshkevich in particular, but I know for sure that that photo he posted in his profile isn't him. The photo in the blogger profile at The Hudson Valley Freeman is actually this person:

i.e., Omri Sharon, who is a son of Israel's former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, and who is currently serving a seven-month jail-term in Israel for fraud.

Isn't that odd?

The best explanation I can come up with is that Leshkevich, who like Omri Sharon is shaven-headed and somewhat burly (see a photo here at SPLC's Hatewatch), noticed the similarity in appearance between the two and thought it would be a good joke to present a Jewish Israeli as the author of a white supremacist blog. So it's satirical, sort of.

Perhaps it's the very idea that there is such a thing as white supremacist satire that makes it difficult for me to get my head around this. It just all seems a bit weird.