Social media believed to be tied to Austin shooter is full of antisemitic, anti-Christian, misogynistic posts

The attacker who gunned down revelers at a bar in Austin, Texas, over the weekend appears to have posted antisemitic, anti-Christian and misogynistic posts in the year and a half leading up to the deadly shooting, according to law enforcement sources in Texas. Three people were killed and more than a dozen others wounded in the rampage early Sunday, one day after the U.S. and Israel struck Iran.

The X account investigators believe is linked to the gunman was created in October 2024 and its most recent post is from December.

Last April, when tensions between Israel and Iran were spiking, one post read: “THE ISLAMIC REVOLUTION IS ETERNAL … you Zionist and islamophobes can be angry all you want but you can’t do a damn thing about it no matter what.”

The post was a reply to an April 28 post by the Islamic Republic of Iran’s foreign minister, Seyed Abbas Araghi, in which he criticized President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

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