Mike Enoch

Michael Enoch Isaac Peinovich (born 1977), more commonly known as Mike Enoch, is an American neo-Nazi, antisemitic conspiracy theorist, Holocaust denier, blogger, and podcast host. He founded the alt-right media network The Right Stuff and podcast The Daily Shoah. Through his work, Enoch ridicules African Americans, Jews, and other minorities, advocates racial discrimination, and promotes conspiracy theories such as Holocaust denial and white genocide.

In early 2017, while operating his antisemitic media network under his pseudonym, Enoch was doxxed by fellow neo-Nazis. Most notably, the dox revealed that the neo-Nazi Enoch was married to a Jewish woman, and that their wedding had featured traditional Jewish rites and chanting. His parents divorced when he was young. While in high school, Enoch had jobs in pizza delivery and swimming pool sanitation. After graduating high school, he attended and dropped out of several universities before becoming a computer programmer who worked at an e-publishing company.

The Right Stuff (blog)

The Right Stuff is a white nationalist, neo-fascist neo-Nazi blog founded by Enoch that hosts several podcasts, including The Daily Shoah and Fash the Nation. The blog is best known for popularizing the use of triple parentheses to identify Jews on social media. The Daily Shoah is a far-right podcast, hosted on TRS. Its name uses the Hebrew word referring to the Holocaust. The podcast also uses the triple parentheses symbol.

Doxing incident In January 2017, users of the imageboard website 8chan leaked the identities of several of its key contributors, including Enoch, and revealed that his wife was Jewish and that their wedding had featured traditional Jewish rites and chanting. After initially attempting to deny the reports, Enoch later admitted that the allegations were true. Though Enoch initially planned to leave the network, he quickly changed his mind and vowed to continue his activities. However, the fact that the released biographical information about Enoch contradicted his professed ideology He said he married her despite her being Jewish because she did not have what he considered to be Jewish traits, which he said were "he pushiness, this absolute inability to empathize with others, an exploitative personality". and Richard B. Spencer.

On 18 April 2017, Enoch joined Richard B. Spencer in giving a talk at Auburn University where he expressed that he and the movement were breaking away from the new direction that the Trump administration was taking. While Auburn administration had initially cancelled the planned event, citing safety concerns, Enoch assisted Spencer in filing a lawsuit on First Amendment grounds.

In April 2018, he was retweeted by Ann Coulter following his dissemination of conspiracy theories relating to the Douma chemical attack in Syria claiming it was faked. After Newsweek asked Twitter for a comment, his account was suspended.

In addition to his founding of a neo-Nazi media network, Enoch has drawn attention for his role in organizing book burnings.

Legal issues

In October 2017, Enoch was listed as a defendant in Sines v. Kessler, the federal civil lawsuit against various organizers, promoters, and participants of the 2017 Unite the Right rally. The trial began on October 25, 2021, and the jury reached a verdict on November 23. All defendants other than Enoch, who had previously been dismissed from the case, were found liable for civil conspiracy under Virginia state law, and ordered to pay $500,000 in punitive damages. The jury were deadlocked on the two other claims pertaining to Enoch, which argued he and other defendants had engaged in a federal conspiracy to commit racially motivated violence.