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Longtime Democratic incumbent Rep. Nita Lowey’s Republican challenger this fall is a Christian conservative author and activist whose writings have frowned on inter-racial marriage and movies like ‘Save the Last Dance,’ touted the benefits of studies linking race to IQ and said parents need to teach their kids ‘appropriate ethnic boundaries’ for marriage and socializing.

In the essay, Russell also praised T.S. Eliot and psychology professor Kevin MacDonald for looking to limit the proliferation of Jews. MacDonald, who’s served on the advisory board of the Occidental Quarterly, has been criticized as an anti-Semite who’s pushed the theory that Jews are essentially practicing group-think to outperform non-Jews. He also praises a book, ‘Camp of the Saints,’ that the SPLC has said is ‘revered by American white supremacists.’

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The 16-page essay titled "The Western Contribution to World History" combines scholarly language with racist theories. It accuses Jews of stealing "Western" inventions, and — citing research on goslings and finches — warns against racial mingling. The article ran in The Occidental Quarterly, a journal classified as a hate group with a white nationalist ideology.

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At a news conference, Russell suggested the GOP was being a bit oversensitive about withdrawing its support from his campaign over the paper, which was featured (at least for awhile) on David Duke's website.

In the interview, Russell largely tried to dodge questions about how, say, Jews in NY-18 should view him as a candidate. He says he's NOT "a kook" or a racist, but the victim of a "smear tactic" by Team Lowey.

He doesn't disavow the contents of the paper, which he says he hasn't read in a long time, and accuses the anchor of trying to draw him off topic (as if no one's talking about this in the district?)

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