Far-right US soldier wanted to ‘kill every Jew’

A serving US Army infantryman has been charged with making terrorist threats after allegedly telling a Discord chat group that he intended to attack a synagogue and murder every Jewish worshipper inside. Jakob Marcoulier, 22, a ‘Specalist soldier’ assigned to the 10th Mountain Division’s 3rd Brigade at Fort Polk, Louisiana, was indicted on 23 April…

1 May 2026

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Jacob Macoulier – wanted to kill every Jew

Jakob Marcoulier, 22, a ‘Specalist soldier’ assigned to the 10th Mountain Division’s 3rd Brigade at Fort Polk, Louisiana, was indicted on 23 April on a charge of transmitting threats in interstate commerce.

The FBI obtained audio recordings from Discord servers in which Marcoulier allegedly laid out his plans in explicit operational detail.

Kill every single Jew

According to an FBI affidavit, Marcoulier told other users that after his current deployment he intended to “walk into a synagogue with my AK, with a 75-round drum mag, and all of my extra mags, with my level four plates, and my haka helmet that’s three plus, and I am going to kill every single Jew.”

He said he would carry out the attack “for the f***ing cause” and added: “You’ll see me in the news. I promise you.”

Tip-off from member of public

Investigators linked the Discord account, operating under the username “el.bostino”, to Marcoulier after a member of the public flagged the threats to the FBI’s New Orleans field office in February.

“I’ll still kill these mother****ers in order to make sure the white youth is f***ing secured,” he reportedly said.

He joined the Army in July 2023 and completed one operational tour in Europe before the charges were filed.

Federal prosecutors sought pre-trial detention on the grounds that he posed a flight risk, claiming he had spoken of deploying overseas again, though Army officials confirmed his unit has no upcoming deployments.

Political persecution

The case lands at an awkward moment for the Pentagon.

Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth has signalled his intention to wind down the counter-extremism initiatives introduced after the January 2021 Capitol riot, arguing that screening troops for far-right sympathies amounts to political persecution.

Marcoulier, if convicted, faces up to five years in federal prison.

Category: International, News

Keywords: Jacob Marcoulier, Right wing terror

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