Who Is ‘The Savior’ — and Why Does He Keep Targeting Jewish Neighborhoods?

In a classic, textbook case of incitement, a man who styles himself “The Savior” told a Syrian man in London that people in Golders Green, a heavily Jewish neighborhood in London, threatened to beat him up because he said he supported Palestine. This infuriated the man, who said he would go to that neighborhood and “f— them up.”

The man appeared to have one standard answer to everything, which was to “f—” everyone and everything up.

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For example, in answer to the question, “Do you think a one-state or a two-state [solution] would help Palestine?” he said, “Not separated. We f— them up.”

In response to the statement, “One state would be better,” he said, “We f— them up. Yeah, yeah, we f— them up.”

The Savior, whose real name is Josh Kent-Smith, is an online influencer who gained popularity among Jew haters for entering heavily Jewish spaces and harassing Jews, as well as promoting conspiracy theories. In this video, he is clearly engaging in conduct that could constitute incitement. The X user who posted the video noted that he had been reported to the authorities.

The Jewish Chronicle reported last week that Kent-Smith was imprisoned in 2019 after pleading guilty to robbery. When he got out of jail, he said that he began to see “the truth about what’s going on in this world.”

“I realized my enemy was not on my doorstep, but my enemy was the global Zionist elites that tax us into oblivion and start endless wars and commit genocides on the world stage,” he explained.

Gaining a following online under the name “The Savior,” Kent-Smith blamed Israel for the recent car-ramming attack in Berlin, accused Israelis of backing “Islamic extremist terror” and promoted conspiracy theories about Jeffrey Epstein, pedophiles (the only people he said support Israel), the IDF killing its own people on Oct. 7 and many of the other usual crackpot theories that have become popular among Jew haters after Oct. 7.

He became popular for targeting heavily Jewish neighborhoods for his content creation, asking people on the street for their opinions on Israel, “Palestine” and Epstein and calling anti-Zionist Jews “good Jews.”