Elliot Kline, also known as Eli Mosley, is an American neo-Nazi, anti-semitic conspiracy theorist and military impostor. He is the former head of Identity Evropa, and was a prominent organizer in the alt-right movement between 2017 and 2018. He was also a key figure behind the August 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, among other neo-Nazi rallies that Kline helped organize. Kline's pseudonym of Eli Mosley was inspired by British fascist Oswald Mosley. Kline is known for pretending to be a combat veteran, a ruse that he carried out in order to gain respect and a leadership position in the neo-Nazi community. Kline's lie was exposed in a February 2018New York Times documentary, which led to widespread ridicule, both from among Kline's political opponents and his supporters. After he was personally discredited, Kline withdrew from political activism. As a far-right activist, Kline drew attention for his highly explicit use of racial slurs and his celebration of violence against non-whites. On neo-Nazi podcasts, he openly laughed as he described "firing niggers and spics" in his entry-level HR job, and bragged about killing "muds" and "watching Muslims's brains sprayed on the wall".
Biography
Kline graduated high school in 2010 then attended several colleges before dropping out without obtaining a degree. He later joined the Pennsylvania National Guard. In order to bolster his reputation, Kline later pretended that he had deployed to and fought in Iraq, when in fact his unit never left the state of Pennsylvania during his service. Kline was part of the Proud Boys and helped organize the Unite the Right rally; after Kline condemned Jason Kessler's response to Heather Heyer's death, Kessler later tweeted that he "has done a coordinated smear job on me, from within the movement; that person is Eli Mosley, Elliott Kline. From the beginning he was fucking things up." Kline later became the head of Identity Evropa in August 2017. At the same time, Kline took a position as a writer for the neo-nazi Daily Stormer, for which he promoted race hatred and conspiracy theories about Jews. Describing a pro-Trump rally in Pittsburgh for the white supremacist anti-semitic Daily Stormer, Kline commented on "hooked-nose" Philadelphians, called a female protestor at "filthy Jewess" and a "kike", and said that the rally was "a sign that we have moved into a new era in the Nazification of America. Normie Trump supporters are becoming racially aware and Jew wise. They are willing to stick up for themselves side by side with Nazis..." Kline was jailed in January 2020 after failing to comply with document production related to a Unite the Right lawsuit filed on behalf of Virginia residents by Integrity First for America. He is being held at the Albemarle-Charlottesville County Regional Jail.
