Valencia, California – An investigation has led to the unmasking of two LA-based Jewish members of the anti-White extremism movement, commonly referred to as “Antifa,” including a founding member of the “Skinheads Against Racial Prejudice (SHARP)” movement as a former IDF guerilla fighter and consultant for the FBI.

Thanks to publically available information, counter-extremism researchers with the Justice Report can confidently name 50-year-old Michael Benjamin Salonius of Crescent City, California, as well as his mother, 75-year-old Arlene Joyce Salonius-Sherrod, as having direct ties to SHARP and a group known as the “Santa Clarita Valley Antifascists (SCV Antifa),” a black bloc extremist cell known to dox and issue credible threats of violence to working-class people across southern California.

Salonius, an ordained Rabbi and former IDF volunteer—who also maintains a sizeable following on TikTok as a “Cottagecore” influencer—is, in reality, a founding member of the controversy-laded Skinheads Against Racial Prejudice movement, an international street gang and subdivision of the Punk music scene often embroiled in misanthropic violence, drug use, and other petty crimes since its inception in the 1980s.

His mother, Salonius-Sherrod, likewise holds an illustrious career in political violence, having participated in the anti-war and Black supremacist riots of the 1960s under the banner of militant communism. Explicitly referred to as an “extremist” by her son, her family’s history of leftist agitation would ultimately bar Michael from US military service and force him into the open arms of a special IDF brigade.

“My folks had a radically alternative lifestyle…My mom was a member and a part of the Chicago Seven and got involved with what we now call domestic terrorism,” professed Michael Salonius to a Santa Clarita synagogue in 2017. “(The US Military) has a whole file on my mom’s family.”

Newly unearthed video lectures depict a slightly younger Michael Salonius admitting to a Jewish audience that he participated in West Bank settler violence during his time in an orthodox extremist “Hesder brigade.” He would later return to the United States and serve as a mental health consultant and pocket Rabbi for American law enforcement agencies, including the FBI.

“The neo-Nazi movement in America is strong, and it’s much stronger than you think,” he lamented during a lecture in 2017. “Don’t be lured into a false sense of security because we (Jews) live in these urban environments where they’re not so prevalent.”

“I don’t have the choice…I have to be on top of it all the time. I don’t have that luxury of relaxing,” he admitted. “We’re in a period of time where antisemitism is cool again…Both on the left and the right. It’s cool to hate Jews.”

With decades of experience enrolled in some of the most violent anarcho-communist groups in American history, both mother and son have gone on to proudly lend their support to various Antifascist causes, with the former going so far as to openly display a “three down arrows” logo on her residential mailbox.

The symbol—widely adopted by many antifascist cells, including the terror-linked American Iron Front—would ultimately be classified as indicative of “violent anarchist extremism” in a damning report by federal intelligence agencies.

What is SCV Antifa?

Operating on numerous social media accounts, SCV Antifa quickly made a name for itself in the world of anarchist slacktivism by flooding the online space with hate-fueled propaganda. Some of its “work” includes organizing to disrupt concerned parents at local school board meetings and issuing thinly veiled threats to right-wingers, which allude to the gunshot murder of their newborn children.

“Execute them all,” demanded SCV Antifa in an X/Twitter thread on the topic of January 6th detainees. “We could watch (Ashli Babbit) get shot over and over all day. Thank you! ♥,” they proclaimed in another.

Like many Antifa accounts that still linger on X/Twitter, SCV Antifa had regularly “boosted” or “retweeted” maliciously sourced doxes of its perceived enemies, up to and including posting photos of physical addresses in an attempt to silence and intimidate.

Their sadistic prose—filled with unhinged vulgarities and hyperviolent screeds—is often aimed at targets ranging from White Christians, local politicians, and everyday conservatives, which they take a particular interest in tormenting.

In August 2022, their antics culminated in the highly publicized removal of an anti-Zionist banner from a Los Angeles overpass. Activists had initially raised the banner to spread awareness of FBI corruption and the agency’s long-standing collaborative efforts with the “genocidal” regime in Israel.

Ultimately, however, SCV Antifa found it necessary to take the message down on behalf of the US Government, earning them recognition from their larger and equally abhorrent neighbors, the Conejo Valley Antifascists.

The extremist group also attempted to court the attention of several prominent Antifa accounts, endorsing posts from terror cells like the Elm Fork John Brown Gun Club and the previously exposed American Iron Front.

SCV Antifa’s meteoric rise would see them veer a little too close to the sun, however. In 2023, a heated courtroom battle between independent journalists at SCV Accountability and a woman named Rebecca Hindman—accused of running SCV Antifa’s social media account and the leftist doxing page RiseUpSCV—resulted in the group’s public-facing operations suddenly going dark.

In addition to Hindman, several other individuals were also accused of having direct ties to the SCV Antifa collective, including local Black supremacist and UberEats driver Renee McKellar, Saugus Union School District parent Shannon Patricia Laine Gerson, as well as Rebecca’s husband and “Disney adult” Rick Hindman. The sudden revelations nearly killed the group’s online activity, forcing a digital retreat to a single private Instagram page, where they have largely remained dormant ever since.

Things would change, however, when an unexpected post was made to that Instagram, discovered by pro-White activists who still had access to their feed.

The Investigation

In September, counter-extremism researchers with the Justice Report became aware of a seemingly innocuous photo uploaded to SCV Antifa’s now-private Instagram account. The image in question depicted a residential mailbox outside a home displaying one of the anarchist cell’s promotional stickers.

The mailbox address was obscured to protect the identity of the person displaying it. Still, the sticker, which included the SCV Antifascists logo, undeniably contained the group’s “three down arrows” and wolf, matching the account’s Instagram profile picture.

Since tampering with a mailbox in the United States is considered a federal offense, the sticker’s placement was determined to be voluntary and likely an act of willful political expression rather than petty vandalism.

Further investigation revealed that this would be the second time SCV Antifa would use the same home to promote their noxious “brand.”

On October 6th, 2022, the group uploaded a different photo to their official X/Twitter page, this time of two signs tucked away inside the home’s garage. The signs proudly read “ANTIFA” and “Black Lives Matter,” displayed on a wooden easel pointed towards the road. SCV Antifascists commented in the post, “That’s one way to let your neighbors know…”

With two documented instances of the same home being used as a free billboard for an anti-White hate group, its residents became a particular source of interest.

The findings were staggering. By combing through publically available information, researchers were able to geolocate the home to an area in Valencia, California, and identify its owner as 75-year-old Arlene Joyce “AJ” Salonius-Sherrod, a retired English teacher for the Los Angeles Unified School District.

Coincidentally, a personal Instagram account linked to Salonius-Sherrod contained a photo of the same mailbox outside her home, confirming our preliminary findings.

Further research into the address also uncovered the identity of another former resident, Salonius-Sherrod’s son, 50-year-old Michael Benjamin Salonius, a “Cottagecore” TikTok influencer, “poet,” and so-called “mental health advocate” currently living among the Redwoods of northern California.

A deeper dive into the seemingly sensitive yet rugged “mountaineer” discovered a full-throated Zionist Rabbi, volunteer IDF warfighter, and devout anarchist, who on social media wears “three down arrow” hats and shirts that loudly proclaim “fuck racism.”

On his personal Instagram, Michael can be seen posing in front of the same “ANTIFA/BLM” sign once featured on SCV Antifa’s X/Twitter page. In other posts, he proudly uploads memes and hurls threats of violence to “Nazis,” brandishing guns and knives in the name of what he calls “radical Judaism.”

“I didn’t become a rabbi to support the old system…Liberation means freedom from white purity,” he preached in 2019. “We must knock down our churches and synagogues that espouse the old oppressive systems. We must be willing to be arrested, imprisoned, and injured. Otherwise, we are supporting a culture that kills its young for the sake of a privileged few.”

While the early discoveries were promising, researchers quickly realized they were merely scratching the surface. What began as an investigation into the potential identities of those running a semi-inactive Antifa account morphed into something far more significant.

In Search of the Wild Man

Michael Benjamin Salonius was born via cesarean section on March 19th, 1974, at approximately 8:10 p.m. to his Jewish mother, “AJ” Salonius, and Finnish Métis father, Leonard Eric Salonius. Michael confesses that from a very young age, his mixed-race heritage served as a near-constant source of anguish, with identity woes continuing to torment him to this day.

Exacerbating this racial and cultural schism was a political divide. According to an interview Salonius once gave to a Santa Clarita-based synagogue in 2017, his father was a disgruntled Vietnam war veteran and right-wing extremist, and his mother was the opposite: a seasoned left-wing extremist with ties to the “Chicago Seven.”

He asserts that while his father’s side of the family was awash with what he called “antisemitism,” he nonetheless was taught how to trap, fish, shoot, and create improvised explosives at a very young age despite being “a Jew.”

Michael grew up in Porter Ranch in the San Fernando Valley and, in his teenage years, was swept up in the chaotic, drug-fueled haze of the 1980s Los Angeles punk music scene. At one point, he opted for a life of “homelessness” and “gang affiliation,” running away from home to drink and attend punk shows.

While he keeps the actual details of this early life concealed from the public, he claims to have joined an unidentified “Skinhead gang,” gaining entry to their compound to learn how to “fight cops.”

Armed with skills taught to him by his mother and father, he claims he would create and plant improvised explosives underneath LAPD squad cars outside of punk shows, leading to his arrest on charges of conspiracy and domestic terrorism.

As an adult, this incident would be recalled fondly, regularly producing a photo of his teenage mugshot to captive audiences as evidence of “police brutality” and his so-called “oppression” by local law enforcement.

While the charges would ultimately be dropped due to what Michael alleges was good behavior during the arrest process, the immediate consequences would soon spiral out of control.

For “not ratting” to police during interrogation, Michael says he was offered a spot in “national leadership” by a prominent area “neo-Nazi named Shawn.” When he finally confessed his Jewish ancestry, Michael alleges he was stabbed numerous times and nearly killed if not for the quick thinking of other skinheads rushing to his immediate aid.

This brush with death would be a transformative moment for Michael Salonius. In response, he claims he helped found the violent Skinheads Against Racial Prejudice movement alongside nine other people, including The Oppressed frontman Roddy Moreno.

Interestingly, Michael also alleges that SHARP had received material support from the terroristic Jewish Defense League, a now-defunct Jewish supremacist terror org.

The legacy would be a lasting one. To this day, SHARP, or “Baldies” as they are sometimes known, liken themselves as a mirror image of “racist” Skinheads and hold the twisted belief that racial tolerance can be achieved through force of street violence and intimidation.

This pursuit of violence to cleanse West Coast streets of perceived racists would culminate in the tragic 1993 New Year’s Day murder of punk musician Eric Banks in Portland, Oregon.

“In the 80s, I was foundational in developing an underground movement (SHARP) to combat (racism)…We were heavily backed up by the Jewish Defense League,” professed Michael Salonius during an interview, owning the group’s early success to suicidal Jewish terrorist Irv Rubin.

“It was safe to call it a war,” he said.

Under Michael’s leadership, SHARP would ultimately take root in Los Angeles and the West Coast, kicking off a series of tit-for-tat “assassination attempts” between the two camps. The resulting violence would force him into hiding amongst California’s Renaissance fair circuit, where he believed his enemies would not think to follow him.

The loss of several comrades to street vagrancy and crime would also drive him down the road of acute alcohol dependency. He asserts this addiction would follow him into adulthood, although he would later shake the habit and replace it with the consumption of medical marijuana.

With his father’s help, a teenage Michael Salonius briefly recuperated in Colorado, reconnecting with his “mountain man” heritage by training to become a back-country mountain guide. In his twenties, Michael would pursue his life’s dream of serving in the US military but would be denied access to the career after they discovered his mother’s history of communist agitation.

With no other place to go, the antifascist Michael Benjamin Salonius would, unironically, enlist as a volunteer fighter with the Israeli Defense Forces in the 1990s. Capitalizing on his half-Jewish ancestry and familial ties to the social Zionist kibbutz of Kfar Blum, he joined a “Hesder unit,” a controversial fighting force of ultra-orthodox Zionist Jews who combine front-line military service and Talmud study.

In an unearthed interview he once gave to a Santa Clarita synagogue about his overseas antics, Michael would confess he joined this paramilitary unit to “hone his skills” as a guerilla in the occupied West Bank, specifically citing his history of “extremism” as a boon in the mission to harm ethnic Palestinians.

In the end, Michael claims his time spent in the occupied territories helped him “reconnect with his Jewish identity.”

“I decided I was going to head off to Israel…The only thing I could do was go into the Yeshiva into what was called the Hesder unit, where there was a religious nationalist fervor…I didn’t have the religious extremism, but I could identify with the extremism,” he professed to a crowd in 2017.

“I’m not going to speak in great detail about it, but, needless to say, there in the settlements and West Bank…Groups would get very militaristic and call themselves the anti-intifada and would resist what ‘the resistance’ was doing without military approval,” he confirmed.

Because of the delicate political nature of the Israeli occupation, Hesder units and their Jewish supremacist foot soldiers are often embroiled in scandals, atrocities, and internationally recognized war crimes. One such Hesder unit is the now-infamous Netzah Yehuda Battalion, an ultra-orthodox wing of the IDF sanctioned for acts of extrajudicial murder, human rights abuses, and sexual assault of prisoners of war.

With many of its rank-and-file composed of the so-called “Hilltop Youth”—hardline Jewish settlers known for grabbing land via illegal outposts—the Netzah Yehuda were forced in 2022 to redeploy away from their traditional posting in the West Bank so they could be tempted less by potential victims.

“What it gave me was the opportunity to improve my sense of Jewish identity and engage in a skillset I was developing as a guerilla,” recalled Michael.

After his IDF service, Michael Salonius moved to New York, where he worked as a psychoanalyst, living a hip and trendy lifestyle with his Israeli dance choreographer wife, Ella Ben Aharon, in Manhattan’s affluent Upper West Side.

Searching for deeper meaning and “authenticity,” he eventually enrolled in the Academy of Jewish Religion to become a Rabbi in hopes of serving as a chaplain in Jewish hospitals and correctional facilities.

A graduate profile for Salonius asserts he seeks to “maintain a commitment to educate and train law enforcement, government agencies, and the military.” He trained in Rinzai Zen and Jewish mysticism while heavily leaning on the principles of the 90s-era mythopoetic men’s movement, a self-help workshop inspired by the writings of Robert Bly and Swiss therapist Carl Gustav Jung.

Armed with these new credentials, he would co-found the Spiritual Process and Resiliency Training (SPARTA) project with self-help guru and “corporate culture consultant” Philip Folsom.

SPARTA’s unique blend of pseudo-spiritualistic training regimens, new-age philosophy, and machismo trappings aims to court veterans and members of law enforcement dealing with the very real sickness of PTSD, depression, and other mental health concerns.

Michael’s capacity as the organization’s chief Rabbi saw him directly interface and consult with law enforcement agencies, including the FBI. His training assisted the federal government in dealing with hostage negotiations and other clandestine tactics.

“We train SWAT, FBI, and other agencies how to communicate with veterans in such a way that it doesn’t trigger that response of provocation. We’ll offer educational programs to hostage negotiators…We’re forging a new alliance with law enforcement and the military,” said Michael Benjamin Salonius, cofounder of the SHARP movement, to a local synagogue.

During his time with SPARTA, Michael would digitally advocate for what he called “radical Judaism,” which calls for the destruction of churches and the abolition of “White purity.”

On July 17th, 2020, Michael would suddenly give up his mental health and rabbinical careers and uproot himself from Los Angeles to live in a family-owned 1,152-square-foot cabin in the redwoods of northern California. Dubbed “Howland Hill Ranch,” Michael’s two-bedroom retreat sits on Elk Valley Indian land, a privilege he can claim thanks to his distant Métis ancestry on his father’s side.

Using the abject beauty of the redwoods to once again “reconnect” with his mountain-man lineage, Michael now appears to write poetry, smoke weed, and engulf himself in the “Cottagecore” lifestyle on TikTok. He has seemingly dropped the punk attire and White collar uniforms of his previous identities to don cowboy hats, leather, and aviator sunglasses.

By fully leaning into these hyper-masculine themes, it’s apparent he wishes to court heterosexual men into his patented yet ironic blend of progressive, anti-racist Zionism.

Currently, the self-professed “cowboy poet,” and “elk rancher” is writing a book titled In Search of the Wild Man, which he hints will be released soon under his own publishing house, Howland Hill Press. An analysis of social media accounts tied to Michael Salonius reveals he is likely cohabitating with a 36-year-old female who may be actively editing and producing his work.

With a documented history of violent extremism, IDF military training, and an intimate knowledge of the creation of improvised explosives, Michael Benjamin Salonius should be considered heavily armed and extremely dangerous. Photos uploaded to Facebook and Instagram reveal he has access to a number of firearms, including long guns and pistols, and is likely proficient in their use.

He maintains close ties to individuals in the Santa Clarita Valley area of southern California, specifically Valencia, and is known to make regular visits. On social media, he sometimes uses the name “Charbonneau,” an homage to Toussaint Charbonneau, a French Canadian explorer whom he alleges a distant relation to.

While the details surrounding Michael Salonius’s contributions to the world of anti-White extremism might appear cut and dry, far less is known about his enigmatic yet equally dangerous mother, AJ Salonius-Sherrod.

A record of her alleged misdeeds during the tumultuous 1960s is slim. However, an old blog penned by AJ titled Life on the Border(line) provides a disturbing window into an alleged world of profound mental illness, appearing to stem from four divorces and an untreated diagnosis of borderline personality disorder.

“My throat raw from the yelling — self loathing — why can’t i control myself –hear my mother’s voice telling me to control myself,” wrote elderly Antifa propagandist AJ Salonius-Sherrod. “I am powerless over myself and my life is unmanageable–powerless over my emotions — struggle with them daily — contend with them — the angel of death.”

The Justice Report reached out to Michael Selonius to discuss his sordid career as a foundational member of the modern Antifa movement but did not hear back in time for a response. Instead, independent journalists were blocked on Instagram, a platform that was never used to make contact.

‘Skinhead Against the Reunification of Palestine’

Michael Benjamin Salonius and his mother are just some of the many Jewish minders currently embedded inside the post-October 7th left: racial activists who breathlessly champion mass immigration, police reform, anti-racism, and allegedly human rights, yet increasingly demand unprincipled exceptions for the state of Israel.

In an October 2023 Facebook post, Michael was candid with his views on the Gaza conflict, which appeared to directly mirror the express desires and stated goals of the US State Department and the Israeli Knesset. Like a chameleon, the lifelong anarchist dropped any pretense of leftist principle, instead parroting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s talking points, which falsely equated Muslim resistance forces to the western-intelligence-backed terrorist organization “ISIS.”

“Please use the hashtag #HamasIsIsis when arguing with those who malign Israel online. This is a direct request from folks within Israel that are combating the misinformation and propaganda war being waged on the Jewish People,” he implored on Facebook.

“Jews are indigenous to the land you are calling colonized. You are the problem. You are the racist,” he insisted in another.

Researchers were also able to unearth evidence of an undying love for the Jewish state from decades before October 7th. In an April 3, 2003 article from the Jewish Journal, a 29-year-old Michael Salonius was quoted as having referred to the bloody occupation of Palestine as a “clash of civilizations,” adding that he hoped “our (Israeli) values will win.”

Michael’s previously unreported history of anti-White extremism may appear shocking to a discerning public. However, murmurs from those who worked with him have existed for months, recalling a dark side rarely seen by his followers, fans, and closest comrades.

In an X/Twitter post made just this February, fellow anarchist Red Heron openly accused the SHARP founder and IDF jackboot as a “horrific human being” whose political duplicity works to conceal his true colors until it’s too late.

“I worked with Rabbi Michael Salonius on a project back in 2021, and it took him a while to fully reveal himself as the horrific human being he IS, and the fact he also worked as an Israeli guerilla in his youth makes so much fucking sense now,” they wrote. “He’s fucking disturbed.”

I worked with Rabbi Michael Salonius on a project back in 2021 and it took him a while to fully reveal himself as the horrific human being he IS and the fact that he also worked as an Israeli guerilla in his youth makes so much fucking sense now. He’s fucking disturbed.

— Red Heron (@MelissaJKali) February 17, 2024

It’s becoming increasingly common to see those on the Zionist left demand Americans uncritically accept diversity and reject vague definitions of so-called “White supremacy.

Yet, at the same time, they are expected to offer full-throated support for Israel, a racial project directly responsible for the wholesale murder of ethnic Palestinians. In the same breath, Americans might also be asked to respect the Jewish nation’s ongoing debate over the right to rape indigent prisoners or ignore the ethical dilemma presented by the detonation of consumer-grade electronics in acts of unrestricted terror.

Michael’s extant SHARP movement merely extends this moral and political hypocrisy. In November of 2023, two Jewish SHARPs were filmed brutally assaulting a crowd of anti-war protestors on the streets of Los Angeles, outraged after an Israeli propaganda film drew scrutiny from the public.

The two ostensibly “antifascist” SHARPs would then spit on the concept of intersectionality by hurling fists and “transphobic” remarks at fellow leftists in an attempt to justify their pro-genocide positions on Israel.

Thanks to the work of independent researchers, however, the culprits were unmasked as 40-year-old Jonathan “Beer Mug” Kantrowe, a “morning zoo” radio DJ for LA’s KROQ-FM, as well as Zionist “street poet” Arlan Mitnick. The two later scrubbed their social media for sensitive information, with Kantrowe releasing a tepid non-apology for his role in the violence on Instagram.

Months later, when pro-Palestine sentiment had surged on college campuses across the United States, it was Jewish and Israeli leftists who committed a bulk of the violence. At UCLA, dozens of mask-clad Zionists had stormed a peaceful pro-Palestine sit-in, some waving the flag of Chabad messianism. Over the course of the attack, local police appeared to standby and greenlight a savage one-way assault that culminated in the attempted murder of at least three people.

With justice being conveniently withheld in the case, online activists quickly went to work exposing two of the more violent assailants as Alon Abishoor, the wealthy Jewish co-founder of multiple progressive non-profits, and Eliran Bismut, an active-duty member of the Israeli Defense Forces.

The outing of a Zionist FBI consultant as a co-founder of one of the “Antifa” movement’s most prominent terror cells represents a growing trend.

In September of last year, counter-extremist researchers unmasked a cybersecurity expert for the French IT company Eviden as a member of the terror-linked American Iron Front. The extremist, identified as 23-year-old Nathan Edward Shelley of Broomfield, Colorado, would be caught using his company’s proprietary technology to surveil private citizens and send their personal information to the FBI.

Months later, another anarchist would be unmasked as an FBI collaborator, this time 19-year-old Atticus “Ashlynn” Baldwin of Richmond, Virginia, a transsexual video gamer specializing in the chat-room infiltration of online right-wingers. A deep dive into Baldwin’s life revealed he may have been radicalized by the death of his father, blaming the Christian god for his cancer diagnosis and subsequent loss.

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