Robert James Fischer (March 9, 1943 – January 17, 2008) was an American chess grandmaster

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Robert James Fischer (March 9, 1943 – January 17, 2008) was an American chess grandmaster and the eleventh World Chess Champion.

Religious affiliation

Although Fischer's mother was Jewish, Fischer rejected attempts to label him as Jewish.

Antisemitism

Fischer made numerous antisemitic statements and professed a general hatred for Jews from at least the early 1960s. Jan Hein Donner wrote that at the time of Bled 1961, "He idolized Hitler and read everything about him that he could lay his hands on.

From the 1980s on, Fischer's comments about Jews were a major theme in his public and private remarks. He openly denied the Holocaust, and called the United States "a farce controlled by dirty, hook-nosed, circumcised Jew bastards".

While expressing his view on United States and Israeli foreign policy, saying, "I applaud the act. Look, nobody gets ... that the US and Israel have been slaughtering the Palestinians ... for years.

Information:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Fischer

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