International Society for Intelligence Research is a Nazi bar

Helmut Nyborg and Emil Kirkegaard, and their
tacky fashion-sense, standing in what I assume is
Nyborg's home, thanks to the sports poster
in the background

Although the International Society for Intelligence Research (ISIR) likes to imagine it appears respectable, by inviting some real science researchers to its conferences and publishing some real science in its journal "Intelligence," the organization displays its Nazi and segregationist/anti-Black heritage by continuing to platform hardcore, racist extremists.

Allowing Emil Kirkegaard to participate in its 2024 conference, after briefly exiling him for two years, is a dead give-away.

Kirkegaard is also part of the right-wing extremist neo-Nazi Scandza Forum gang. 

The organization has apparently been renamed "Guide to Kulcher." According to its website,  that name "...is from a book by American author Ezra Pound." 

Pound, although known as a poet, was a Nazi collaborator and traitor to the United States of America. He avoided the firing squad he so richly deserved thanks to his influential friends.

The Institute for Research and Education on Human Rights says:

The Scandza Forum was modeled on the London Forum, described by Greg Johnson as “the most important Rightist metapolitical organization in the UK and the model for the New York Forum, the Northwest Forum, the Scandza Forum, and similar events all over the white world.” [xi] 

London Forum founder Jeremy “Jez” Bedford-Turner was found guilty of inciting racial hatred in May 2018 after having called for his “soldiers” to liberate England from “Jewish control” in 2015. Under cross examination Bedford-Turner admitted that he wanted all Jews to exit the UK.[xii] Attendees at a 2017 London Forum included Holocaust denier David Irving, assorted anti-Semites, and an individual that declared the 2016 murder of British MP Jo Cox by “Britain First” advocate Tommy Mair to be “cheery news.” Also present was Ian Millard, an attorney banned from the bar in November 2014 after tweeting, among other things, “National Socialist Germany 1933-1945. Its flaws were few, its achievements many. Don’t believe Jewish-Zionist lies.”[xiii] 

In keeping with such origins, and Greg Johnson’s views on Hitler, it is unsurprising that the Scandza Forum appears to have a swastika embedded in its logo.

With some 50 to 150 attendees reported at permutations of the Scandza Forum, the event brings together racists from across Europe and the U.S., offers up live music and undertakes strenuous efforts to screen attendees. To date forums have been held in Oslo, Copenhagen and Stockholm, Sweden. Greg Johnson describes that, “The primary importance of events like the Scandza Forum is to encourage face-to-face community and networking…The real gain is meeting old friends and making new ones for socializing, brainstorming, and launching new initiatives.”[xiv]

Being anti-Black is built into ISIR's ethos, in spite of its very occasional Black participants, thanks to its association with people like Linda Gottfredson and, before they died, Arthur Jensen and J. P. Rushton. But it wasn't notably big on anti-Semitism. I assume that's because, in part, some influential promoters of race pseudoscience like "celebrity intellectual" Steven Pinker are Jewish. 

But now ISIR has harkened back to its Pioneer Fund/Wycliff Draper legacy thanks to some ISIR conference participants' alliance with Scandza Forum/Guide to Kulchur.

Emil Kirkegaard hasn't given presentations at Scandza/GTK conferences as far as I have found, but he's certainly attended them, as shown in the photo from the 2023 conference below. With him are Helmut Nyborg and Edward Dutton, who did speak at the conference. 

Nyborg has by my count participated in 13 out of 23 ISIR conferences, the most recent in 2022. He's a big fan of ISIR's ur-racists Rushton and Jensen. He's published in ultra-racist Mankind Quarterly. He's appeared at an American Renaissance conference. 

Dutton has not participated in ISIR conferences although he has attended at least once, last year - proudly announced by the far-right racist Aporia Magazine ghouls. More importantly, Dutton has been published in "Intelligence" the journal of the ISIR, many times.

Infamous anti-Semite Kevin MacDonald, who participated in at least three ISIR conferences, has also participated in at least one Scandza/GTK conference. 

So - is it really so bad that the ISIR allows neo-Nazis to participate in its conferences? 

Yes. Here is Michael B. Tager's Nazi bar story, which was originally shared in a series of tweets:

I was at a shitty crustpunk bar once getting an after-work beer. One of those shitholes where the bartenders clearly hate you. So the bartender and I were ignoring one another when someone sits next to me and he immediately says, "no. get out."

And the dude next to me says, "hey i'm not doing anything, i'm a paying customer." and the bartender reaches under the counter for a bat or something and says, "out. now." and the dude leaves, kind of yelling. And he was dressed in a punk uniform, I noticed

Anyway, I asked what that was about and the bartender was like, "you didn't see his vest but it was all nazi shit. Iron crosses and stuff. You get to recognize them."

And i was like, oh ok and he continues.

"you have to nip it in the bud immediately. These guys come in and it's always a nice, polite one. And you serve them because you don't want to cause a scene. And then they become a regular and after awhile they bring a friend. And that dude is cool too.

And then THEY bring friends and the friends bring friends and they stop being cool and then you realize, oh shit, this is a Nazi bar now. And it's too late because they're entrenched and if you try to kick them out, they cause a PROBLEM. So you have to shut them down.

And i was like, 'oh damn.' and he said "yeah, you have to ignore their reasonable arguments because their end goal is to be terrible, awful people." And then he went back to ignoring me. But I haven't forgotten that at all.

The ISIR doesn't appear to have any intentions to shut its own Nazi infestation down - in fact they seem to be encouraging it.