He told his confidant that if they couldn’t execute the plan that day, it could be rescheduled to “some Jewish holiday” at “Jewish schools full of kids.… Dead Jewish kids.”
But unknown to neo-Nazi Michail Chkhikvishvili was the fact that he was sharing those plans with an undercover FBI agent.
In July 2024, Chkhikvishvili was indicted in New York on four counts of conspiracy to solicit hate crimes and acts of mass violence, and he was arrested in Moldova. The following May, the Georgian national was extradited to the United States.
“Chkhikvishvili’s monstrous plots and propaganda calling for racially motivated violence against civilians, including children, posed a grave threat to public safety.”
On November 17, Chkhikvishvili, aka “Commander Butcher,” pleaded guilty to soliciting violent felony hate crimes and disseminating instructional material on how to build bombs and manufacture a poisoning agent. He faces up to 18 years in prison, and the sentencing will take place on March 9.
Bombs. Poison. Guns. These are the tools of the trade of the accelerationists—neo-Nazis who advocate for bloodshed, explicitly encouraging mass violence against racial, ethnic and religious minorities. Their name reflects the belief that killing their perceived enemies and destroying “the system”—which they claim is controlled by Jews—will hasten its collapse and pave the way for a new, whites-only world.
Chkhikvishvili wasn’t merely a foot soldier in this movement. He was its engine—producing propaganda, coordinating believers and laying the operational groundwork.
At the center of that machinery was Maniac Murder Cult (MKY), an accelerationist terrorist cell he led that originated in Eastern Europe. Its pivot to US targets makes clear the group was courting like-minded monsters in the West.
Accelerationism itself isn’t new. The March 2019 Christchurch mosque shooter who killed 51 people and injured 89 more promoted it in a section of his manifesto entitled “Destabilization and Accelerationism: Tactics.”
As for Chkhikvishvili, his actions and propaganda have already contributed to multiple violent attacks globally, including a January 2025 school shooting in Nashville, Tennessee; a livestreamed stabbing of five outside a mosque in Turkey in August 2024; and the murder of a 74-year-old woman in Romania, all referencing MKY materials.
He also authored the “Hater’s Handbook,” a manifesto and how-to manual providing instructions to carry out mass murder, bioterrorism and cyberattacks, with a special emphasis on school shootings.
“Chkhikvishvili’s monstrous plots and propaganda calling for racially motivated violence against civilians, including children, posed a grave threat to public safety,” said Assistant Attorney General John A. Eisenberg. “We condemn his despicable ideology and will use every tool at our disposal to bring such predators to justice.”
“The defendant has admitted his vile actions, including recruiting others to commit acts of violence against Jewish and racial minority children,” said US Attorney Joseph Nocella, Jr. “His incitement of hate crimes resulted in real-world violence. This prosecution shows that our office will protect all communities from evildoers like the defendant from wherever they spew their hate.”
But what drove Michail Chkhikvishvili to such depths of hatred?
What convinced him that society was so “irredeemable” that only mass death—preferably of children—could cleanse it?
And after all of that, what does he have to say for himself?
Well, he says he was depressed and anxious as a teenager. He adds that while incarcerated at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, he began attending church and working out.
He apologized to “those communities” he had targeted.
“I’m going to do better with my life,” he said.
As if.
