Sam Kestenbaum is a contributing editor and former staff writer for the Forward. Before this, he worked for The New York Times and newsrooms in Sana, Ramallah and Beijing. Contact him at kestenbaum@forward.com and follow him on Twitter at @skestenbaum and on Instagram at @skestenbaum.
Leaders of the Southern Baptist Convention were divided over a resolution affirming the denomination’s opposition to the “alt-right” during their annual meeting this week in Arizona. On Tuesday, they initially declined to consider the proposal submitted by a prominent black pastor, the Atlantic reported, but changed course after a significant backlash. “The drama over the…
White nationalists have a new slogan: “You Will Not Replace Us.” It’s become a rallying cry at events and a catchphrase on fliers posted at universities, according to a blog post from the Anti-Defamation League. “The slogan speaks to a number of issues that white supremacists are preoccupied with — the preservation of the white…
A lawyer specializing in free-speech cases is representing neo-Nazi publisher Andrew Anglin who has been sued for orchestrating an online trolling campaign against a Jewish real estate agent and her family in Whitefish, Montana. Las Vegas lawyer Marc Randazza is defending the Daily Stormer’s founder against a federal lawsuit that Tanya Gersh filed against him…
The man called the “Jewish godfather of the ‘alt-right’” has a new book out this year — and white nationalist websites are applauding the work. Author and academic Paul Gottfried, mentor to Richard Spencer and self-described “paleoconservative,” released his thirteenth book this spring, a collection of essays titled “Revisions and Dissents.” In the book’s introduction,…
A suspected neo-Nazi with explosives who idolizes Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh and reads Hitler is not a threat to society, a judge ruled Friday. U.S. Magistrate Judge Thomas McCoun rejected the government’s argument that Brandon Russell should be held in jail because he “poses a threat to the community or is likely to flee…
Joshua Ruben Braff loaded his AR-15 rifle, took aim at a target on the other side of the hill and fired a magazine. Shots rang over the wooded hills and shells fell to the muddy ground around his boots. Braff turned around, signaled with his hand and another man took his place. Around 30 members…
America’s top neo-Nazi website officially endorsed UK’s socialist Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn in days leading up to the British general election — because he’s “seriously anti-Jew.” “I am actually, literally endorsing him,” wrote Andrew Anglin, publisher of the Daily Stormer wrote on June 7. Anglin even update the banner on his website to include…
The activist and author called “antifa’s most prominent Jew” has been booted off Twitter. “So Twitter gave in to the Nazis apparently and suspended my account,” Daniel Sieradski wrote in a public note describing the June 8 suspension of his account. “I had the temerity to fight hate on their platform when they won’t.” Twitter…
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