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 [email protected] and follow him on Twitter at @skestenbaum and on Instagram at @skestenbaum.
For Richard Spencer, the leading ideologue of the “alt-right,” Donald Trump’s Holocaust Remembrance Day statement that failed to mention Jews or anti-Semitism was an important, perhaps revolutionary, step. Spencer dubbed it the “de-Judification” of the Holocaust. Jewish activists, Spencer wrote in a short post for his new website, Altright.com, have long insisted on making the…
Protests against President Donald Trump brought a range of groups into the streets last week. Throngs of protestors wore pink “pussy hats” and chanted, “When they go low, we go high!” Others covered their faces, smashed windows and punched white nationalist Richard Spencer in the face. The more extreme actions are the work of anti-fascist…
During a live-streamed protest performance organized by actor Shia LaBeouf members of the “alt-right” bombarded the camera, praising Donald Trump and delivering coded messages to fellow members of their white nationalist movement. LaBeouf, who was born to a Jewish mother and a Christian father, calls his participatory performance piece, “He will not divide us,” a…
White nationalist Richard Spencer, popularizer of the term “alt-right,” is kicking off 2017 with a tour of college campuses. On his website Radix Journal, a promotion for the tour bills Spencer as “one of the most politically incorrect men alive.” “He’ll debate your favorite feminist professor … make the SJWs cry … and rustle the…
Pope Francis is warning against growing populism in Europe — pointing out that similar nationalist sentiments led to the election of Adolf Hitler. “In times of crisis, we lack judgment,” the pontiff said in an interview with the Spanish outlet El Pais, according to an NBC translation. “The most obvious example of European populism is…
Actor and performance artist Shia LaBeouf shouted down a man espousing white supremacist doctrine in an altercation that was live streamed as part of a protest art piece against President Donald Trump over the weekend. An unnamed man wearing a grey hat and a black backpack interrupted a group chant led by LaBeouf to face…
For the white nationalist “alt-right” that reveled in Donald Trump’s win, the two Jews who took the podium during his swearing-in were the agents of a foreign and anti-white agenda. “Chuck Schumer is speaking,” tweeted Richard Spencer, head of the white nationalist National Policy Institute. “It’s generous of Trump to allow a representative of a…
Former head of the Ku Klux Klan David Duke has long seen in Donald Trump a champion of his own anti-Semitic white nationalist agenda. And during the 45th president’s inauguration today, Duke celebrated what he perceived as Trump declaring “war” on a perceived Jewish agenda. Duke, who commented on the speech on Twitter, used the…
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