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.
Neo-Nazi Andrew Anglin blames “Jewish trickery” after his armed neo-Nazi march against the Jews of Whitefish, Montana, failed to materialize. But there was no “Jewish plot” that derailed Anglin’s plans. The city of Whitefish says they would have processed his permit application for an armed march — if it had been submitted complete. What’s more,…
After a neo-Nazi organizer called off a planned rally in Montana, he took abuse from a most unlikely source. Joshua Seidel, a Jewish writer affiliated with the “alt-right,” berated Andrew Anglin and his website the Daily Stormer as “cucks.” Cucks. https://t.co/lAGA4PPlK3 — Joshua Seidel (@jewrightwing) January 12, 2017 A “cuck” is an “alt-right” insult, a…
A week before he is scheduled to lead an armed march against local Jews in Whitefish, Montana, neo-Nazi Andrew Anglin finally submitted a permit application to the city — but it’s incomplete. Vanice Woodbeck, the assistant clerk in Whitefish, told the Forward she received Anglin’s application Monday morning. She said she notified Anglin he was…
The Canadian branch of the Jewish Defense League is prepared to mobilize in Whitefish, Montana, where neo-Nazis are planning an anti-Jewish march on Martin Luther King Jr. Day — and do whatever it takes to “smash the Nazis.” “We would be more than wiling to help in any way,” said Meir Weinstein, national director of…
Supporters of the far-right Jewish Defense League, an extremist group angling for a resurgence in the wake of Donald Trump’s election, say they are sympathetic to the white nationalism of the “alt-right” — and have no plans to push back against an anti-Jewish march planned in Whitefish, Montana by a neo-Nazi. At a New York…
The neo-Nazi website organizing an armed march against Jews in Whitefish, Montana is firming up details about the much-discussed event — setting a date, time and location for the rally of white supremacists. “As promised, we have filed our paperwork for the March on Whitefish, which is scheduled for January 16th,” Andrew Anglin, who runs…
Fast-food giant Wendy’s may have accidentally become the happy meal of white nationalists, but the burger joint is giving them a frosty reception. On Wednesday Wendy’s tweeted a meme of Pepe the Frog, icon of the so-called “alt-right,” recast as the company’s mascot, a red-headed girl in pigtails. The tweet was in response to another…
A much-discussed march of neo-Nazis holding “high-powered rifles” against Jews and Jewish businesses in Whitefish, Montana, now has a date: Sunday, January 15. Andrew Anglin, who runs the neo-Nazi Daily Stormer website and conceived of the march, announced the date through a local ABC FOX station. “Jews have operated with impunity for decades, destroying the…
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