(JTA) — A 22-year-old British man who has declared himself a Nazi was found guilty of stirring up racial hatred against Jews. A Preston Crown Court jury found the Lancashire man guilty Monday in a jury trial. He will be sentenced at a later date, according to reports. The man cannot be named for legal…
(JTA) — A teenage boy shot and killed the parents of his girlfriend after they convinced her not to see him anymore because he was an “outspoken neo Nazi.” The boy, 17, of Lorton, Virginia, on Friday shot and seriously injured himself after killing his girlfriend’s parents in their home. He was charged on Saturday…
Organizers behind last summer’s deadly “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia are being denied permits to hold a second rally on its anniversary next year. The original rally, which drew a large crowd of white supremacists and neo-Nazis, devolved into violence and resulted in the killing of one counter-protestor. The city of Charlottesville said…
A funny thing happened on the way through our recent Nazi poll. On November 30, the Forward’s opinion editor inquired of the Twitterverse, asking, “Should neo-Nazis be fired from their jobs?” Should neo-Nazis be fired from their jobs? — Batya Ungar-Sargon (@bungarsargon) November 30, 2017 In the first few hours of the poll, the dozens…
On November 11th, 60,000 protesters commemorated Polish Independence Day in a scene reminiscent of Charlottesville. As I later wrote in the Forward, a smaller contingency marched down my street, a part of the former Warsaw Jewish Ghetto. The march was organized in part by two self-proclaimed “radical nationalist” groups who take their name from anti-Semitic…
In our culture it has become popular thinking to equate right wing, and especially extreme right wing, with the source of all evil. Nazism was a regime which brought to light the worst of human behavior. However, research has shown that the barbarity and cruelty of the Nazis is not necessarily a trait specific to…
Lawyers for a prominent neo-Nazi are arguing that his call for a “troll storm” of threats against a Jewish woman in Montana is protected as free speech, the Washington Post reported. Andrew Anglin, founder of the neo-Nazi site The Daily Stormer, asked a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit against him brought by Tanya Gersh….
The ongoing fallout from the controversial New York Times profile of Tony Hovater, a young promoter of racist and neo-Nazi ideology, has had an unexpected side effect. It is shining a spotlight on GoyFundMe, a new online crowdfunding platform for racists, white supremacists and other fringe political players, banned from mainstream platforms and online services….
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