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….
After being profiled as Neo-Nazis Next Door in the New York Times, Tony and Maria Hovater soon found themselves without jobs. As Nazis, their views are clearly repugnant. But should they have lost their jobs as a result of their political beliefs, no matter how unsavory? Let us know what you think: Should neo-Nazis be…
Neo-Nazis think that the current government proposal to end net neutrality, sometimes called the “First Amendment of the internet,” will be to their benefit. Net neutrality means that web service providers like Comcast or Time Warner must treat and charge all websites the same regardless of content. The Federal Communications Commission is weighing whether to…
In 1963 Hannah Arendt published “Eichmann in Jerusalem”, in which she introduced the concept of the banality of evil. She argued that Adolph Eichmann, a senior Nazi and one of the chief architects of the Holocaust, was neither sociopathic nor a particularly fanatical anti-Semite. Instead, she concluded, that he was a rather ordinary, if capable,…
A white nationalist “Nazi sympathizing” husband and wife in Ohio reportedly lost their jobs after a New York Times profile broadcast their story worldwide. Now the two are soliciting money on an “alt-right” website called “Goy Fund Me” and have raised more than $5,000. The couple in the NYT Nazi article apparently have gotten fired…
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