Christopher Cantwell, a white nationalist who famously wept over being wanted by the police in the wake of this summer’s violent Unite the Right rally, is now hosting a web radio show — from behind bars. He is boasting that he is a “political prisoner” and reading up on anti-Semitic books while jailed. Cantwell’s transformation…
Reddit has begun implementing new rules banning forums for Nazis and white supremacist groups. The company outlined the update to its policy on Wednesday with a statement on the site. “Going forward, we will take action against any content that encourages, glorifies, incites, or calls for violence or physical harm against an individual or a…
Three supporters of white nationalist Richard Spencer were arrested Thursday for their role in a shooting that followed an afternoon speech by Richard Spencer at the University of Florida. The three men accosted a group of protesters outside Spencer’s speech and shouted chants about Hitler and gave Nazi salutes, according to a release from the…
The Neo-Nazi site the Daily Stormer is encouraging flash mobs at minority and Jewish institutions near University of Florida to coincide with a scheduled speech by white nationalist Richard Spencer later today. Among the addresses posted by the neo-Nazi site were the local Chabad Center and the Institute of Black Culture. Neo-Nazi site the Daily…
Richard Spencer does not look like a neo-Nazi. He wears tweed three-piece suits and bowties, and cites Nietzsche as easily as he does Jared Taylor, the founder of “race realist” news site American Renaissance. Spencer advocates for a “peaceful ethnic cleansing” that would precede the creation of a white ethno-state in the United States, a…
A prominent British white supremacist has announced that he is renouncing his extremism and is coming out of the closet as a gay man with Jewish ancestry. Kevin Wilshaw was a leader of the National Front group in the 1980s, frequently spoke at nationalist rallies and was arrested for making racist online statements as recently…
The lawyer who argued the landmark Supreme Court case that made gay marriage legal in the U.S. is going after the organizers of Charlottesville’s “Unite the Right” rally. In a Washington Post podcast, Robert Kaplan explained the origins and nature of her court case against 26 organizers of the August rally, which led to the…
For many of the attendees of the “Unite the Right” rally in Charlotteville in August, it was their first time associated publicly with white nationalism, according to a new analysis from the ADL’s Center on Extremism. Researchers also found that the attendees were overwhelmingly white men — less than 7% of protesters were women. The…
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