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Jason Kessler, the organizer behind last year’s violent white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, was knee-deep into a live-streamed conversation about Jews with neo-Nazi former U.S. Senate candidate Patrick Little when disaster struck: he was interrupted by his angry father. It led them to commiserate about their money woes, a consequence of their hate campaigns….
WASHINGTON, Aug 12 (Reuters) – A white nationalist rally in the heart of Washington drew around 20 demonstrators and hundreds of chanting counterprotesters on Sunday, the one-year anniversary of racially charged violence in Charlottesville, Virginia. A large police presence kept the two sides separated in Lafayette Square, in front of the White House. After roughly…
Jews, both individually and as part of Jewish groups, have been heavily active in opposing the “Unite the Right 2” rally in Washington, D.C. on Sunday organized by the coordinator of last year’s deadly white supremacist march in Charlottesville, Virginia. Knowing that attendees of the march last year chanted “Jews will not replace us,” some…
The organizers of the coming weekend’s “Unite the Right 2” event say it’s a “rally.” Certain Jewish counter-protesters call it something very different — a “pogrom” — and they do so for a very specific reason. A wide range of Jewish and anti-hate organizations are planning to participate in events opposing the August 12 march,…
On Friday, August 11, one year ago this weekend, hundreds of white men (and some white women) marched in Charlottesville, VA for the white nationalist Unite The Right rally. They surrounded a synagogue where a Jewish community was holding Kabbalat Shabbat services. They shouted Nazi and Ku Klux Klan slogans. They assaulted counter-protestors. The next…
The organizer behind this summer’s explosive Unite The Right rally of white supremacists is planning an anniversary event next summer — seeking to cast himself as a “political dissident” standing up for civil rights. Jason Kessler, who spearheaded August’s explosive event, announced this week that he’s drafting plans for the one-year anniversary of the original…
Welcome back to Jane Looking Forward. If you wish to continue reading this weekly newsletter, please subscribe here. And spread the word! Richard Fausset’s weekend story in The New York Times about a neo-Nazi’s “normal” life in the Ohio heartland drew a barrage of complaints for soft-pedaling his odious beliefs. The Forward writes about neo-Nazis,…
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…
