We were sitting on his porch, his dog yapping as people walked beneath the street lights. Over 1,000 miles from home, in Dubuque, Iowa, I was interviewing him about what it meant to be an American, about the things that everyone in our country shared. When asked about the three things all Americans need to…
A prominent white nationalist website re-tweeted Louis Farrakhan last week and invited the Nation of Islam leader to speak in a public forum. “This is the sort of self-determination we and the broader Alt-Right support,” wrote American Renaissance, a self-described “race realist” magazine. Farrakhan’s original tweet urged black people to “be more convinced that it…
The Philadelphia City Council president introduced a bill last week that would prohibit local public employees from displaying symbols that could be seen as promoting hate speech. This comes after a BuzzFeed News story about a Philadelphia police officer who faced no discipline for displaying a tattoo on his arm that appeared to be a…
Business leaders, elected officials and residents in Charlottesville, Virginia, are going to court to try to prevent a repeat of the violence at a white nationalist rally that ripped through town this summer. Mike Signer, the Jewish mayor of Charlottesville, said he supported the legal campaign to prevent future white nationalist violence — decrying what…
In a useful new guide, experts from the Southern Poverty Law Center explain the meaning behind popular white supremacist slogans — from the perhaps obvious, like “White lives matter,” to the more cryptic, like “Harry Potter isn’t real.” The slogan “You will not replace us” — which morphed into “Jew will not replace us” during…
Updated 4:10 p.m. Rep. Dana Rohrabacher brought a Holocaust denier to a meeting last week with Sen. Rand Paul to discuss Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, the Daily Caller reported. The publication noted that Rohrabacher, a California Republican, “brought along top aide Paul Behrends and conservative journalist Charles C. Johnson.” Johnson, an internet troll and vocal…
White nationalist group Identity Evropa is ramping up its university outreach during the first weeks of the new school year, continuing what the group calls “Project Siege.” According to Identity Evropa’s social media channel, the white nationalist group is targeting schools in a dozen states, including California, Virginia, Massachusetts and New York. The white nationalists…
White supremacists on the “alt-right” are gleefully jumping on accusations that Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein sexually harassed employees and actresses for decades as “evidence” of their anti-Semitic worldview. Pointing to Weinstein, some on the far right say his story illustrates that Jews have a perverse and degenerative effect on American society — and are contributing…
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