Among recent additions to the popular website Dicionary.com is the term “alt-right,” which catapulted into public consciousness in the last year or so, particularly during the fraught election season. Scholars, journalists and activists have struggled to pin down exactly what the term means — and it’s origins are even unclear. While white nationalist, or “Identitarian,”…
The white nationalist whose church was burned to the ground in North Dakota said he has hopes of rebuilding the structure — and naming it after President Trump. “If they want to keep pushing I just may very well retain the lot and build a building there and still make The President Donald J. Trump…
The white nationalist who fatally stabbed a black man in New York said he cultivated his worldview online, where he frequented websites like the “alt-right” neo-Nazi hub the Daily Stormer. In a Sunday interview with the Daily News, 28-year-old white nationalist James Jackson said he hoped his killing of a black man would discourage interracial…
A 108-year-old church recently bought by white nationalist Craig Cobb burned to the ground Wednesday in the rural town of Nome in North Dakota, the Bismarck Tribune reported. Cobb bought the structure in February and said he planned on dedicating it to a white supremacist group and naming it after President Donald Trump. Cobb had…
There’s not much we know about the 19-year-old Jewish Israeli-American who is allegedly responsible for the bomb threats phoned into more than 100 JCCs in the last month. But that hasn’t stopped opportunists from rushing in with simplistic opinions. For example, hard-rightist Mort Klein, who leads a small organization heavily funded by a few Jewish…
Google plans to give advertisers greater control over where their ads appear, following a number of cases where brands complained about their products being displaying alongside content from right-wing preachers and white supremacists, including former Ku Klux Klan head David Duke. “We know that this is unacceptable to the advertisers and agencies who put their…
Some members of “alt-right” movement are hoisting up Jane Austen as an icon — hoping to equate their vision of white nationalism with a beloved literary icon. “By comparing their movement not to the nightmare Germany of Hitler and Goebbels, but instead to the cozy England of Austen — a much-beloved author with a centuries-long…
Sebastian Gorka, President Trump’s top counter-terrorism adviser, is a formal member of a Hungarian far-right group that is listed by the U.S. State Department as having been “under the direction of the Nazi Government of Germany” during World War II, leaders of the organization have told the Forward. The elite order, known as the Vitézi…
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