Recently, Richard Spencer, a white supremacist who has garnered a lot of attention, inspired a campaign of intimidation and harassment against the Jewish community of Whitefish, Mont. a resort community where he and his family live. Racist web sites published the names and addresses of local Jews. Jewish children there were singled out for attack…
When Rabbi Matt Rosenberg went to a speech presented by one of the country’s leading white nationalists, he hoped to make a statement about the power of Judaism. During a question-and-answer session after the talk, Rosenberg, who heads Hillel at Texas A&M, asked Richard Spencer, the self-styled ambassador of the “alt-right,” whether the two could…
Fast-food giant Wendy’s may have accidentally become the happy meal of white nationalists, but the burger joint is giving them a frosty reception. On Wednesday Wendy’s tweeted a meme of Pepe the Frog, icon of the so-called “alt-right,” recast as the company’s mascot, a red-headed girl in pigtails. The tweet was in response to another…
The police in Whitefish, Montana are stepping up patrols and working with the F.B.I. after a Neo-Nazi website listed the names and contacts of local Jews, urging readers to “take action” against them. Lt. Bridger Kelch of the local Police Department told the New York Times that the force was ramping up their efforts after…
For two years, the quaint town of Whitefish, Montana, has been the unlikely site of a showdown against white supremacy. Now, amid agitation by local activists against a resident white supremacist and his family, neo-Nazis have made a public call for harassment against the Jews in his predominantly white and Christian area. “The heat is…
In the hours after Donald Trump’s victory in the presidential elections, bloggers on the white nationalist “alt-right” were exuberant. Their hours of trolling on Twitter for The Donald had paid off. The flood of amateurish viral images — where they recast Trump as a white crusader or a dark Emperor in Star Wars or the…
Stephen Miller, Donald Trump’s recently announced new White House senior adviser on policy, has a big fan, perhaps even a friend, he would like to ignore. According to a Mother Jones report Wednesday, Miller won praise from Richard Spencer, who said he has “no doubt” that Miller, who is Jewish, “will do a great job”…
The small city of Whitefish in Montana’s Flathead Valley may seems like an odd battleground in the fight against white supremacy. The city is in a pristine valley, between the snow-capped mountains of Glacier National Park and the peaceful Flathead Lake. Every winter, the town of Whitefish fills with visitors who come to ski the…
