A group working to de-radicalize white supremacists had been set to receive funding from the Department of Homeland Security until Trump aide Katharine Gorka worked to eliminate its grant. Gorka, a homeland security official and the wife of controversial White House counterterrorism adviser Sebastian Gorka, was a member of President Trump’s transition team before his…
The popular neo-Nazi website The Daily Stormer will be moving its domain to the so-called dark web after it was cut off by GoDaddy and then Google, Motherboard reported Tuesday morning. On the dark web, the site will not need to rely on a domain registrar, according to the report. The move comes after GoDaddy…
Charlottesville mayor Mike Signer’s first encounter with anti-Semitism was in elementary school. In a speech earlier this year, he recalled hearing his “first hurtful ethnic slur” at the minority-majority public school he attended in Arlington, a wealthy Virginia suburb outside Washington, D.C. But nothing prepared the 44-year-old Democratic mayor of a liberal Virginia college town…
While the American president draws criticism for his response to the violence in Charlottesville, some in Israel are weighing in and pointing directly to the danger posed by neo-Nazis and white supremacists in America. Yad Vashem, Israel’s Holocaust memorial institute issued a statement Monday expressing its concern with the “images, hateful rhetoric, and subsequent violence…
The man accused of killing a woman by plowing his car into a crowd of counter-protesters outside a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, on Saturday is a Nazi sympathizer dating back to high school, The Washington Post reported Sunday. James Alex Fields, Jr., age 20, who drove to the rally from Ohio, wrote a…
First Daughter and presidential advisor Ivanka Trump tweeted her disapproval of “racism, white supremacy and neo-nazis” on Sunday morning, one day after three people died due to clashes between white nationalist protesters and counter-protesters in Charlottesville, Va. — which her father, President Trump, seemed to blame on “many sides.” “There should be no place in…
A new website is positioned to become the go-to crowdfunding platform for the “alt-right.” It’s called Hatreon, a play on the name of the popular fundraising site Patreon, and has attracted high profile clients — like white nationalists Richard Spencer and neo-Nazi Andrew Anglin. Anglin draws about $700 per month on Hatreon, while Spencer is…
Just as Brutus and his collaborators brandished knives and went in for the kill, one audience member decided to intervene. “Stop the normalization of political violence against the right!” Laura Loomer yelled, storming the stage of Shakespeare in the Park’s now-famous performance of “Julius Caesar.” For a brief second, all was quiet. The would-be assassins,…
די העלדין פֿון „דאָ איז נאָך אַלץ דאָ“ טראָגט אױף זיך דעם לאַסט פֿון איר באָבעס חורבן־טראַװמע.
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