A group of neo-Nazis and domestic terrorists called The Base whose members vandalized a Wisconsin synagogue in 2019 are recruiting on social media platforms, on messaging apps and even in video games, according to new podcast episodes out Thursday from the Southern Poverty Law Center. “It’s all done quite openly,” said the co-host of the…
The trial of a young man accused of vandalizing a synagogue has revealed the thought process behind a neo-Nazi group’s decision last fall to accelerate its activities. Yousef Omar Barasneh, 22, a member of the group known as the Base, pleaded guilty last month to spray-painting anti-Semitic messages and swastikas on the walls of the…
Morris Gulett, leader of a Louisiana chapter of the neo-Nazi group the Aryan Nations, has donated at least $2,000 to Donald Trump’s 2020 campaign — and the campaign has not returned any of the money. Gulett made 29 separate donations from 2017 through May 2020, according to recent election filings reviewed by Popular Information. He…
Read this article in Yiddish. A year ago, I was waiting inside a crowded German bus station with my classmate from Trier University. “Don’t talk to me in Hebrew here,” she said. “You never know who’ll recognize that it’s a Jewish language.” I myself am not Jewish, so I often ask her questions about Jewish…
Facing mounting pressure from district families, a Secaucus, N.J., high school announced it will reprint a yearbook that many believe contains an Neo-Nazi hate symbol. But some students and parents at High Tech High School say the do-over isn’t enough. Instead, they’re frustrated by what they see as the district’s refusal to address the inclusion…
Sebastian Gorka, a previous White House adviser and the subject of a wide-ranging, award-winning 2017 investigation by the Forward, has been appointed to serve as a member of the National Security Education Board, which oversees a program that partners with educational institutions to teach students foreign language skills and cultural competencies. The Forward’s investigation found…
Neo-Nazi rockers with swastika tattoos and Insane Clown Posse-like makeup. Album art showing the gates of Auschwitz. Songs longing for a “pure f—ing genocide.” For years, Facebook has allowed bands centered on this content a home on their platform — but now the social media giant is racing to remove them. An investigation by Al…
The things that make me different are the things that make me me. Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time. Stay hungry. Stay foolish. These are among the quotes students shared on the pages of the Class of 2020’s yearbook for High Tech High School in Secaucus, N.J. But one entry said simply: “88.”…
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