Anti-Sharia rallies around the US denounce Islam while stoking concerns among Muslim groups
ATLANTA — Speaking out about what they believe are the ills of Islam, anti-Sharia law activists demonstrated nationwide Saturday, but were met by counter-protesters who assailed their rhetoric as insensitive and demeaning. Members of ACT for America, which has been labeled a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center, gathered in parks and plazas […]
US anti-fascists take on alt-right fight squads
A group of black-clad anarchists surround a far-right activist, pushing him from their protest area and dousing him in silly string. The anti-fascist demonstrators had gathered in Portland in the United States to counter an alt-right rally. “Nazis go home,” they yell in videos of the incident on Sunday. Other anti-fascists – or Antifa – […]
Portland victims of white supremacist killer identified
US police have identified the two men killed by a white supremacist on a train in Portland as they attempted to defend passengers the suspect was bullying. On Friday, Jeremy Joseph Christian – a 35-year-old who was known to authorities – stabbed to death 53-year-old Ricky John Best and Taliesin Myrddin Namkai Meche, 23, after […]
White supremacists step up recruiting on college campuses, group says
White supremacist groups are stepping up efforts to recruit students on college campuses, according to a report published Monday by the Anti-Defamation League. Since the academic year started in September, white supremacist groups have targeted college campuses 104 times with anti-Semitic, anti-Muslim and racist fliers, posters and stickers, the report found. The incidents took…
Golden State of Hate: Extremism on the Rise in Calif.
Capital & Main is an award-winning publication that reports from California on economic, political and social issues. On election night last November, Nathan Damigo, a 30-year-old white nationalist and student at California State University, Stanislaus, met up with friends in the northern California city of Folsom. As they bounced from bar to bar, it became […]
12 Quotes From White Supremacist Richard Spencer
Richard Spencer, a white supremacist and the director of the National Policy Institute, has made quite a few headlines in the past few months. He was kicked out of the Conservative Political Action Conference Thursday. He tweeted his disdain about the fact that there was a mosque in in Quebec, which he called “one of […]
Europe’s Nationalist Leaders Present Vision for ‘a Free Europe’
European nationalist leaders met in Germany Saturday in a show of strength at the start of a year of big election tests, celebrating Donald Trump’s inauguration as the U.S. president and declaring themselves a realistic alternative to the continent’s governments. The Koblenz Congress brought together French presidential hopeful Marine Le Pen of the National Front […]
Alt-Right Twitter Users Create Fake ‘Black Person’ Accounts Promoting Racism
A pro-Donald Trump white supremacist website called the Daily Stormer said it created 1,000 fake Twitter accounts for fictional black people this week to a way to troll the internet and spread racist ideas. The announcement, which came from a blog post from the website’s founder Andrew Anglin, is a response to Twitter’s recent ban on accounts circulating alt-right […]
Donald Trump’s Appeal to White Nationalists
The election of Donald J. Trump as 45th president of the United States came as a shock to many—perhaps even to the billionaire himself. Across the U.S. and around the world, people asked the same question: What just happened? Here was a man with no political nor military experience; who had angered just about every […]
This is a moment of reckoning for American Jews, Haaretz reporter says
During the presidential campaign, Donald Trump spoke often about his love for Israel. Many there cheered his victory last week. Now, some Israelis are questioning that support after Trump selected Stephen Bannon as his White House chief strategist. Bannon has been called a white nationalist by House minority leader Nancy Pelosi, among others. He’s the […]