“I saw people being abused, shouted at, spat at in the street – it’s not until it’s directed at you that you suddenly realize that what you’re doing is wrong.”
Neo Nazis
The unprecedented success of the far-right party Alternative for Germany (AfD) has raised major fears and anxieties among Jewish groups and Germans alike.
Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook and the fifth richest person in the world (and the richest Jew), announced that he had gifted his young daughter, Maxima, with a century-old family heirloom silver kiddush cup in a post that drew a surprising amount of ire and consternation.
A prominent civil-rights organization just published its annual list of hate groups, lumping right-wing and religious groups with neo-Nazis and the KKK.
The survey comes shortly after the violent white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, where a 32-year-old woman was killed when a neo-Nazi supporter rammed his vehicle into a crowd of counter-protesters.
World famous musician Billy Joel performed his encore at Madison Square Garden in New York City prominently displaying a yellow star on his lapel.
In a display of media mindlessness, CNN’s Wolff Blitzer tried to connect yesterday’s deadly Islamic attack in Barcelona to last week’s white supremacist attack in Charlottesville. “There will be questions if what happened in Barcelona was at all a copycat version of what happened in Charlottesville,” Bitzer said.
“That in our time we would see a Nazi flag paraded in the streets of the world’s greatest democracy, and Israel’s most cherished and greatest ally is almost beyond belief.”
The man said that he was not a Nazi, but that “this is Nazi f*****g America.”
“Racism is evil – and those who cause violence in its name are criminals and thugs.”
White alt-right activists and white supremacists clashed with counter-protesters at a rally against the city’s decision to remove a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee.
In a statement, the search engine giant said it had “made improvements” to its algorithms to provide “more high-quality, credible content on the web.”
Neo-Nazis attacked the tomb of revered spiritual leader Rabbi Nachman of Breslov in the Ukraine, defiling the gravesite with fake blood and the head of a pig and physically attacking Jewish worshipers with tear gas overnight on Tuesday.
At a Trump campaign rally in Reno, Nevada on Thursday night, on Wednesday night, a man waving signs with disturbing messages seeming to espouse neo-Nazi views was shouted down and surrounded by Trump supporters and ejected from the event.
The Living Memorial, a monument in Budapest’s Liberty Square, was vandalized over the weekend after a Neo-Nazi website called for its destruction.
