Anti-semitic

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SEE ANTI-SEM 2 519
this is more or less a tag, for content see nazi, neo-nazi, alt right

promoted to 2nd, along with racism, proxy for?
blood libel christ killer the original conspiracy theory?  caravan soros reboot?

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</div><div style="font-size: small;">The cult of QAnon is at a crossroads. Adherents of the conspiracy theory/new religious movement convinced themselves that Donald Trump was poised to purge the cannibal pedophile cabal and its traitorous enablers in a cleansing burst of political violence. But with Joe Biden in the White House, and Capitol rioters facing charges for their insurrection of January 6, prophecy has apparently failed. QAnon has been banished from major social media platforms. You can't even sell Q merch on Etsy anymore. True believers are struggling to make sense of it all. Q himself has fallen silent. It has been over a month since his last dispatch to the faithful.
In just three years, QAnon has exploded from an anonymous post on 4chan to a household word. The FBI has declared QAnon a domestic terrorist threat and the QAnon ideology has been the impetus for numerous terrorist attacks, not even counting the major role played by QAnon adherents in the assault on the US Capitol. QAnon has fractured families and destroyed lives. Astonishingly, we still don't know who Q is.The enduring mystery of Q's identity has led to speculation about QAnon being an influence operation, (aka a psyop). Which raises the question of who's supposedly running this operation. QAnon's critics typically blame Russia or an alliance of Russia and Trump's inner circle. Disillusioned former QAnon sympathizers including Trump advisor Steve Bannon have also embraced a version of <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/steve-bannon/after-embracing-qanon-steve-bannon-now-presents-conspiracy-theory-fbi-psyop" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">the psyop theory</a>, claiming that QAnon was a deep state hoax designed to fool patriots.<h3 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Whatever role Russia may have played in promoting this conspiracy theory, the real problem is that there's a huge market in the United States for conspiracy theories that promise the violent overthrow of democracy.</h3>Influence operations are typically military- or intelligence-led efforts to shape how a population thinks or feels without resorting to physical force.
Russian intelligence operates within the vast QAnon ecosystem but QAnon is a home-grown phenomenon, deeply rooted in American prejudices and preoccupations. QAnon and its forerunner Pizzagate were forged on 4Chan, a crucible of both the Alt-Right and American conspiracy culture. Understanding the racist, ultranationalist, conspiratorial culture of /pol is key to understanding the likely origins of QAnon. It's also important to understand how contemporary conspiracy theorizing incorporates and elaborates on older conspiratorial themes.<h5 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Q is old conspiracies made new</h5>Many of the central tenets of QAnon are retreads of the antisemitic hoax tract, "<a href="https://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Protocols_of_the_Elders_of_Zion" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion,</a>" which purports to be the minutes of a criminal conspiracy of rabbis to take over the world. The Protocols, in turn, recycles the ancient antisemitic superstition known as blood libel, the notion that Jews are harvesting the blood of Christian children.Q asserts that the Houses of Rothschild and Soros are "puppet masters" covertly manipulating historical events. (Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene notoriously speculated that a space laser from <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/facebook/marjorie-taylor-greene-penned-conspiracy-theory-laser-beam-space-started-deadly-2018" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">"Rothschild, Inc"</a> might have caused the Camp fire in California. Video of Greene berating a Parkland shooting survivor as a <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/qanon-congresswoman-marjorie-taylor-greene-berated-parkland-teen-david-hogg-on-capitol-hill-video-shows?via=twitter_page&via=twitter_page" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">pawn of George Soros</a> resurfaced recently.) Many of the QAnon faithful have their own take on blood libel, with the cannibal pedophiles being said to harvest a molecule known as adrenochrome from the blood of their child victims.Ironically, the Protocols were commissioned by the head of the Russian secret police in the late 19th or early 20th century. The goal was to set back the cause of liberalism by convincing Czar Nicholas the II that the rise of capitalism in Russia was a conspiracy by <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080528005157/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/htmlContent.jhtml?html=%2Farchive%2F1999%2F11%2F19%2Fwzion19.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">Jews and the Freemasons</a>. The Protocols of the Elders of Zion was created by Russian conservatives to fool their own ruler, but the impact of the document was much broader. The forgery became the Ur-text of global conspiracy culture. Henry Ford's newspaper published the Protocols in 1920. The Nazis cited the Protocols to justify the Holocaust. The influence of the Protocols can even be seen in Dan Brown's bestselling Da Vinci Code novels.In 2017, Vladimir Putin's personal confessor was hyping the idea that Czar Nicholas and his family were <a href="https://www.rferl.org/a/tsar-nicholas-ritual-killing-jews-anti-semitism/28884466.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">ritually murdered by Jews</a>. (In fact, the deposed Nicholas and his family were assassinated by Bolsheviks shortly after the Revolution of 1917. The leader of the <a href="https://www.history.com/news/romanov-family-murder-execution-reasons" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">death squad</a> was commended by Lenin for his work.)QAnon sprang from the primordial soup of 4chan's <a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/the-measure-of-hate-on-4chan-627922/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">Politically Incorrect board</a>, aka /pol. 4chan is an anonymous imageboard where anyone can post almost anything. 4chan is often described as the birthplace of the Alt Right. Users are known as "anons.""Q" is short for "Q Clearance Patriot." Q purports to be a high-ranking US intelligence official leaking details of Donald Trump's campaign against his enemies in the deep state. Q's revelations began in late October of 2017. The researcher who posts as Q Origins on Twitter has <a href="https://www.bellingcat.com/news/americas/2021/01/07/the-making-of-qanon-a-crowdsourced-conspiracy/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">published his findings</a> on the investigative news site Bellingcat.Some have speculated that various pro-Russian themes in Q's body of work are evidence that the QAnon phenomenon was a Russian influence operation, but this argument ignores the fact that Vladimir Putin's Russia is <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/russia-connections-to-the-alt-right-2016-11" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">organically popular</a> in the Alt Right and /pol. Q and his message board disciples may admire Putin's brand of hyper-masculine authoritarianism without being Russian agents.In order to understand the origins of QAnon, it is necessary to understand the imageboard tradition of LARPing. "In the 4Chan context, a LARP is when you pose as a big insider," explains the anonymous author of the Q Origins Project.<h4 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Q isn't a psyops....</h4></div>=<h2 class="entry-title single-title" itemprop="headline">UMass Amherst faces new lawsuit over event implicating Israeli-Palestinian conflict</h2>

    
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This afternoon, a Massachusetts court heard initial arguments in a <a href="https://www.thefire.org/complaint-against-umass-amherst/">lawsuit</a> that seeks to compel the University of Massachusetts at Amherst to cancel an <a href="https://www.umass.edu/resistancestudies/events/not-backing-down-israel-free-speech-and-battle-palestinian-right">upcoming panel</a> discussion <a href="https://www.mediaed.org/pdfs/Not-Backing-Down-Press-Release.pdf">concerning</a> “the increasingly vitriolic debate over U.S. support for Israel.” The lawsuit is the latest example of an attempt to use the <a href="https://www.state.gov/s/rga/resources/267538.htm">State Department’s definition of anti-Semitism</a> — and <a href="https://www.thefire.org/a-problem-predicted-recent-calls-for-censorship-invoke-unconstitutional-definition-of-anti-semitism/">confusion</a>

over whether it has been adopted by the Department of Education’s

Office for Civil Rights — as a legal argument for campus censorship.

While the court has not yet ruled, one lawyer in attendance <a href="https://twitter.com/mdslock/status/1122936538273320963">reported</a> that the judge was “unimpressed with the bid to censor the event.”

The <a href="https://www.umass.edu/resistancestudies/events/not-backing-down-israel-free-speech-and-battle-palestinian-right">event</a>,

titled “Not Backing Down: Israel, Free Speech, and the Battle for

Palestinian Human Rights,” is set to take place May 4 on UMass’ campus,

and features speakers including Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters, political

activist <a href="https://www.thefire.org/new-york-lawmakers-urge-cuny-to-rescind-commencement-speaker-invitation/">Linda Sarsour</a>, Temple University professor <a href="https://www.thefire.org/breaking-temple-will-not-punish-marc-lamont-hill-issues-condemnation/">Marc Lamont Hill</a>,

and others. The event was organized by UMass professor Sut Jhally and

co-sponsored by his Media Education Foundation as well as several

academic departments.

The event has garnered criticism from several groups. The Anti-Defamation League of New England <a href="https://twitter.com/ADL_NewEngland/status/1115690850590306304">called on</a>

the university’s administration to deploy a more-speech response by

criticizing and distancing itself from the event. While recognizing that

the event was protected by the First Amendment, others have <a href="https://amchainitiative.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/UMass-80-Org-Letter-4.23.19.pdf">called on</a>

the administration to rescind any university sponsorship and to

prohibit faculty members from using “their academic position or the

university’s name or resources to promote a personal, political agenda”

that they believe imperils the safety of students. In a <a href="https://massgop.com/umass-amherst-to-host-anti-israel-event/">press release</a>,

the Massachusetts Republican Party said the event was “in violation of

the federal government’s guidelines regarding anti-Semitism,” citing the

State Department definition’s examples of “claiming that the existence

of the State of Israel is a racist endeavor” and “drawing comparisons of

contemporary Israeli policy to that of Nazis.”

The <a href="https://www.thefire.org/complaint-against-umass-amherst/">lawsuit</a> and <a href="https://www.thefire.org/motion-for-preliminary-injunction-against-umass-amherst/">motion for a preliminary injunction</a>,

filed Thursday in a Massachusetts state court by three anonymous UMass

students, pick up this argument and attempt to give it legal force. The

motion for injunctive relief avers that because the Department of

Education has “adopted” the State Department’s definition, “allowing a

faculty-sponsored BDS event on campus violates the prohibition against

anti-Semitism on campuses of the United [States] Department of

Education.” Similarly, the plaintiffs argue that because the university <a href="https://www.umass.edu/newsoffice/article/chancellor%E2%80%99s-statement-bds">opposes an academic boycott of Israel</a>, the university is legally bound to prevent advocacy of such a boycott on its campus.

The lawsuit wishes away obvious First

Amendment problems. First and foremost, a public university that makes

space available to the general public cannot limit access to those

resources on the basis of the speakers’ views. Nor does the university

have the power to rein in the “sponsorship” of the event by professors

or academic departments, which the university <a href="https://www.umass.edu/newsoffice/article/university-statement-may-4-event">correctly acknowledges</a>

have academic freedom rights to make decisions free from institutional

censorship. While the university opposes an academic boycott of Israel,

it does not follow that the university can or should censor those who

argue that the university is wrong to do so.

Second, as the <a href="https://www.thefire.org/umass-amherst-response-to-request-for-injunctive-relief/">response</a>,

filed today, correctly observes, an injunction against speech on a

university campus would amount to a prior restraint, one of the most

egregious forms of censorship. While the university may penalize

unlawful expression after it occurs, it cannot restrain expression based

on the remote possibility that someone might say something unlawful.

Third, it is highly doubtful that the

State Department’s definition has legal force, precluding a court from

ruling that the plaintiffs are likely to succeed on the merits of their

claims (a prerequisite to obtaining a preliminary injunction), at least

on this basis. While the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights <a href="https://www.thefire.org/ocrs-use-of-overly-broad-anti-semitism-definition-threatens-student-and-faculty-speech/">said it would use</a> the definition <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/11/us/politics/rutgers-jewish-education-civil-rights.html">in a letter reopening</a> <a href="https://www.thefire.org/ocrs-use-of-overly-broad-anti-semitism-definition-threatens-student-and-faculty-speech/">a 2011 case at Rutgers University</a> regarding

alleged discrimination against Jewish students at a public event, the

Department later distanced itself from that letter, <a href="https://www.thefire.org/ocrs-use-of-overly-broad-anti-semitism-definition-threatens-student-and-faculty-speech/">saying</a>

that it “has not adopted any formal definition of anti-Semitism.” Even

if OCR or the Department of Education resolved this ambiguity by

asserting that the definition is enforceable, and did so in a manner

compliant with administrative law, the definition would not be

constitutional.

FIRE <a href="https://www.thefire.org/state-departments-anti-semitism-definition-would-likely-violate-first-amendment-on-public-campuses/">has</a> <a href="https://www.thefire.org/problematic-campus-anti-semitism-bill-clears-senate/">repeatedly</a> <a href="https://www.thefire.org/problematic-anti-semitism-bill-passes-in-south-carolina/">predicted</a> that

the confusion over whether the definition has been adopted by OCR would

be used to bolster calls for censorship of students and faculty members

critical of the state of Israel. Unfortunately, that prediction has

been <a href="https://www.thefire.org/a-problem-predicted-recent-calls-for-censorship-invoke-unconstitutional-definition-of-anti-semitism/">borne out</a>,

and the deployment here is perhaps the most aggressive attempt to

harness OCR’s use of the definition for unconstitutional ends.

FIRE <a href="https://www.thefire.org/co-founder-of-bds-movement-denied-entry-to-us-ahead-of-campus-speaking-events/">takes no position</a> on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict or movements arising therefrom, such as BDS, beyond <a href="https://www.thefire.org/lawrence-summerss-academic-freedom-bds-speech/">pointing out</a> that academic boycotts, or censorship of political opponents or supporters of BDS, might <a href="https://www.thefire.org/new-york-governors-blacklist-of-pro-bds-advocates-raises-concerns-for-campus-speech/">endanger</a>

academic or expressive freedom. This meritless lawsuit would have the

university violate the First Amendment to censor BDS proponents — the

very academic censorship that underlies the university’s <a href="https://www.umass.edu/newsoffice/article/chancellor%E2%80%99s-statement-bds">opposition</a> to academic boycotts of Israel.

Update (May 2, 2019, 3:20 p.m.): According to a <a href="https://www.facebook.com/JVPWMASS/videos/399766417296963/">livestream</a>

of representatives of Jewish Voice for Peace of Western Massachusetts,

which had intervened in defense of the event,  the judge denied the

injunction on First Amendment grounds, as an injunction would amount to a

prior restraint on speech. Rick Sobey of the Boston Herald <a href="https://twitter.com/Rick_Sobey/status/1124024039079579650">quotes</a>

the judge: “I can’t enjoin a forum just because someone may say

something at that forum that fits someone’s definition of anti-Semitism

or racism or homophobia or anything else.”

That’s the right result and, barring an unwise appeal, should bring an end to this frivolous lawsuit.

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Saturday, there was another mass shooting at a synagogue. A man opened

fire inside the Chabad synagogue in Powoy, CA, just outside of San

Diego. NBC's Ben Collins and Andrew Blankstein <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=a1ca547d2611857b8a81d0e3e6a2f253259ce5eda8cd7fec01f9aad5d472d14fb95a6ccb83aca2412b7f122a1b156c0a09b85c8257114d6c" style="text-decoration: underline;" title="reported that">reported that</a>

an open letter was posted on far-right forum 8chan in the shooters

name, which also took credit for an unsolved arson of a nearby mosque.

According to the San Diego County Sheriff, the alleged shooter is

<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=a1ca547d2611857bb1cefc3a95f8b8173d20acae39677a89c1c5e4e9e32ef210f704828101556980adfb8e883b1120cba839378695cc44d2" style="text-decoration: underline;" title="now being investigated">now being investigated</a> for that arson as well.

Over at Bellingcat, Robert Evans <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=a1ca547d2611857bd9e6ab72f632910629fbd4efe19d70d5694cb9d23a1e0836e194eb4419bededadc7731cca52952685b69d43ced94098a" style="text-decoration: underline;" title="took a deep dive into 8chan">took a deep dive into 8chan</a>, which was also the place where the Christchurch mosque shooter posted his manifesto. Media Matters' Cristina López has <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=a1ca547d2611857b59768b36abaef162c23c2ce58061ac87b7057541a990bf49475de275a9e6acf7ad668170619db9f2445e3a6767535b5b" style="text-decoration: underline;" title="previously written">previously written</a> about how board users launch harassment campaigns using 8chan. 8chan is also

<a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=a1ca547d2611857b902396d76e403c15efa929d7f6b673999d59651949bf25d900a6f626711b17cae36864b3d9ab82d2c7b2bcf53b2f1009" style="text-decoration: underline;" title="the hub">the hub</a> of the QAnon conspiracy theory which has swept pro-Trump media; a <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=a1ca547d2611857b9405eb2a3d63dbb6fb78b3d310d68fb30054abe479b2c93943b2c21feee1bb4899354d40844677321285660d195cefc7" style="text-decoration: underline;" title="number of prominent right-wing figures">number of prominent right-wing figures</a> have amplified that conspiracy theory. And board users

<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=a1ca547d2611857bae19ca1d1d84cec0667f10e83468c4badb7d64ddb2e6924186f8f00301f814eb940f5257742158bf20352a100bcc5faf" style="text-decoration: underline;" title="absolutely love Sean Hannity">absolutely love Sean Hannity</a>.

Over at The New York Times, Charlie Warzel <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=a1ca547d2611857b1c81d5e1150276abdd8f32db295402e5436dd2f4bb67cb5de686b196564b2d881909b6b43960e5c5b112fa0f63be8a30" style="text-decoration: underline;" title="writes about">wrote about</a> how these mass shootings have become a meme in the far-right internet:

"The pattern is eerie: it starts with a crude genealogy of the

shooter’s ethnic roots, then a self-aggrandizing Q. and A. with himself,

followed by a litany of toxic in-jokes meant to confuse the media and

those less savvy in far-right online culture. ... Like the Christchurch

massacre, the Poway shooting is not only tailored for the internet but

also sickeningly standardized. The digital footprint and manifestoes of

these white nationalist terrorists follow a familiar template — one that

each shooter fills in with their own hideous details. Indeed, it seems

real-world murderous hate crimes have become a message board meme of

sorts. And like any online meme, the creation cycle only seems to be

accelerating, refining itself and, horrifyingly, increasing in

frequency."

On Fox

News, a guest was linking the rise of anti-Semitism to Trump's

permissive rhetoric about the far right, specifically Trump's defense of

white nationalists in Charlottesville who chanted "Jews will not

replace us." (Trump <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=a1ca547d2611857bccd2ba56a954ef5dba89311ed1dfc4b715e0e50b0f0f8593657600ca85b5e4b11afa2e4146092549a9962c360e8368e3" style="text-decoration: underline;" title="even doubled down">even doubled down</a> on that characterization on Friday in an interview with Mark Levin.) But as the guest described this, the show

<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=a1ca547d2611857bf1e9164459b9dd07d23d52e16a525395d029bc8c12a1e2d491c107ca292713370b1d204de5e4d7fb9ebc589717db5d76" style="text-decoration: underline;" title="suddenly cut to commercial">suddenly cut to commercial

</a>. The guest was invited back on later in the day, but the discussion

moved quickly beyond Trump's rhetoric to an assertion that Trump could

not possibly be personally anti-Semitic.

Fox News <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=a1ca547d2611857bfc348775a3b38c21ebec59ec9691f60e7e80afeba0ce33b31ac2e26609771efeb79afc1cf0ae50b9e1332ed1e815ab83" style="text-decoration: underline;" title="never stopped pushing">never stopped pushing</a>

the anti-Semitic conspiracy theory that motivated the Tree of Life

shooter. Glenn Beck was on Fox News earlier this month pushing it. And

earlier this week, a Fox Nation guest <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=a1ca547d2611857ba05fea6614f0a7129c5dfb29c26161c967d26057db4661e18e316ff049e7ed63001c2f1cee45b526809af0c9f9c93071" style="text-decoration: underline;" title="fearmongered">fearmongered</a> about George Soros infiltrating the census, harkening back to when a guest

<a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=a1ca547d2611857b793c8a1d11a64be4fd5e21541db558a73bc6f91f0fc69379c0c1604bbae9fc183d64bbe5ecf68acbc6e9c0cc944055ef" style="text-decoration: underline;" title="was banned">was banned</a> from the network for complaining about the "Soros-occupied State Department."</div>
mmaBefore perpetrating what’s believed to have been the deadliest anti-Semitic attack in American history, the Tree of Life synagogue shooter posted online,<a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=c178a9092d9e8c21ee855293ac1db41a5c6dff80350c5ae1f8d4b14a68721b70cbc5d2c3df45fc3f9ac40f06fa126013060d5905d2981fb9" title="blaming" style="">blaming</a> Jewish people in the U.S. “for bringing in an invasion of nonwhite immigrants.” He was specifically referring to the caravans of migrants from Central America that conservative media have focused on as an existential threat to the United States.The link between conservative media rhetoric and the shooter's words <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=c178a9092d9e8c21ad482a94b0cd73b425202ba5740390187603e333524a558dc86fccc2605d240b0a8bcb94661728e41f3aa19820a645e3" title="was readily apparent at the time" style="">was readily apparent at the time</a>. But instead of course correcting following the massacre, Fox is instead still pushing the conspiracy theory to this day.Sean Hannity <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=c178a9092d9e8c21d5cb7747db3c4773813e5d19b0b3075333ea65b23ab3ccd8478a26598bff109701b3351f1a31d936e345ddb3d169b92c" title="hosted conspiracy theory-monger Glenn Beck" style="">hosted conspiracy theory-monger Glenn Beck</a>, who said the migrant caravans were “directly” funded by “George Soros and others” (Soros is Jewish). Beck further claimed that "American communists in Chicago" are orchestrating the caravans with money from Soros.The New Republic's Jeet Heer <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=c178a9092d9e8c21351bf48ebe945785392cbd0c7c091c4df0892585966888593e5d5447d3c0fad52a8973e605b61a99758402ce78e2577e" title="noted that" style="">noted that</a> Beck's words were "a straight up articulation of the theory of Judeo–Bolshevism, the ideological pillar of Nazi anti-Semitism." Many <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=c178a9092d9e8c2162d1f282073d2321053213a21802a3f102666dfab1a170a83089e9bca635114786b0980818fd588e63d2f39ed9309fb9" title="others noticed" style="">others noticed</a> that Beck's words were indistinguishable from those of the Tree of Life shooter.(While shocking, this was entirely foreseeable for Fox News: Beck made his name at the network in part through anti-Semitic conspiracy theories about George Soros.)It was not just on Hannity, either. On the same night, Lou Dobbs blamed "left-wing money" and "the United Nations" for migrants headed to the border. This is a clear dog whistle for Dobbs' audience, as the Fox Business host, his guests, and others on the network have <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=c178a9092d9e8c21b7e8049159ba5673759cf802d432fe683476187bb9d3fd2806452af3952a93760206468656fa9c85316e8905a21444e5" title="repeatedly pushed" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">repeatedly pushed</a> the same conspiracy theory. In the immediate aftermath of the shooting, a Dobbs guest<a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=c178a9092d9e8c21b74d164de41ac8edd4fe0340d2f416942730c547765cbb0ba3f165105966e4c22ccd7c0bf1d19e75e72eacde927281fa" title="was banned" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">was banned </a>from the network after a previously aired show reran in which the guest complained about the "Soros-occupied State Department." Fox has taken no action regarding Beck or Dobbs this week.<div>=</div><div><a href="https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2018/10/28/analyzing-terrorists-social-media-manifesto-pittsburgh-synagogue-shooters-posts-gab">https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2018/10/28/analyzing-terrorists-social-media-manifesto-pittsburgh-synagogue-shooters-posts-gab</a></div><div>
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gab </div>https://www.splcenter.org/news/2018/11/15/court-rejects-neo-nazi%E2%80%99s-free-speech-defense-splc-caseCourt rejects neo-Nazi’s free speech defense in SPLC caseNovember 15, 2018 A federal judge has rejected neo-Nazi leader Andrew Anglin’s attempt to dismiss an SPLC lawsuit seeking to hold him accountable for orchestrating a campaign of terror against a Jewish woman and her family in Montana.
Anglin claimed in court filings that he was simply exercising his free speech rights when he incited a virtual army of online followers to harass Tanya Gersh, a real estate agent living in Whitefish.
The Gersh family, including Tanya’s 12-year-old son, received hundreds of intimidating and threatening messages, including emails, phone calls and postcards, over a period of months. 
Chief Judge Dana L. Christensen of the U.S. District Court in Montana accepted a magistrate’s earlier recommendation and ruled against Anglin on Nov. 14. The ruling means the case will proceed to trial....rww<div class="mce-content-body" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear;"><div class="layout-constrain--narrow" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 47.2222em; padding-left: 1em; padding-right: 1em; line-height: 1.5;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; line-height: 1.5;">Two neo-Nazis who filmed One America News Network personality Jack Posobiec while he roamed the streets of a Washington, D.C., to create propaganda for the Seth Rich conspiracy theory on behalf of Rebel Media are suspected to have schemed violence in relation to the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting that left 11 murdered, <a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/393157162/Jeffrey-Clark-Affidavit#from_embed?campaign=SkimbitLtd&ad_group=38395X1559799Xea2b5dbaec8b51fa7e0f468347c89738&keyword=660149026&source=hp_affiliate&medium=affiliate" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">court documents show</a>.<p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; line-height: 1.5;">Jeffrey Clark, who police arrested on November 9, was active on Gab, where he used his profile honoring white supremacist mass murderer Dylann Roof to connect with the Pittsburgh synagogue shooter. Prior to his arrest, he had attended the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, where he was <a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/jeffrey-clark-dc-neo-nazi-arrested_us_5beb99ffe4b0caeec2bf24e5" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">photographed</a> alongside the young man who killed counter-protester Heather Heyer. Clark’s relatives told the FBI that he sought to “expedite” a race war.<p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; line-height: 1.5;">Clark’s brother, a fellow neo-Nazi named Edward, <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/did-alt-right-brothers-plan-pittsburgh-style-attack-before-suicide?ref=home" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">committed suicide</a> after the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting when it was revealed that Gab, a Twitter spin-off overrun with violent extremists, had provided the shooter’s profile information to law enforcement. Apparently concerned that he’d soon be receiving a visit from the FBI, he shot himself in a park.<p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; line-height: 1.5;">The tie-ins don’t stop at Gab. The neo-Nazi Clark brothers were <a href="http://idavox.com/index.php/2018/11/13/neo-nazi-brothers-richard-spencer-associates-fall-to-suicide-gun-charges/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">connected</a> to <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/clark-brothers-accused-of-planning-race-war-followed-alt-right-figures-richard-spencer-jack-posobiec?ref=scroll" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">a web of white nationalists</a> who ushered in the “alt-right,” including Posobiec.<p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; line-height: 1.5;">The brothers were photographed filming Posobiec while he worked on footage about the murder of former DNC staffer Seth Rich, which served as rich fodder for pro-Trump conspiracy theorists online in 2016. Posobiec also notably <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/jack-posobiec-is-lying-about-his-pizzagate-past/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">traveled to Comet Ping Pong</a>, a Washington pizza restaurant and bar that was at the center of wild internet conspiracy theories about satanic pedophile rings, to “infiltrate” the scene. When a believer in the conspiracy theory took matters into his own hands and entered the restaurant <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/pizzagate-from-rumor-to-hashtag-to-gunfire-in-dc/2016/12/06/4c7def50-bbd4-11e6-94ac-3d324840106c_story.html?utm_term=.7433212b126c" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">with a firearm</a>, Posobiec deleted evidence of his visit and began <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/jack-posobiec-is-lying-about-his-pizzagate-past/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">lying</a> about his role in spreading the hoax.<p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; line-height: 1.5;">In the images and reporting <a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/jeffrey-clark-dc-neo-nazi-arrested_us_5beb99ffe4b0caeec2bf24e5" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">published by HuffPost</a>, the Clark brothers are seen filming Posobiec. Jeffrey Clark reportedly told Laura Sennett of One People’s Project that “Posobiec absolutely was” aware of their neo-Nazi beliefs and had told his brother “that he was sympathetic to those beliefs.” HuffPost reports:<blockquote style="background: rgb(239, 243, 243); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; hyphens: none; padding: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0.75em 2em;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; line-height: 1.5;">In May 2017, the Clark brothers teamed up with far-right “Pizzagate” propagandist Jack Posobiec, who was then the D.C. bureau chief for the far-right website Rebel Media, to shoot footage for a film Posobiec was working on about Seth Rich, the Democratic National Committee staffer whose murder near the Clarks’ home in Bloomingdale has spawned numerous far-right conspiracy theories.<p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; line-height: 1.5;">Laura Sennett, an anti-fascist researcher who works with One People’s Project, spoke with Jeffrey Clark a few weeks after he and his brother were spotted in Bloomingdale with Posobiec, who by then had been fired from Rebel under mysterious circumstances after plagiarizing Jason Kessler, the white nationalist who organized the Unite the Right rally.<p style="margin: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; line-height: 1.5;">“[Clark] told me that Jack Posobiec hired him and his brother to follow him with a camera to take video of his investigation of Seth Rich,” Sennett told HuffPost. “Not sure if it was a documentary or a news story, but [Posobiec] was doing some kind of reporting for Rebel Media. I asked him if Posobiec was aware of his Nazi beliefs. He told me that Posobiec absolutely was and had told Jeff that he was sympathetic to those beliefs.”</blockquote><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; line-height: 1.5;">The Clark brothers would stand <a href="https://youtu.be/rNSmmKnEiRY" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">alongside</a> Posobiec again at a rally he led alongside white nationalist Richard Spencer, of whom the brothers and Posobiec were <a href="http://idavox.com/index.php/2018/11/13/neo-nazi-brothers-richard-spencer-associates-fall-to-suicide-gun-charges/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">both seeming fans</a>. Alexander Reid Ross, the author of the book “Against the Fascist Creep,” tweeted that the Clark brothers had infiltrated a book talk he gave last year. According to Ross, a Daily Caller reporter was filming the incident. Later that night, Posobiec published the PDF of Ross’ book.<p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; line-height: 1.5;">...</div></div>=proud boy crybully<div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large">Even McInnes’ mockery of the suburbs—a common punk trope—takes on a right-wing bent. In the September Infowars broadcast, McInnes pushed an anti-Semitic conspiracy theory, claiming his neighborhood spats were the effects of a campaign by George Soros, a billionaire philanthropist and prolific Democratic donor who is Jewish.</div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large">
</div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large">“I’m laying on the couch here bitching about the sort of pariah status that has been imbued upon me,” he told viewers. “The reason it’s relevant to your life, is I believe it can be traced back to Soros.”</div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large">
</div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large">Right-wingers have blamed Soros for everything from immigration to Black Lives Matter to efforts to count every vote in the 2018 midterm elections. The blame game echoes previous efforts to portray wealthy Jews as mass manipulators, efforts that have led to pogroms and genocides against Jews. Most recently, Soros was sent a bomb allegedly by a rabid Trump supporter.</div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large">
</div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large">In McInnes’ case, he accused Soros of funding a network of “lesbian” lawyers who harass the far right. (He also falsely accused Soros’ staff of organizing Unite the Right “to discredit us all.”)</div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large">
</div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large">“I think I’m part of this sort of computer virus the Soros machine sends out in the system to mess with your life,” he said.</div>soros funder of caravan invasion=----Pennsylvania man accused of killing the 11 Jewish worshipers was indicted Wednesday on 44 counts, including murder and hate crimes. Robert Bowers has a history of posting anti-Semitic and xenophobic content. Just before the shooting rampage, Bowers wrote on a far-right social media site, ”HIAS likes to bring invaders in that kill our people. I can’t sit by and watch my people get slaughtered. Screw your optics, I’m going in.” HIAS, formerly known as the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, is a nonprofit providing assistance to refugees.Meanwhile, President Trump attacked the media again following massive protests in Pittsburgh during his visit to the Tree of Life synagogue Wednesday. Trump tweeted, “Melania and I were treated very nicely yesterday in Pittsburgh. The Office of the President was shown great respect on a very sad & solemn day. We were treated so warmly. Small protest was not seen by us, staged far away. The Fake News stories were just the opposite-Disgraceful!” Reports estimate several thousand protesters turned out to protest Trump’s visit. Many local leaders also publicly opposed the visit. On Wednesday night, protesters gathered at the University of Pittsburgh to rally against hate and gun violence.<div style="">10. A global cabal of Jewish bankers, power brokers and special interests is actually in control.</div><div style="">
</div><div style="">see<a href="https://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/has-donald-trump-made-world-less-safe-jews"> https://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/has-donald-trump-made-world-less-safe-jews</a></div><div style="">
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</div><div style="">There’s no one in the world more familiar with conspiracy theories than Jews. Jewish people have been victims of conspiracy accusations from the moment Abraham and his tribe were chosen back in the day. So when Trump, after being outed as a serial py grabber, uttered these words at a rally, Jews around the world paid notice: “It's aglobal power structure that is responsible for the economic decisions that have robbed our working class, stripped our country of its wealth and put that money into the pockets of a handful of large corporations and political entities. This is well documented, and the establishment that protects them has engaged in a massive coverup of widespread criminal activity at the State Department and the Clinton Foundation in order to keep the Clintons in power.”</div><div style="">
</div><div style="">Hitler himself could not have said it better.</div><div style="">
</div><div style=""></div><div>=</div><div>AN</div><div>ref</div><div>Earlier this month, a lifetime ago in the Trump administration, an art dealer named Todd Brassner burned to death in a fire at Trump Tower. (The building did not have a sprinkler system on its residential floors because its eponymous owner refused to install one, <a href="https://www.rawstory.com/2018/04/trump-fought-fire-legislation-refused-install-sprinklers-residential-floors-trump-tower/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">citing its prohibitive cost</a>). According to the <a href="https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/trump-tower-fire-victim-called-crazy-jew-prez-friend-article-1.3922739" style="text-decoration-line: none;">New York Daily News</a>, real estate mogul Trump was less than enamored of Brassner, reportedly referring to his tenant as <a href="https://www.rawstory.com/2018/04/president-called-victim-deadly-trump-tower-fire-crazy-jew-report/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">"that crazy Jew."</a> The scandal barely registered with the American public, but it offered yet another reminder that the Oval Office is still oozing with anti-Semitism, even after the departures of white nationalists like Steve Bannon and Sebastian Gorka.Bigots and bullies have grown emboldened. <a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/anti-semitic-incidents-united-states-2017_us_5a956390e4b0699553cc77cb" style="text-decoration-line: none;">The Anti-Defamation League tallied</a> 1,986 anti-Semitic attacks in 2017, up 57 percent over the year prior. Schools proved the most common place for these incidents; 457 were perpetrated against children grades K-12. American Jews have not faced the kind of overt persecution that Muslims, African Americans and Latinos have since Trump assumed office, but as Jonathan Weisman warns in his new book, now is no time for diffidence or retreat.<div id="TeadsNative" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">One part memoir, two parts sociological study, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Semitism-Being-Jewish-America-Trump/dp/1250169933/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1524282883&sr=1-3&keywords=anti-semitism" style="text-decoration-line: none;">(((Anti-Semitism)))</a> explores what it means to be Jewish in Trump's America, with all of its inherent possibilities and dangers. (The triple parentheses allude to the so-called alt-right's method of marking Jews on social media for online harassment). Days ahead of a neo-Nazi rally in Newnan, Ga., AlterNet spoke with Weisman over the phone about the rising tide of white nationalism across the globe, American Jewish organizations' singular obsession with Israel and the need for Jews across the country to form broad coalitions. The following conversation has been lightly edited for clarity.Jacob Sugarman: You yourself acknowledge that there are other religious and ethnic groups who are even more imperiled by Trump's presidency than American Jews. Why do you think it's important to explore the wave of anti-Semitism his run for office and subsequent election appear to have triggered?Jonathan Weisman: When white nationalists talk about so-called white genocide, they imagine that white human beings, specifically white men, are being supplanted and driven out by brown people: African-Americans, Latinos, Muslims and immigrants more generally. But their mythology also tells them that these brown people are inferior beings, so they summon the Jews as the cause of their demise, the answer to the question, "How could this be happening to us?" It's the Jews, they believe, who are the puppet masters, pulling the strings of the ethnic hordes. You can't separate one group from another, we're all in this together.The American Jewish community also has a certain amount of power and resources to bear in this fight. If a Jew stands up and screams, "Anti-Semitism," the response is often, "You're just being parochial. There are other people who have it far worse than you. What are you doing?" That's why it's so essential we form alliances with Muslim Americans, immigrants, Latinos and African Americans to denounce all forms of bigotry.JS: Do you think Trump poses a unique threat to Jews, or is he simply channeling hatreds that have always been present in American society?JW: I'm not sure I'd call it a unique threat because the globe goes through spasms of nationalism, and these spasms tend to be bad for Jews. The rise of white nationalism is international, and Trump is proof that it has arrived at the shores of the United States. If you look at [Viktor] Orban's Hungary, or what's happening in Poland, or the last elections in Italy, or Golden Dawn in Greece, you have to think that the virus is spreading. Things are demonstrably worse in Europe than they are in the U.S., but we're at a dangerous moment in history.JW: Absolutely. There's no question that the white nationalists in Europe look at the president as a kindred spirit. They feel they have some momentum, and with Trump in the Oval Office, they no longer have to fear the United States as a bulwark against their movement.JS: I'm glad you brought up Orban and Poland. Do you think that Trump's election has emboldened those Eastern European nations in particular?JS: If we can wind back the clock two years, why do you think American Jewish organizations were so tepid in their response to Trump's presidential campaign? Did they fail to recognize the threat he posed?JW: Over the last 20 years, whether they're liberal outfits like J Street and New Israel Fund or conservative groups like the Republican Jewish Coalition and AIPAC, mainstream Jewish organizations have become obsessed with Israel. To an extent it's understandable, because at least for now, support for Israel may be the one thing that Democrats and Republicans can agree on. You're not going to get into trouble with potential donors or supporters by focusing on the Israeli cause. But this focus has come almost at the exclusion of domestic politics in the United States. Few realize that the white nationalist movement actually emerged in the later Bush years, after the public had soured on the Iraq War and later with the collapse of the financial system. Conservatives were looking for a new rallying cry. Most people, virtually everybody, ignored the alt-right for eight years. And during that time, American Jews were basically arguing about Israel.JS: How did the concern of these organizations become so blinkered, and do you think it has affected their commitment to social justice?JS: At the risk of falling into the same trap, do you think American Jews have a responsibility to speak out against the recent violence on the Gaza border?JW: Money is obviously a big part of it, but it's also complacency. The United States from 1960 to 2016 felt like it was on slow but steady trajectory toward a more pluralistic, inclusive and tolerant society. I think these organizations were completely blindsided by this latest surge of nationalism. They had been looking for a cause to rally behind, and Israel offered an obvious one.JW: You have to understand that Jews in their late teens and early 20s have grown up experiencing nothing but Likud politics, with no exposure to hope in the Middle East. They don't know an Israel with a Labor or a centrist government. They don't remember the Oslo Accord, and they certainly don't remember the Camp David Accord. On their left, they have the BDS movement, and on their right they have their elders telling them, "Part of your Judaism is bound to your fealty to Israel."I believe very strongly that if love of Israel is a prerequisite to Jewish identity in this country, then we're going to lose an entire generation. It's probably the biggest threat facing the American Jewish community today—that drift of young Jews away from Judaism because of the demands that Israel puts on them. Jews should be able to embrace their religion and their identity without having to answer to the latest atrocity in Gaza.JS: Why do you think anti-Semitism and militant Zionism have proven so compatible? At least superficially, Likudniks and an administration that has featured the likes of Steve Bannon and Sebastian Gorka would appear to make for strange bedfellows.JW: I think the more you study alt-right ideology, the less strange it appears. Unlike the kind of anti-Semitism that you see emerging in the British Labour Party or on the French left, the alt-right is not especially anti-Zionist. They view Israel as a model ethno-state for their own country. There's no incompatibility with white nationalism because they believe Jews have a place to go and should go there.JS: I have to push back a little bit here. Are you really suggesting that Jeremy Corbyn's Labour Party is rife with anti-Semitism?JW: I wouldn't go so far as to call him an anti-Semite himself, but absolutely, I think anti-Semitism is a real problem in the Labour Party and that Corbyn has been especially reluctant to confront it.JS: How did <a href="https://deadspin.com/the-future-of-the-culture-wars-is-here-and-its-gamerga-1646145844" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Gamergate</a> presage the 2016 election, and why do you think misogyny so often serves as a gateway drug for overt racism and anti-Semitism?JW: For most of the decade, members of the alt-right talked to themselves in their own little online ghettos at the National Policy Institute and Taki's Magazine, and then at the Daily Stormer, Stormfront and other neo-nazi publications. Gamergate showed that they could spread their ideology in the chat rooms of 4chan and 8chan, the comment sections of YouTube and eventually on Twitter—that through doxxing, trolling and other tactics, the web could be weaponized. And remember, there was a bridge from one movement to the other. One of the great orchestrators of Gamergate was Milo Yiannopolous, who parlayed his notoriety into an editing gig at Breitbart and later emerged as a celebrity on the alt-right.I talked to [video game developer] Zoë Quinn, and she believes that Gamergate was like a signal flare to white nationalists. They said to themselves, "Oh my God, we can do that too." And it took very little time for the harrassment campaign to turn anti-Semitic, because Quinn's boyfriend was a Yeshiva-educated Jew. Before long, trolls were threatening her with rape and posting photo-shopped images of her covered in semen. The entire episode was a trial run for Trump's presidential bid. All of the abuse heaped on Quinn, Brianna Wu and other women video game designers was redirected not just at political journalists on the campaign trail, but the Jews of Whitefish, Montana. (The National Policy Institute is based in Whitefish, as is the mother of alt-right founder, Richard Spencer). As for why misogyny leads to anti-Semitism, I think feelings of sexual frustration or humiliation can be a powerful source of hatred. And hate breeds hate, right?JS: Donald Trump won't be president forever, <a href="https://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/03/trump-jokes-about-staying-in-power-indefinitely.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;">even if he wishes he could be</a>, so what hope do we have of mending the hole his political ascent has torn in the social fabric? You advocate for American Jews to assume their place in the public square, but given how insular our media consumption has become, are we sure one still exists?JW: You know, I actually think it does. I've been doing a lot of traveling to promote the book, and everywhere I go, I'm asked, "What can we do?" I'm a journalist; I'm not a social activist or a community organizer, so my answers are limited. But I think that there's a desire out there to build alliances, and you're seeing it now. I recently spoke to a Jewish organization on Long Island, and its first instinct after a swastika was found scrawled on a local synagogue was to form an interfaith coalition against bigotry. People understand we cannot be a series of atomized organizations standing up for ourselves. I believe we'll remember the age of Trump as a re-emergence of activism on a very local level.</div><div>=</div><div><a href="https://www.npr.org/2018/03/19/594894657/attacked-by-alt-right-trolls-a-jewish-journalist-links-trump-to-the-rise-of-hate">https://www.npr.org/2018/03/19/594894657/attacked-by-alt-right-trolls-a-jewish-journalist-links-trump-to-the-rise-of-hate</a></div><div>
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Yesterday, Spence Jackson, a spokesman for Missouri state auditor Tom Schweich—who committed suicide last month—<a href="http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/spence-jackson-spokesman-for-the-late-tom-schweich-found-dead/article_81520750-f9cd-560c-8ecd-78163eeed778.html?mobile_touch=true">was found dead</a> [3] of “an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound.”

The deaths of Jackson and Schweich have sparked outrage in Missouri. In the final days of his life, Schweich was subject to both an overt and covert campaign attacking him personally, including rumors that he was Jewish (he did have Jewish lineage on his grandfather's side but was a practicing Episcopalian).

In his eulogy for Schweich, former Missouri Senator John Danforth <a href="http://www.politico.com/story/2015/03/tom-schweich-eulogy-john-danforth-115702.html">issued a strong rebuke</a> [4] of the campaigns waged against the former state auditor, saying, “Words do hurt. Words can kill. That has been proven right here in our home state.”

In the days leading up to Schweich's suicide, he alleged that the state's GOP chairman, John Hancock, was telling people he was Jewish.

“Until recently, I mistakenly believed that Tom Schweich was Jewish, but it was simply a part of what I believed to be his biography,” <a href="http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/state-gop-chair-denies-spreading-rumors-about-schweich-before-suicide/article_bb79ecfb-e8e9-55dd-92d8-6244080503ba.html">Hancock reportedly emailed</a> [5] to his party's central committee (he did not attend Schweich's funeral). Hancock did not explain why Schweich's faith was relevant.

It wasn't an explanation that Danforth bought. “Someone said this was no different than saying a person is Presbyterian. Here's how to test the credibility of that remark: When was the last time anyone sidled up to you and whispered into your ear that such and such a person is a Presbyterian?”

In addition to a whisper campaign against Schweich's faith, his intended campaign for governor of Missouri made him the target of political rivals who already began hitting him with paid advertisements. In one radio ad, composed by <a href="http://www.politico.com/story/2014/08/2016-elections-ted-cruz-110437.html" style=" background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Ted Cruz adviser Jeff Roe's Axiom Strategies</a> [6], he was called a “little bug” and compared to the television character Barney Fife due to his physical build.

AlterNet called Axiom Strategies and requested Roe's comment about both suicides. We were told that Roe has not answered any media requests on this topic. As of this writing, the Cruz campaign has not gotten back to us with a comment.

In an interview with CNN yesterday, Cruz said he was “not going to engage in the personal mudslinging, in the negative attacks on people's character.” If that were true, why would he hire someone who played a role in such a brutal smear campaign?

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