Over the past week, white supremacists have launched repeated death threats against Washington's The Evergreen State College in Olympia. At least three sets of threats were sent or phoned to the campus by white supremacists, who said they planned to bring weapons to the school and massacre students and faculty. Evergreen is known as one of the most … [Read more...]
Jewish Defense League Allies with Alt-Right
To some of you this may seem obvious. But to the rest of us, who still retain a sense of outrage, this still shocks. Obviously, the American Alt-Right is in triumphalist mode with its man in the White House. White supremacists are in hog heaven. You can almost picture Richard Spencer giving a sieg heil in the Oval Office (though that hasn't … [Read more...]
Trump’s Key ‘Fixer’ with European Alt-Right Loves Israel, Hates Jews
A little-known Italian-American, Guido "George" Lombardi, is known as Donald Trump's "fixer" with the European alt-right. Lombardi, a wealthy real estate investor who owns the 62nd and 63 floors of the Trump Tower and is a member of his Mar-a-Lago club, is a Trump insider, though he has no official position. In a Politico profile published a month before … [Read more...]
Trump and the Ascendancy of the Alt Right and Anti-Semitism
Thanks to Real News Network for inviting me to do an interview, How Pro-Israel Politics and Anti-Semitism Coexist in the Alt-Right. It deals with the Trump presidency and the ascendancy of the alt-right as a major factor in the rise of anti-Semitism and Islamophobia in the U.S. Here in Seattle, a Sikh man was shot and wounded Friday night by a masked … [Read more...]