America’s Far Right is Stumbling, But has Already Infiltrated the Mainstream

In a sense, the Republican Party has become a much more powerful instrument of white rage than the alt-right.

Juliette Legendre
By Juliette Legendre
This Aug. 17, 2017 image from video shows a Confederate flag, right, displayed alongside an Israeli flag and a colonial-era American one in the seventh-floor windows of an apartment in the East Village neighborhood of New York. The flags had been there for over a year, and illuminated at night, but after an Aug. 12 white nationalist rally to preserve a Confederate statue in Charlottesville, Va., spiraled into violence the flags were met with hurled rocks, a punched-out window, a tarp hung over them and legal action before being removed. (PIX11 News via AP)

On March 5, the prominent white nationalist Richard Spencer was scheduled to speak at Michigan State University. The event quickly turned into a bust when only about three dozen people made it inside the building — while hundreds of Spencer supporters and anti-fascist protestors confronted each other outside, throwing rocks and punches. Local

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The Far-Right Effort to Win Hearts and Minds Across the Atlantic

Far more dangerous than the far-right effort to win elections alone is its concerted campaign to change the culture — a strategy it owes, perversely, to the left.

Juliette Legendre
By Juliette Legendre

When Marine Le Pen took the reins of her father’s French far-right National Front party, she launched a well-crafted communication strategy to de-demonize the party’s image. She distanced herself from unsavory associations and condemned the party’s more overtly racist and anti-Semitic elements. She also co-opted some of the lexicon of the left

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Israel’s Newest Allies: The White Nationalist Right

A famously anti-Semitic movement has come to admire modern Israel’s “ethnonationalism.” That speaks volumes about the ascent of the far right in the country.

Harry Blain
By Harry Blain
EDL | Israel

Much of the “alt-right” literature in the United States is exactly what you would expect.  Images of George Soros using his “globalist” tentacles to smite his political enemies. Thought pieces on a “white genocide” so devious that barely any white people have noticed it. Reflections on the “Islamification” of Europe. However, there are some

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Netanyahu Alienating American Jews for Alliance with Christian Evangelicals and the Alt-Right

Israel’s attacks on liberals in Israel echo Trump’s rhetoric and policies towards minorities in the US, American Jews are gradually being forced to reassess their longstanding double standard towards Israel.

Jonathan Cook
By Jonathan Cook
Evangelical Christians supporters of Israel hold US and Israeli flags as they march through Jerusalem. US Evangelist John Hagee, a Christian Zionist brought hundreds of backers on a solidarity trip to Israel, April 7, 2008. (AP/Peter Dejong)

For decades most American Jews have claimed an “Israel exemption”: resolutely progressive on domestic issues, they are hawks on their cherished cause. Racism they would vigorously oppose if applied in the United States is welcomed in Israel. Reports at the weekend suggested that Donald Trump is about to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital,

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How ‘Antifa’ Mirrors the ‘Alt-Right’

The violence by antifa—short for anti-fascist or anti-fascist action—in Charlottesville, Va., saw a surge in interest and support for the movement, especially after the murder of Heather Heyer.

Chris Hedges
By Chris Hedges
An anti-fascist demonstrator jumps over a barricade during a free speech rally Aug. 27 in Berkeley, Calif. (AP Photo)

Behind the rhetoric of the “alt-right” about white nativism and protecting American traditions, history and Christian values is the lust for violence. Behind the rhetoric of antifa, the Black Bloc and the so-called “alt-left” about capitalism, racism, state repression and corporate power is the same lust for violence. The two opposing groups,

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How Democrats Used ‘Alt-Left’ To Demonize Progressive Critics

There simply can be no equivalency between the “alt-right” and the “alt-left.” Nor is the “alt-left” responsible for any threat the rise of the “alt-right” may pose to the country.

Kevin Gosztola
By Kevin Gosztola
How Democrats Used 'Alt-Left' To Demonize Progressive Critics

Liberal and centrist Democrats did not necessarily coin the label “alt-left,” however, in recent months, the term was popularized by them. It was deployed against anyone on the left who challenged their politics, especially those perceived as supporters of Senator Bernie Sanders or members of the Democratic Socialists of America. But in a recent

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