Israel’s Far Right Blame “Leftist” Victims of Pittsburgh Synagogue Massacre

As Israeli Minister of Education Naftali Bennett sets out to Pittsburgh, prominent members of the governing Likud Party have blamed the Jewish victims of the neo-Nazi massacre “for causing anti-Semitism.”

Max Blumenthal
By Max Blumenthal
Shooting Synagogue

Grayzone -- Israeli Minister of Education Naftali Bennett has embarked on a visit to Pittsburgh “to be with our sisters and brothers in their darkest hour,” he said, after an avowed anti-Semite massacred eleven Jewish worshippers at the city’s Tree of Life Synagogue. Robert Bowers, the right-wing terrorist, targeted the progressive congregation

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Anti-Semitism as a Sword: As Far Right Storm Clouds Gather, False and Trivial Charges Ignore the Real Threat

While far-right parties including neo-Nazis rise, the call of anti-Semitism is recklessly and maliciously misused for relatively insignificant reasons, if any reason at all.

Ian Berman
By Ian Berman
Germany Far Right AFD Chemnitz

LONDON -- (Opinion) There is nothing in this series of articles to deny that anti-Semitism is a real threat. On the contrary, the point is to expose the cheap use of the anti-Semitism card in the face of a real menace to society. Overused and undeserved allegations of anti-Semitism only endanger Jews like me should the real dangers of anti-Semitism

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Steve Bannon Declares ‘War Rooms’ to Win European Elections – and That’s Not Meddling?

America has relentlessly meddled in scores of countries to determine election outcomes. Steve Bannon is but the latest brazen expression of US malign activity.

Finian Cunningham
By Finian Cunningham
Steve Bannon Elections

One trait of imperial decadence is untrammeled hubris. Given the increasingly arrant arrogance on display by United States’ officials, public figures and news media we can safely conclude that this empire is accelerating into decadence. A recent spectacular example comes with separate visits to Europe by US defense secretary James Mattis and

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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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Report Reveals White Supremacists Are Taking Hate Offline and Onto the Streets

White nationalist organizations are not content simply to congregate online; increasingly, they are spewing their hatred with traditional, highly visible public banners.

Liz Posner
By Liz Posner
National Socialist Movement

The rise of far-right extremism on the shadowy corners of the internet is a legitimate concern for those who value tolerance, peace and progress. Now a new study from the ADL’s Center for Extremism reports that radical white nationalist organizations are not content simply to congregate online; increasingly, they are spewing their hatred in

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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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