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White Supremacism

Richard Holzer, 27, was charged with intentionally attempting to obstruct persons in the enjoyment of their free exercise of religious beliefs, through force and the attempted use of explosives and fire.
“Let’s not be fooled: This is not a dialogue about policy; these are tactics to divide us from each other and sow fear. All of us should reject this action as cowardly and destructive to community,” Rabbi Laurie Franklin of Har Shalom in the western Montana city of Missoula.
Ashley St. Clair attended what she told Right Wing Watch was a “diverse dinner.”
A woman giving the OK hand gesture. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.
ADL: OK hand gesture now considered a hate symbol
The Anti-Defamation League has claimed that it forms a “W” and a “P,” indicating “white power.”
Prosecutors and a U.S. magistrate judge said the suspect identifies himself as a white supremacist and shared with an FBI informant detailed plans to attack a synagogue near his home.
“Hate Beyond Borders: The Internationalization of White Supremacy” chronicles how American white supremacists are coordinating with foreign counterparts to export their message and activities by meeting online and in person, and recruiting new followers.
“On U.S. campuses across the country, harassment motivated by classical anti-Semitism actually decreased, and significantly so. At the same time, however, the number of Israel-related acts of harassment increased significantly,” wrote the report’s researchers.
He has been charged with posting a video on social media firing a semi-automatic rifle as the background features screams and sirens.
Weapons, ammunition, bulletproof armor and white-supremacist propaganda were found during an FBI raid on the suspect’s home after he posted a threatening video online.
The congresswoman argued that Palestinians are not responsible for terrorism, even as she called Israel a white-supremacist nation.
She also endorsed the anti-Israel progressive group IfNotNow, saying it is “amazing” and “organizing for justice.”
The messages range from veiled language to explicitly racist images and words that attack minority groups, including Jews, blacks, Muslims, non-white immigrants and the LGBTQ community.