Great, White ethnostate in the sky: Willis Carto dead

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KEVIN BARRETT: REPACKAGING ANTISEMITISM

Veterans Today, an online publication targeting U.S. veterans, came under fire this month when an Oxford University study revealed its ties to the Kremlin.1 The publication features overt antisemitic commentary. One of its editors, Kevin Barrett, is a former Islamic studies instructor who has built a career repackaging antisemitism for the U.S. Hard Right and Left. Unfortunately, his particular brand of antisemitism—scapegoating Israel, Zionists, and Jews for the rise of Islamophobia—is welcome in some corners of the U.S. Left.

While Barrett rarely refers to Jews as the enemy, he regularly blames Israel and Zionists for all crises associated with radical Islam, in ways that play into overt antisemitic tropes. But, aside from his associates and ideas, he could blend in with much of the U.S. Left.

Having grown up in a Unitarian Universalist household, Barrett converted to Islam when he was 34 years old. While studying at San Francisco State University, he said in an interview that he was influenced by traditionalist Muslim authors like René Guénon. Guénon was a French intellectual who converted to Islamic esotericism in 1912 and believed 20th century Western democracy should be replaced by a hierarchical religious elite. Like Barrett, Guénon was embraced by segments of the French Left and Right. But, ultimately his work was reprinted in the fascist newspaper Il Regime Fascista and has since been influential to the Alt-Right including President Trump’s former chief strategist, Steve Bannon.2

After earning a Ph.D. in Islamic Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and teaching as an instructor there for a year in 2006, his controversial views on 9/11 quickly led to his ouster.3 Within less than a year, the University ended his contract after rumors that Barrett encouraged students to read materials blaming neoconservative Zionists for 9/11 elicited backlash from conservative Wisconsin politicians and incited a heated debate over academic freedom.

For Barrett, 9/11 is a focal point. He correctly criticizes the widespread surveillance and wars waged against Muslim countries and attacks on Muslims in the United States in the wake of 9/11. Yet, even his most levelheaded sounding critiques always revert back to Israeli or Zionist control underpinning it all.

In a March 2017 American Free Press article, Barrett says neoconservative Zionists are responsible for 9/11.4 Four years earlier, Barrett appeared on Press TV, Iran’s conservative state-sponsored first English-language TV network, saying, “Al Qaeda is Israeli and the state of Israel is a branch of Al Qaeda.”5

Untethered from the university, Barrett continued to advance and communicate his theories. He co-founded the Muslim-Jewish-Christian Alliance for 9/11 Truth, an online group that claims to offer evidence on how 9/11 was an inside job. This solidified his place within the 9/11 Truth Movement,6 which straddles segments of the U.S. Hard Right and Left.

After Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik killed 14 people and injured more than 20 in a mass shooting in San Bernardino, California in 2015, Barrett called it “a Hoax created by Israel.”7 He said the attack was orchestrated by “intelligence agencies linked to the Israeli Mossad.” He continued, “all of these have been falsely blamed on radical Muslims.”

Over the years, Barrett developed a strong online presence. While the publications he contributes to are not widely known, his prolific appearances across digital, radio, and print spaces have garnered a considerable audience. According to Barrett, Veterans Today gets about one million views per month, and his articles typically get somewhere between 3,000-100,000 views. False Flag Weekly News, a video segment of No Lies Radio, which often hosts Barrett, typically gets 3,000 views per week. Press TV is accessible in Europe, Asia and the US. Barrett also contributes to the American Free Press, an overt antisemitic and White nationalist publication that grew out of Willis Carto’s infamous Spotlight newspaper. More recently he began contributing to Crescent International Newsmagazine of the Islamic Movement, a publication of the Institute of Contemporary Islamic Thought, an Islamic research and activist center that promotes an alternative to the “western civilization.”8

PRA contributor Matthew Lyons, an independent scholar and author of Ctrl-Alt-Delete: An Antifascist Report on the Alternative Right, says Barrett’s argument extends beyond conspiracy theories into a new brand of antisemitism that has become more common in the United States since World War II.

“Most of these statements by Barrett are antisemitic,” Lyons said. “It’s more common for antisemites to refer to the evil Jewish conspiracy indirectly, by talking about ‘Zionists’ or other groups or individuals that are readily identified as Jewish, such as Mossad or the Rothschild family or George Soros.”9

Lyons point is illustrated in a June 2017 episode of Barrett’s Truth Jihad radio show, where Barrett says, “The destruction of freedom in the west is basically being driven by the state of Israel.”10

His views feed into broader Hard Right conspiracy theories as well. Barrett references a map called, “The Gatekeepers: Foundations Fund Phony ‘Left’ Media,” in a Veterans Today article in May 2016. The map links Pacifica, Ms. Foundation and Political Research Associates, among many others, to the Ford Foundation—and ultimately to the CIA and Skull & Bones, a secret society at Yale University.11 Such claims, popularized by books like Gary Allen’s 1971 None Dare Call it Conspiracy, have long been a staple of Hard Right organizations like the John Birch Society.

His historical revisionism and antisemitism comes into acute focus when he contemplates whether the Holocaust ever happened, something he has done on more than one occasion.

“With the Holocaust, this is an issue that I’m still on the fence on,” Barrett said in a video obtained by B’nai Brith Canada, the Canadian section of a Zionist Jewish services organization.12 “I don’t know who’s right about this. There are very serious questions about the so-called Holy Trinity of the Holocaust story.”13

Barrett doesn’t come out and say the Holocaust never happened, instead he creates parameters where questioning it becomes normal. “He’s says he’s ‘on the fence’ about the Holocaust ‘story’ — which is like being ‘on the fence’ about whether slavery happened,” says Lyons.14

Despite Barrett’s lightly cloaked antisemitism, and close ties with elements of the Hard Right, segments of the U.S. Left have associated with him.

In the lead-up to the 2016 presidential election, Green Party candidate Jill Stein’s running mate, Ajamu Baraka, contributed an article to a 2016 anthology edited by Barrett, Another French False Flag?: Bloody Tracks from Paris to San Bernardino.15 Baraka’s article, “The Paris Attacks and the White Lives Matter Movement,” first appeared in CounterPunch, a left-wing publication.16

Baraka, a longtime activist, founding director of the U.S. Human Rights Network, and contributing editor to Black Agenda Report was criticized for collaborating with Barrett. But although Baraka attempted to distance himself, saying he didn’t know much about the other authors in the anthology, he had already appeared at least twice on Barrett’s No Lies Radio.17

Continues at: http://www.politicalresearch.org/2017/1 ... semitism/#

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Speaking of ethnostates:


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White supremacists and Japan: A love story

BY DEBITO ARUDOU
MAR 7, 2018

The Washington Post reported something interesting on Feb. 14: A farm in Virginia put up a sign saying “Resist white supremacy.” And it incurred a surprising amount of online backlash.

Calls for boycotts. Accusations and recriminations. One-star Facebook reviews that had nothing to do with their products.

The article pondered: Who, other than a white supremacist, would object to a message rejecting white supremacy?

But if you’ve ever protested racism in Japan, or read comments sections in Japanese media, you’ll know these reactions have been old hat for nearly two decades.

In fact, this column will argue that online intolerance and attack have been Japan exports.

First, let’s talk about the old hat. It’s been well established in both articles and lawsuits that Japan’s online bullying is rife (see “2channel, the bullies’ forum,” JBC, Feb. 3, 2009), with people libeled and doxxed, and many a personal and professional life destroyed.

But it’s not limited to Japanese-language forums. Anyone critical of Japan gets it, and in English, too.

For example, my blog recently critiqued a Japan Times article on the internationalization of Japan’s youth (“Coming of age: 1 in 8 new adults in Tokyo are not Japanese“). As usual, somebody trolled:

“Why is this a good thing? Japan needs to stay Japanese. Keep your Leftist, neo-Marxist ideology out of Japan. Japan does not want to go down the same Leftist road as Canada, UK, Europe, etc. Japan must remain an ethnostate. Keep the poz (HIV-positive) out. We see how that it’s destroying the West. Multiculturalism and diversity are a cancer, and I hope to never see it in Japan.”

This supremacist bile is common in the Oort cloud of online haters — the habitues of message boards such as 4chan and Reddit, who swarm, thrive and mobilize in anonymous echo chambers.

Like their Japanese counterparts, they consider the racial “other” the enemy, and find inspiration in Japan both as an online community (4chan is in fact the English version of 2chan, and is owned by 2chan’s founder) and, as noted above, as an “ethnostate.”

Consider the notable white supremacists who are Japan fanboys:

Jared Taylor, author and guru of America’s so-called alt-right, is a fluent speaker of Japanese, born in Kobe to missionary parents and schooled in Japan until high school. A self-described white separatist, he believes Japan will be more successful this century than mongrel America due to its “racial and cultural homogeneity.”

Richard Spencer, the white supremacist leader who coined the term “alt-right,” advocates America’s “peaceful ethnic cleansing” into a “white ethnostate.” Cloaking ethno-superiority as “identitarianism” (which means, “you identify with your race, with your people, with your culture”), his spokesman claimed, “Everyone in Japan is an identitarian.”

William Daniel Johnson, chairman of the white nationalist American Freedom Party, wrote a book (and a proposed constitutional amendment) advocating the deportation of all nonwhites from America. Majoring in Japanese in college, he is fluent in the language after his Mormon mission in Tohoku, and prospers under what The Guardian calls “an uncanny connection between Japan and white nationalism in America.”

Even mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik, the neo-Nazi who killed 69 people at a Labor Party island youth retreat in 2011, is an ardent Japanophile. In his manifesto, he specifically praised Japan as “a model country” for avoiding multiculturalism.

Supremacists see Japan as a viable national alternative, not only because Japan can get away with policies that embed racism and keep immigrants out, but also, more importantly, because Japan gets the acceptance and respect of other rich countries regardless.

Japan’s incubators of hate have returned the favor, offering templates for supremacists worldwide to convert their trolling into real political power.

Steve Bannon, the engineer of Donald Trump’s successful presidential election strategy, is another Japan fan. He was here last December at the Japanese Conservative Political Action Conference, proclaiming Prime Minister Shinzo Abe the pioneer of Trumpism — “Trump before Trump.”

According to Joshua Green, in his bestselling book “Devil’s Bargain,” Bannon harnessed the power of online white male hate, “a rolling tumbleweed of wounded male id and aggression.” Recruiting “rootless white males” from the online gaming community into propaganda outlet Breitbart (the “crown jewel of the alt-right’s media universe”), he is now spearheading an international racist social movement.

These rootless white males find succor in Japan. They enjoy one of the world’s largest gaming communities. They are taken in by narratives of subservient women digging white men (The New York Times opined that “exclusively dating Asian women is practically a white-nationalist rite of passage”). And in the land of the hikikomori (extreme antisocial recluses), they find a society making allowances for awkward, introverted people who communicate best without ever leaving their room.

They also find purpose. As noted above, if anyone is critical of Japan’s nerd terrarium, they pile on, like white samurai. Even though by doing so, they encourage the discrimination that affects them adversely.

The white samurai now join the ranks of the other historical figures who have defended Japan from charges of institutionalized racism.

They join the academics, who are compelled (by the “chrysanthemum club” old guard who explain away Japan’s racism as misunderstood cultural foibles, and by the Japanese institutions that fund their departments) to stick to talking about the “nice things” about Japan.

They join the international diplomats and businessmen who seek to preserve “the relationship,” and prioritize trade over human rights.

They join the Japan culture fans, who know a lot about a stripe of Japanese culture (e.g., anime and manga, martial arts, etc.), but don’t want the overall reality of inequality and exclusionism to darken their dreamy day. As cottage-industry “Japan experts,” they promote false moral equivalencies, diverting attention from serious stuff and focusing instead on Japan’s exotica and erotica.

They all pile on against the pragmatists, who, as foreign residents of Japan, are just trying to deal with the day-to-day, earn an honest crust and avail themselves of opportunities other Japanese have. But if they ever advocate equal opportunity or access, they face the harshest criticism from their own kind. They don’t belong in the ethnostate.

The white samurai are the most powerful of these detractors: anonymous in identity, instantaneous in response and single-minded in purpose, as the true keepers of a hate-based faith.

The biggest loser in this dynamic is actually Japan. Even the United Nations’ special rapporteur on racism noted in 2005 that Japan as a society is “closed, spiritually and intellectually centered.” And as its population dwindles due to its antidiversity policies, its economic power and international clout will too.

And the biggest takeaway from all this is that one cannot ignore racism. As argued umpteen times before, ignoring discrimination only helps it spread. Likewise, ignoring Japan’s incubators of hate for all these years has finally culminated in its watershed moment: Online hate helped America elect a racist president. Now it is undermining liberal democracies worldwide.

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A WORLD OF LIES: UNDERSTANDING AND REFUTING HOLOCAUST DENIAL

Killing Collective Memory

For a long time, Holocaust Denial was this crossover point. The purpose of Holocaust Denial is multidinous, but the central function is the recovery of the idea of the racialized state or racialized society. In recent memory, the most “successful” example of racial nationalism was the Third Reich. It is one of the only modern examples of a fully realized fascist state built on racialist principles. It does vary from the more “generic fascism” in that it was carelessly imperialistic, was even more ruthlessly genocidal, and, to a degree, bizarrely anti-rational and filled with silly superstitions.[2] Scholar of Comparative Fascist Studies, Roger Griffin, noted that the obsession that modern neo-fascist movements have with Nazi Germany was bound to happen, the two will always be linked in the mythic role Hitler and the Third Reich hold because of its shocking success at meetings its aims.

Nazism was bound to provide a role model to post-war fascists committed to a racist vision of national ‘cleansing’ from degeneration. For one thing, it was one of only two of “their” movements to have achieved state power…It was the racist aspect of Nazism, however, that was the most significant for a new generation of white neo-fascists who were less alarmed by the political or military weakness of their ‘home’ nation than by the erosion of their pan-European ethnic identity through the impact of mass immigration and multiculturalism.[3]

For the rest of the public, the brutal cruelty of the Holocaust forever demystified racial nationalism in the eyes of the world community, associating it rightly with violence and oppression. Nazi Germany is the cleanest example of this, but it is also the most clearly realized politic of racialism and anti-Semitism. The results of these politics were forever exemplified by the crematoria at Auschwitz, something that Alt Right advocates of the “Ethnostate” can never recover from. As Leonard Zeskind puts it when looking at the far-right Liberty Lobby’s Willis Carto and the creation of the first institutionalized Holocaust Denial campaign within white nationalism, getting rid of the baggage of the past was crucial to building a movement built on racial nationalism.

Willis Carto (and others) needed to rewrite the history of World War Two: it was central, not peripheral, to their white supremacist project. They all believed a civilization-level change had occurred with the defeat of Hitler…Mainstream historians, although starting from different premises, reached similar conclusions: the fight against racism and fascism in Europe had discredited these ideologies among America’s decision-making elites.[4]

To return to that politic, there is an incredible need to undo the Holocaust so that the function of racial nationalism can be disassociated with the most disgusting atrocity of the 20th century.

It is also important to take Jews off of the register as victims of genocide, and to continue to aid in the general conspiracy theory that is required for white nationalist anti-Semitism. If they are to place Jews at the top of the pyramid of racial revenge, bent on controlling and destroying the “sovereignty” of the white race, then it is not impossible for them to have been victims of such violence. Many people on the far-right have actually wanted to maintain a narrative of Jewish genocide in as much as they are open about the degree to which they have a ravenous hatred of Jewry. This is much of the dichotomy that Leonard Zeskind lays out in Blood and Politics, where by the radical revolutionary politics positioned by the National Alliance and William Pierce refused to deny the Holocaust (at least to some degree) in that they shared the need for this level of destruction of the Jews.[5] On the opposite end was Willis Cato, founder of the Liberty Lobby and the Populist Party, who needed Holocaust Denial as a centerpiece since there was no way they were going to achieve “white populism” with nationalism having that level of blood on its hands.[6] The choice between the two is whether or not you want to use the Holocaust to claim victory against the Jews, or to, in turn, deny that it happened so as to lighten the image of the Third Reich and continue to show how much control Jews have over the discourse of modern history.[7] This is not to suggest that Pierce did not peddle in Holocaust Denial as his National Alliance certainly did sell classic works of denial as a way of drumming up anti-Semitic hysteria, he just did not want to rest his case against the Jews and for fascism in the strength of that argument.[8]

To actually deny the Holocaust, there are a few fracture points that deniers tend to go after. Andrew E. Mathis explains a clear definition of Holocaust Denial that is in line with what the modern Hitler apologists contend.

Before discussing how Holocaust denial constitutes a conspiracy theory, and how the theory is distinctly American, it is important to understand what is meant by the term “Holocaust denial.” Holocaust deniers, or “revisionists,” as they call themselves, question all three major points of definition of the Nazi Holocaust. First, they contend that, while mass murders of Jews did occur (although they dispute both the intentionality of such murders as well as the supposed deservedness of these killings), there was no official Nazi policy to murder Jews. Second, and perhaps most prominently, they contend that there were no homicidal gas chambers, particularly at Auschwitz or Birkenau, where mainstream historians believe over 1 million Jews were murdered, primarily in gas chambers. And third, Holocaust deniers contend that the death toll of European Jews during World War II was well below 6 million. Deniers float numbers anywhere between 300,000 and 1.5 million, as a general rule.[9]

Since there are such varying claims inside of the Holocaust Denial camp, most of which completely contradict one another, it is almost impossible to keep a comprehensive deconstruction of all claims. To do so would be a full-time project of simply going through increasingly bizarre theories that have no basis in fact.

Read more: https://antifascistnews.net/2018/05/13/ ... st-denial/

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He is among the best anti-fascist researchers out there:

"The alt-right wants to replace the USA with an ethno-state": interview with Matthew N. Lyons
By Matthew N Lyons | Wednesday, May 23, 2018 |

The German leftist newspaper Junge Welt recently published an interview with me by Gabriel Kuhn, under the title "Die 'Alt-Right' will USA zu Ethnostaat umwandeln" [The "alt-right" wants to replace the USA with an ethno-state]. The interview refers to my 2015 book Arier, Patriarchen, Übermenschen: Die extreme Rechte in den USA [Aryans, Patriarchs, Supermen: The Far Right in the USA], which Gabriel translated into German and which was published by Unrast Verlag. An English language version of the interview is below.

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Kuhn: When your book Arier, Patriarchen, Übermenschen was released in 2015, few people understood how relevant it would be only a year later. How strong are the connections between Donald Trump and the far right?

Lyons: More than any other major presidential candidate in decades, Donald Trump benefited from far right support and emphasized themes that appeal to far rightists, such as Islamophobia, scapegoating immigrants, and a populist attack on the Republican Party’s conservative leadership. His ties with the alt-right, although indirect, were particularly strong through advisors such as Steve Bannon. After the election, alt-rightists proclaimed themselves the vanguard of the Trump coalition. However, alt-rightists never saw Trump as one of their own, but rather as someone who could slow down “white genocide” and open up political space for them to promote their own message. They have been increasingly disappointed as the Trump administration has largely pursued a conventional conservative agenda on issues such as taxes, health care, and deregulation of industry. Trump’s military strikes against the Syrian government shocked and angered alt-rightists and also many Patriot movement activists. They saw the strikes as proof that Trump has been pressured or bought off by neoconservatives and globalist elites, forces which alt-rightists (but not Patriot activists) explicitly identify with Jews.

Kuhn: Which are the forces that constitute the "alt-right"?

Lyons: The alt-right originated around 2010 as a convergence of several rightist forces that were hostile to mainstream conservatism. Major influences included the French Nouvelle Droite and the European New Right more broadly (which began as a post-1968 effort to make fascist ideology more palatable by incorporating elements of liberal and leftist thought, such as an emphasis on “diversity”) and paleoconservatism (an American current that emphasized economic protectionism, cultural nationalism and opposition to most military interventions). Starting around 2015, the alt-right got a big influx of activists from the so-called manosphere, an antifeminist online subculture that promoted intense misogyny and developed coordinated online harassment as a powerful tool for attacking women and their allies. Most alt-rightists embrace some form of white nationalism, involving calls to replace all or part of the United States with a white ethno-state. Some of these activists identify with the tradition of National Socialism while others do not.

Kuhn: What does your new book Insurgent Supremacists add to Arier, Patriarchen, Übermenschen?

Lyons: Insurgent Supremacists updates Arier, Patriarchen, Übermenschen’s analysis by three years and combines it with a lot of other material, such as a chapter on the origins and development of the alt-right. There are chapters on several themes that cut across different sections of the far right, such as gender politics and anti-imperialism. Insurgent Supremacists also explores the complex interactions between the far right and certain other forces, including federal security services such as the FBI, as well as Donald Trump’s presidential campaign and administration. Lastly, there are discussions of fascism both as a theoretical category and as a term of political debate that has often been misused against authoritarian conservatives or liberals, or against the existing U.S. government.

Kuhn: For many years, you've been involved in the blog Three Way Fight. Can you tell us more about the three ways fighting here?

Lyons: Three Way Fight argues that revolutionary leftists face two major poles of opposition: (1) the existing socio-economic order that centers on global capitalism and related systems of oppression, and (2) fascist and other far right forces that grow out of the existing system but also clash with it in real ways. We need to combat both, but they require different strategic responses. Far rightists aren’t simply tools of the ruling class, but rather form an autonomous political force that wants to secede from or overthrow liberal-pluralist political systems such as the United States and replace them with a harsher and potentially more genocidal political and social order. At the same time, by presenting themselves as the only real opponents of established elites, far rightists exploit popular grievances and seek to rally mass support away from any liberatory anti-capitalist vision.


Photo credit: Photo of Richard B. Spencer in 2016 (cropped). By Vas Panagiotopoulos - 19 November 2016, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Colors have been altered.

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My weekend with white nationalists

I wanted to understand Identity Evropa. So I became one of them.


He then asks me whether I had any addictions or a history of mental illness. I told him I didn’t.

“Awesome. Great to hear. Cool, so can you tell me a little bit about your heritage?”

Where do I start? “As far as I know, my great-grandfather was from Germany. My great grandparents on my mom’s side were from France, I think. . . So it’s all mostly German and French. And my last name is Argyle, so I’ve definitely got some Scottish in there. So all my relatives are white.”

“Yea. Good stuff. Probably northwest European. When I saw the Brooklyn, New York, I expected some Italian, you know, with the accent and everything.”

I laughed along with him and wondered whether Paul had ever been to Brooklyn. This was unlike any interview I’d ever had. Then again, I’d never tried join a pro-white Identitarian group.

Paul is a member of Identity Evropa (pronounced “Europa”), which claims to be the largest pro-white Identitarian group in America. The concept of “white Identitarianism” originated in France in the early 21st century. Such groups espouse the idea that white people are being persecuted in America and around the world. I’m interviewing with Paul because I want to investigate I.E., and going undercover or, rather, incognito seems the best way to do that.

I.E. was founded in California in 2016 by a Marine veteran named Nathan Damigo. Damigo was serving a five-year prison term for armed robbery, having stolen $43 from a taxi driver he thought “looked Iraqi,” when he read KKK leader David Duke’s autobiography My Awakening and had an awakening of his own.

I.E. is identified as a white supremacist organization by the Anti-Defamation League and a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center. The group says it has more than 1,000 members nationwide.

As our interview wound down, Paul asked if I was familiar with “human biodiversity and race realism and stuff like that.” I knew a bit about the Yale-educated white supremacist Jared Taylor, who founded the magazine American Renaissance and is best known for promoting what he calls “race realism,” a modern form of eugenics. He’s considered an elder by groups like I.E.; a pioneer for their cause. Taylor argues that race is a biological fact, not a social construct, and concludes that a multicultural society is destined to fail. Instead, he advocates for a white ethnostate.

I asked Paul what his group thought about the idea of a white ethnostate.

“An ethnostate is an ideal that I would think most of our membership can fundamentally agree with,” he said. “But I think there’s a better way to sell it than explicitly saying ‘ethnostate.’” His group wants a “white supermajority” and their goal is to preserve the cultural and demographic majority of the United States.

Paul quickly jumped to the next question. “So what would you say your opinion is on Jewish identity in relation to European identity?” As I fumbled for an answer, Paul continued. I got the feeling that he was less interested in hearing my opinions than he was in sharing his. “I think there’s definitely a lot of influence of them over our nation, foreign policy, and stuff like that. I think they’re their own distinctive people with their own cultural and religious beliefs and things of that nature.”

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WHO IS JASON KESSLER?
WHITE NATIONALIST “UNITE THE RIGHT” ORGANIZER CALLS HIMSELF A “CIVIL RIGHTS” ACTIVIST AND CHARLES MANSON A “MISUNDERSTOOD GENIUS”

If Kessler makes clear that whiteness is central to his idea of nationality – i.e., that he is a white nationalist – he reinforces this by working with, defending, and promoting known white nationalists and national socialists. In a deposition in his lawsuit against Charlottesville, when asked to name the groups that “attended the 2017 Event per your formal or informal invitation,” Kessler listed the white nationalist League of the South as well as the national socialist Traditional Worker Party, National Socialist Movement, and Vanguard America. Kessler also worked closely with these and similar groups to organize Unite the Right 1, according to lawsuits filed against multiple racists involved in the event.

It comes as no surprise, then, that Kessler has repeatedly defended and praised white nationalist groups and attended white nationalist events.

...Jason Kessler’s attempt to cast Unite the Right 2 as simply a “white civil rights” event, and one at which Nazis and their ilk will not be welcome, is a ruse. In his deposition, Kessler stated that national socialist (read Nazi) David Duke is among the individuals who “have confirmed their intent to attend and speak.” Kessler also appeared on Duke’s radio show in April, mostly pressing his argument that Unite the Right 2 is a “civil rights” event and that whites are being oppressed.

Read more: https://www.irehr.org/2018/07/30/who-is ... od-genius/

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Bill Weinberg: against the left-right convergence

Bill Weinberg rants about the current left-right convergence, and how the politics of the Hitler-Stalin Pact are being revived in the age of Trump and Putin. The recent appearance at the "progressive" (sic) Brooklyn Commons of a neo-Nazi-cohort-turned-9-11-conspiracy-guru exemplifies the "Red-Brown" politics of the contemporary "left"—also seen in the nearly universal position in favor of the genocidal dictatorship in Syria.


https://youtu.be/3cExliW-51A