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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 588

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White nationalist Tim Gionet, known as 'Baked Alaska.' (YouTube screenshot)
July 23, 2022, 5:15 pm
Antisemitic internet troll ‘Baked Alaska’ pleads guilty in Capitol riot
Tim Gionet, who streamed live video from assault on Congress, faces a maximum sentence of six months imprisonment
By AP and ToI Staff
A livestream said to show far-right media personality Tim Gionet vandalizing a Hanukkah menorah in Arizona in 2020. (Screenshot)
November 20, 2021, 11:18 am
US far-right livestreamer ‘Baked Alaska’ charged over vandalism of Hanukkah menorah
‘This is a disgrace,’ Tim Gionet allegedly said as he removed a sign from the menora in Arizona last year; already indicted for role in Capitol riot
By ToI Staff
Neo-Nazis and white supremacists encircle counter-protesters at the base of a statue of Thomas Jefferson after marching through the University of Virginia campus with torches in Charlottesville, Va., August 11, 2017. (Shay Horse/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
November 19, 2021, 4:36 pm
How Charlottesville defendants made the judge say ‘gas the kikes’ and why it matters
The civil trial may result in crippling fines to white supremacists, or it may embolden the alt-right. It’s also being used as a soapbox to spew racist vitriol
By Ron Kampeas
This image captured from the Daily Stormer website shows part of a February 21, 2021, post by Andrew Anglin with instructions on how to send him money via the cryptocurrency Monero. (AP Photo)
September 28, 2021, 2:01 pm
Far-right networks harder to track as they go underground with cryptocurrency
Lawyer for watchdog says it has grown more difficult to find and stamp out hate groups via the legal system now that they operate with online networks and use virtual money
By Erika Kinetz and Lori Hinnant
White nationalist Tim Gionet, known as 'Baked Alaska.' (YouTube screenshot)
January 17, 2021, 1:49 am
Neo-Nazi ‘Baked Alaska’ arrested over US Capitol riot
Tim Gionet, who livestreamed from inside building, faces charges of violent and disorderly conduct and entering a restricted building without lawful authority
By AP and ToI Staff
A panel on anti-Semitism hosted by Jewish Voice for Peace Action featured (clockwise from left): historian Barbara Ransby, commentator Peter Beinart, media studies professor Marc Lamont Hill and Democratic Rep. Rashida Tlaib. It was moderated by Rabbi Alissa Wise, a Jewish Voice for Peace activist. (Separate screenshots from Facebook/ via JTA)
December 16, 2020, 3:58 pm
At US Jewish anti-Zionist group anti-Semitism panel, speakers say they love Jews
Online discussion hosted by Jewish Voice for Peace includes essayist Peter Beinart, who backs one-state solution, and Rashida Tlaib, who says she supports BDS but fights bigotry
By Ben Sales
Talia Lavin and the cover of her new book, 'Culture Warlords.' (Courtesy of Lavin/ via JTA)
October 22, 2020, 5:20 am
With false identities, author exposes extremists hiding in web’s dark underbelly
Talia Lavin’s new book ‘Culture Warlords’ details her undercover journey into the alt-right’s most toxic forums and how she seduced members only to make their names public
By Emily Burack
Artist Matt Furie draws the Pepe the Frog character in the new documentary 'Feels Good Man.' (Kurt Keppeler)
September 3, 2020, 10:11 pm
Duo behind Pepe the Frog film warn against writing off goofy hate propaganda
With new documentary ‘Feels Good Man’ premiering on-demand Sep 4, filmmakers say what started as a silly hate meme has bled into mainstream politics; ignore it at your peril
By Jordan Hoffman
Screenshots from Madison Cawthorn's Instagram account show pictures from a 2017 visit to the site of a Nazi retreat used frequently by Hitler. In the caption of the now-deleted pictures, Cawthorn called Hitler 'the Führer.' (Twitter via JTA)
August 14, 2020, 3:02 am
Madison Cawthorn’s visit to Hitler’s vacation home alarms his NC district’s Jews
In a 2017 social media post from the Eagle’s Nest in Bavaria, the now 25-year-old Republican congressional candidate said the former haunt of the ‘Fuhrer’ was on his ‘bucket list’
By Ben Sales
US President Donald Trump after a meeting with restaurant industry executives about the coronavirus response, in the State Dining Room of the White House, in Washington, May 18, 2020. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
May 19, 2020, 8:40 am
Trump retweets video by conservative shunned for her support of Holocaust denier
President shares clip of right-wing activist Michelle Malkin complaining conservatives are silenced on social media; Twitter later removes original tweet
By Marcy Oster
A white supremacist leaves Emancipation Park in Charlottesville, Virginia, August 12, 2017. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)
August 9, 2019, 4:12 am
White supremacists have murdered at least 73 since Charlottesville, ADL says
Rise in far-right violence, racist propaganda over past two years tied to Virginia rally, says report, which traces fallout among extremists
By Marcy Oster
8chan was founded by a computer programmer in response to what he saw as increased censorship on the messaging board 4chan. (Getty Images/JTA Montage)
August 6, 2019, 5:53 pm
What is 8chan, the site linked to shooters in Christchurch, Poway and El Paso?
Patrick Crusius, the suspected gunman behind the murder of 22 people in a Texas Walmart store, is reported to have posted a racist rant on the forum just prior to the attack
By Josefin Dolsten
Katie Hopkins attending a protest over the jailing of the far-right activist known as Tommy Robinson in London, England on on July 11, 2019. (Luke Dray/Getty Images/via JTA)
July 28, 2019, 11:18 pm
Some UK Jews embrace hard-right pundit Katie Hopkins amid her attacks on Muslims
Critics accuse the journalist of using supposedly pro-Israel positions to whitewash her Islamophobia, though to some her obsession with Judaism may seem as genuine as it is bizarre
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Illustrative: A Donald Trump supporter holds a poster of Pepe the Frog, a symbol of the alt-right movement, at a campaign event in Bedford, New Hampshire, on September 29, 2016. (Jessica Rinaldi/The Boston Globe via Getty Images/JTA)
June 11, 2019, 6:51 pm
Infowars to pay $15,000 for unauthorized posters of Pepe the Frog
Both creator of image hijacked by far-right and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones claim victory with settlement
By Michael Kunzelman
American University student government president Taylor Dumpson, right, accompanied by Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas, left, and others, speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, May 4, 2017. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
April 30, 2019, 11:24 pm
Woman seeks $1.5M in damages from neo-Nazi website founder
Taylor Dumpson sues The Daily Stormer founder Andrew Anglin for orchestrating racist online harassment campaign against her
By Michael Kunzelman
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