white nationalism

Roberta Kaplan of Integrity First for America speaks at the Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit in Laguna Niguel, California, October 2, 2018. (Phillip Faraone/Getty Images for Fortune/via JTA)

July 4, 2019, 3:10 am

Jewish lawyer wants to break the back of the violent white nationalist movement

Roberta Kaplan seeks to deprive supremacist groups of free speech protections by proving incitement to violence, and deter them with massive financial penalties in a civil suit

By Ron Kampeas

White nationalists march on a street near the White House during an anti-immigration rally in Washington, DC, on December 3, 2017. (AFP Photo/Mandel Ngan)

July 1, 2019, 11:56 pm

Facebook to expand efforts to root out white nationalist content

Top exec Sheryl Sandberg vows social media giant will tighten its hate speech policy, after external audit faults it for not doing enough

By AFP

In this file photo taken on January 25, 2019, US Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell talks with reporters at the US Capitol in Washington, DC (WIN MCNAMEE / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / AFP)

May 18, 2019, 3:12 am

Democrats charge GOP with refusing to acknowledge far-right anti-Semitism

Opponents accuse Republican leaders of focusing on anti-BDS policy for political gain, while ignoring more serious threat of white nationalism

By Ron Kampeas

Heavily armed San Diego police officers approach a house thought to be the home of 19-year-old John T. Earnest, the alleged shooter in the fatal attack at a synagogue in Poway on April 27, 2019, in San Diego, California. (John Gibbins/ The San Diego Union-Tribune via AP)

April 30, 2019, 4:13 am

How US Jewish communities can get trained to prevent shootings like Poway

Experts say American synagogues need to invest time in preparing their members, not just in hiring armed guards, in order to stay safe

By Josefin Dolsten

Vincent Vetromile appears in court in Rochester, NY, on March 7, 2019, charged with three others for plotting to attack an Islamic community in upstate New York. (Jamie Germano/Democrat & Chronicle via AP, Pool)

April 28, 2019, 10:57 pm

Twitter terror: Arrests show danger of online extremism

Four American youths, on trial for plotting attack on Muslims, stoked their fanaticism on social media

By ADAM GELLER

Neighbors and media members gather outside of the Chabad of Poway Synagogue, April 27, 2019, in Poway, California. (AP/Denis Poroy)

April 28, 2019, 6:10 am

Fresh synagogue shooting appears to highlight spread of deadly hate

Extremism expert calls attack an ‘act of political theater’ designed to propagandize white nationalism, as ADL head says anti-Semitism still rising

By Eric Cortellessa

Ku Klux Klan members on July 8, 2017 in Charlottesville, Virginia protesting the planned removal of a statue of General Robert E. Lee, and calling for the protection of Southern Confederate monuments. (Chet Strange/Getty Images via JTA)

April 26, 2019, 8:08 pm

Trump defends Charlottesville comments by praising Confederate general

Remarks come after Biden makes president’s ‘very fine people on both sides’ defense of white supremacists the center of his campaign launch

By Agencies

Former Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden arrives at the Wilmington train station, April 25, 2019 in Wilmington, Delaware. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)

April 25, 2019, 6:11 pm

Biden makes Trump’s Charlottesville reaction the center of his campaign launch

Newly announced 2020 Democratic candidate says president’s comments on neo-Nazi marchers made him realize ‘the threat to this nation was unlike any I had seen in this lifetime’

By Ron Kampeas

White nationalist demonstrators use shields to guard the entrance to Lee Park in Charlottesville, Virginia, August 12, 2017. (AP Photo/Steve Helber, File)

April 9, 2019, 2:21 am

US lawmakers to examine ways to rein in hate crimes, white nationalism

House Judiciary Committee says Tuesday hearing will focus on social media as a conduit for hate and on government efforts to counter it

By JTA

In this photo supplied by the New Zealand government, mosque shooting survivor Farid Ahmed addresses the national remembrance service in Hagley Park for the victims of the March 15 mosques terrorist attack in Christchurch, New Zealand, March 29, 2019. (Mark Tantrum/New Zealand Government via AP)

March 29, 2019, 11:08 am

At memorial, New Zealand mosque survivor says he forgives attacker

PM Ardern says world had been stuck by a vicious cycle of extremism; also on hand are Australian PM and singer Yusuf Islam, aka Cat Stevens

By Nick Perry

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg delivers the keynote speech at F8, Facebook's developer conference, in San Jose, California, May 1, 2018. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File)

March 28, 2019, 6:00 am

Facebook extends ban on hate speech to ‘white nationalists’

Social media giant says it concluded that white nationalism and separatism cannot be meaningfully separated from white supremacy and organized hate groups

By Barbara Ortutay

Illustrative: In this photo from August 11, 2017, multiple white nationalist groups march with torches through the University of Virginia campus in Charlottesville, Virginia. (Mykal McEldowney/The Indianapolis Star via AP)

March 27, 2019, 8:19 pm

Facebook extends ban on hate speech to white nationalists

Social media giant says it has been weighing move for months, but it comes 2 weeks after deadly shooting in New Zealand

By Barbara Ortutay

Residents place flowers at the police cordon as police continue to search the area close by the Linwood Ave Mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand, on March 16, 2019. (MICHAEL BRADLEY / AFP)

March 16, 2019, 5:42 am

White nationalist movement spreads worldwide, pushing lone-wolf attacks

Live-streamed massacre of 49 in New Zealand mosques underlines reach of movement that preaches imagined ‘European’ ideal, rejects immigration, shares vicious threats over internet

By Paul Handley

US President Donald Trump speaks on border security from the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, March 15, 2019. (Nicholas Kamm/AFP)

March 15, 2019, 11:25 pm

After New Zealand attack, Trump says white nationalism not a widespread threat

US president says he didn’t see killer’s manifesto, in which he was praised as ‘a symbol of renewed white identity and common purpose’

By Agencies

A crowd of demonstrators outside New York's Madison Square Garden as they seize a uniformed member of the German American Bund who had emerged from a Bund rally and attempted to enter a taxi, February 20, 1939. (AP Photo, File)

February 23, 2019, 5:21 am

Documentary about 1939 Nazi rally in New York up for Oscar

‘A Night at the Garden’ recalls 20,000 fascist demonstrators massing to demand ‘gentile-ruled United States’ 80 years ago this week

By Karen Matthews