New Republic, “The Left’s Supporting Role in American Hate Theater”
And so the good people of Charlottesville, along with a fair number of masked anti-fascists and anarchists from god knows where, took to the streets on July 8. They drowned out the Klansmen with their own taunts and threats, tried to block them from driving away after the rally, and turned their ire toward the […]
Westword, “Online Fundraiser Defends Alleged Capitol Hill White Supremacist Will Planer”
Another passage casts Planer as a defender of old-fashioned American values: “Will was one of the 18 Sacramento Spartans who braved the 20-to-1 odds, death threats, and explicit law enforcement stand-down order to take a stand. He took a stand with the conservative families who had been bludgeoned and bloodied only weeks prior for merely […]
Gothamist, “No Jail Time For Skinhead Who Beat Columbia Students On LES”
Antifa, the loose-knit anarchist movement devoted to exposing and opposing those it deems fascists, has forcibly shut down speeches by right-wing figures and staged street fights with hard-right extremists in New York and elsewhere as Donald Trump’s campaign gained momentum and turned into a presidency. Right-wing skinheads and their left-wing counterparts have been mixing it […]
Al Jazeera, “From NATO to Antifa: One Afghan’s journey to Greece”
The Antifa activists – comprising anarchists, communists and other anti-racists – shout slogans against Golden Dawn in Greek. “Not in parliament, not anywhere,” chants a group of demonstrators carrying red flags. “Smash fascism everywhere.” Continue Reading
Bedford and Bowery, “Clash Over Anti-Semitism as Controversial Speaker Gilad Atzmon Appears at Theatre 80”
“Jew-Haters [get] out of the East Village,” blared a leaflet handed out by local journalist Bill Weinberg, a leftwing anarchist who writes a blog called New Jewish Resistance. His leaflet describes Atzmon, who was born in Israel and served as a medic in the Israel Defense Forces, as a “proud self-hating Jew” who allegedly traffics in anti-Semitism and has made […]
Vocativ, “Kentucky Town Prohibits Masks And Hoods Before Neo-Nazi Rally”
Many of the protestors wore masks, hoods and other clothing that hid their identity in accordance with the “black bloc,” anarchist style of protesting. In February, a speech by far-right provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos at the University of California, Berkeley was cancelled after “black bloc” demonstrators protesting Yiannopoulos broke windows and set fires prior to his speech. Continue […]
ABC 7 Chicago, “Activists confront group they claim were celebrating Hitler’s birthday at Ky. restaurant”
In a statement to WAVE-TV via social media, Hess said, “The Antifa attacked the entire restaurant. They attack Trump supporters. They attack reporters, too. They attack anyone who’s not a radical anarchist. We will not be intimidated. We will defend our people. We will prevail.” Continue Reading
Mother Jones, “Left Hook: A Brief History of Nazi Punching in America”
2002: ARA and a Boston anarchist group skirmish with white supremacists who turn out for a speech by Hale in York, Pennsylvania. (Hale is currently serving a 40-year sentence for soliciting the murder of a federal judge.) Continue Reading
The Stranger, “It’s 2017 and American Nazis Are Still Cowards”
In a similar vein, when an anarchist punched white nationalist Richard Spencer, and the propriety of punching Nazis became a matter of debate, 1940s vintage cartoon panels of Captain America punching Adolf Hitler got memed far and wide. Continue Reading
Inquisitr, “Donald Trump’s Dangerous Alliance With White Supremacy”
Spencer, moments before being punched in the face by a black flag anarchist, denied being a Neo-Nazi and claimed Neo-Nazis hated him. It’s one of those distinctions that aren’t very useful generally, but apparently, based on a Reddit thread on the question, Richard Spencer doesn’t harbor a hardcore hatred of Jewish people and homosexuals — […]