Fliers began appearing on the University of Minnesota’s Twin Cities campus in late October featuring the school’s mascot, Goldy Gopher, wearing a sweatshirt with an anti-fascist symbol and hoisting a flag with a crossed-out swastika —“Punch a Nazi? Gopher it!” the flyer read, advertising a “Rally against alt-right hate” on Wednesday, October 25.
The past few weeks and month have been illuminating for those observing the bizarre statements and behaviors of John Guandolo, an anti-Muslim conspiracy theorist and founder of the for-profit law enforcement training company, Understanding the Threat (UTT).
Over the next few weeks, the Boston area is set to host events honoring some of the most vocal anti-Muslim figures in the country.
On October 20, 2017 President Donald Trump gave the public a good reminder about the cautionary spirit implied by “lies, damned lies and statistics,” when he carelessly linked the rise of reported crime in parts of the United Kingdom to “Islamic terrorism.”
Since March 2016, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has tracked 329 flyering incidents on 241 different college campuses across the United States, a number that continues to grow.
Since the SPLC’s warning in August, another violent black nationalist has carried out a mass shooting attack against whites. This time, a predominantly white congregation was attacked at their place of worship.
The 46th annual Eagle Council played host to a litany of far-right leaders in St. Louis, kicking off the weekend Friday, September 22 with a keynote speech from anti-Muslim, anti-immigrant extremist David Horowitz and ending with a Sunday afternoon rally headlined by Stephen Bannon, whose nativist ideology has influenced the so-called alt-right.
As college campuses across the nation settle into the fall semester, many are being confronted by the realities of white supremacy.
Yesterday’s election of the far-right, populist party Alternative für Deutschland (Alternative for Germany or AfD) marks the first time a far-right party has entered the German parliament since the end of World War II.
