Morning Briefing: Neo-Nazi Found Guilty of Charge Related to Distribution of Antisemitic Flyers
Morning Briefing: Neo-Nazi Found Guilty of Charge Related to Distribution of Antisemitic Flyers
Jon Minadeo, founder of the White Supremacists group Goyim Defense League (GDL), was found guilty and sentenced to 30 days in jail for littering related to the distributing antisemitic literature.
Morning Briefing: Jon Minadeo, the founder of the White Supremacists group Goyim Defense League (GDL) who was accused of distributing antisemitic literature from a U-Haul truck in West Palm Beach, Florida, was unanimously found guilty for a “littering charge, which some say has much larger repercussions.”
Minadeo was sentenced to a 30 days in jail.
Georgia law enforcement is reportedly investigating a recent incident in which a “neo-Nazi group projected a laser message onto an Interstate 75 overpass, praising Nazi leader Adolf Hitler.”
An investigation revealed that the “names of at least three active police officers in the Milwaukee area are on a leaked membership list for the far-right, anti-government group the Oath Keepers.”
During the past five years, Massachusetts has seen a significant increase in White Supremacist activity, and there have been “175 instances of white supremacist propaganda this year alone, including distributing flyers.”
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Anthea Butler writes that “God talk by these politicians and others like them is a way to characterize their authority as ‘God given’ to appeal to religious voters. It’s hubris for them to believe that God has chosen them above everybody else, even other Christians. Their belief that God has chosen them to lead dovetails with the idea that America is a Christian nation and that the only way to keep it that way is to have politicians who not only invoke God but also do God’s will for the nation. It also neatly fits into Christian nationalism, the idea that America is a Christian nation and that its leaders should be Christian, too. It’s not just Christian nationalism, however, that these politicians embrace. They also embrace dominionism, the belief that God intended Christians to lead. This belief is prevalent among many conservative Christians and politicians in America… This isn’t an aberration. Consider the number of Republicans who believe God appointed Donald Trump president. Even Trump, who rarely passes up an opportunity to speak highly of himself, hedged his bets on that one.” [MSNBC]
Lil Kalish writes that “in the past year, as Republican-led states have increasingly passed anti-trans legislation, GOP officials nationwide have leveraged data requests about transgender residents as one of their many tools to restrict access to medical care. In Missouri, the attorney general requested and failed to obtain medical records on trans youth, while in Florida, Gov. Ron DeSantis probed state universities for data on how many students sought out gender-affirming care on campus clinics. More recently, 19 Republican attorneys general ― including Skrmetti ― signed a letter pushing back against a federal rule that would shield states from requesting data on patients seeking abortion out of state. Many trans health advocates inside and outside the state said [Matt] Walsh’s posts about Vanderbilt not only seemed to provide pretext for the probe and ban on gender-affirming care, but that his inflammatory language and framing took the doctors’ words out of context and grossly mischaracterized the kinds of care that minors were receiving at the clinic.” [Huffington Post]
Ben Lorber writes that “as Israel prepares for a likely ground invasion, the sudden descent into bloodshed has sent shockwaves around the world, with many worrying events could precipitously spiral into a regional war with catastrophic global implications. The U.S. Right has, in response, leapt into frenzied overdrive, ramping up Islamophobia, anti-Palestinian racism and war-on-terror saber-rattling while calling for repression of Palestine solidarity protests in the US. At the same time, a debate is unfolding on the Right regarding the nature and scope of U.S. support for Israel—a debate exposing deep fault lines in the MAGA coalition, and bringing ascendant varieties of far-right antisemitism closer to the mainstream. As President Biden and the U.S. political establishment rushed to declare their unequivocal support for Israel’s assault on Gaza, leading voices on the Right have called for robust U.S. military backing. Republican Senator Tom Cotton stated on October 7, the day of Hamas’s attack, that ‘Israel will need reinforcements in this war,’ and called on President Biden to ‘send everything that shoots on everything that flies.’” [Religion Dispatches]
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