The Beating of Andy Ngo. Donald Trump is right (about something): There really is an “alt-left,” but it’s even weirder than he thinks. As public awareness of the collection of neo-fascists who call themselves the “alt-right” has increased, some within the Republican right concocted the term “alt-left” in order to deflect attention from the growth of racism that is the inevitable product of the GOP’s decades-long reliance on white identity politics to promote upward economic redistribution of wealth.
At the same time, many Republicans have pretended that the term “alt-right” had no meaning and was really just a fabrication by Democrats. It’s a classic case of political projection. President Donald Trump has been particularly fond of both techniques. He has on multiple occasions pretended that “alt-right” was a meaningless slur — acting as if he’d never heard the term, or had no idea what it meant — while also implying that anti-fascist activists really were the “alt-left.” “Nobody even knows what it is,” Trump told CNN’s Anderson Cooper, referring to the alt-right.
Here’s Farah: Another was MSNBC host Joy Reid: The Original ‘Antifa’ Was A Jewish Anti-Nazi Militia – The Forward. While watching the recent events in Charlottesville, Virginia – the violence that erupted between marching neo-Nazis and Antifa protesters – I can’t help but think back to what was the original “Antifa”, a group of Jews, whom my father told me about from his childhood, growing up as a poor Jewish kid in Newark, New Jersey.
My father was born in 1904 in what was then Kishinev, Russia, and what is now Chisinau, Moldova. Before he was a year old, his family immigrated to the US. Like many Jewish families at the time, they were fleeing the murderous atmosphere created by the Kishinev pogrom of 1903. My dad grew up in the tenements of Newark, without much money but with a wealth of stories about the characters and goings on of the Jewish neighborhoods of Newark of that era.
The Antifa’s role in fighting Nazis in the streets reminded me of my dad’s story about his much beloved but “kind of crooked” first cousin, Jake “Cocky Jake” (and sometimes, “Jack”) Rothseid. Mark B. A Strong Opinion: Stop Counter-Protesting. Photo Credit: Karla Cote / Flickr First, My Definition Counter-protest: an organized response, on the same day, at the same time and in the same place as a previously planned protest.
Now, My Argument. Vice News' Elle Reeve Crushes Donald Trump's Claims About Charlottesville. FACT CHECK: Counter-Demonstrators Didn't Have Permits in Charlottesville? Counter-demonstrators in Charlottesville did not have the appropriate permits to protest a white supremacist rally.
On 15 August 2017, during a press conference at Trump Tower in New York City, President Donald Trump took questions from reporters about a deadly white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia the preceding weekend and said, erroneously, that counter-demonstrators did not have a permit. One woman died on 12 August 2017 when, according to police, a white supremacist drove his car into a crowd of counter-demonstrators that had gathered to protest the “Unite the Right” rally.
Two state police officers also died when the helicopter they were piloting while monitoring the unrest crashed. In laying blame on “many sides” for the carnage, President Trump told reporters: I will tell you something. It was a rally for racial justice, harmony, and end of white supremacy. Redneck Revolt: The Armed Leftwing Group That Wants to Stamp out Fascism. Photo Credit: Jesse Adam Davis / Shutterstock.com The cookout offered free food, a face-painting booth and a “protest sign-making station” – a pile of cut-up cardboard boxes, paint markers and rolls of packing tape.
A group of neighborhood boys, each no older than 12, gathered around. They wanted signs to tape to their bicycles, so they could ride around and “tell Trump” what they thought of him. One grabbed a piece of cardboard and wrote in big letters: “TRUMP’S A BITCH.” Max Neely quickly stepped in. “I’m not sure you should use that word,” he said, his voice taking on a fatherly tone. FACT CHECK: Antifa Member Photographed Beating Police Officer? A photograph shows an Antifa member hitting a police officer.
An image purportedly showing an anti-fascist (antifa) protestor hitting a police officer was circulated on social media shortly after a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, left one woman dead and dozens injured on 12 August 2017. The photograph was frequently accompanied by the claim that both sides (white nationalists and counter-protesters) had contributed to the violence, and that while Republicans had denounced racists, Democrats had not denounced antifa protestors: This is not a genuine photograph of an antifa protestor striking a police officer.
This image was digitally manipulated to add the antifa logo to an unrelated photograph. ‘Antifa’ Grows as Left-Wing Faction Set to, Literally, Fight the Far Right - The New York Times. Who are the antifa? Antifascists may seem like a novelty, but they’ve been around for a very long time.
Maybe we should start listening to them. (Getty Images) On Monday, President Trump capitulated to the popular demand that he distance himself from his comment that “many sides” were to blame in Charlottesville by explicitly denouncing white nationalism. “Racism is evil,” he appeared to grudgingly concede, “including the KKK, neo-Nazis and white supremacists.” What Is the 'Alt-Left'? For Starters, Not a Thing.
Noam Chomsky: Antifa is a 'major gift to the right' Noam Chomsky has launched into an attack on the anti-fascist movement and argued its actions are wrong in principle and it is a “major gift to the right”.
The eminent intellectual, who is described as the father of modern linguistics, argued the movement was self-destructive and constituted a tiny faction on the periphery of the left. Antifa, shorthand for anti-fascist organisations, refers to a loose coalition of militant, decentralised, grassroots groups which are opposed to the far-right. The Myth of the "Violent Left" The Right Is Falling for Its Own Fake Antifa Accounts.
Durham's Confederate Statue and the Backlash to the Backlash - The Atlantic. Updated on August 15 at 8:55 a.m.
DURHAM, N.C. —You could argue that the Civil War actually ended in this North Carolina city. Although Robert E. Lee’s more famous surrender took place at Appomattox Courthouse in Virginia, Confederate General Joseph Johnston’s surrender to William T. Sherman two weeks later at Bennett Place, a farm on the outskirts of town, was larger and ended the war in the east. You could also argue that, as in many places across the South, the war never totally ended here. Until Monday night. Around 7 p.m. Far-right smear campaign against Antifa exposed by Bellingcat. Image copyright Twitter/Womens Aid Far-right activists are using fake Twitter accounts and images of battered women to smear anti-fascist groups in the US, an online investigation has revealed.
The online campaign is using fake Antifa (an umbrella term for anti-fascist protestors) Twitter accounts to claim anti-fascists promote physically abusing women who support US President Donald Trump or white supremacy. Researcher Eliot Higgins of website Bellingcat found evidence that the campaign is being orchestrated on internet messageboard 4Chan by far-right sympathisers. One image shows the slogan "53% of white women voted for Trump, 53% of white women should look like this", above a photograph of a woman with a bruised and cut face and an anti-fascist symbol. What the “alt-left” was actually doing in Charlottesville. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images On Tuesday, after a weekend that included a white supremacist mowing down and killing a peaceful counter-protester in Charlottesville and Nazis marching on the University of Virginia with torches, the president of the United States stood in front of the American people and said, “What about the ‘alt-left’ that came charging at, as you say, the ‘alt-right’?
Let me ask you this: What about the fact they came charging—that they came charging with clubs in their hands, swinging clubs? Do they have any problem? I think they do.” Dahlia Lithwick writes about the courts and the law for Slate, and hosts the podcast Amicus. There were, as it turns out, a great number of Charlottesville locals present to witness the violence and lawlessness on display in this town—my town—last weekend.
Black-clad antifa members attack peaceful right-wing demonstrators in Berkeley. Berkeley demonstrations turn violent Left-wing counterprotesters clashed with right-wing protesters and Trump supporters on Aug. 27 in Berkeley, Calif. Violence erupted when a small group of masked antifa and anarchists attacked right-wing demonstrators. Left-wing counterprotesters clashed with right-wing protesters and Trump supporters on Aug. 27 in Berkeley, Calif. The 'Distracted Boyfriend' Meme Photographer Explains All. The Charlottesville Protests & Robert Edward Lee Statue.