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  1. "#Swastikas and #Hitler #graffiti were spray-painted on a #synagogue, a #Jewish center, homes, and a vehicle in #NewYorkCity, by at least four people still at large.

    Congregation #MachaneChodosh in #ForestHills was the synagogue that was spray-painted, which #Rabbi #YossiMendelson told the #NewYork Post on Monday was “very upsetting.”

    "The rabbi who founded our synagogue was himself a #German refugee and dedicated the synagogue to the memory of the synagogues that were destroyed in #Germany and the #Jews who were murdered for being Jewish,” #Mendelson said."

    thenationaldesk.com/news/ameri

  2. #Chechen native and member of the #German far-right party (#AfD) Murad Dadaev, more commonly known as Noah #Krieger, has visited #Chechnya and gifted a senior Chechen official German daggers from World War II adorned with #swastikas, OC Media reported.

    oc-media.org/german-afd-member

  3. "A wave of #antisemitic incidents across #Canada is raising alarm within the country’s #Jewish community, as tensions linked to conflict in the #MiddleEast continue to drive a surge in #vandalism, #harassment, and #violence targeting #Jews and #Israelis.

    In one of the latest antisemitic incidents, a #kosher restaurant and a neighboring business in #Montreal, the largest city in the province of #Quebec, were vandalized on Wednesday, with antisemitic #graffiti and #swastikas spray-painted across their walls.

    The incidents followed separate attacks in #Toronto, a city in the province of #Ontario, where shots were fired at a Jewish-owned restaurant and at a local #synagogue.

    In another troubling antisemitic incident, a 15-year-old Jewish #student in #Halifax, the capital of #NovaScotia, has been forced to continue his education online after his school failed to stop repeated antisemitic harassment and #bullying."

    algemeiner.com/2026/03/05/anti

  4. What's up with Canada?

    "#Swastikas were found on three neighbouring businesses in the city’s St-Laurent:borough, launching an investigation by the #Montreal police #hatecrimes unit.

    Officers were called around 3 a.m. Wednesday after a 911 call reported #graffiti on the storefront of a pharmacy on St-Louis St., according to Montreal police spokesperson Caroline Chèvrefils.

    When officers arrived, she said, they found “hate-related graffiti” on the pharmacy as well as on two neighbouring businesses: a butcher shop and an Italian #kosher restaurant called Gourmetti."

    montrealgazette.com/news/crime

  5. It was not immediately clear Tuesday why publication of the new harassment policy was not paused so the “potentially divisive” language used to describe #swastikas & #nooses could be removed to align with Lunday’s directive.

    #Trump #USCG #WhiteSupremacy #antisemitism

  6. The #Trump admin called the article “false,” but within hours of its publication the service’s acting commandant, Adm. Kevin Lunday, issued a memo forcefully denouncing symbols such as #swastikas & #nooses, & emphasizing that both remain prohibited.

    Lunday said at the time that his Nov 20 memo would supersede any other language.

    #USCG #WhiteSupremacy #antisemitism

  7. Spox for the #CoastGuard & #DHS, which oversees the military service, did not immediately respond to requests for comment. The symbols issue is expected to come up at a #House committee hearing Tuesday.

    WaPo was first to report on the #USCG’s plan to revise its workplace harassment policy last month.

    #Trump #swastikas #nooses #WhiteSupremacy #antisemitism

  8. #US #CoastGuard enacts policy calling #swastikas, #nooses ‘potentially divisive’ instead of #HateSymbols

    The #USCG has allowed a new workplace harassment policy to take effect that downgrades the definition of swastikas and nooses from overt hate symbols to “potentially divisive” despite an uproar over the new language that forced the service’s top officer to declare that both would remain prohibited.

    #Trump #WhiteSupremacy #antisemitism
    washingtonpost.com/national-se

  9. The latest policy that was rolled out late Thursday night also unequivocally banned the display of any divisive or #hate symbols from all #USCG locations. The earlier version stopped short of banning the symbols, instead saying that commanders could take steps to remove them from public view & that the rule did not apply to private spaces outside of public view, such as family housing.

    #law #Trump #WhiteSupremacy #racism #antisemitism #swastikas #nooses #ConfederateFlag #HateCrimes #HateSpeech

  10. #Journalism matters

    #USCG reverses course on policy to call #swastikas & #nooses 'potentially divisive'

    The late-night change came the same day media outlets, led by WaPo, discovered that the #CoastGuard had written a policy…that called those same symbols “potentially divisive.” The term was a shift from a years-long policy…that said symbols like swastikas & nooses were “widely identified with oppression or hatred” & called their display “a potential #hate incident.”

    apnews.com/article/coast-guard

  11. IS ANYBODY SURPRISED BY THIS?

    "#Swastikas & #Nooses will no longer be classified as symbols of #hate" in the U.S. military.

    BUT "#Pride Flags" are still #banned.

    Of course. (Watch to the end. Jen covers the ad Dems put out telling members of the #military not to follow #Illegal Orders, and then provides examples of why such a reminder was necessary.)
    ms.now/the-briefing/watch/trum

  12. Each of the #military services is also reviewing its “harassment” policies in response to #Hegseth’s directive, though unlike with the #USCG, any wording specific to #swastikas would likely appear in their separate #extremism guidelines [we’ll see]. It does not appear there is wording addressing swastikas specifically within those current policy documents.

    #law #Trump #WhiteSupremacy #racism #antisemitism #swastika #nooses #ConfederateFlag #HateCrimes #HateSpeech

  13. Previous guidance put in place in 2019 said #USCG commanders could order #swastikas, #nooses or other symbols to be removed even if it was determined the display did not rise to the level of a #hate incident. That policy was enacted months after a #CoastGuard officer, Lt Christopher Hasson, was charged with plotting a large-scale attack on Democratic lawmakers, including then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

    #law #Trump #WhiteSupremacy #racism #antisemitism #ConfederateFlag #HateCrimes #HateSpeech

  14. A #CoastGuard official who had seen the new wording called the policy changes chilling.
    
“We don’t deserve the trust of the nation if we’re unclear about the divisiveness of #swastikas,” the official said, speaking on the condition of anonymity due to a fear of #retribution.

    #law #Trump #WhiteSupremacy #racism #antisemitism #swastika #nooses #ConfederateFlag #HateCrimes #HateSpeech

  15. Okay, & apologies to the demure, but this deserves unbridled cursing;

    Holy mother fucking shit are you fucking shitting me?!?!?!!!?

    #US #CoastGuard will no longer classify #swastikas, #nooses, #ConfederateFlags as #hate symbols
    
The #military service, which falls under the #DHS, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items “potentially divisive.”

    #law #Trump #WhiteSupremacy #racism #antisemitism #HateCrimes #HateSpeech

    #GiftArticle
    wapo.st/3Mbd9a6

  16. #MarcoRubio Wants to Imprison You on Terror Charges for Supporting #NaziPunchers

    The #Trump administration moved to designate #antifa groups abroad as foreign terrorists — setting up the prosecution of their U.S. allies.

    by Matt Sledge, November 15 2025

    "Hungarian Prime Minister #ViktorOrbán’s government launched a continentwide manhunt when a group of European antifascists attacked a #NeoNazi rally three years ago.

    "Orbán, though, showed no such appetite for cracking down on the annual #fascist rally, which this February drew attendees sporting SS patches, #swastikas, and the '#Totenkopf' death’s head symbol — all under the watchful eye of Hungarian police.

    "The aggressive response to antifascist activists, compared to the kid-gloves treatment of neo-Nazi demonstrators, has roiled European politics for years.
    On Thursday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio joined the fray, inserting the U.S. into the debate by declaring the antifascist group that attacked the 2023 rally a terrorist organization.

    "Though the designation is aimed at foreign groups, Rubio said that he was acting in accordance with President Donald Trump’s National Security Presidential Memorandum-7, or #NSPM7, regarding purported 'domestic' terrorists.

    "The terror designation will cut off the small #AntifaOst group, and three others designated by Rubio on Thursday, from raising funds in the U.S. It could also imperil American #antifascist groups with civil and criminal allegations of 'material support' for terrorism, a civil rights lawyer warned.

    " 'The clever way to go about it for them is to designate some foreign organization, because a foreign organization can be designated and there is almost no #DueProcess,' said Shane Kadidal, a lawyer at the Center for Constitutional Rights. “Then, you go after the U.S. groups for supposedly coordinating their political messages with the messages of the foreign groups.'

    "Rubio’s announcement follows on the heels of one from Trump in September that he was designating antifa a 'major terrorist organization,' which has no basis in law. The foreign terrorist organization designations, however, entail significant legal consequences.

    "Under a 2010 ruling from the Supreme Court, domestic groups can face '#MaterialSupport' charges for providing nonviolent support to designated foreign terrorist organizations.

    "Kadidal said the Trump administration could essentially try to use the foreign terrorist designations as a workaround to target domestic antifascists with 'material support' charges. Key questions such as whether domestic activists had knowledge and intent to coordinate with foreign groups can be left for a jury to decide based on circumstantial evidence, he said.

    " 'That is one of those things that makes this so dangerous,' he said. 'The jury may just decide, ‘Yeah, whatever you have alleged about this coordination of messaging is true, because these are bad people in front of me.'

    " 'Juries do this thing all the time. They jump to conclusions.' "

    Read more:
    theintercept.com/2025/11/15/an

    Archived version:
    archive.ph/LjT5S

    #USPol #WorldPol #Fascism #Terrorists #NDAA #ExpandedPowers #AntiFascism #PunchANazi #Hungary #Orwell #NineteenEightyFour #IndefiniteDetentionClause #CharacteristicsOfFascism

  17. In Steinbach einem Teilort von #SchwäbischHall alarmierte ein Anwohner am Montagabend die Polizei, da er #Hakenkreuze an einer Fassade und Fensterläden vermutete. Die Bewohnerin mit südostasiatischem Hintergrund erklärte, es handele sich um #Swastikas, ein traditionelles Symbol in Kulturen wie dem Hinduismus und Buddhismus. Trotz des religiösen Hintergrunds wurde das Symbol aufgrund seiner historischen Vereinnahmung durch die Nationalsozialisten als problematisch angesehen.

  18. A group of #WhiteSupremacists in #Columbus, #Ohio marched through part of the city on Sat carrying #Nazi flags & shouting #racist slurs & expressions of white power.

    There were only ~12 marchers, but the vitriol they shouted through a bullhorn & the large #swastikas symbols they bore achieved their goal of #terrorism.

    Videos of the neo-Nazi marchers in #ShortNorth, a part of the city containing many restaurants & newly built apartments, quickly spread on social media.

    nytimes.com/2024/11/17/us/neo-

  19. NEO-NAZIS ACCUSED IN LONDON RIOTS

    July 5, 1981
    New York Times

    [...] "The trouble apparently began when two busloads of #skinheads arrived in #Southall, not far from Heathrow Airport, for a rock concert given by a skinhead group in the Hambrough pub.

    "Southall has a large #Indian and #Pakistani population, and the skinheads have provided many recruits for the #whitesupremacist #NationalFront organization.

    "Many Britons were shocked today as they watched television, waiting for the start of the men's Wimbledon tennis final, to see film of a pitched battle in the London streets, with fire engines and police vans burning along with buildings.

    "The police said they had no evidence that the white youths were members of the National Front, a small extremist group that has been accused of #neonazism but local officials said they were sure that the front was involved.

    "'The skinheads were wearing National Front gear, #swastikas everywhere, and National Front written on their jackets,' said a spokesman for the Southall Youth Association. 'They sheltered behind the police barricades and threw stones at the crowd. Instead of arresting them, the police just pushed them back. It's not surprising people started to retaliate."

    Read more:
    nytimes.com/1981/07/05/world/n

    #LondonRiots #EnglandRiots #Rascism #Fascism #History #Histodon #ACAB #SouthallYouthMovement #AntiImmigrant #Riots

  20. @barney @WizardBear

    We need a greater National Guard / #law enforcement presence at the State Capitol buildings as well.

    #Trump 100% beta tested #Jan6 at the #Michigan Capitol in Lansing.

    On Oct 17, 2020, after Trump repeatedly attacked Gov #GretchenWhitmer & tweeted "LIBERATE Michigan”, #MAGA, #Militia members, #BoogalooBoys, & #WolverineWatchmen (who plotted to kidnap Whitmer) invaded the state capitol #armed w/ #AR15s, #ConfederateFlags, & #swastikas.

  21. The troubling spectre of #holocaust remembrance infuriates members of Alternative for #Deutschland party, and as they are electorally primed to take over #governance of #Germany's #Thuringia state where the #Buchenwald museum sits, it has many observers, including its curator worried as #Swastikas and jackboots make a comeback along with emboldened far right #populism

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  22. The troubling spectre of #holocaust remembrance infuriates members of Alternative for #Deutschland party, and as they are electorally primed to take over #governance of #Germany's #Thuringia state where the #Buchenwald museum sits, it has many observers, including its curator worried as #Swastikas and jackboots make a comeback along with emboldened far right #populism

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  23. The troubling spectre of #holocaust remembrance infuriates members of Alternative for #Deutschland party, and as they are electorally primed to take over #governance of #Germany's #Thuringia state where the #Buchenwald museum sits, it has many observers, including its curator worried as #Swastikas and jackboots make a comeback along with emboldened far right #populism

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  24. The troubling spectre of #holocaust remembrance infuriates members of Alternative for #Deutschland party, and as they are electorally primed to take over #governance of #Germany's #Thuringia state where the #Buchenwald museum sits, it has many observers, including its curator worried as #Swastikas and jackboots make a comeback along with emboldened far right #populism

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