The Capitol Riot Is Inspiring Far-Right Groups Around the World
The storming of Congress could have scary global consequences if the U.S. doesn’t act quickly to hold rioters accountable.
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Watching armed neo-Nazis and other extremists violently storm the Capitol building on Wednesday, my first thoughts weren’t of reaction in Washington D.C. Instead, I wondered who was watching in Belgrade, Bratislava, and Budapest.
Many, in the past few days, have compared the sacking of the Capitol to events Americans unthinkingly associate with faraway countries with inferior democratic values. I thought of these places for a different reason: because I knew that neo-Nazis and white supremacists waiting in the wings around the globe would see the events in Washington as proof that they, too, could violently seize power when the time came. Wednesday showed them that their fantasies of waging a race war were within reach.
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Wiesenthal Center Releases Top 10 Worst Anti-Semitic Incidents of 2020
The Simon Wiesenthal Center unveiled its list of top 10 worst anti-Semitic incidents in 2020 on a December 29 Zoom call.
Associate Dean and Director of Global Social Action Agenda at the Wiesenthal Center Rabbi Abraham Cooper said that while it was tough to limit the list to only 10 incidents this year, the COVID-19 pandemic was the number one anti-Semitic incident in 2020. Cooper said that the pandemic has been “weaponized” against minority groups, particularly Jews and Asians. As an example, he pointed to anti-Semites’ calls to infect Jews with COVID-19 in what became known as the “Holocough.”
The neo-Nazi organisation
Pohjoinen perinne (or Nordic Tradition in English), a registered association of the Nordic Resistance Movement (Finnish acronym PVL), has been declared bankrupt by Pirkanmaa District Court on Monday.
A request for bankruptcy was filed by lawyer
Kaarle Gummerus, who was appointed as the association s liquidator in mid-December.
Finland’s Supreme Court upheld on appeal a decision to ban the neo-Nazi Nordic Resistance Movement in September.
According to the Supreme Court, the association operated in violation of the law and accepted principles of morality. In its ruling, the court supported the 2018 view of the Turku Appeals Court that the association should be shut down for the general good of society, because of its violent acts and militia-like structure.