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Hundreds of white nationalists, neo-Nazis, and members of the alt-right march down East Market Street toward Emancipation Park during the Unite the Right rally on August 12th, 2017, in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Ideas

The Far Right Doesn’t Want to Beat the Left; It Wants to Exterminate It

Every right-wing authoritarian movement has one thing in common: a brutal clampdown on any persons or groups who promote equality.

Noah Berlatsky

Social Justice

How Reporting on Anti-Semitism Shapes Public Memory

Reports on anti-Semitism are important not because they act as a warning system to Jewish communities, but in how they remind the public of the dangers of anti-Semitic thought.

Claire Greenstein & Elizabeth Osman

Viewfinder: Anti-Semitic Vandalism in a Jewish Cemetery in France

A man walks by graves vandalized with swastikas at the Jewish cemetery in Quatzenheim, France, on February 19th, 2019, the day of a nationwide march against a rise in anti-Semitic attacks.

Pacific Standard Staff

Judah Samet, a member of the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, waves as he is recognized by President Donald Trump during the State of the Union on February 5th, 2019.

Can Trump Honor a Holocaust Survivor While Rejecting Refugees?

In his State of the Union, President Donald Trump honored a survivor of both the Holocaust and the Tree of Life shooting. Now, a Jewish refugee advocate says Trump is sending mixed messages.

Jack Herrera

Demonstrators gather on The Ellipse during the Women's March on Washington on January 21st, 2017, in Washington, D.C.

News in Brief

The Annual Women’s March Is Happening This Saturday. Why Is It Controversial?

On its third anniversary, the march faces serious controversy—and probably a much lower turnout than in previous years.

Kelley Czajka

Author Alice Walker attends opening night on Broadway for an adaptation of her novel The Color Purple at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre on December 10th, 2015, in New York City.

Social Justice

Why Did the ‘Times’ Let Alice Walker Recommend an Anti-Semitic Book?

When we're talking about violent anti-Semitism, studious neutrality is journalistic malpractice.

David M. Perry

A young Jvonne Hubbard poses with American and Confederate flags.

‘Hate Is Just Exhausting’: Growing Up With—and Running Away From—the Ku Klux Klan

The daughter of a KKK Grand Dragon discusses life with the Klan, how she escaped, and the state of hate today.

Arvind Dilawar

Police respond to the site of a mass shooting at the Tree of Life Synagogue in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on October 27th, 2018.

Anti-Black and Anti-Semitic Attacks Top the FBI’s 2017 Records for Hate Crimes

City, state, tribal, and other law enforcement agencies reported more than 7,000 hate crimes to the FBI in 2017, according to numbers the FBI released on Tuesday.

Francie Diep