While the entire Trump administration has been cynically deploying accusations of antisemitism for months now in an attempt to delegitimize its political adversaries, it's worth noting that Trump's own rhetoric about an immigrant "invasion" and his talk of "paid troublemakers" are loaded with antisemitic overtones, and that the narratives he's invoking have had deadly consequences in the past.

#antisemitism, #immigration, #LA #TreeOfLife #TheTurnerDiaries

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With the movie 'The Order' set to be released in the US next week, I imagine there will be a lot of chatter about the eponymous 1980s neo-Nazi terror group in the near future (with lots of newly minted "experts" undoubtedly chiming in). So it wouldn't be a bad thing if people were to get acquainted with the history and the legacy of The Order (aka Die Brüder Schweigen/The Silent Brotherhood) before the well gets poisoned by clickbaity nonsense and terminally online attention seekers (sorry, I'm probably in a slightly less-forgiving-than-usual mood today).

This article* is a good intro as to why The Order is still relevant today. Leading member Richard Scutari is set to be released from prison on Jan. 21 (coincidentally, Trump's first full day back in office). Scutari is 77 now, but through his correspondence, he's been an influential figure in neo-Nazi circles both in the US and, in particular, in Northern Europe for decades. The fact that he has lived long enough to be released (about 22 years before the end of his sentence) will undoubtedly come as a morale boost to a neo-Nazi scene that already has reason to feel it's going to have a freer hand when both the DOJ and the FBI have new leaders whose primary focus will be going after Trump's personal and political enemies.

I'll try to see about posting other stuff about The Order and/or The Turner Diaries and related topics in the next few days. It's important that people get this stuff right, particularly as we head into a new, politically volatile environment. Stay tuned...

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From the article:

While in prison, Scutari maintained extensive connections with white supremacist groups in the U.S. and Europe. His correspondence with white supremacist activists in Sweden and Finland throughout the late 1990s and 2000s encouraged them to form a series of organizations that would become the Nordic Resistance Movement (NRM), a pan-Nordic neo-Nazi group, according to published correspondence and Hatewatch’s conversation with a former NRM leader. The U.S. Department of State named NRM and three of its leaders as Specially Designated Global Terrorists in July 2024, citing its members’ violent attacks, including the 2017 bombing of a refugee center and plots against “political opponents, protesters, journalists, and other perceived adversaries.”

“[Scutari] had the propensity to unify people,” Brad Galloway, a former neo-Nazi leader, told Hatewatch in an interview. Galloway, who now works closely with the anti-extremist group Life After Hate, corresponded with Scutari in the early 2000s while helping lead the U.S.-based racist skinhead group Volksfront.

https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2024/12/05/neo-nazi-order-member-released-prison-after-radicalizing-terrorist-group

* Like a lot of people, I've had issues with the SRLP over the years, but the two people who wrote this article are top notch. Moreover, the scuttlebutt about SRLP as an org has been that they have started dealing with some of their internal problems in recent years. Still, that doesn't seem to have stopped its management from engaging in dubious labor practices, including laying off 60 people -- a really big chunk of its staff -- last June. So I still post their stuff (sometimes) and cite them, but I also feel obligated to sometimes include a disclaimer to the effect that this is not an endorsement of everything they do as an org. In this case, it's just valuable info that needs to get out there.

#NeoNazis #RichardScutari #TheOrder #DieBruderSchweigen #SilentBrotherhood #fcknzs #fascism #terrorism #NRM #NordicResistanceMovement #TheTurnerDiaries