“It is getting harder for people to distance themselves from right-wing extremism,” she said. “When it is their neighbors, people they work with.”

Closest thing that I've come across to my own reality of politics in Australia. The US-based non-profit Global Project Against Hate and Extremism mentioned here labelled Pauline Hanson's One Nation as a Hate Group (link in reply)

Frighteningly relateable. #AusPol #extremeism #HateGroups #Antifa #Australia

https://www.codastory.com/polarization/the-identitarians-are-back-how-a-discredited-worldview-dominates-the-global-agenda/

The Identitarians are back: How a discredited worldview dominates the global agenda - Coda Story

In 2019, Germany formally classified a nativist movement as extremist. In 2026, the movement’s ideals are standard mainstream politics.

Coda Story

“SYDNEY (AP) — Two gunmen shot dead at least 11 people on Sunday during a Jewish holiday celebration at Sydney’s Bondi Beach, Australian authorities said, declaring it a terrorist attack. One gunman was fatally shot by police and the second arrested.”

#SydneyNSW #Australia #Extremeism
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/gunmen-kill-at-least-11-people-during-a-jewish-celebration-on-sydneys-bondi-beach

Gunmen kill at least 11 people during a Jewish celebration on Sydney's Bondi Beach

One gunman was fatally shot by police and the second arrested. The suspect was in critical condition, authorities said.

PBS News

👉 I hope you find this GPAHE* article enlightening, I know I sure did!
"Mapping The Far Right
The Movement’s Conferences Illuminate Its Growing Transnational Networks"

* Global Project Against Hate and Extremism
(IMO, The more we know, the more effective the resistance)

#Extremeism #Politics
#Resist

https://globalextremism.org/reports/mapping-the-far-right-the-movements-conferences-illuminate-its-growing-transnational-networks/

Mapping The Far Right: The Movement’s Conferences Illuminates Its Growing Transnational Networks

GPAHE has released an in-depth report on its investigation into how far-right extremist movements are rapidly gaining ground through coordinated transnational networks.

Global Project Against Hate and Extremism

#History #AnneFrank #TFG #Extremeism #Facism

Wednesday, 13 January 1943: Dairy of Anne Frank

“Terrible things are happening outside. At any time of night and day, poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. They're allowed to take only a rucksack and a little cash with them, and even then, they're robbed of these possessions on the way. Families are torn apart; men, women and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared. Women return from shopping to find their houses sealed, their families gone.”

https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/01/24/immigration-agents-attempted-to-enter-a-chicago-elementary-school-school-district-says

Secret Service agents, not ICE, attempted to access Hamline Elementary School in Chicago, officials say

The U.S. Secret Service says their agents came to the school to investigate a threat, not to enforce immigration laws. Their arrival spread fear in a community on high alert.

Chicago Sun-Times

I wonder what is more to blame for America's decades-long hard-on for Iran: religious fanaticism (American Jewish extremists *and* American Christian extremists), or just bottomless greed/corruption.

I'm sure it is both, but I wonder which leads and which follows.

#extremeism #InternationalLaw

Initiative supports public schools, school boards - The need to defend public schools against the radical right isn't ne. The Ku Klux Klan, wielded vast power in Indiana in the 1920s, made controlling schools a central part of its agenda. https://inschoolmatters.wordpress.com/2023/06/19/initiative-supports-public-schools-school-boards/ #extremeism
Initiative supports public schools, school boards

Carmel Clay School Corp. is exactly the kind of school district where today’s education wars are likely to erupt. Located in an affluent, fast-growing suburb north of Indianapolis, it’s mostly whit…

School Matters
Kathryn Joyce: Florida’s Laboratory for Far Right Education Policies - Where the M4L madness started and when. Behind the lunacy. https://networkforpubliceducation.org/blog-content/kathryn-joyce-floridas-laboratory-for-far-right-education-policies/ #extremeism
Kathryn Joyce: Florida's Laboratory for Far Right Education Policies - Network For Public Education

Kathryn Joyce wrote for Hechinger a long, deep look a Sarasota schools, a Ground Zero for right wing anti-inclusion policies. While the area is famous for its anti-LGBTQ stance, there’s plenty of racist policy in action as well. Over the last three years, the school district has experienced waves of chaotic unrest, beginning in mid-2020.... View Article

Network For Public Education
Extremists Receive Large Ethereum Cryptocurrency Donations

A single benefactor made cryptocurrency donations worth more than $216,000 to extremists and hate groups between September 2021 and April 2022, according to an analysis provided to Hatewatch by the SPLC’s Data Lab.

Southern Poverty Law Center

"The weakness of the royal commission report into the Christchurch attacks is that it treats Islamist extremist terrorism and extreme right white nationalist terrorism as different categories, when in fact they are part of the same problem. "

#terrorism #terrorists #extremeism #extremists #whitenationalism

https://thespinoff.co.nz/society/22-12-2020/whats-missing-from-the-report-into-the-christchurch-terrorist-attack/

What's missing from the report into the Christchurch terrorist attack

The weakness of the royal commission report is that it treats Islamist extremist terrorism and extreme right white nationalist terrorism as different categories, when in fact they are part of the same problem, argues former Green MP Keith Locke. Much of the commentary on the royal commission repo

The Spinoff