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Proud Boys flyers left on cars in Lincoln Square days before election President Donald Trump sparked outrage when instead of denouncing the group, he told them to “stand by.” Days before the election, flyers promoting the group showed up in a North Side neighborhood. By Bob Chiarito | Special to the Sun-Times Oct 31, 2020, 12:25pm CDT Share this story Share this on Facebook (opens in new window) Share this on Twitter (opens in new window) SHARE All sharing options Flyers from the white nationalist hate group the Proud Boys were left on car windshields late Friday on several Lincoln Square blocks, including the 2100 block of West Montrose. Flyers from the white nationalist hate group the Proud Boys were left on car windshields late Friday on several Lincoln Square blocks, including the 2100 block of West Montrose. Bob Chiarito/For the Sun-Times Several residents in the Lincoln Square neighborhood woke Saturday morning to find flyers on their car windshields supporting the Proud Boys,...

Luciana Berger interview: I’m still hounded for being Jewish — and I know Jeremy Corbyn is antisemitic The former MP quit Labour after receiving death threats and the abuse hasn’t stopped. She has tired of her former leader’s excuses Rosamund Urwin Sunday November 01 2020, 12.01am GMT, The Sunday Times Luciana Berger left Labour last year Luciana Berger left Labour last year JOHN NGUYEN The release of the damning report into Labour Party antisemitism on Thursday brought everything back for Luciana Berger — it immediately triggered a fresh onslaught of racist abuse. The former MP for Liverpool Wavertree — who had joined the party as a student and was in effect hounded out of it by antisemitism — received a message online threatening that she “would pay” for the suspension of the former leader Jeremy Corbyn. During a Live Chat session run by the Corbyn-sympathising Novara Media, anonymous commentators dubbed her “a vile fifth columnist” and “the face of evil”. On Twitter she was called ...

Republican Voters Take a Radical Conspiracy Theory Mainstream QAnon, with encouragement from the president himself, has moved from online message boards to political rallies and congressional campaigns. A QAnon flag at a Trump rally in Pennsylvania this summer. The internet phenomenon pushes a false narrative about a criminal cabal controlling much of the government. A QAnon flag at a Trump rally in Pennsylvania this summer. The internet phenomenon pushes a false narrative about a criminal cabal controlling much of the government.Credit...Michael Nagle Matthew Rosenberg By Matthew Rosenberg Oct. 19, 2020 625 DALTON, Ga. — Sitting in the local Republican office most days is a lifelong conservative named Diane Putnam, who got her first taste of politics when Dwight D. Eisenhower was president and she was a little girl telling people that she liked Ike. She still does. But these days, what really grabs Ms. Putnam’s attention is talk of a satanic criminal conspiracy hatched by a cabal ...

QAnon Is Thriving in Germany. The Extreme Right Is Delighted. As the U.S. conspiracy theory goes global, it has found fertile ground in the putsch fantasies and anti-Semitic tropes long popular on Germany’s far-right fringe. Counterterrorism officials worry. QAnon supporters joined other protesters marching in Düsseldorf, Germany, against coronavirus measures last month. QAnon supporters joined other protesters marching in Düsseldorf, Germany, against coronavirus measures last month.Credit...Lena Mucha for The New York Times Katrin Bennhold By Katrin Bennhold Oct. 11, 2020, 12:01 a.m. ET BERLIN — Early in the pandemic, as thousands of American troops began NATO maneuvers in Germany, Attila Hildmann did a quick YouTube search to see what it was all about. He quickly came across videos posted by German followers of QAnon. In their telling, this was no NATO exercise. It was a covert operation by President Trump to liberate Germany from Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government — something...

Ervin Staub: A Holocaust survivor’s mission to train ‘heroic bystanders’ By Daniel Gordon & Joshua Nevett BBC World Service 5 October 2020 Share this with Facebook Share this with Messenger Share this with Twitter Share this with Email Share Related TopicsGeorge Floyd death Image caption Dr Ervin Staub has been studying the psychology of violence for decades A training programme designed to discourage police misconduct is being adopted across the US after months of protests over the use of excessive force. The Holocaust survivor behind the training believes that, after initial success in one city, it can change police culture nationwide. As World War Two reached its crescendo, the actions of two people left an indelible mark on Dr Ervin Staub's life. Born in Hungary to a Jewish family, he was a six-year-old child when Nazi German forces occupied Hungary in 1944. At the behest of the Nazis, hundreds of thousands of Hungarian Jews were rounded up and deported to extermination c...

Attack at German Synagogue During Sukkot Raises Anti-Semitism Fears Almost exactly a year after a far-right extremist shocked Germany by attacking a synagogue during Yom Kippur, another assault targets a synagogue in Hamburg. Investigators outside of the synagogue in Hamburg on Sunday. Investigators outside of the synagogue in Hamburg on Sunday.Credit... Jonas Walzberg/Picture Alliance, via Getty Images Katrin Bennhold By Katrin Bennhold Oct. 4, 2020 BERLIN — A man wearing army fatigues and wielding a shovel attacked and badly injured a Jewish student coming out of a synagogue in Hamburg on Sunday, less than a year after an assault on a synagogue in the eastern city of Halle turned deadly. Security guards and police officers deployed to the Hamburg synagogue, where people were marking the Jewish holiday of Sukkot, swiftly subdued and arrested a 29-year-old man, whose name the authorities did not disclose. The suspect was carrying a piece of paper with a swastika in his pocket, ...

Georgia Republican Marjorie Greene slams House vote to condemn QAnon House overwhelmingly voted in favor of bipartisan resolution Friday: 371-18 Marisa SchultzBy Marisa Schultz | Fox News Facebook Twitter Flipboard Comments Print Email What to know about the QAnon conspiracy theory Daily Beast tech reporter Will Sommer talks to Fox News about Q and the QAnon conspiracy theory. Learn about what it is and why it has been moving from the fringes of the internet into mainstream politics, and why that could be dangerous for everyone. The House overwhelmingly voted in favor of a resolution to condemn QAnon conspiracy theories Friday, drawing the ire of an incoming Georgia congresswoman who has made headlines nationally for her past praise for Q. Marjorie Greene, the presumptive next congresswoman from Georgia's 14th congressional district, slammed the House for passing the resolution and said "Congress is failing" for not focusing on condemning Antifa and Black Lives Matter...

Macron outlines new law to prevent Islamic ‘separatism’ in France French President Emmanuel Macron has said he wants to promote integration and prevent radicalization. French President Emmanuel Macron has said he wants to promote integration and prevent radicalization. (Ludovic Marin/AP) By James McAuley Oct. 2, 2020 at 1:36 p.m. CDT PARIS — French President Emmanuel Macron took aim at "Islamist separatism" on Friday, unveiling the substance of a long-awaited law designed to regulate the practice of Islam in France. The law, to be formally presented in December, will primarily crack down on the foreign influences in French Muslim communities, Macron said. It will allow the state to monitor the funding that French mosques receive from abroad, create a certificate program for French imams and ban home schooling for young children to prevent the creation of Islamic schools. “What we need to fight is Islamist separatism,” Macron said, in a speech delivered in the northwestern ...

Trump says he doesn't know who Proud Boys are, says 'let law enforcement do their work' 'You’ll have to give me a definition because I really don’t know who they are,' Trump said By Morgan Phillips | Fox News Facebook Twitter Flipboard Comments Print Email close Fox News Flash top headlines for September 30 President Trump on Wednesday tried to clear up confusion after telling the right-wing men’s group the Proud Boys to “stand back and stand by,” during the first presidential debate, saying he didn’t know who the group was but they should let law enforcement do their job. “I don’t know who the Proud Boys are. I mean, you’ll have to give me a definition because I really don’t know who they are,” Trump told reporters at the White House. “I can only say they have to stand down and let law enforcement do their work.” The Proud Boys, a group of “Western chauvinists” who fashion themselves the counterweight to Antifa, have sometimes espoused White supremacist and mis...

Trump's debate callout bolsters far-right Proud Boys CNN Expansion NYC 2017 PH: JOHN NOWAK Paul Murphy By Paul P. Murphy, CNN Updated 8:15 PM ET, Wed September 30, 2020 Tump WH lawn 09302020 NOW PLAYING Trump says he doesn't know right-wing group he name-checked at debate CNN 00:03 / 02:21 Now PlayingTrump says he doesn't... Navarro: Trump paid Stormy Daniels more than he paid in taxes See how voters in Georgia react to Trump tax news ATLANTA, GA - OCTOBER 05: A podium with the logo for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention at the Tom Harkin Global Communications Center on October 5, 2014 in Atlanta, Georgia. The first confirmed Ebola virus patient in the United States was staying with family members at The Ivy Apartment complex before being treated at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas. State and local officials are working with federal officials to monitor other individuals that had contact with the confirmed patient. (Photo by Kevin C. Cox/G...

Donald Trump sidesteps call to condemn white supremacists — and the Proud Boys were 'extremely excited' about it Courtney Subramanian Jordan Culver USA TODAY President Donald Trump was given an opportunity to condemn white supremacists during Tuesday's debate. He didn't take it, and his response has energized the Proud Boys, a known extremist group, one expert said. During the debate, Trump and Democratic nominee Joe Biden discussed the violence and social upheaval that has swept the streets of cities like Portland, Oregon, and Kenosha, Wisconsin, following a summer of protests against racial injustice and police brutality. When pressed to condemn white supremacists, Trump asked for the name of a specific group. Biden said "Proud Boys," a group that the Southern Poverty Law Center, a liberal advocacy organization, has designated as a hate group. 'Will you shut up, man?' Testy exchanges on health care, Supreme Court among debate top moments Tru...

Wearing it well: Alumna redesigns Islamic school’s uniforms with modesty in mind 'It really means a lot to be able to give back," the designer says. Alaa Ammuss, 31, of Plano, an alumna of Brighter Horizons Academy in Garland, is surrounded by students wearing the uniforms she designed. Alaa Ammuss, 31, of Plano, an alumna of Brighter Horizons Academy in Garland, is surrounded by students wearing the uniforms she designed.(Ben Torres / Special Contributor) By Rifat Malik 6:00 AM on Sep 30, 2020 Fashion designer Alaa Ammuss, purveyor of a line of modest clothing for Muslim women, never imagined she would be asked to add school uniforms to her repertoire. But that’s exactly what happened when the 31-year-old entrepreneur was approached by her alma mater, Brighter Horizons Academy of Garland. One of the teachers at the school is a friend of hers and suggested that she tackle the redesign of the uniform she wore two decades earlier. Her clients? Hundreds of elementary- and mid...

  Almost two-thirds of millennials, Gen Z don't know that 6 million Jews were killed in the Holocaust, survey finds Ryan W. Miller USA TODAY 0:53 1:00 Almost two-thirds of millennials and Gen Zers don't know that 6 million Jews were killed in the Holocaust, and almost half can't name a single concentration camp, an alarming new survey on Holocaust knowledge has found. The survey demonstrated wide gaps in younger American's knowledge of the genocide while also showing a concerning 15% of millennials and Gen Zers thought holding neo-Nazi views was acceptable. "How much of that is based on genuine understanding of neo-Nazis principles and how much is based on ignorance is hard to tell. Either of them is very disturbing," said Gideon Taylor, president of the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, which commissioned the survey. "If people can't name Auschwitz ... that's something that's deeply concerning. I don't think there is a...