SOVA Center was fined 300 thousand rubles for having failed to voluntarily register itself as a “foreign agent”, before that was done by the Ministry of Justice. Unfortunately, they lost the appeal. Now they have to pay a considerable sum before mid-July and would be grateful for any help. SOVA Center for Information and Analysis […]
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Jew-hating fascists and their Iranian sponsors gather in Tehran for their fourth international hate fest
An international gathering of mainly Iranian and Italian antisemitic fascists opened in the Iranian capital Tehran on 17 May under the title “On the brink 2”. The Iranian news agency Tasmin described it as a “New Horizon Conference” and claimed it was focusing on human rights issues. Tasmin reported: “Twenty-five human rights figures and experts […]
Holocaust-denying German lawyer Horst Mahler on the run – now arrested in Hungary
STOP PRESS 15 May at 17.45 News has emerged in the past hour that Mahler has been arrested in Hungary and intends to ask Prime Minister Viktor Orbán for political asylum. One of Germany’s most notorious Holocaust deniers, once loyal to leftist terrorist group RAF, has left the country despite having another jail term to […]
The growing Nazi axis
At the end of February 2017 an international Nazi conference took place in Stockholm organised by the National Socialist publishing group Arktos Media. Some of the key groups present are those that Searchlight has been monitoring for several years, some of which have appeared more publicly since the election of Donald Trump. These groups have […]
News of an alleged Identitarian conference held in Budapest on 19 March
While monitoring Nazi websites, we came across this report, reproduced below, written by Daniel Friberg, the head of Arktos Publishing, about a conference that was supposedly held on 19 March in Budapest. It appeared on the new Alt-Right website, which is jointly hosted by Arktos and Richard Spencer’s National Policy Institute. If the conference did […]
Belgian fascist visits Russians in Aleppo
Filip Dewinter, the Belgian fascist MEP, seen here happy in the company of the Russian butchers of Aleppo during his visit to the devastated Syrian city at the beginning of February. Last May Dewinter spoke at the Trump-supporting far-right American Renaissance conference on: “The Islamisation of Europe. How Europe becomes an Islamic State”. He is […]
Fidel Castro’s paradoxical relationship with Israel and Jews
This article was written in Havana a couple of weeks ago shortly after the announcement of Fidel Castro’s death and published in the Jewish Chronicle. Last Shabbat, the prayer for the state of Israel was recited in the main Havana synagogue. It was also the day when the announcement was made of the passing of […]
Extremely strange political bedfellows
In the past week the media have reported on the delegation of British right-wing politicians led by Nigel Farage who met US president-elect Donald Trump at his New York headquarters. Present with Trump was his head strategic adviser Steve Bannon, who controls the alt-right Breitbart news service. Farage came with Raheem Kassam, Breitbart’s London editor. […]
Britain First extremist filmed joining hate-filled vigilante group hunting down asylum seekers in Bulgaria
An anti-Muslim extremist has been filmed joining a hate-filled group hunting down asylum seekers in Bulgaria, the Daily Mirror wrote on 24 October. Far-right Jim Dowson donned camouflage gear to join the heavily-armed Shipka Bulgarian National Movement stalking migrants who cross the Turkish border. Dowson, founder of the Britain First group, has made a series […]
For a Europe without fences and neo-Nazis
International meeting against racism and fascism, Athens, 15-16 October 2016 The annual Nationwide Assembly of KEERFA (Movement against Racism and Fascist Threat) held over a warm October weekend in Athens ended by adopting a raft of agreed actions and priorities for the coming year by the many Greek Anti-Racist and Anti- Fascist activists, networks and […]
Thuringia to check potential neo-Nazi connection in second child murder
The discovery of a neo-Nazi’s DNA near the body of a murdered girl has authorities re-examining other crimes from the past. The state of Thuringia says it will be taking another look at a second unsolved child murder, writes DW. Thuringia state premier Bodo Ramelow has said criminal investigations will be expanded after DNA from […]
Outcry after ‘neo-Nazi’ music festival held on Swiss soil
Police in the canton of St Gallen are under fire for allowing a music festival for right-wing extremists to take place on Saturday night, The Local ch writes. More than 5,000 people turned out to the festival in the usually tranquil commune of Unterwasser in eastern Switzerland for what is thought to be the largest […]
Finnish man dies after assault by Nazis
A Finnish man, Jimi Joonas Karttunen, who was assaulted by neo-Nazis from the Finnish Resistance Movement (FRM) on Saturday 10 September has died of his injuries, the Finnish investigative journalism website Kaivuri reported on 17 September. The news was broken by his father, Kauko-Vesa Karttunen, on Facebook and the identity of the man has since […]
Blocked identitaire
‘We announce tonight that Richard Spencer, of the American National Policy Institute, has this week been banned from the UK for life…” So ran a statement on Facebook by the Traditional Britain Group, which brings together Nazis and far right Tories. The 9 July statement said the ban had been announced by the then home […]
The Greek debt, a European tragedy
This video (which is subtitled in English) was sent to us by the Greek Solidarity Campaign to which Searchlight is affiliated. The GSC is an independent, non-party political campaign established to organise solidarity with the people resisting “austerity” in Greece. It is supported by the TUC and has a number of affiliated groups and individual […]
Far-Right blamed as entrance to mosque in Germany bricked up
Muslims living in a small town in northern Germany were shocked to find someone had bricked up the entrance to their mosque during the night, Justin Huggler reported in The Daily Telegraph on 30 August. Those gathering for prayers last Friday in the town of Parchim found the door to the mosque jammed with concrete […]
Hungary blocks more than 20 websites for Holocaust denial
The World Jewish Congress has reported a statement by the Budapest chief prosecutor that a Budapest court has ordered the temporary shutdown of nearly two dozen websites that carry content denying the Holocaust. The websites sell the Hungarian edition of a Swedish author’s book that denies the Holocaust and other crimes committed by the Nazi […]
Hungarian extremist sentenced to 13 years in prison for terrorism
A far-right extremist, whose group sadistically assaulted and nearly killed a media personality, bombed gay clubs in Budapest and attacked the homes of Socialist and liberal politicians using Molotov cocktails, received a 13-year prison sentence on Tuesday in the Budapest Capital Regional Court, Hungarian Free Press reports on 30 August 2016. Between 2007 and 2009, […]
Argentinian pupils wearing Nazi armbands attack Jewish students in ‘Mengele village’
Children from a German school in Buenos Aires wearing swastika armbands and fake Hitler moustaches attacked pupils from a Jewish school in a resort where several Nazi war criminals lived for decades after the Second World War, including Dr Josef Mengele, Auschwitz’s “Angel of Death”, The Sunday Telegraph reported on 28 August 2016. The incident […]
Number of neo-Nazi rock concerts on the rise in Germany
The first half of 2016 has already seen some 98 far-right musical events in Germany, with some concerts drawing thousands of fans, according to Die Welt. Authorities have warned that such events serve as recruitment tools, Deutsche Welle reported on 20 August 2016. Of that total, around 40 were rock concerts and 49 Liederabende, where right-wing extremist singers […]
