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(JTA) — Germany has banned a neo-Nazi group after raiding the homes of its leaders across the country, in a move the government said “sends a clear signal against racism and antisemitism.”

The Hammerskins, a local spinoff of a group founded in the United States in the late 1980s, are accused of promoting criminal activities and of opposing the German constitution. According to a recent report from Germany’s Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, the group was the only remaining neo-Nazi organization active nationwide.

“The ban of the Hammerskins Germany is a hard blow against organized right-wing extremism,” German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser said on Tuesday. “With this ban, we are putting an end to the inhumane activities of an internationally active neo-Nazi association in Germany… This sends a clear signal against racism and antisemitism.”

The German group, founded in the 1990s, reportedly has only 130 known members but is considered influential in the neo-Nazi scene. German police raided the homes of 28 suspected leading Hammerskins members in 10 states across Germany on Tuesday.

It is rare for Germany to ban a political organization, thanks to postwar guarantees of free speech and assembly. Exceptions occur when an organization threatens the democratic state, or if it denies or glorifies the country’s Nazi past.

The Hammerskins are reportedly the 20th right-wing extremist organization that Germany has banned. For example, in 2007, Germany banned Collegium Humanum, its member organization Bauernhilfe and the Association for the Rehabilitation of Those Persecuted for Denying the Holocaust” as “reservoirs of organized Holocaust denial.” In 2020, the government banned the groups Combat 18, Nordadler, and Sturmbrigade 44/Wolfsbrigade 44; and in 2021, they banned Nationale Sozialisten Rostock and its spinoff, the Baltik Korps.

But in 2017, to the disappointment of Jewish groups in Germany, the supreme court rejected a ban on the far-right party NPD — the National Democratic Party of Germany, which changed its name this year to “The Homeland” — saying they were not dangerous enough to warrant such an extreme response. The NPD never succeeded in gaining parliamentary seats on the national level.

Meanwhile, the right-wing party Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, founded in 2013, has made continual political headway, reaching the national parliament, the Bundestag, and thus receiving taxpayer funding for their activities and infrastructure. There have been calls for it to be banned from politics over its anti-immigrant platform and the Holocaust relativization of some leading members.

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rotzaprachim · 6 months

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Brazil Cracks Down on Surprising New Threat: Neo-Nazis - The New York Times (nytimes.com)

By Julia Vargas Jones

Reporting from Nova Petrópolis, Brazil

Nov. 7, 2023

By Julia Vargas Jones

Reporting from Nova Petrópolis, Brazil

Nov. 7, 2023

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In southern Brazil in July, Laureano Toscani and João Guilherme Correa were smoking cigarettes along a busy road in their prison-issued garb, shorts and sandals, waiting for a ride after seven months in jail.

Mr. Toscani was once convicted of stabbing a group of Jewish men, and Mr. Correa has been accused of murdering a couple leaving a party. But this time, they were behind bars for attending what they said was a harmless barbecue.

The Brazilian authorities, however, say it was something far more sinister: a meeting of the Hammerskins, a neo-Nazi group founded in Dallas in 1988 that they say has recently found its way thousands of miles south, to Brazil’s most starkly conservative region, reflecting a surge in far-right extremists in Latin America’s largest nation.

In September 2022, the state police in Santa Catarina began trailing the Hammerskins as members strategized on how to attract new recruits.

Two months later, as eight men met at a farmhouse outside the coastal city of Florianópolis, a police hate-crimes unit burst in, arresting everyone under anti-discrimination laws and accusing them of being members of the Hammerskins. Two other accused members were arrested weeks later.

On the members’ phones, the police said, they found antisemitic and racist content, including a message that one had sent in a group chat saying that “Black people need to die every day.” The police said they believed the group was aided by at least two American Hammerskin members who had traveled to Brazil several times.

The raid was part of a larger crackdown on neo-Nazi groups amid a rise in extremist movements and sentiments in Brazil that has spurred a greater number of school shootings and stabbing attacks, including at least 11 this year.

In February, a 17-year-old boy wearing a swastika armband was accused of throwing two homemade explosive devices into a school, but no one was injured.

In March, authorities said a 13-year-old boy fatally stabbed a teacher while wearing a skull mask commonly worn by an American neo-Nazi group.

And last month, a 16-year-old boy was accused of firing at a school, killing a classmate and wounding two others. Another student was injured trying to escape. The teenager had previously posted a photo of a swastika drawn on his face, the authorities said. In the three cases, which all occurred in or around São Paulo, the authorities arrested the boys.

The authorities say they have thwarted hundreds of other attacks.

Many of the attacks did not target Jewish people specifically. Brazil has roughly 100,000 people who identify as Jewish, according to estimates, or just one in every 2,000 people.

But researchers believe that those who have carried out or planned such attacks often turn violent after consuming extremist or neo-Nazi content online that frequently exhorts violence against any person who is not white.

In April, Brazil’s new justice minister, Flávio Dino, ordered the federal police to investigate what he called the growth of “hate and intolerant speech by neo-Nazi, neo-fascist and extremist groups.”

“If you mention Nazism, neo-Nazism, threaten a school or say you will attack a school, we will call for your arrest,” Mr. Dino added.

Brazil’s federal police have opened 21 investigations involving neo-Nazis so far this year, the same amount as in the three prior years combined.

Data on the size of Brazil’s neo-Nazi movement is sparse, but most researchers agree that it has been growing. One researcher tracking neo-Nazi groups, Adriana Dias, an anthropologist at the State University of Campinas, estimated that the number of groups increased from the hundreds in 2019 to more than 1,000 last year.

SaferNet, an organization that helps the Brazilian government combat online crime, has been collecting reports of neo-Nazi activity online since 2017, when it recorded almost 1,200 complaints. By 2021, complaints had grown to nearly 14,500, but they have since fallen as neo-Nazi groups have increasingly migrated to private-messaging platforms, researchers said. Still, there were 945 complaints in the first half of this year.

Antisemitic attacks have risen around the world, including in Brazil, since the war between Israel and Hamas broke out last month. Last month, the Brazilian Israelite Confederation received 467 reports of antisemitism, compared with 44 in October last year.

Some researchers linked the rise in neo-Nazi activity in Brazil to Jair Bolsonaro’s four years as president. Much like how American extremist groups gained strength during Donald J. Trump’s presidency, the Brazilian far right latched onto Mr. Bolsonaro’s inflammatory rhetoric as tacit approval of their views, researchers said.

After a state visit to Israel in 2019, Mr. Bolsonaro’s first year as president, he said that Nazis were leftists and that “we can forgive but not forget” the Holocaust, drawing criticism from his Israeli counterpart.

In 2020, Mr. Bolsonaro’s secretary of culture was forced to step down after giving a speech that was so similar to one by Joseph Goebbels, the Nazi Party’s chief propagandist, that parts seemed to have been copied.

And at a news conference in 2021, one of the former president’s aides made the “OK” hand gesture in front of cameras, a sign that has been appropriated to signify “white power” in white supremacist circles. He was charged with hate crimes, but the case was later dismissed.

The “gesture started appearing in the Brazilian far right, even among groups that do not explicitly identify as neo-Nazis,” said Odilon Caldeira Neto, a professor of contemporary history who studies the far right at the Federal University of Juiz de Fora. That, he added, helps neo-Nazi groups “get pulled into the political center.”

While the Bolsonaro administration investigated neo-Nazi groups, the issue has become a priority under the leftist president who defeated Mr. Bolsonaro last year, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Raids on neo-Nazis groups have taken place in at least 10 states this year.

In July, the Brazilian police carried out a four-state operation against 15 people connected to a neo-Nazi group called the New SS of Santa Catarina, which used 3-D printers to manufacture handguns.

In one raid, the police were met with gunfire as they entered a rural home in Nova Petrópolis, a picturesque mountain town of about 20,000 people, many of whom are descendants of German immigrants.

The person firing at the police was a woman alone with her toddler and an infant. No one was injured and the police said they found two handguns, 96 rounds of ammunition and a trove of Nazi materials, including a swastika armband, German World War II memorabilia, the flag of an international neo-Nazi group and supplies to produce merchandise for a local neo-Nazi group.

The woman was arrested after firing at the police, but she was released on bail hours later.

Later that evening, belongings were still strewn at the home and the front door was busted. The woman who had been arrested said the items that the police had taken were personal belongings bought while traveling.

Many investigations have been concentrated in southern Brazil, where 73 percent of the population identifies as white, versus 43 percent nationally, and 62 percent voted for Mr. Bolsonaro last year, versus 49 percent nationally. Some researchers believe neo-Nazi groups are attracted to the region’s German history.

Before World War II, from 1928 to 1938, Brazil had the largest Nazi Party outside Germany, with 2,900 members across 17 states, according to Brazilian scholars. After the war, Brazil, like other South American nations, became a refuge for Nazis fleeing prosecution.

In 2020, the city of Porto Alegre, a southern state capital with a population of 1.5 million people, renovated a park to include an original design from the 1930s on the pavement. The design resembled a swastika, and residents complained. An investigation by the city concluded that there was no link between the design and the Nazi symbol. The design has since been vandalized.

Under Brazilian law, it is a crime to discriminate based on race, religion or nationality, as well as to display a swastika for the purpose of spreading Nazi ideology. Both crimes can lead to yearslong prison terms. All 10 people accused of being Hammerskin members have been released from jail with ankle monitors while they await court hearings.

Waiting for his ride from jail in July, Mr. Toscani said they had done nothing wrong. “They arrested us for throwing a barbecue,” he said. “You know what they found when they arrested us? A machete and a book.”

The book was “The Turner Diaries,” a classic of the extremist canon that Timothy McVeigh said inspired his bombing in 1995 of the federal building in Oklahoma City that killed 168 people.

Arthur Lopes, the chief of the Santa Catarina police hate-crimes unit, who arrested the accused Hammerskin members, said some were covered in extremist tattoos. “Everything but the swastika,” he said.

Jack Nicas contributed reporting from Rio de Janeiro.

#news #brazil #neo nazis #anti black racism #antisemitism #link is acting strange but. oh well

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allthebrazilianpolitics · 6 months

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Brazil Cracks Down on Surprising New Threat: Neo-Nazis

The Brazilian government has raided neo-Nazi groups across 10 states this year, part of a push by the new Lula administration to prosecute far-right extremists.

In September 2022, the state police in Santa Catarina began trailing the Hammerskins as members strategized on how to attract new recruits.

#brazil #brazilian politics #politics #anti nazism #mod nise da silveira #image description in alt

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beardedmrbean · 7 months

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Germany has banned the far-right sect Artgemeinschaft for spreading Nazi ideology to children and young people.

The country's interior minister called the group "deeply racist and antisemitic" and said it was trying "to raise new enemies of the constitution".

Artgemeinschaft used Nazi-era literature and cultural events to spread its ideology.

Police have raided dozens of homes and offices linked to the group in 12 German states.

"This is another hard blow against right-wing extremism and against the intellectual arsonists who continue to spread Nazi ideologies to this day," German interior minister Nancy Faeser said.

Artgemeinschaft roughly translates to "racial community" and, according to the interior ministry, had about 150 members.

The ministry said the group was giving its members instructions about picking partners with a North or Central European background, in line with their ideology of "racial preservation".

The sect also ran an online bookstore and regularly held cultural events that attracted up to several hundred people. It described itself as "Germany's biggest pagan community".

The authorities say the group used this cover of "pseudo-religious Germanic beliefs to spread their worldview which violates human dignity".

The ban also includes the sect's website, its publications and Familienwerk, another association connected with it.

Germany last week outlawed Hammerskins, another neo-Nazi group, which was known for its role in organising far-right concerts and selling racist music.

Hammerskins, founded in the US in the late 1980s, was the last major right-wing skinhead organisation in Germany after another group, Blood and Honour, had been banned in 2000.

It was heavily involved in setting up neo-Nazi music labels, selling antisemitic records and organising clandestine music events.

"Right-wing extremism has many faces," Germany's interior minister said, adding that Artgemeinschaft had acted differently than Hamerskins but was "no less dangerous".

Artgemeinschaft is one of Germany's oldest neo-Nazi groups. It played a key role in connecting different far-right and neo-Nazi groups in Germany, Ms Faeser said.

Stephan Ernst, the man who murdered prominent regional politician Walter Lübcke in 2019 in a shooting motivated by "racism and xenophobia", was a member of the group, according to German intelligence.

German media also report members of the group had links with Ralf Wohlleben, a neo-Nazi who was convicted for supporting members of a notorious cell that carried out 10 racially motivated murders in Germany.

Germany's domestic intelligence agency estimates there are 38,800 people active in the country's right-wing extremist scene, with more than a third of them considered "potentially violent".

#nunyas news

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gargoyle-zoo · 2 months

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For the PNW crew.

A local Neo-Nazi Odinist organization called Pacific Northwest Wolfpack is attempting to establish a compound outside of Elma, Washington. They have ties to organizations like the Hammerskins and are linked to multiple homicides in Western Washington. Attached is a call to action for antifascist organizations and affinity groups to disrupt the construction. Stay safe, stay dangerous.

#antifascism

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nando161mando · 10 months

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"More info about the group that is suspected of planning a far right terror attack in Finland, now it is revealed that group members had met with members of a group called 'Crew 38' which is part of the international Hammerskins movement,"

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fakeboitherottengirl · 4 months

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You know having a hammer-skins blanket is kind of nazi shit, right? Let me guess your Aryan Nation daddy gave it to you?

It is literally a pink floyd blanket because "The Wall" is one of my favorite pieces of art of all time. Also actually B gave it to me for my 20th birthday. Stop turning my innocent autism into something sinister, Im just a big fan of the movie/show. Hammerskins stole the logo from the band art, pink floyd is not in any way a racist or nazi band, also most hammerskins logos Ive seen have the gears included not just the crossed hammers. My father got his prison swastika covered with those hammers as a sign of love for me it will always be a special and wholesome symbol in my life.

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brexiiton · 6 months

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Germany cracks down on neo-Nazi sect Artgemeinschaft for targeting children

By Michael Ertl, 27 Sept 2023

German police have raided locations linked to the Artgemeinschaft sect across Germany.

Germany has banned the far-right sect Artgemeinschaft for spreading Nazi ideology to children and young people.

The country's interior minister called the group "deeply racist and antisemitic" and said it was trying "to raise new enemies of the constitution".

Artgemeinschaft used Nazi-era literature and cultural events to spread its ideology.

Police have raided dozens of homes and offices linked to the group in 12 German states.

"This is another hard blow against right-wing extremism and aginst the intellectual arsonists who continue to spread Nazi ideologies to this day," German interior minister Nancy Faeser said.

Artgemeinschaft roughly translates to "racial community" and, according to the interior ministry, had about 150 members.

The ministry said the group was giving its members instructions about picking partners with a North or Central European background, in line with their ideology of "racial preservation".

The sect also ran an online bookstore and regularly held cultural events that attracted up to several hundred people. It described itself as "Germany's biggest pagan community".

The authorities say the group used this cover of "pseudo-religious Germanic beliefs to spread their worldview which violates human dignity".

The ban also includes the sect's website, its publications and Familienwerk, another association connected with it.

Germany last week outlawed Hammerskins, another neo-Nazi group, which was known for its role in organising far-right concerts and selling racist music.

Hammerskins, founded in the US in the late 1980s, was the last majjor right-wing skinhead organisation in Germany after another group, Blood and Honour, had been banned in 2000.

It was heavily involved in setting up neo-Nazi music labels, selling antisemitic records and organising clandestine music events.

"Right-wing extremism has many faces," Germany's interior minister said, adding that Artgemeinschaft had acted differently than Hamerskins but was "no less dangerous".

Artgeinschaft is one of Germany's oldest neo-Nazi groups. It played a key role in connecting different far-right and neo-Nazi groups in Germany, Ms Faeser said.

Germany's domestic intelligence agency estimates there are 38,800 people active in the country's right-wing extremist scene, with more than a third of them considered "potentially violent".

#terrorwave #terror wave #terror #news #germany #neo nazi #neo fascism #neo socialism #neo #nazi #nazisploitation #nazigate

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pacosemnoticias · 6 months

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Rede social X suspende pelo menos 15 contas de incentivo ao ódio portuguesas

Pelo menos 15 contas portuguesas na rede social X (o antigo Twitter) foram suspensas por incentivo ao ódio, algumas delas ligadas a políticos e a partidos, como o Chega, segundo uma organização norte-americana.

O anúncio é feito pelo “Projeto Global contra o Ódio e o Extremismo” (GPAHE na sigla em inglês) numa nota sobre grupos e atividades extremistas em Portugal publicada na quinta-feira no seu ‘site’.

“A conta oficial do Chega foi temporariamente bloqueada no dia 13 de setembro por violar a regra de conduta” da rede social, tendo ficado “vários dias proibida de fazer novas publicações”, adianta o GPAHE.

Os apoiantes do Chega, terceira força parlamentar, com 12 deputados, têm um longo historial de suspensão na rede social de Elon Musk por violação dos termos de serviço da plataforma, incluindo líder do partido, André Ventura, que afirma ter sido suspenso por nove vezes.

Mais recentemente, João Tilly, líder da distrital de Viseu e presidente do Conselho Nacional do partido, foi banido após 17 de outubro de 2023.

“Tilly é conhecido pelas suas mensagens conspiracionistas no YouTube, Instagram e Twitter e campanhas contra a vacinação”, lê-se no relatório.

Também o ex-candidato do Chega à Câmara Municipal do Sabugal (Guarda) Miguel Lourenço viu a sua conta ser suspensa, depois de já ter sido bloqueado em 23 de fevereiro de 2022.

Miguel Lourenço foi notícia em 2021 quando publicou uma gravação de áudio falsa para atacar o Bloco de Esquerda.

Por fim, o antigo candidato do partido à Câmara Municipal de Oeiras (Lisboa) Gonçalo Sousa teve a sua conta suspensa no início de outubro.

Gonçalo Sousa é conhecido, segundo o GPAHE, pelo seu canal no YouTube, onde faz regularmente declarações racistas e preconceituosas contra imigrantes e outras minorias, dissemina o receio da “substituição populacional”, espalha desinformação e recorre ao “revisionismo histórico” sobre imagem do antigo ditador António de Oliveira Salazar.

A lista das contas suspensas inclui ainda a do antigo líder dos Hammerskins portugueses, Mário Machado, denominada “Racismo Contra Europeus”.

Esta conta, que originalmente tinha o nome de “Racismo Contra Portugueses”, publicava vídeos racistas aleatórios de imigrantes ou afrodescendentes envolvidos em violência ou outros comportamentos com o objetivo de incitar o ódio racial.

Mário Machado já tinha sido suspenso da rede social X em meados de fevereiro de 2022.

O GPAHE lembra ainda que o líder do emergente movimento nacionalista branco Reconquista, Afonso Gonçalves, também foi “banido permanentemente” por volta de 17 de outubro, segundo uma mensagem que o próprio publicou no Telegram.

Afonso Gonçalves é conhecido pelos seus comentários contra mulheres, imigrantes, homossexuais e pessoas de ascendência africana, de acordo com o relatório.

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mariacallous · 5 months

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Chapters of an emerging white nationalist network from across the United States participated in a joint combat sports event in the Los Angeles area this August, according to open source evidence geolocated by Bellingcat.

Several Active Clubs, which experts say form a dangerous bedrock for far-right activity and recruitment, joined the second annual tournament alongside extremist groups like Patriot Front and the Hammerskins. Active Clubs are a network of white nationalist mixed martial arts crews inspired by the Rise Above Movement, a now-defunct militant streetfighting group whose neo-Nazi cofounder Robert Rundo is currently in jail awaiting trial on federal rioting charges. They focus on training their members in combat skills in order to prepare them to fight against their purported enemies.

“Their own propaganda says ‘we are a white nationalist sports network, it’s about fitness,’” said Alexander Ritzmann, a political scientist and senior advisor at the Counter Extremism Project who studies Active Clubs, in an interview. “But reading their documents and listening to their podcasts, I’m curious about if they are a combat sports network or if they are a militia hiding in plain sight.”

Participating groups sent fighters to the event, which was organised by white supremacist activewear brand Will2Rise, with winners awarded custom medals.

Promotional content for the contest, which was posted in a Telegram channel affiliated with Rundo’s defunct Rise Above movement, said it took place in Huntington Beach, California, on August 19. Using a video and photos released by a far-right propaganda outlet founded by Rundo, Bellingcat was able to geolocate the event to a gym space in the next city over, Fountain Valley. Both are located in Orange County within the Los Angeles metropolitan area.

(Bellingcat is not naming the outlet, which has promised to release footage from this event and other gatherings to promote white nationalism to a wider audience of young men, to prevent amplification.)

A co-owner of the gym that hosted the event, ION Strength and Conditioning, did not reply to requests for comment. ION has since closed and the space is now run under different ownership with no relation to the event.

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