He arrived at the Gordon Jewish Community Center wearing an obviously fake beard and sidecurls and filmed himself entering the building and being confronted by a security guard; Keith Garland has a criminal record, and was charged with criminal trespassing and assault. A Tennessee man suspected of membership in a neo-Nazi organization was arrested in Nashville after posing as an Orthodox rabbi and trying to enter a Jewish community center. According to Nashville police, the suspect, Keith Garland, 31,arrived at the city’s Gordon Jewish Center wearing an obviously fake beard and sidecurls, and wearing a black coat and white scarf – attire designed to make him appear to be an ultra-Orthodox rabbi. (…) Garland is charged with criminal trespassing and assault. The court set his bail at $250,000. Over the weekend, it became clear why the police returned to arrest Garland. The investigation revealed that he is affiliated with the neo-Nazi organization Goyim Defense League, the group that marched with swastika signs through the streets of Nashville last summer and shouted antisemitic, racist and homophobic messages. According to local prosecutors, Garland uses a Telegram profile that describes him as “cooking Jews and feeding them to humans.” Garland allegedly used the same profile to describe the events on the day of the incident to his friends in the organization’s group chat – “I put on the rabbi costume and went into their Jewish building to harass them… and the guy went crazy,” he wrote. He live-streamed to the group the footage of the armed security guard escorting him out of the center.
via ynet: Neo-Nazi impersonated a rabbi and tried to enter a Jewish center in Nashville