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Kicked off Facebook, Canadian far-right groups resurface on the internet’s fringes – #gab #vk #Canund

On the social networking service VK, the Canadian Nationalist Front calls for a ban on “third world immigration,” Blood & Honour envisions “white victory” and photos show the Soldiers of Odin meeting in Calgary. Canadian far-right groups purged from mainstream social media sites last year have found a new home on less discerning online platforms willing to host them and their racist views. Although a crackdown that followed the March 15 attack on New Zealand mosques saw them purged from Facebook, Instagram and Twitter, they have resurfaced on Russia’s VK, Gab and Canund. But while their online presence hasn’t been stamped out, it has been significantly diminished, according to experts. (…) “It’s minimized their online presence and reach, and it’s disrupted their online networks and ability to attract the level of attention they once had on mainstream platforms.”
But it has also pushed them into “darker spaces of the internet,” where they can still attract followers, said Scrivens, whose research focuses on extremists’ use of the internet. “Unfortunately, this is the best strategy we have right now for dealing with extremism online,” he said. “They shouldn’t be on mainstream platforms for laypeople to stumble across, but it’s clear that by removing them from these spaces, they’re bound to go somewhere else.” Canada’s extreme right uses the internet “to create an online culture of fear, hatred and mistrust,” according to Canada’s 2018 annual Public Report on the Terrorist Threat to Canada.

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Appeals Planned Against Annulment of Death Sentence on Prominent Slovenian Nazi

Slovenian WWII veterans intend to ask the Constitutional Court to review the recently annulled 1946 guilty verdict of Leon Rupnik, a Nazi collaborationist general. The Association of WWII Veterans is also considering appealing at the European Court of Human Rights. It said “several people have turned to us who were direct victims of the Domobranci militia’s cruel terror dictated by Leon Rupnik in collaboration with the occupying forces of Slovenian lands”. The association said in a press release on Thursday that it had also urged Human Rights Ombudsman Peter Svetina to take action to protect the victims’ dignity. Its president Marijan Križman called on Svetina last week “to not let the collaboration with the occupying forces be honoured in Slovenia”. Križman wrote to Svetina that due to the Supreme Court’s unreasonable annulment of the verdict, the association members “feel hurt and expect action”. Pro-Nazi General Rupnik (1880-1946) was sentenced to death by court martial and executed in September 1946 for treason and collaboration with the occupying forces. The Supreme Court, petitioned in 2014 by Rupnik’s relatives, annulled the verdict for being insufficiently explained, and sent the case into retrial. Rupnik’s relatives could petition the Supreme Court on a point of law on the basis of changes to the penal code passed in the 1990s, after Slovenia gained independence. The changes introduced an extraordinary legal remedy to rehabilitate those who were unlawfully or unjustly sentenced under the former communist regime before 1990.

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YouTuber Gives Fake Award to Far-Right Activist Who Calls Greta Thunberg an 'Autistic Fucking Wench'

YouTuber Josh Pieters has revealed that he pranked far-right British commentator Katie Hopkins by flying her to Prague and presenting her with a fake award. Hopkins, who is frequently retweeted by President Trump and was recently suspended on Twitter, was awarded with the Campaign to Unify the Nation Trophy, abbreviated as C.U.N.T. And if you think that’s mean, just wait until you hear her hate-filled acceptance speech for the award. The 26-year-old Pieters explained the prank in a new video on his YouTube channel, which has over 1.2 million subscribers. And it was a surprisingly large undertaking to convince Hopkins that she was getting a real award. Pieters organized flights, hotels, a dinner at the Four Seasons, and even hired actors to play members of his fake advocacy group, the Cape Town Collective For the Freedom of Speech. Pieters, who’s originally from South Africa but lives in the UK, set up a fake website to make his organization appear more authentic, though there are some clear hints it might be fake. The photo of the founder that appears on his website is the current leader of the Ku Klux Klan, as just one example. Pieters flew from his home in London to Prague and set up hidden cameras to capture the prank from a number of angles before Hopkins got there.
Hopkins, who has previously echoed Nazi language by tweeting about the need for a “final solution” to the problem of terrorism, never seems to understand that the YouTuber’s banquet is a joke. “We made Katie Hopkins fly 1,600 miles and accept a fake award and put the word ‘cunt’ behind her without her noticing,” Pieters says in the video. “You might wonder if this is a bit mean. For a moment I did too. But then she made her speech and told us what she really thought.” The video delivers a rapid fire assault of Hopkins saying hateful things during her acceptance speech like, “If you call Mohammad in a school playground, 2,000 fucking kids come running and you don’t want any of them,” and “Epileptics are all weirdos. They’re up there with the Asians.” Hopkins can also be heard repeatedly saying that Muslims are “raping their own mother” and she also mocks Arabic names, calling them “retards.” Hopkins can also be heard referring to 17-year-old climate activist Greta Thunberg as an “autistic fucking wench.”

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siehe auch: A YouTuber got the inflammatory right-wing commentator Katie Hopkins to fly to Prague to pick up a fake award whose initials spelled out the C-word. The YouTuber Josh Pieters targeted Katie Hopkins, an inflammatory commentator, for his latest social-experiment video. Hopkins, who on Thursday had her Twitter account suspended for hate speech, flew to Prague to collect a fake award this week from an organization made up by Pieters and Archie Manners called the Capetown Collective for the Freedom of Speech. Pieters and Manners awarded Hopkins the Campaign to Unify the Nation Trophy. They told Insider what it was like to stay in character the whole evening, saying Hopkins made a series of racist and hurtful statements in her speech that only further proved she was the correct person to prank. “She has freedom of speech, but so have I,” Pieters said. Hopkins’ management did not immediately respond to Insider’s request for comment. . The inflammatory right-wing commentator Katie Hopkins probably thought her day on the internet couldn’t get any worse after her Twitter account was suspended for hate speech on Thursday. She was wrong. (…) Pieters has gained a reputation as one of the most original and daring creators on YouTube right now. Over the past few months, he and Manners have made a handful of inventive videos that are essentially social experiments designed to test the limits of what they can get away with.

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Anzeige gegen Wolfsgruß-Busfahrer

Die Wiener Linien ziehen die Konsequenz aus einem belastenden Video. Im Fall jener Busfahrer, die auf einem Video beim Zeigen des Wolfsgrußes der ultranationalistischen türkischen Grauen Wölfe zu sehen sind, haben die Wiener Linien nun Anzeige beim Landesamt für Verfassungsschutz erstattet. Auf dem Video sind die Männer in Uniform in einem Pausenraum der Wiener Linien dabei zu sehen, wie sie das einschlägige Symbol zeigen. Grundlage der Anzeige ist daher Paragraf 2 des 2019 ausgeweiteten sogenannten Symbole-Gesetzes, der das Zeigen extremistischer Symbole – wie eben des Wolfsgrußes – verbietet. Die sieben Mitarbeiter, die das verbotene Symbol gezeigt haben, wurden entlassen, sagt Wiener-Linien-Sprecher Christoph Heshmatpour. Auch ein Busfahrer, der an der Aktion beteiligt war, aber kein verbotenes Symbol gezeigt hat, wurde gekündigt. Bis zu 4000 Euro Strafe Das sogenannte Symbole-Gesetz wurde im März 2019 unter dem damaligen Innenminister Herbert Kickl (FPÖ) ausgeweitet. Seitdem sind neben den Zeichen des “Islamischen Staates” und der Al-Kaida auch jene der kroatischen Ustascha, der türkischen Grauen Wölfe, der kurdischen Arbeiterpartei (PKK) und anderer als terroristisch eingestufter Organisationen verboten. Außerdem ist seit der Novelle neben dem Tragen von Abzeichen auch das Zeigen ihrer Symbole unter Strafe gestellt. Ein Verstoß stellt eine Verwaltungsübertretung dar und ist mit einer Geldstrafe bis zu 4000 Euro oder mit einer Freiheitsstrafe bis zu einem Monat, bei Wiederholung bis zu 10.000 Euro zu bestrafen. Der Extremismusexperte Thomas Rammerstorfer hält das Gesetz dennoch nicht für sonderlich effektiv, “da es nicht eingehalten wird”.
Rund 25 Vereine der Grauen Wölfe. Die Grauen Wölfe, deren Gruß die entlassenen Busfahrer gezeigt haben, sind Anhänger der rechtsextremen türkischen Milliyetçi Hareket Partisi (MHP), jener Partei, die in einer Koalition mit Präsident Erdoğan AKP die Türkei regiert, erklärt Rammerstorfer. In Österreich gibt es zwischen 20 und 25 Vereine der Grauen Wölfe. “Der Wolfsgruß ist in diesen Milieus Alltag”, sagt Rammerstorfer und kritisiert außerdem, dass Symbole anderer rechtsextremer Gruppen, wie jene der Identitären Bewegung, nicht verboten sind. Bizarr sei außerdem, dass man die MHP-Vereine mit dem Islamgesetz im Jahr 2015 zu zwei Kultusgemeinden innerhalb der Islamischen Glaubensgemeinschaft (IGÖ) gemacht habe. “Man institutionalisiert also einerseits die Vereine, verbietet aber ihre Symbole”, so Rammerstorfer.

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Die radikalen Ideen der Cybernazis zu Umwelt- und Tierschutz

Online floriert eine neue rechtsextreme Szene, die Öko-Faschisten. Sie vertreten radikale Vorstellung zum Thema Umwelt- und Tierschutz, stets gepaart mit der Vorstellung einer „weißen” Vorherrschaft. Auch die Terroristen von Christchurch und El Paso bezeichneten sich als „Öko-Faschisten”. Unter rechtsextremen Kampfsportlerinnen gibt es Veganerinnen, Neonazis plakatieren „Umweltschutz ist Heimatschutz“, Wutbürgerinnen engagieren sich aus rassistischen Gründen gegen das Schächten und Hitler war ja auch Vegetarier: Manche Aspekte zum Thema Rechtsextreme und Umweltschutzes sind inzwischen durchaus bekannt. Eine extrem rechte ökologische Bestrebung ist es allerdings nicht: rechtsextreme Öko-Faschistinnen. Das ist besonders brisant, da sich auch rechtextreme Terroristen der letzten Jahre auf eine rassistische Blut-und-Boden-Ideologie bezogen. Brenton Tarrant, der Mörder an 51 Menschen in zwei Moscheen im neuseeländischen Christchurch (März 2019), benannte sein Manifest „The Great Replacement“ („Der Große Austausch“). Patrick Crusius, der Attentäter von El Paso (August 2019), der einen Supermarkt an der mexikanischen Grenze stürmte und 22 Menschen tötete und weitere 24 Menschen verletzte, schrieb in seinem Manifest vor der Angst des „Großen Austausches“. Doch neben dem Glauben an rechtsextreme Verschwörungsideologien verbindet sie auch noch der Glaube an einen Zusammenhang von Nationalismus und Umweltbewusstsein. (…) Dehumane und extreme Einstellung bezüglich Menschenleben und Natur liest man mittlerweile immer häufiger im Internet. Beispielsweise auf dem Messenger-Dienst Telegram, auf der russichen Facebook-Alternative VK oder auf Steam gibt es etliche solcher ökofaschistischen Gruppen, die ins terroristische Milieu hineinragen, zum Teil mit mehreren tausend Mitgliedern. Hier werden antisemitische Memes gepostet, auf denen Hitler ganz tierlieb zu sehen ist, während ein orthodoxer Jude gerade ein Tier quält. Bilder von Soldat*innen, bevorzugt vom Asow-Regiment aus der Ukraine, die süße Kätzchen im Arm halten. Rassistische Propaganda, dass man doch für die brennenden Wälder Australiens spenden soll und nicht an schwarze Menschen. Die Bildsprache erinnert oft stark an das Design der rechtsterroristischen Gruppe „Atomwaffen Division“. Und genau wie diese Terror-Gruppe posten auch die Öko-Faschisten immer wieder Videos von Schießtrainings. Wie viele der modernen Cyber-Nazis hegt auch diese Gruppierung eine gefährliche Faszination für Waffen. In Chat-Gruppen werden zudem Dokumente mit Anleitungen zum Bau von Bomben verbreitet.

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Racist, homophobic, threatening emails leave Wake Forest University on edge

The emails to faculty in sociology and two other departments called for a “purge” of minorities and the LGBTQ community. Three months after a set of anonymous, threatening, racist, antisemitic and homophobic emails sent a wave of fear through the sociology department at Wake Forest University, the department chairman says he’s still waiting for university leaders to announce a meaningful response. The emails to faculty in sociology and two other departments called for a “purge” of minorities and the LGBTQ community. Alarmed by what he deemed white supremacist terrorism, chairman Joseph Soares canceled sociology classes for a week. When they resumed, Wake Forest police officers were stationed outside classrooms and the building itself. Doors normally open were closed and locked. Even a study lounge was locked.

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#Ukraine’s Far Right Is Boosting A Pro-Putin Fascist – #azov

Italian neo-fascist Franco Freda has published and promoted books by Nazis, written that “[we] only have accounts to settle with the Jewish or Judaized Europe,” was convicted of trying to resurrect Benito Mussolini’s fascist party, was judged to be partly responsible for a 1969 far-right terrorist attack, and last year said that Russian president Vladimir Putin “is a champion of the white race.” This, apparently, is all okay with Ukraine’s Azov movement and Plomin, its literature club and publishing outfit. Plomin currently sells a Ukrainian translation of Freda’s 1969 book “The Disintegration of the System,” which lays out a “battle plan” for overthrowing the state that one scholar wrote “[advocates] direct action and has no conscience.” On December 17, two members of the Azov movement presented this translation at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy (NaUKMA), arguably Ukraine’s most prestigious university. However, the presentation was not sanctioned by the university and apparently managed to take place there only due to “a group of young aggressive people” who, despite staff trying to resist, invaded and, in the far-right’s own words, “occupied” a university venue to host an unsanctioned event. Freda and his supporters insist that he occupies some sort of ethereal space between left and right, yet the man, now 78, has long been firmly associated with the most violent fringes of Italy’s far-right. Freda has spent multiple years in prison for his activities, including for his role in a series of bomb attacks in April 1969. After an initial acquittal in 1987 on charges of being partly responsible for a 1969 terrorist attack — the Piazza Fontana bombing in Milan that killed 17 people and wounded 88 — subsequent investigations led an Italian court to ultimately rule in 2004 that he was partly responsible for the crime. However, having been acquitted, Freda could not, under law, be charged again for the same offense. Yet he and other far-right figures were charged in 2000 and found guilty of trying to reconstruct Italy’s Mussolini-era fascist party, which is a crime in Italy, via their now-disbanded “Fronte Nazionale” party. It’s this long past that led researcher of the far-right Anton Shekhovtsov to refer to Freda as “one of the most notorious Italian fascist terrorists.” Freda has also run a far-right publishing house since the 1960s, publishing and promoting work by Nazi-era figures and sympathizers including Joseph Goebbels, Romanian fascist Corneliu Codreanu (a man one historian once described as an “obsessive anti-Semite”), Nazi ideologist Alfred Rosenberg, Hungarian fascist Ferenc Szalasi, and, as of December 2019, seven separate works by Adolf Hitler himself. Published in 1969, Franco Freda’s pamphlet, “The Disintegration of the System” (it is hardly long enough to be called a book), is not difficult to find online in English translation. The work, dense and polemical, proposes that an alliance be formed between far-left and far-right to overthrow the “bourgeois” state by any means necessary. It led to Freda being paradoxically called a “Nazi Maoist” after its publication.

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