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Why the Far Right Kills

Center for Jewish History 15 W. 16th Street, New York City

The October 2018 massacre at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, committed by a Far Right activist, was the most lethal assault on Jews on U.S. soil in history. It was followed by attacks on synagogues in Poway, California and Halle, Germany. The Far Right has also massacred immigrants in El Paso, Texas and Muslims in Christchurch, New Zealand.…

The Rise of the Far-Right: A Transatlantic Comparison

Deutsches Haus at NYU presents a panel discussion among Kathleen Belew, Christian Martin (moderator), Paul Middelhoff, and Cynthia Miller-Idriss on the rise of the far-right in Germany and the U.S. Far-right, white supremacist groups are on the rise both in Germany and the United States. Perhaps most troubling about this consolidation and fortification of far-right movements in both places, is…

Statuary Performances: Neo-Paganism and Memory in the American and Russian Far Right

This event will be held virtually as a Zoom meeting: https://nyu.zoom.us/j/98726318935.   Whether it be of Robert E. Lee, Tsar Nicholas II, Huey Long or the head of the NKVD Feliks Dzerzhinsky, political statuary evokes a range of impassioned responses from groups as varied as the Proud Boys and Identity Evropa in the United States, and the Double-Headed Eagle and…