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  • 2016-12-18 (xsd:date)
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  • White Supremacist Web Site Calls for Online Attacks Against Jews in Whitefish, Montana (en)
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  • On 17 December 2016, news outlets including Missoula, Montana's the Missoulian reported that a virulently anti-Semitic web site had called for a troll storm against Jews in the city of Whitefish in northwestern Montana: Richard Spencer, who heads a white nationalist organization called the National Policy Institute (NPI), gained national notoriety in November 2016 for instigating a Hitler-like Hail Trump salute at a New York conference. (President-elect Trump has disavowed Spencer and his group.) Spencer recently announced he's considering running for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives. The Daily Stormer piece, written by the web site's founder Andrew Anglin, used epithets such as kike, whore, faggot, and hate-filled psychopaths to describe the targets of its ire. The article began with a no-holds-barred anti-Semitic rant: Anglin listed several Jewish Whitefish residents by name and accused them of conducting a campaign of terror against Richard Spencer's mother. A report by local station KTMF flatly contradicted that version of events, describing the Spencers' difficulties as an immediate byproduct of their son's white supremacist agenda: Tanya Gersh was among those targeted for harassment in the Daily Stormer article, which listed the names of her husband and teenage son, as well as the family's phone numbers and e-mail addresses, and her husband's business address. Please call her and tell her what you think, Anglin urged. And hey — if you’re in the area, maybe you should stop by and tell her in person what you think of her actions. After divulging Gersh's son's Twitter handle, Anglin told his readers to hit him up, tell them what you think of his whore mother’s vicious attack on the community of Whitefish. Two other people called out in Anglin's attack were leaders of a local activist organization, Love Lives Here, a group described by local newspaper the Daily Inter Lake as having an anti-discrimination agenda: Characterizing Love Lives Here as a Jew terrorist group, the Daily Stormer article revealed the names, phone numbers, and e-mail addresses of its leaders, accompanied by photos manipulated to make it appear as if they were wearing yellow star badges (of the type Jews were required to wear in Nazi-occupied Europe during World War II), and instructions to contact them en masse. To be clear, Anglin explicitly instructed his cadre of Internet trolls not to threaten the targeted individuals or engage in violence or illegal activities, though that probably provided little sense of safety to those he had smeared as a vicious, evil race of hate-filled psychopaths an instant before sharing their personal information with the rest of the world. (en)
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