Holocaust Museum Shooting: The Rising Tide of Racism and Anti-Semitism

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Holocaust Museum Shooting: The Rising Tide of Racism and Anti-Semitism

June 10, 2009
by Rev. David L. Ostendorf
www.imagine2050.org

James W. Von Brunn is a cold-blooded anti-Semite and white supremacist, and nothing less than a domestic terrorist. His assault on people in the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C. today is yet another incident in the rising tide of deadly attacks across the nation by those who hate peoples of color, Jews, immigrants, and “others.”

For years Von Brunn has had deep roots in the nation’s white supremacist movement. His relationship to Willis Carto, the vile anti-Semite founder of the Liberty Lobby and The Spotlight newspaper is long-standing, as revealed in his rambling 2004 diatribe against Jews, the Federal Reserve, and African Americans (“Federal Reserve Caper and Precedents”). He is not—as some are attempting to describe him—simply an old man, mentally unstable, or suicidal. He is a hardcore racist and anti-Semite. Read more

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