Eight people have been found guilty of numerous crimes including deliberate attacks on refugee shelters in Germany, DW reports. After a yearlong trial, the legal points hinged on the very nature of the group’s structure and intent. The Dresden Higher Regional Court on Wednesday found seven men and one woman who formed the “Freital Group” […]
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Civil society under attack in Hungary
This article has been contributed by Amnesty International. The Hungarian government has proposed a set of laws that if adopted will have a devastating and chilling effect on civil society. The legislative package is part of a wider crackdown on human rights and civil society organisations in Hungary, which have been under attack for several […]
Italian community rally against racism and fascism
The London branch of the National Association of Italian Partisans (ANPI) has called a rally against racism and fascism on Saturday 24 February together with a coalitions of charities and parties from the Italian community in the UK. On Saturday 3 February a man known Luca Traini as went on a shooting rampage in the […]
Historical revisionist honoured by Polish Ministry of Education
This article is contributed by Jacob Fleming, Searchlight’s Polish correspondence At the end of September, Tomasz Panfil, who is employed by the Institute of National Remembrance (IPN), wrote an article for Gazeta Polska, a newspaper owned by Law And Justice societies. He claimed that after the German aggression against Poland in 1939, the situation of […]
Swedish anti-fascists report massive ant-fascist protest defeats the Nazis
The report below first appeared on the Unite Against Fascism website on 2 October. Big thanks to Asa and David for their contributions, below; hats off to Swedish anti fascists! Asa – Last Saturday was a brilliant victory for anti-fascists in Gothenburg, where over 10 000 people gathered and successfully stopped the Nazis from marching through […]
Controversy over Forza Nuova’s “March on Rome”
Alfio Bernabei writes: In an unprecedented move Italy’s Forza Nuova has announced plans to march on Rome on 28 October, the same date as Mussolini’s march on Rome in 1922. Enthusiastic members of the organisation, described as Nazi-fascist by Italy’s Supreme Court, have flooded its Facebook page with fascist slogans and offers of support in […]
German Nazis fail to save terrorist Horst Mahler from prison
Horst Mahler will be known to most long-time anti-fascists and readers of Searchlight as a man who has spent a lifetime as an active terrorist and the guru for thousands of hardline National Socialists and those who frequent up-and-coming extreme-right groups around the world. His father, a man of the cloth, was an underground opponent of the […]
International Nazi movement meets again in Norway
Erik Olson writes: The world’s two largest National Socialist publishing houses are engaged in an acrimonious dispute, Searchlight can reveal. Earlier this year we were able to supply the international media with details of yet another international Nazi gathering in Sweden, a regular feature since the creation of Generation Identity early in this decade. Exposure of […]
SOVA Center needs your help
SOVA Center was fined 300 thousand rubles for having failed to voluntarily register itself as a “foreign agent”, before that was done by the Ministry of Justice. Unfortunately, they lost the appeal. Now they have to pay a considerable sum before mid-July and would be grateful for any help. SOVA Center for Information and Analysis […]
Jew-hating fascists and their Iranian sponsors gather in Tehran for their fourth international hate fest
An international gathering of mainly Iranian and Italian antisemitic fascists opened in the Iranian capital Tehran on 17 May under the title “On the brink 2”. The Iranian news agency Tasmin described it as a “New Horizon Conference” and claimed it was focusing on human rights issues. Tasmin reported: “Twenty-five human rights figures and experts […]
Holocaust-denying German lawyer Horst Mahler on the run – now arrested in Hungary
STOP PRESS 15 May at 17.45 News has emerged in the past hour that Mahler has been arrested in Hungary and intends to ask Prime Minister Viktor Orbán for political asylum. One of Germany’s most notorious Holocaust deniers, once loyal to leftist terrorist group RAF, has left the country despite having another jail term to […]
The growing Nazi axis
At the end of February 2017 an international Nazi conference took place in Stockholm organised by the National Socialist publishing group Arktos Media. Some of the key groups present are those that Searchlight has been monitoring for several years, some of which have appeared more publicly since the election of Donald Trump. These groups have […]
News of an alleged Identitarian conference held in Budapest on 19 March
While monitoring Nazi websites, we came across this report, reproduced below, written by Daniel Friberg, the head of Arktos Publishing, about a conference that was supposedly held on 19 March in Budapest. It appeared on the new Alt-Right website, which is jointly hosted by Arktos and Richard Spencer’s National Policy Institute. If the conference did […]
Belgian fascist visits Russians in Aleppo
Filip Dewinter, the Belgian fascist MEP, seen here happy in the company of the Russian butchers of Aleppo during his visit to the devastated Syrian city at the beginning of February. Last May Dewinter spoke at the Trump-supporting far-right American Renaissance conference on: “The Islamisation of Europe. How Europe becomes an Islamic State”. He is […]
Fidel Castro’s paradoxical relationship with Israel and Jews
This article was written in Havana a couple of weeks ago shortly after the announcement of Fidel Castro’s death and published in the Jewish Chronicle. Last Shabbat, the prayer for the state of Israel was recited in the main Havana synagogue. It was also the day when the announcement was made of the passing of […]
Extremely strange political bedfellows
In the past week the media have reported on the delegation of British right-wing politicians led by Nigel Farage who met US president-elect Donald Trump at his New York headquarters. Present with Trump was his head strategic adviser Steve Bannon, who controls the alt-right Breitbart news service. Farage came with Raheem Kassam, Breitbart’s London editor. […]
Britain First extremist filmed joining hate-filled vigilante group hunting down asylum seekers in Bulgaria
An anti-Muslim extremist has been filmed joining a hate-filled group hunting down asylum seekers in Bulgaria, the Daily Mirror wrote on 24 October. Far-right Jim Dowson donned camouflage gear to join the heavily-armed Shipka Bulgarian National Movement stalking migrants who cross the Turkish border. Dowson, founder of the Britain First group, has made a series […]
For a Europe without fences and neo-Nazis
International meeting against racism and fascism, Athens, 15-16 October 2016 The annual Nationwide Assembly of KEERFA (Movement against Racism and Fascist Threat) held over a warm October weekend in Athens ended by adopting a raft of agreed actions and priorities for the coming year by the many Greek Anti-Racist and Anti- Fascist activists, networks and […]
Thuringia to check potential neo-Nazi connection in second child murder
The discovery of a neo-Nazi’s DNA near the body of a murdered girl has authorities re-examining other crimes from the past. The state of Thuringia says it will be taking another look at a second unsolved child murder, writes DW. Thuringia state premier Bodo Ramelow has said criminal investigations will be expanded after DNA from […]
Outcry after ‘neo-Nazi’ music festival held on Swiss soil
Police in the canton of St Gallen are under fire for allowing a music festival for right-wing extremists to take place on Saturday night, The Local ch writes. More than 5,000 people turned out to the festival in the usually tranquil commune of Unterwasser in eastern Switzerland for what is thought to be the largest […]