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San Francisco Chronicle
23-05-2025
- Entertainment
- San Francisco Chronicle
'Parade' revival strikes chilling parallels between past injustice and present-day headlines
There's something terribly haunting about watching a work set in the past and being only able to think of the present. When the musical 'Parade' first premiered on Broadway in 1998, visuals like newspaper boys proudly waving confederate flags were a means of bringing audiences back to a dark political atmosphere from long ago. In 2025, such bone-chilling spectacles are emerging once again, marking the ominous and timely return of a show about Leo Frank, an American Jew falsely blamed, then lynched, in response to the murder of a 13-year-old girl in 1915. Theater titan Harold Prince co-conceived the original production, which won Tony Awards for best book and best original score. After undergoing significant restaging, the 2023 Broadway revival itself earned two Tonys (best revival of a musical, best direction of a musical), leading to a national tour that's currently playing San Francisco's Orpheum Theatre, in partnership with Broadway SF, from May 20-June 8. But the 2023 production's task in telling Frank's tale has changed from history lesson to alarm bell. Hopefully it's ringing loud enough for all to hear, especially in light of a ghastly killing of two Israeli Embassy aides outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C., which happened less than 24 hours before Thursday's curtain rose. Led by stellar performances from Max Chernin, who continues his run from Broadway as the Brooklyn-born Leo, and Talia Suskauer as his devoted, daring wife Lucille, 'Parade' unfolds as a doomed love story set amid the deep-rooted racism and rising antisemitic sentiments of pre-WWI Atlanta, Ga. The pair provides genuine sparks as a couple that processes the false charges against Frank — first with genuine confusion, then calcifying resentment. Chernin and Suskauer add their impressive pipes to a talented cast that also includes longtime San Francisco actor Alison Ewing in the role of Sally Slayton, wife to Georgia Gov. John Slayton (played with aplomb by Chris Shyer). Staged with a high center square not unlike an elevated courtroom floor, elaborate backdrops and props are eschewed in favor of a screen that regularly projects archival photos of the real-life characters and settings from the time. It can feel like a lot, and though the music and lyrics by Jason Robert Brown ('The Bridges of Madison County') never trade substance for frivolity, the need for song does occasionally feel forced by convention rather than warranted by plot. That said, some numbers do work quite well, including one led by Michael Tacconi as sleazy newspaper reporter Britt Craig. Employing an upbeat melody akin to the Pied Piper, Craig goes around enticing various townsfolk (including the victim's friends, the Franks' maid, and a security guard on duty at the factory where the girl was killed) to remember things that never happened. It's a clever way to portray how quickly disinformation can flourish — especially when it's being carried on the back of a deceptively sweet tune. Later, at the close of the show's first act, Brown plays with the convention of singing in the round to hammer home the identical wording and demeanor of three girls clearly coached to lie by the prosecution about Frank's alleged inappropriate conduct toward them. These are the moments where song and story most aptly collide, though a strong book from playwright Alfred Uhry ('Driving Miss Daisy') ensures the show never steers far off-course. If the first half of 'Parade' is an exercise in how to frame an innocent man, its concluding portion celebrates the tenacity of a woman desperate to free her husband from the ticking clock of a death sentence. Found guilty by a jury of his 'peers,' Frank loses hope in his jail cell following two years of failed appeals, inspiring Lucille to take her cause directly to Gov. Slayton. It's heart-wrenching to watch them inspire a host of witnesses to recant their testimonies while knowing the victory is ill-fated. Staged gracefully, the sequence of Frank being kidnapped from his cell and lynched in a nearby forest by a vengeful mob also offers one of the few moments in the entire show when he is free to speak his truth. After once again proclaiming his innocence, Frank uses his last breaths to recite the Sh'ma, a Jewish prayer often uttered as one's final words. It's a beautiful coda for a show that mostly finds the rest of its characters speaking on Frank's behalf.
San Francisco Chronicle
13-05-2025
- Entertainment
- San Francisco Chronicle
An antisemitic lynching haunted his childhood. So he wrote a musical about it
As a Jewish child in Atlanta, playwright Alfred Uhry grew up in the shadow of a notorious antisemetic lynching. Leo Frank was a manager at a pencil factory who was convicted of raping and murdering 13-year old employee Mary Phagan, a verdict many felt was colored by the fact that he was Jewish. In 1915, Frank's death sentence was commuted to life in prison by departing Georgia governor John M. Slaton, but during his prison transfer, Frank was kidnapped and murdered. The incident helped birth the Jewish Civil Rights organization known as the Anti-Defamation League. Conversely, it was a factor in the revival of the then-defunct hate group the Ku Klux Klan. Frank's 1913 trial also became the basis for the musical 'Parade,' with book by Uhry and music and lyrics by Jason Robert Brown. The show, part of the 83-year-old playwright's 'Atlanta Trilogy,' which includes the plays 'Driving Miss Daisy' and 'Last Night of Ballyhoo,' comes to the Orpheum Theatre in San Francisco. 'As soon as I was old enough, I got on the bus and went downtown to the library by myself and looked it all up,' Uhry said. 'I remember reading that as the verdict was pronounced the clock struck noon and all the church bells rang all over Atlanta and one-by-one all the jurors said 'guilty.' I remember as a kid thinking, 'Wow, that is a great first act for a curtain.' 'All my life I've been haunted by it because it was a blow to the German Jews of Atlanta.' Uhry spoke to the Chronicle ahead of opening night on Tuesday, May 20, about the complexities of growing up Jewish in the South, his family connection to Frank and the involvement of legendary stage director Hal Prince in shaping the material. This interview has been edited for length and clarity. Q: Was it your great uncle who owned the factory where Leo Frank worked? Did you grow up with knowledge of his lynching? A: Yes, my great aunt's husband (owned the factory). My family was very German-Jewish and had been in Atlanta since before Atlanta was named Atlanta, so they were very reformed Jews. We celebrated Christmas, we dyed Easter eggs, but I still had my Jewish face and all the Jewish prejudices that go along to being called a dirty Jew. I think what really got me into writing 'Parade' was I remember people would be visiting and some guy would bring up the Leo Frank case and somebody else in the room would get up and walk out. Lucille Frank was a social friend of my grandmother's. I remember we called her Miss Lucille. She worked all her life at a fancy lady's dress store and she always signed everything, 'Mrs. Leo Frank.' I knew the way that generation interacted with each other, so I was able to write scenes for Leo and Lucille. Q: Was it meaningful to see 'Parade' get revived on Broadway in 2023 after its limited run in 1998? It feels like an appropriate time in our history for this musical to be getting another life. A: Is that a lucky break or an unlucky break? When it first came out during the Clinton administration, anti-Semitism seemed a little remote somehow. Although, antisemitism is a light sleeper and anything will stir it up. It seemed to resonate more when we did it on Broadway two years ago and, perhaps even more now. It's not directly about the day we are living in, but it reflects it somehow. Neither Jason nor I intended this to be a political statement of any sort, but it just seemed that this story had the ultimate thing that makes a big, rich musical stew, and Hal Prince is the one who realized it. Q: What was it like working with Hal Prince? A: I was a very lucky man because I loved him as a person. He was very enthusiastic, like a kid. He was 1,000% committed to this. I was sitting in his office and he said, 'Why was Atlanta so particularly sensitive to being Jewish?' And I said, 'I guess it was the Leo Frank case.' He put his eyeglasses on top of his head and he said, 'That's a musical.' Q: Was Jason Robert Brown always attached as the composer and lyricist? A: For about three weeks Stephen Sondheim was involved. It would have been a very different show if Sondheim had done it. Sondheim was the same kind of Jew I was, Jason was the grandson of rabbis. He put the Shema (a Jewish prayer) in the show. We believe that Leo Frank probably did do a Shema as he was about to die. Jason was a healthy Jewish boy. It added the rich dimension of loving Judaism and being grateful for what you are. He was 23, 24, 25 when he wrote 'Parade' — it's as good as anything he's ever done since. Q: Can you discuss the figure of the Confederate soldier in the story? A: That was Hal's contribution. The other spice of the stew is that I knew that all the people that were called rednecks and the ones who became 'villains' in this piece were not villains at all. They were victims, they were used. It was also the same period the film 'The Birth of a Nation' came out. The South was defeated, but they believed in their cause, they died for it. Most of the people who were killed weren't slave owners, they were poor white farmers. It was bad news all around.
Yahoo
10-03-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
She's Just the Tip of the Trump Administration's Racist Iceberg
THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION has had more than its share of scandalous personnel picks, but Pentagon Deputy Press Secretary Kingsley Wilson takes 'scandalous' to a whole new level—as in, Protocols of the Elders of Zion–level. Last week, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency reported that in March 2023 and August 2024, Wilson made social-media posts attacking Leo Frank, the Jewish factory manager lynched in Georgia in 1915 after being convicted in the rape and murder of a 13-year-old girl in a trial widely regarded as an antisemitism-laden travesty. The posts also blasted the Anti-Defamation League, which fought for Frank's exoneration for decades and obtained a posthumous pardon in 1986. The Leo Frank libel is a popular cause among antisemites; shortly before Wilson's 2024 post, Candace Owens shared a video arguing that Frank was guilty of ritual murder. (She also asserted that the ADL was in cahoots with the Freemasons and the Ku Klux Klan to reverse the American Revolution.) Antisemites are nothing new on the far right, and their creep from the murky fringes of American conservatism toward something like center stage has been years in the making. But the presence of a right-wing antisemite like Wilson in an influential position in the federal government still raises eyebrows. Before Wilson became an official representative of the Department of Defense, she worked on Donald Trump's 2020 campaign and then took a job at the Center for Renewing America, the think tank founded by Project 2025 contributor and current Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought. Wilson had also defended Christian nationalism, promoted the antisemitism-inflected 'Replacement Theory,' and declared Confederate general Robert E. Lee to be 'one of the greatest Americans to ever live.' She's a big fan of the far-right Alternative for Deutschland party, shunned even by many other right-wing populist parties in Europe because of its flirtations with Nazi apologism. She even praised the party using the neo-Nazi-linked slogan Ausländer Raus! ('Foreigners out'). Departing from MAGA's general pro-Zionist stance, Wilson has also opposed U.S. aid to Israel (along with Taiwan and Ukraine). Last year, she mocked Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson for going to Columbia University to show solidarity with Jewish students who complained of a hostile environment created by pro-Palestinian protests. The campus protests, Wilson opined, were simply 'Sharia Supremacists vs. University Marxists' who should be left to fight each other. (Since actual university Marxists tended to side with the protesters, Wilson's use of 'Marxists' sure sounds like a code word for . . . another group.) While several prominent conservative pundits expressed dismay and urged Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to boot the 'blood libel apologist,' few congressional Republicans were willing to speak out. Sen. Lindsey Graham opined that 'if what you say about these posts are true, then she's completely off-script with President Trump'—obviously, the worst possible condemnation from Graham, for whom agreement with Trump is the only virtue. Sen. Dan Sullivan of Alaska warned about the importance of 'appropriate vetting.' The strongest comment came from Mick Mulroy, deputy assistant secretary of defense for the Middle East in the first Trump administration: 'If she stays, then in many ways, it says those comments are acceptable.' Indeed. Let us help you see around corners as the road ahead gets more twisted and fraught. Sign up for a free or paid subscription today: THE SECOND TRUMP ADMINISTRATION'S tacit acceptance of Wilson contrasts sharply with, for instance, the 2018 firing of Trump speechwriter Darren Beattie for ties to white supremacists. Of course, times have changed, and Beattie, too, is now back in a Trump administration post—this time as acting under secretary for public diplomacy and public affairs in the State Department. Given this climate, it is perhaps unsurprising that other troubling entanglements between the Trump administration and antisemitic figures have been reported in recent days—such as the administration's apparent intervention on behalf of 'manosphere' influencer Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan, who currently face rape and human trafficking charges in Romania. The Tates' supporters, among them Donald Trump Jr., dismiss the case as politically motivated. (Never mind that Andrew Tate bragged about his crimes on video.) In late February, the brothers returned to the United States after the Romanian government suddenly lifted restrictions on their travel. The extent of the Trump administration's involvement in getting the ban lifted is unknown, but the Financial Times has reported that several officials had brought up the case in phone conversations with the Romanians and that Trump Special Envoy Richard Grenell had talked about it in person to Romanian Foreign Minister Emil Hurezeanu. (Grenell downplayed his role but acknowledged his support for the Tates; meanwhile, Trumpworld insider Roger Stone has written on X that Grenell 'secured the release of the Tates.') It's also worth noting that Andrew Tate's former attorney, Paul Ingrassia—author of a cringeworthy 2023 post hailing his client as a model of 'human excellent among men,' persecuted because of the 'threat' he posed to 'global elites'—is now the White House liaison to the Department of Homeland Security. Andrew Tate is notorious mainly as an unabashed and self-proclaimed misogynist who says that women shouldn't vote because they're too emotional and boasts on video about punching, slapping, and choking women to keep them in line. But it's a good rule of thumb that someone with such hateful views of women probably also hates Jews—and (surprise, surprise!) the rule holds for Andrew Tate. He is, among other things, a vocal Hamas supporter: After October 7th, he not only pointedly refused to condemn the terror group but actually praised its 'masculine spirit of resistance.' He has also waxed poetic about the 'heroic' death of Yahya Sinwar, the architect and leader of the October 7th pogrom. In January 2024, Tate also speculated that since 'they' lied about Gaza and Israel, about Ukraine and about every other war, it stood to reason that everything we're told about World War II is probably a lie, as well. The war, he wrote, is 'still used to this day to psyop the populace' with the message that 'Bad guy = Nazi.' Upon his return to the United States, Tate quickly booked himself on the Full Send podcast, which boasts millions of followers, to complain that 'you can't criticize the Jews.' CONTROVERSIES ABOUT ANTISEMITISM in Trumpworld date back at least to the 2016 campaign, when Jewish journalists critical of Trump were often bombarded with antisemitic abuse from the pro-Trump 'alt-right.' Trump notably declined an invitation from CNN's Wolf Blitzer to rebuke his supporters who were directing such harassment at journalist Julia Ioffe because of her 'nasty' profile of Melania Trump. While Trump sought Jewish support by stressing his devotion to Israel, his flirtations with his antisemitic far-right supporters culminated in the debacle of Charlottesville, where marchers in August 2017 chanted such slogans as 'Jews will not replace us.' Trump then ostensibly condemned Nazis and white supremacists while commending the 'very fine people' who marched alongside them. At the same time, the administration presented itself as a stalwart protector of American Jews from the depredations of antisemitism on college campuses. Trump issues an executive order in 2019 directing colleges to consider an expanded definition of antisemitism, including some anti-Israel speech, when enforcing civil rights protections. Share The Bulwark Responding to the wave of pro-Palestinian protests that followed October 7th, the Trump administration has portrayed itself as leading the charge against left-wing antisemitism, taking new measures whose benefit so far are unclear and which, in some cases, arguably threaten protected speech. Most recently, the administration announced that it had canceled $400 million of federal grants to Columbia University because the school failed to protect Jewish students from harassment. What must Kingsley Wilson be thinking? WHILE THE ALT-RIGHT as a separate movement has largely faded from view, white nationalist and/or antisemitic views have infiltrated the right-wing mainstream—and with it, the government—to a degree unthinkable eight years ago. Tucker Carlson, who has coyly flirted with such views for a while, is now brazen about it, portraying pro-Israel conservative Jews like Ben Shapiro as rootless interlopers who care more about Israel than about America. Finally, last September, Carlson aired a long, fawning interview with 'popular historian' Darryl Cooper, a Hitler apologist who finds continued Nazi rule in France vastly preferable to drag queens at the Paris Olympics opening ceremony. Unscathed by the outrage among many conservatives, Carlson continued to play a prominent role in the Trump campaign. The 'vibe shift' is not necessarily that more people on the right are antisemites compared to eight years ago; it's that much of the right now appears to reject the basic notion that there should be any stigma against even the vilest bigotry. This was evident in the controversy over DOGE employee Marko Elez, briefly fired after his racist social media activity came to light but then rehired after a plea from JD Vance, who benignly described Elez's racial invective (e.g., 'Normalize Indian hate') as merely posts he 'disagree[s] with.' The 'antiwoke' backlash, which views the stigmatization of bigotry as a form of leftist speech-policing, is compounded by an anti-establishment backlash that valorizes norm-smashing—at least, smashing of liberal norms. And so we shouldn't be surprised when as prominent and influential a media figure as Joe Rogan, whose support was actively courted by Trump during the election, publishes an interview with antisemitic conspiracy theorist Ian Carroll, who claims that Jeffrey Epstein's child sex abuse ring was an Israeli intelligence operation to compromise Americans or that a group of 'dancing Israelis' had advance knowledge of the September 11th attacks. And that's not all: Among Rogan's upcoming guests is the same Darryl Cooper who discussed his World War II revisionism on Tucker Carlson's show last fall. Share
Yahoo
06-03-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
DOD deputy press secretary has history of tweets with racist and antisemitic conspiracy theories
One of the Trump administration's deputy press secretaries at the Defense Department has an extensive record of racist, isolationist and ultra-nationalist posts on social media, including pushing discredited conspiracy theories about a Jewish victim of lynching and about Haitian migrants, as well as rejecting U.S. support for Israel and Ukraine. Kingsley Wilson's social media attracted attention earlier this week when people started resurfacing posts she shared on X in 2023 and 2024, in which she used a talking point widely repeated by antisemitic advocates: that Leo Frank, a Jewish man convicted of raping and murdering a teenage girl and then lynched by a Georgia mob in 1915, but posthumously pardoned decades later, was in fact guilty. Frank is widely believed to have been falsely accused and unjustly convicted. His case led to the formation of the Anti-Defamation League. 'White supremacists and other antisemites have long used conspiracy theories about the Leo Frank case to cast doubt on the circumstances of the antisemitic lynching of Leo Frank,' the ADL wrote in a statement Wednesday. 'We're deeply disturbed that any public official would parrot these hateful and false conspiracy theories, and we hope Kingsley Wilson will immediately retract her remarks.' Wilson also has expressed opposition to U.S. military intervention abroad, posting days after the war in Gaza started, 'My future children will not die in foreign ethnic conflicts a world away.' In July, she called NATO 'nothing more than an international HR department.' She specifically opposed American military support for Israel. At the end of 2024, Wilson wrote, "Why is the U.S. military defending Israel & Ukraine's border but not our own?", and in 2023, replied to an X post by former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett: 'Fight your own wars. America First.' Wilson and the Department of Defense did not immediately reply to NBC News' requests for comment on Wilson's past posts, or whether they represent the views of the Pentagon. Wilson has also railed against U.S. funding for Ukraine, describing Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy as an 'entitled midget,' and asking, 'Why should American taxpayers help defend Ukraine?' She has also praised Russian President Vladimir Putin, calling his 'encyclopedic knowledge of his people's history beyond impressive.' On her X account, Wilson has shown support for Germany's far-right Alternative for Germany party, mentioning it multiple times along with a German phrase that translates to 'foreigners out.' She has previously declared 'Make Kosovo Serbia again,' despite Kosovo being officially recognized as an independent state by the U.S. in the years after the two Balkan countries fought a war in the 1990s. Russia does not recognize Kosovo's independence. Democratic Rep. Ritchie Torres from New York responded to Wilson's post last week, writing on X that she's 'shamefully attempting to delegitimize Kosovo.' A significant number of Wilson's past posts on X peddle discredited conspiracy theories, including that Haitians living in the U.S. are 'eating cats' and 'dirt,' as well as the "great replacement theory," the racist belief that ethnic white groups and their culture are being 'replaced' by nonwhite immigrant groups in Western countries. On Thanksgiving in 2022, she wrote, 'REMINDER: the Native Americans were anything but peaceful before the arrival of white Europeans.' Wilson has also repeatedly tweeted variations of the sentiment that 'White, Christian males are the most demonized group in modern America,' and argued that women should not be allowed to work as police officers or Secret Service agents. She has also called transgender people 'corrupted souls,' and responded 'not all heroes wear capes' to a man being arrested for vandalizing a LGBTQ pride mural. The 26-year-old Wilson is the daughter of right-wing commentator and former Trump adviser Steve Cortes. Since graduating high school, she has mixed with conservative politicians and media personalities, snapping photos with Sen. Ted Cruz and appearing on episodes of right-wing commentator Tim Pool's podcast. She worked for the conservative think tank Center for Renewing America and Gettr, the social media platform founded by former Trump aide Jason Miller. Wilson backed former Rep. Matt Gaetz's nomination for attorney general and traveled with him and his wife Ginger to El Salvador in November. Ginger Gaetz called her 'one of the most articulate voices in politics.' Some of her past posts have slammed Republicans, including Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy. In February of last year, Wilson posted on X: 'Republicans are a joke. Only the Executive can save us. Trump 2024.' This article was originally published on
Yahoo
05-03-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Pentagon official condemned over tweet about Jewish victim lynched by Georgia mob
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has condemned a past social media post by Pentagon spokesperson Kingsley Wilson that disputed the innocence of Leo Frank, a Jewish businessman whom most historians agree was wrongfully convicted of killing a 13-year-old factory worker and lynched in 1915 during a wave of antisemitism in the US. 'Leo Frank raped & murdered a 13-year-old girl. He also tried to frame a Black man for his crime,' Wilson wrote on X in response to an August 2024 tweet by the ADL marking the 109th anniversary of Frank's lynching. 'The ADL turned off the comments because they want to gaslight you.' The original tweet by the ADL said: 'Tomorrow marks 109 years since Leo Frank was lynched by a hate-filled mob in Georgia after being falsely accused & unjustly convicted of murder in a trial marred by antisemitism. ADL fought to clear Frank's name & he was finally pardoned in 1986. May his memory be a blessing.' Wilson's post, which was sent from her personal account @KingsleyCortes on 16 August and had not been deleted at the time of publication, was recently surfaced on Bluesky by Tristan Lee, a data scientist at the investigative journalism collective, Bellingcat. Wilson was recently appointed as deputy press secretary at the Department of Defense. 'White supremacists and other antisemites have long used conspiracy theories about the Leo Frank case to cast doubt on the circumstances of the antisemitic lynching of Leo Frank,' an ADL spokesperson said in a statement to the Guardian. 'We are deeply disturbed that any public official would parrot these hateful and false conspiracy theories, and we hope Kingsley Wilson will immediately retract her remarks.' The Pentagon referred a request for comment to Wilson for 'any remarks made in her personal capacity'. Wilson did not immediately respond. Neo-Nazis have long maintained Frank's guilt, disputing the historical consensus that he was framed and convicted in a trial tainted by antisemitism. In 1913, Mary Phagan, a 13-year-old child laborer, was found strangled at an Atlanta pencil factory. Frank, the factory's manager, was arrested and later convicted of Phagan's rape and murder. He was sentenced to death in a trial that unfolded during a period of rampant antisemitism, in which tabloids and cartoons inflamed public sentiment by spreading conspiracy theories about Jewish economic influence. After the state's governor commuted Frank's death sentence to life in prison over a lack of evidence proving his guilt, in 1915, an armed mob, which included influential community leaders, abducted Frank from his prison cell and lynched him. Frank was posthumously pardoned in 1986, after a campaign led by the ADL, whose founding – with the mission to 'stop the defamation of the Jewish people, and to secure justice and fair treatment to all' – was inspired by the case. But Frank's conviction also led to a resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan, and extremism experts say the case continues to animate white supremacists and neo-Nazi groups today. In 2013, an investigation by the Forward found ties between the proliferation of websites pushing a revisionist history of the Frank case and known neo-Nazis. It reported that one site, which bills itself inconspicuously as the Leo Frank Case Research Library, was registered to Kevin Strom, an avowed white supremacist described by the Southern Poverty Law Center as a leader in the American neo-Nazi movement. Wilson previously worked for the Center for Renewing America, a pro-Trump think tank started by Russ Vought, a self-described Christian nationalist who was an architect of Project 2025 and now leads the office of budget and management. She also served as a national committeewoman with the DC Young Republicans and was an aide on the Trump 2020 campaign. Wilson has a long record of controversial tweets. Last year, she tweeted, 'The Great Replacement isn't a right-wing conspiracy theory … it's reality,' appending a screengrab of a Bloomberg headline about the growth of the US Hispanic population. The racist theory posits that there is an intentional and systematic effort to replace white Americans through mass migration. In other posts, she disparaged immigrants and trans people. And in 2023, she drew criticism over a tweet that declared: 'Let's make Kosovo Serbia again.'
