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Fox News
3 days ago
- Politics
- Fox News
Homeland Security says Boston's mayor comparing ICE agents to neo-Nazis is 'sickening'
The Department of Homeland Security says Boston's Democrat mayor comparing ICE agents to neo-Nazis is "sickening." The reaction Thursday came in response to a video posted by an account affiliated with the White House, during which Michelle Wu said, "I don't know of any police department that routinely wears masks. "We know that there are other groups that routinely wear masks. NSC-131 routinely wears masks," Wu added, in reference to a New England-based neo-Nazi group. "Mayor Wu comparing ICE agents to neo-Nazis is SICKENING," Homeland Security wrote on X. "When our heroic law enforcement officers conduct operations, they clearly identify themselves as law enforcement while wearing masks to protect themselves from being targeted by known and suspected gang members, murders, and rapists." "Attacks and demonization of our brave law enforcement is WRONG. ICE officers are now facing a 413% increase in assaults," Homeland Security added. The Anti-Defamation League said members of NSC-131 "consider themselves soldiers at war with a hostile, Jewish-controlled system that is deliberately plotting the extinction of the White race." Wu also recently said in an interview with WBUR that "People are terrified for their lives and for their neighbors" and "folks [are] getting snatched off the street by secret police who are wearing masks, who can offer no justification for why certain people are being taken and then detained." ICE Acting Director Todd Lyons, in a message to Wu on Wednesday, said "these are real people with real families you're hurting with your ridiculous rhetoric and inflammatory comments and it's time to remember that." Leah Foley, the U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts, also released a video message saying "federal agents in marked jackets and vests are masking their faces because people like Mayor Wu have created false narratives about their mission. "Federal agents and their children are being threatened, doxxed and assaulted. That is why they must hide their faces," she added.
Times
22-05-2025
- Politics
- Times
Neo-Nazis disrupt Aboriginal Anzac Day ceremony in Australia
Australian political leaders have condemned neo-Nazis who interrupted an Aboriginal ceremony at an Anzac Day dawn service in Melbourne on Friday. Aboriginal representatives were in the middle of their traditional Welcome to Country greeting to about 50,000 people gathered at Melbourne's Shrine of Remembrance war memorial for the annual commemoration of Australian and New Zealand troops landing at Gallipoli in 1915. Anzac Day is a public holiday across Australia and New Zealand in honour of their war dead. The solemn mood of the Melbourne event was broken during an address being delivered by an Aboriginal elder when a group in the crowd began to jeer and heckle. Some began shouting for the Welcome to Country to be halted but the hecklers — identified by police
Times
21-05-2025
- Politics
- Times
Reform UK club in Blackpool hosted hard-right events for decade
The owners of a new Reform Party pub in Blackpool hosted hard-right events in the venue for up to a decade, it can be revealed. Senior party members hailed the Talbot as a sign of the groundswell of support in Tory heartlands, pointing to the venue's near 82-year history as a Conservative club. However, the current owners, who took over the pub in 2009, have a history of renting out space to music events that campaigners claim include hard-right acts. Its owners also planned to host a 'white victims of multiculturalism' event in 2018, which promised political speeches by neo-Nazi campaigners and a Holocaust denier, but cancelled it due to a backlash. Reform won more than 600 council seats at the local elections, leading the
News.com.au
15-05-2025
- Politics
- News.com.au
Australian politician slammed over Kanye praise
This is not a drill. This is not clickbait. This is a sitting senator in the Australian parliament proudly announcing to his followers that his 'song of the week' is Kanye West's 'Heil Hitler.' Yes, that song, the one featuring the voice of Adolf Hitler himself. Let me say that again, because I never imagined I'd have to: An elected federal politician in 2025 has praised a song that glorifies history's greatest mass murderer. Ralph Babet, who somehow believes this is just a matter of personal taste, has not only applauded a piece of Holocaust-themed propaganda, he's gone further. In the same rant, he declared he'd rather spend time with neo-Nazis than with what he called 'mentally ill' and 'baby-killing' left-wing Australians. Just when you think it can't get any worse, he adds that it was all 'tongue-in-cheek.' That he wouldn't really hang out with neo-Nazis because, well, they'd want to deport him for being brown. And sure, he also claims he was just sharing a 'good song' by a 'great artist' and that attempts to label him a Nazi were 'f**ing bulls**t'. Be that as it may, this isn't politics. This seems like moral vandalism with a Senate badge. And the most terrifying part? This wasn't buried in some dark corner of the internet. It was posted on Instagram for all to see. It was loud, proud, and unrepentant. This was a megaphone, not a mistake. Let us not lose sight of what this moment represents. Adolf Hitler is not a vibe. He is not a meme. His name does not belong on a Spotify playlist. It belongs to the ashes of Auschwitz and Treblinka. It belongs to gas chambers, to mass graves, to tattooed arms and shattered families. When you celebrate that name, when you call 'Heil Hitler' your favourite song, you are desecrating the memory of six million Jews and every Australian soldier who fought to defeat the regime that name represents. And when you say you'd rather hang out with members of a neo-Nazi group than with your fellow Australians, you are not making a joke. You are not being edgy. You are giving the ugliest people in this country a green light. With songs like this being shared by a senator, you wonder whether the National Socialist Network even needs to promote themselves anymore. There is a reason these words matter. Because when hate is amplified by power, it spreads faster. Louder. Deeper. The lines blur. The fringe moves to the centre. And before long, what once shocked becomes routine. I'm not interested in Senator Babet's denials of being a Nazi. That's irrelevant. The issue is not his intent. The issue is the impact. His words will be quoted in extremist forums. Clipped, reposted, celebrated. Kanye's video will become a calling card for white supremacists who now feel they have a friend in parliament. And what does it say to Jewish Australians? That in 2025, they still have to hear something featuring the name 'Hitler' praised in the public square? That the horrors their grandparents survived are now a punchline for social media engagement? Enough. This is not just offensive. This is dangerous. With these kind of acts, the National Socialist Network, which once had to operate on the fringes of society, doesn't need to market itself anymore. He claims it was all 'tongue-in-cheek.' He says the neo-Nazis wouldn't want him anyway, because of his background. As if that somehow makes it better. It doesn't. You don't joke about Holocaust glorification. You don't wink at songs containing the symbols of mass extermination. You don't casually name-drop Hitler as part of your weekly vibe check. If a schoolteacher praised this song, they'd be fired. If a corporate CEO did it, they'd be gone before lunch. But a senator? Still seated. Still empowered. And that tells us something terrifying: that the old lines—the moral boundaries that once held this country together—are being erased. That we've grown numb to the rising temperature. This is not political correctness gone mad. This is not a matter of free speech. That's why I'm calling on Clive Palmer to do what any decent leader would do: disendorse Ralph Babet and denounce this latest act, without spin, without delay. Because if we allow a song called 'Heil Hitler' to be proudly promoted by someone sitting in our Senate, then we are not just failing the victims of the past—we are failing the future of this nation. This is not a Jewish issue. This is not a left or right issue. This is an Australian issue. Dr Dvir Abramovich is Chair of the Anti-Defamation Commission and the author of eight books Senator Ralph Babet hits back In a statement to Senator Babet insisted he was not a 'Nazi sympathiser', urging critics to 'read the lyrics of the song before they accuse me of being something I most certainly am not'. 'Kanye West's song, as is obvious to all who have listened to it, is not glorifying Nazis or Adolf Hitler,' he said, claiming the 'entire point of the song.. is that Hitler is bad'. 'The song begins with Kanye West confessing that he is filled with rage and anger. Worse, he is hopelessly addicted to drugs. Then he admits … 'I'm the villain.' It's in THAT context he sings 'Heil Hitler' … not to acknowledge Hitler's desire to kill Jews but in the sense that Hitler, in our culture, has come to mean the devil,' he claimed. 'And Kanye fears that he himself, filled with insatiable rage and his mind screwed up by drugs, has become the devil. Or, if you will, Hitler. He's saying I'm angry, I'm completely messed up in the head. I'm basically Hitler. The reaction to my admission that I liked the song demonstrates how many people in this country flick their mouth to outrage before engaging their brain into first gear.' Mr Babet added that 'people should be free to listen to whatever they want'. 'I won't be apologising for liking Kanye's song because the song neither endorses Hitler nor promotes Nazis. Far from it. The song, as I have said, depicts Hitler and the Nazis as the personification of evil. That so many people ran to outraged over a song they have either not bothered to listen to or completely failed to understand says a great deal more about them than it says about me.'
Sky News
14-05-2025
- Sky News
Neo-Nazi extremists guilty of planning terror attack on mosque
Three neo-Nazis who stockpiled weapons including a 3D-printed assault rifle are facing "substantial" prison sentences after they were found guilty of plotting a terrorist attack on a mosque in Leeds. Counter-terrorism police found an arsenal of more than 200 weapons that included crossbows, swords, machetes, axes, a baseball bat and numerous hunting knives, following raids on properties in Yorkshire, Derbyshire and Staffordshire. An almost completed FGC-9 Mk II printed assault rifle was found in the loft of one of the suspects. It was missing the barrel and firing pin but the men were sourcing the components to complete the weapon. The three men had a shared interest in bushcraft and YouTube "prepper" videos, claiming in court they were preparing for a "shit hits the fan" scenario such as a Russian invasion or a zombie apocalypse. However, prosecutors said they were actually preparing for a race war and had used the prepper groups to recruit an inner circle which moved on to neo-Nazi chat groups before setting up their own private group, as they prepared to take action. Detective Chief Superintendent James Dunkerley, head of Counter-Terrorism Policing North East, said the "self-styled militant online group" espoused "vile racist views" and took "real world steps to plan and prepare for carrying out an attack on innocent citizens". Bethan David, head of the Crown Prosecution Service's Counter-Terrorism Division, said that the 3D-printed firearm "could have been used to devastating consequences" if it had been completed. The group was infiltrated by an undercover officer and on 5 January last year, Brogan Stewart messaged the officer on the encrypted Telegram app, telling him he was disillusioned with other far-right groups that just "sit around and talk". "I want to get my own group together because action speaks louder than words," he added. Stewart, 25, from Tingley, Wakefield, appointed Christopher Ringrose, 34, from Cannock, Staffordshire, who had constructed the 3D firearm and Marco Pitzettu, 25, from Mickleover, Derby, as "armourers" for the new group. Stewart convened a group telephone call on 5 February in which he said the plan was to "cruise around" looking for "human targets" near an Islamic education centre, "do what whatever we do then back at mine for tea and medals and a debrief." Before the "operation" went ahead he wanted the members, who had never met in person, to "hang out, bring ourselves closer together and just cement that brotherhood" on 18 February, but the event did not go ahead and the group were arrested on 20 February. All three were found unanimously guilty of preparing acts of terrorism and possessing information useful for terrorism. Ringrose was found guilty of manufacturing the lower receiver for a 3D firearm. Pitzettu pleaded guilty to possessing a stun gun.
