It is much easier to describe how anti-Semitism works than what works against it.
Anti-Semitism is a hatred. At heart, it is a conspiracy theory positing that Jews conspire to harm non-Jews. Like most conspiracy theories, it provides easy answers to difficult problems.
Of course, the world’s problems are rarely simple. Neither is anti-Semitism, but we sometimes choose to look at it as if it is, perhaps for reasons similar to why anti-Semites seek easy answers too.
The first of the usual bromides is Holocaust education. Surely it’s important that people know about the Holocaust. But how is teaching about the Wannsee Conference and Kristallnacht going to change people whose anti-Semitism is connected to seeing Jews with guns lording over their Muslim brethren in the West Bank? Or those, already well-educated in Holocaust terminology, who gleefully use terms like “ethnic cleansing” and “genocide” to describe Israeli actions that may be discriminatory, but ar
He knew of the violence. He stayed. Can he help undo what he fueled?
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Scott Ernest, 42, poses with a Celtic cross, which he describes as one of the most important and commonly used white supremacist symbols. It was made by hand by a Stormfront member. I was telling everybody I was getting out of the movement, and I wanted nothing to do with it. He drove it all the way from eastern Oregon to Montana overnight to give me as a gift. He wanted me to stay. Ernest left the movement in 2016 and now lives in Lakeland. [ JOHN PENDYGRAFT | Times ]
As House Bill 112 moved through the Montana House Judiciary Committee on Thursday morning, the chorus of voices against the legislation grew louder.
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) and dozens of Montana civil rights groups have joined in opposition to HB 112 and House Bill 113, both of which are pieces of anti-trans legislation.
The Judiciary Committee will vote on HB 113 on Friday morning.
The HRC is the largest LGBTQ+ organization in the country. A Montana coalition against anti-transgender legislation, called the Free and Fair Coalition, is comprised of the Montana Human Rights Network, Montana Women Vote, ACLU of Montana, Empower Montana, Forward Montana, the Montana Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Violence, the Montana Gender Alliance, the Montana Chapter of the National Social Workers Association, the Montana Racial Equity Project, the Indigenous Organizers Collective, Planned Parenthood of Montana, Pride Foundation, and Trans
On a day when officials braced for potential for violence at the Montana State Capitol from the supporters of outgoing Republican President Donald Trump, the first, last and only protestor to show up turned out to be a supporter of Democratic President Joe Biden.
John Vore, handling a large yellow poster board sign, seemed a little stunned Wednesday morning. Vore had planned to stand counter to the pro-Trump demonstration that was expected Wednesday at state Capitols around the U.S., but never appeared.
Since November, some of Trump s supporters have clung to the conspiracy pushed by Trump that the election was stolen from him. Vore, a 65-year-old retired Helena resident, stood alone on the Capitol steps holding a sign that read, Biden won, Trump lost, Let s move on.
Flathead Valley group opposing proposed MT transgender legislation
Love Lives Here is strongly opposing two bills heard Monday in the Montana Legislature regarding transgender rights.
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House Bill 112 would require interscholastic athletes to participate under sex assigned at birth for athletic events starting in elementary school through the collegiate level.
House Bill 113 would prohibit certain medications and medical procedures for the treatment of gender dysphoria in minors, establishing a civil penalty for health care providers providing prohibited treatment.
Love Lives Here community organizer Cherilyn DeVries says studies show that suicide rates drop drastically in transgender youth with proper access to appropriate medical care.