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Good morning. Today at 10AM ET, the House Judiciary Committee meets to discuss the rise of white nationalism.
Panelists will include: Eileen Hershenov, senior VP for policy at the Anti-Defamation League; Eva Paterson, president of the Equal Justice Society....
Panelists will include: Eileen Hershenov, senior VP for policy at the Anti-Defamation League; Eva Paterson, president of the Equal Justice Society....
Kristen Clarke, president of the National Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law; Dr. Mohammad Abu-Salha, father of Yusor Mohammad Abu-Salha and Razan Mohammad Abu-Salha, two Muslim women shot dead in Chapel Hill, North Carolina three years ago by Craig Stephen Hicks;
Neil Potts, public policy director for Facebook; Alexandria Walden of Google; Mort Klein, president of the Zionist Organization of America and Candace Owens, conservative commentator with Turning Point USA.
Only Klein and Owens were invited by the GOP.
Only Klein and Owens were invited by the GOP.
Hershenov is expected to testify about online propaganda fueling racism; Clarke is expected to push for social media platforms to enforce terms of service and zero-in on users who incite hate or violence...
Potts is expected to testify about Facebook’s new policy banning white nationalist or white separatist content on its site. He is also expected to provide an update on the 2017 program, Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism...
Recall, Facebook, Twitter, Microsoft and YouTube formed the group in an effort to reduce the spread of terrorist content online. Potts will likely face questions about the spread of video depicting the recent shooting at a mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand.
Salha will provide what one can only assume will be gut-wrenching testimony on hate crimes. Salha is the father of Yusor Mohammad Abu Salha and Razan Mohammad Abu Salha, two Muslim women who were shot dead execution style in Chapel Hill, NC in 2015.
Yusor’s husband, Deah Shaddy Barakat was also killed in the attack.
NC police said Craig Stephen Hicks shot Salha’s daughters after a dispute over parking reached a fever pitch but...
NC police said Craig Stephen Hicks shot Salha’s daughters after a dispute over parking reached a fever pitch but...
multiple family members pointed to Hicks history of harassing Razan and Yusor and claimed the shooting was a hate crime.
Background from 2015 on the Chapel Hill shooting: courthousenews.com/n-c-shooting-l…
Background from 2015 on the Chapel Hill shooting: courthousenews.com/n-c-shooting-l…
Mort Klein is the head of the right wing Zionist Organization of America. Klein, was also the first Jewish leader to formally meet with Trump after the inauguration.
You may recall Klein from his rhetoric last year on Twitter in which he referred to Arabs as “filthy” (More on that here: haaretz.com/us-news/mort-k…) and his condemnation of Rep. Rashida Tlaib, who he has regularly claimed has a “hatred of Jews.”
And the final panelist testifying today on hate crimes and the rise of white nationalism is pundit and conservative commentator Candace Owens who once said: "I actually don't have any problems at all with the word 'nationalism.' I think that it gets....
"...the definition gets poisoned by elitists that actually want globalism. Globalism is what I don't want. So when you think about, whenever we say 'nationalism,' the first thing people thing about, at least in America, is Hitler. You know, he was a national socialist..."
"but if Hitler just wanted to make Germany great and have things run well, okay fine. The problem is ... he had dreams outside of Germany. He wanted to globalize. He wanted everybody to be German. Everybody to be speaking German..."
"Everybody to look a different way. ... To me that's not nationalism." - Candace Owens ()
She has since back pedaled on the comment, saying "leftist journalists" mis-characterized her own statements.
She has since back pedaled on the comment, saying "leftist journalists" mis-characterized her own statements.
Hearing gets underway in roughly 45 minutes. I will live-tweet as we go and will have a full story up later for @CourthouseNews.
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