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Right-wing British magazine The Spectator keeps on running pro-fascist articles by its racist columnist Taki, who founded The American Conservative.

Today Taki published a piece defending the genocidal Nazi army, the Wehrmacht — after defending Mussolini.
archive.li/48y6x
(From 2013) @Spectator article defending Greece's neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party, by racist columnist Taki, causes uproar
huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/07/23/tak…
Unsurprisingly, just before publishing a piece defending the genocidal Nazi army, right-wing British magazine The Spectator also published a piece defending Israel's massacre of unarmed Palestinian protesters (which calls the West Bank "Judea and Samaria")
usa.spectator.co.uk/2018/05/israel…
Don't ever forget that Israel's longest-serving prime minister, Netanyahu, is himself a Holocaust revisionist, who blamed the Shoah not on Hitler and the genocidal Nazi regime, but rather on Palestinians.
huffingtonpost.com/david-a-love/n…
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Trump and Mussolini: 11 Key Lessons from Historical Fascism

Italian fascism provides a better model for our moment than Nazi Germany—and the comparison is not encouraging.

By: @Anis_Shivani for @AlterNet
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Fascism is a religion. The 20th century will be known in history as the century of fascism.
〰️ Benito Mussolini

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