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Neo-Nazis Receive Pushback, Lawsuits, Arrests Around Globe, From Ohio to Australia
A neo-Nazi group stages a protest in Cincinnati on Feb. 7, 2025. Photo: Ohio Department of Transportation
Neo-Nazi groups and individuals promoting the Third Reich experienced opposition last week as politicians, communities, and law enforcement in Ohio and Australia responded to the promotion of genocidal antisemitism.
On Friday near a majority-Black neighborhood in Cincinnati, a group of 13 demonstrators wearing sunglasses, red face masks, and black clothes held two banners over an overpass between Evendale and Lincoln Heights. One featured the phrase “America for the White Man” between a Nazi totenkopf skull symbol and a Nazi eagle. The second depicted a red swastika against a black background. Six individuals also waved similar red-and-black swastika flags matching their outfits. Some in the group carried rifles.
Residents confronted the neo-Nazis, who call themselves “the Hate Club.” The masked men hurled racist slurs at them before piling into a U-Haul to flee. Members of the community then flew their own banners on the overpass reading “love wins” and “all are welcome here.” The neo-Nazis had organized a previous demonstration in Columbus in November.
Lincoln Heights Village Council member Daronce Daniels told the Local 12 news station that “things of that nature don’t stand here, you know, that’s a symbol of hate,” and “we’re a community of pride and love.”
Daniels added, “I’m more proud [sic] than our residents for showing up and saying that, ‘Hey, we’re not going to allow anybody to come in and bully us in any type of way, especially in this moment.’”
Jamaal Howard, who lives in Lincoln Heights, said, “I’m fearing for my life, like I walk outside all the time, and now I have to be in fear just in case anything could happen.”
A video posted to social media showed that after the neo-Nazis fled the scene, residents proceeded to torch a swastika flag. “Burn that s—t up!” one man yelled. Others joined hands and formed a prayer circle.
“Messages of hate like this have no place in our region,” Cincinnati’s Mayor Aftab Pureval said. “It was shocking and disgusting to see swastikas displayed in Evendale today.”
On Sunday, a counter-demonstration took place with dozens of participants at the Lincoln Heights Missionary Baptist Church.
“Any time you have a white supremacist, neo-Nazis come to the gateway of the historic Black community. Time is up. There’s nothing left right there. There’s no ground that is sacred,” said Reverend Julian Cook, the church’s pastor. “And to do it at 2:30 in the afternoon, when you know that babies are being dismissed from school. That is an act of terror. Clear and front and center.”
Cook spoke to WCPO News and sent a message to the neo-Nazis: “You will not win. You may try, but we have a history of being able to push past these things, as difficult as they may be. You will not win.”
In a statement, the Jewish Federation of Cincinnati said, “Wwe will not be intimidated. Our response to hate is to reaffirm our commitment to strengthening community bonds, advancing education, and advocating for a society free of antisemitism and all forms of hate and bigotry.”
Elsewhere in Ohio, government officials targeted a different neo-Nazi group which had allegedly stirred up hate in Springfield.
On Thursday in Dayton, the city of Springfield, its Mayor Rob Rue and others sued the Blood Tribe, including its leaders Christopher Pohlhaus and Drake Berentz as well as unnamed members.
The suit aided by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) charges Blood Tribe with “engaging in, and inciting, a campaign of harassment and intimidation, motivated by ethnic and racial hatred, against those who supported Springfield’s Haitian community in the face of Defendants’ racist attacks.” The officials have requested a jury trial to stop the group from further threats.
The filing says that “Blood Tribe and its members and associates unleashed a torrent of hateful conduct, including acts of harassment, bomb threats, and death threats, against Springfield residents who spoke out in support of the Haitian community.” The hate group had appeared in Cincinnati during a jazz and blues festival in August where they waved swastika flags, gave speeches, and displayed guns.
The ADL describes Blood Tribe’s goals as “to normalize the swastika, usher in a resurgence of Nazi ideas, and ultimately build a white enthnostate occupied, controlled, and led by ‘Aryans.’ As a group, Blood Tribe subscribes to common white supremacist beliefs — white people are superior, stronger — with a heavy neo-Nazi emphasis, and a significant Odinist slant.”
Meanwhile, in Sydney, Australia on Thursday, law enforcement arrested and charged two men — Craig Elston, 51, and Charles Cameron, 44 — for displaying a Nazi flag, a crime in Australia. Elston allegedly removed the flag from a backpack and showed it in public before his friend Cameron took a photograph of it.
Elliot Rowe, Cameron’s lawyer, told the court that his client “is a person of outstanding character, is a retired 20-year Australian Defense Force (ADF) veteran who holds no antisemitic views and is suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder.”
Elston pleaded guilty to the crime and now faces as much as a year’s imprisonment.
New South Wales Jewish Board of Deputies president David Ossip said in response to the crime that “something has gone terribly wrong given that these incidents have become an almost daily occurrence. The antisemitism crisis did not start with the firebombing of childcare centers and cars — it started with words and symbols of hate.”
Australia has seen a wave of antisemitic incidents in recent months, with police suspecting that international actors have funded the hate crimes with cryptocurrency payments.
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North London Synagogue, Nursery Targeted in Eighth Local Antisemitic Incident in Just Over a Week
Demonstrators against antisemitism in London on Sept. 8, 2025. Photo: Campaign Against Antisemitism
A synagogue and its nursery school in the Golders Green area of north London were targeted in an antisemitic attack on Thursday morning — the eighth such incident locally in just over a week amid a shocking surge of anti-Jewish hate crimes in the area.
The synagogue and Jewish nursery were smeared with excrement in an antisemitic outrage echoing a series of recent incidents targeting the local Jewish community.
“The desecration of another local synagogue and a children’s nursery with excrement is a vile, deliberate, and premeditated act of antisemitism,” Shomrim North West London, a Jewish organization that monitors antisemitism and also serves as a neighborhood watch group, said in a statement.
“This marks the eighth antisemitic incident locally in just over a week, to directly target the local Jewish community,” the statement read. “These repeated attacks have left our community anxious, hurt, and increasingly worried.”
Local law enforcement confirmed they are reviewing CCTV footage and collecting evidence to identify the suspect and bring them to justice.
This latest anti-Jewish hate crime came just days after tens of thousands of people marched through London in a demonstration against antisemitism, amid rising levels of antisemitic incidents across the United Kingdom since the Hamas-led invasion of and massacre across southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023.
In just over a week, seven Jewish premises in Barnet, the borough in which Golders Green is located, have been targeted in separate antisemitic incidents.
According to the Metropolitan Police, an investigation has been launched into the targeted attacks, all of which involved the use of bodily fluids.
During the incidents, a substance was smeared on four synagogues and a private residence, while a liquid was thrown at a school and over a car in two other attacks.
As the investigation continues, local police said they believe the same suspect is likely responsible for all seven offenses, which are being treated as religiously motivated criminal damage.
No arrests have been made so far, but law enforcement said it is actively engaging with the local Jewish community to provide reassurance and support.
The Community Security Trust (CST), a nonprofit charity that advises Britain’s Jewish community on security matters, condemned the recent wave of attacks and called on authorities to take immediate action.
“The extreme defilement of several Jewish locations in and around Golders Green is utterly abhorrent and deeply distressing,” CST said in a statement.
“CST is working closely with police and communal partners to support victims and help identify and apprehend the perpetrator,” it continued.
The Campaign Against Antisemitism (CAA) also denounced the attacks, calling for urgent measures to protect the Jewish community.
“These repeated incidents are leaving British Jews anxious and vulnerable in their own neighborhoods, not to mention disgusted,” CAA said in a statement.
Since the start of the war in Gaza, the United Kingdom has experienced a surge in antisemitic crimes and anti-Israel sentiment.
Last month, CST published a report showing there were 1,521 antisemitic incidents in the UK from January to June of this year. It marks the second-highest total of incidents ever recorded by CST in the first six months of any year, following the first half of 2024 in which 2,019 antisemitic incidents were recorded.
In total last year, CST recorded 3,528 antisemitic incidents for 2024, the country’s second worst year for antisemitism despite being an 18 percent drop from 2023’s record of 4,296.
In previous years, the numbers were significantly lower, with 1,662 incidents in 2022 and 2,261 hate crimes in 2021.
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Germany to Hold Off on Recognizing Palestinian State but Will Back UN Resolution for Two-State Solution
German national flag flutters on top of the Reichstag building, that seats the Germany’s lower house of parliament, the Bundestag, in Berlin, Germany, March 25, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Lisi Niesner
Germany will support a United Nations resolution for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict but does not believe the time has come to recognize a Palestinian state, a government spokesman told Reuters on Thursday.
“Germany will support such a resolution which simply describes the status quo in international law,” the spokesman said, adding that Berlin “has always advocated a two-state solution and is asking for that all the time.”
“The chancellor just mentioned two days ago again that Germany does not see that the time has come for the recognition of the Palestinian state,” the spokesman added.
Britain, France, Canada, Australia, and Belgium have all said they will recognize a Palestinian state at the United Nations General Assembly later this month, although London said it could hold back if Israel were to take steps to ease the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and commit to a long-term peace process.
The United States strongly opposes any move by its European allies to recognize Palestinian independence.
Last week, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that the US has told other countries that recognition of a Palestinian state will cause more problems.
Those who see recognition as a largely symbolic gesture point to the negligible presence on the ground and limited influence in the conflict of countries such as China, India, Russia, and many Arab states that have recognized Palestinian independence for decades.
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UN Security Council, With US Support, Condemns Strikes on Qatar
Qatar’s Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al-Thani attends an emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council, following an Israeli attack on Hamas leaders in Doha, Qatar, at UN headquarters in New York City, US, Sept. 11, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz
The United Nations Security Council on Thursday condemned recent strikes on Qatar’s capital Doha, but did not mention Israel in the statement agreed to by all 15 members, including Israel‘s ally the United States.
Israel attempted to kill the political leaders of Hamas with the attack on Tuesday, escalating its military action in what the United States described as a unilateral attack that does not advance US and Israeli interests.
The United States traditionally shields its ally Israel at the United Nations. US backing for the Security Council statement, which could only be approved by consensus, reflects President Donald Trump’s unhappiness with the attack ordered by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
“Council members underscored the importance of de-escalation and expressed their solidarity with Qatar. They underlined their support for the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Qatar,” read the statement, drafted by Britain and France.
The Doha operation was especially sensitive because Qatar has been hosting and mediating negotiations aimed at securing a ceasefire in the Gaza war.
“Council members underscored that releasing the hostages, including those killed by Hamas, and ending the war and suffering in Gaza must remain our top priority,” the Security Council statement read.
The Security Council will meet later on Thursday to discuss the Israeli attack at a meeting due to be attended by Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani.