Jewish woman in Montana sues over 'troll storm' of neo-Nazi harassment

[G_j]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/apr/18/montana-jewish-woman-sues-troll-storm-neo-nazi-harassment


Tuesday 18 April 2017 13.27 EDT

A Jewish woman in Montana who was the target of weeks of harassment by neo-Nazi internet trolls is suing the instigator of the “troll storm”, asking for damages after receiving more than 700 threatening phone calls, voicemails, emails and other messages.

The attacks on Tanya Gersh and her family made international headlines after Andrew Anglin, who runs a neo-Nazi website, promised to stage an armed antisemitic march through the streets of Whitefish, a remote Montana town where Richard Spencer, America’s most prominent white nationalist, sometimes lives.

The threat of an armed march was just one part of the deluge of anonymous online and phone harassment for weeks this winter targeting Gersh, her husband and 12-year-old son, a local human rights group founded to oppose neo-Nazis, and a series of local businesses deemed sympathetic to Jewish residents.

The attacks followed Anglin’s claims that Gersh had tried to engage in an “extortion racket” against Spencer’s mother to punish her for her son’s political beliefs.

“I once answered the phone and all I heard were gunshots,” Gersh told reporters in a phone call on Tuesday morning, her voice trembling.


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[The Blue Flower]

1. Just received an update on this from the Southern Poverty Law Center

I'm happy they're taking this case and pursuing these slime heads. If you have a few dollars to donate somewhere, please send it to them. We need them more than ever.

[G_j]

2. Yes, they are crucial

https://donate.splcenter.org

[L. Coyote]

3. kick for visibility

[maxsolomon]

4. Whitefish: not actually that remote

it's in the "gateway to Glacier National Park". in fact, Kallispel/Columbia Falls/Whitefish is a fairly populated place for MT. 50, 70K?

this Neo Nazi shit has been going on far too long there. Time for the Feds to step in.