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Leonard Zeskind

is founder of IREHR. For almost four decades, he has been a leading authority on white nationalist political and social movements. He is the author of Blood and Politics: The History of White Nationalism from the Margins to the Mainstream, published by Farrar Straus & Giroux in May 2009. [more..]

Charlottesville 11, Loyal White Knights KKK 0 – Next Battle in August AppFeatured
July 11, 2017

Charlottesville 11, Loyal White Knights KKK 0 – Next Battle in August

On Saturday, July 8, 50 members of the North Carolina-based Loyal White Knights KKK rallied in Charlottesville, Virginia, ostensibly in support of a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee.  The Klan was met by multiple opposition events, including an NAACP forum and a rally by 1,000 counter-protestors who drowned…
Searchlight magazine’s Gerry Gable turns 80. Happy Birthday Fight the Right
January 27, 2017

Searchlight magazine’s Gerry Gable turns 80. Happy Birthday

The Institute for Research and Education on Human Rights (IREHR), and anti-fascist comrades across the United States join in congratulating Searchlight magazine’s leading figure Gerry Gable on the occasion of his 80th birthday. Gable has been a beacon across the Atlantic Ocean, an uncompromising pillar of virtue, and a model…
Tea Party Loses a Big One Featured
August 9, 2016

Tea Party Loses a Big One

The Kansas First Congressional District stretches from the Oklahoma border to Nebraska, from the Colorado state line to Topeka.  Its land mass is slightly bigger than the entire state of Illinois landmass: 57,373 square miles for the First; 55,584 for Illinois.  The meatpacking industry in Garden City and Dodge City…
Scalia’s Death: The Tea Parties Supposed Constitutionalism Takes another Hike Featured
February 18, 2016

Scalia’s Death: The Tea Parties Supposed Constitutionalism Takes another Hike

Almost immediately they issued their statements.  Tea Party Patriots boss Jenny Beth Martin “It is critical that the next Supreme Court Justice has the same judicial philosophy and dedication to the Constitution as Justice Scalia. The Senate must block any nomination from President Obama…” And, since she was writing from…