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Rise in white nationalism prompts panel discussion at CSUSB
Santa Monica Daily Press
Nov. 2,2019
Just days after the one-year anniversary of the Tree of Life synagogue attack, the Assembly Select Committee on the State of Hate hosted a discussion that sought to examine the current state of white nationalism.
Assemblyman Richard Bloom, D-Santa Monica, chaired the discussion that occurred on the campus of CSU San Bernardino and featured a panel discussion comprised of representatives from the school’s Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism, as well as the Simon Wiesenthal Center, San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Dept. and a former leader of a white nationalist group.
The four panelists — Brian Levin from the CSUSB Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism, Rick Eaton of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, Deputy Sheriff Greg Jones and Jeff Schoop, “who led the largest neo-nazi organization in the United States up until eight months ago” — agreed with Bloom’s sentiments when they were given an opportunity to speak about their different experiences.
“White supremacists (and) far-right-motivated homicides have killed at least 26 people so far this year,” Levin said, “so more people were killed in the United States this year to date by a handful of white supremacists than the sum of all extremists killings in (2018).”
Read the complete article at “Rise in white nationalism prompts panel discussion.” The initial post of the article had a typo for the year in quote by Brian Levin.
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