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Hatewatch Headlines 6/12/2017

Experts examine the new white supremacy; Anglin hires top 1st Amendment attorney; Georgia candidate poses with militiamen; and more.

Salon: Understanding contemporary white supremacy: Is the alt-right really something new?

Huffington Post: Five things the media get wrong about white-supremacist hate and its spread.

Mic: ACT for America’s anti-Sharia rallies reveal the underlying hypocrisy of their agenda.

KUAF-FM (Fayetteville, AR): White nationalists rally in Batesville, with a full complement of police, counterprotesters.

New York Times: First Amendment attorney will be handling defense of neo-Nazi website publisher.

Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Georgia GOP candidate poses with controversial militia at anti-Sharia rally.

Houston Press (TX): Houston Chronicle, KPRC duped by alt-right trolls over Sam Houston protest.

Washington Post: A neo-Nazi with explosives and a framed photo of Timothy McVeigh is not a threat, judge rules.

Bustle: People are trolling Roy Moore for his anti-LGBT bigotry with Facebook’s Pride button.

Associated Press: Kansas man charged with hate crime in murder Indian tech worker at restaurant.

Oregonian: Jeremy Christian’s path from a troubled youth to the Portland TriMet stabbing suspect.

Raw Story: Arkansas lawmaker says reporter is as dangerous as a ‘terrorist’ for exposing his anti-Muslim Facebook posts.

The Forward: Why ‘proud self-hating Jew’ Gilad Atzmon asked me tout his book.

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