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Hatewatch Headlines 7/6/2017

University of Virginia president urges students to avoid KKK rally; Connecticut man vandalizes elementary school to frame liberals; Louisiana Republican films insensitive video in Nazi gas chamber; and more.

Huffington Post: Louisiana Republican congressman under fire for recording insensitive political video inside Nazi gas chambers at Auschwitz.

Raw Story: Journalist who exposed the racist troll behind the Trump vs. CNN GIF deluged with death threats.

Associated Press: U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum exceeds i$250,000 goal to digitize more than 200 diaries from Holocaust victims and survivors.

Inside Higher Ed: University of Virginia president urges students to “avoid” a KKK rally planned Saturday to oppose removal of a statute of Robert E. Lee.

Daily News: Connecticut man vandalizes elementary school to frame liberals. 

Daily Beast: Go Daddy defends providing services to neo-Nazi and white nationalist sites based on freedom of speech.

Forward: Rapper Kodak Black shows up at black supremacy church in Florida.

Washington Post: A look at one of Donald Trump's favorite news networks, and it ain't Fox.

KMGH-Denver Channel: A sketch of Adolf Hitler surrounded by swastikas taped to a drive-up window at a Taco Bell in Parker, Colorado.

Hudson Valley Post: New York State Police arrest an 18-year-old man on hate crime and burglary charges related to anti-Semitic graffiti and damage at a Jewish youth camp.

Atlantic: What happens when there’s an attempt to compress hatred into a joke?

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