Charlottesville Was Only a Preview

We have never had the national reckoning that we need over the events of August 2017.

December 23, 2021

December 23, 2021

James Loeffler is a Senior Fellow at the Kogod Research Center of the Shalom Hartman Institute of North America and the Felix Posen Professor of Modern Jewish History at Johns Hopkins University, where he directs the Leonard and Helen R. Stulman Program in Jewish Studies. His current research explores free speech and antisemitism in American law, Jewish global thought, and the past and future of international law. His most recent book, Exceptional Hatred: Antisemitism and

Antisemitism, Politics, Racism

“The roar was the first thing to reach Natalie Romero. “I just heard loudness, like thunder, as if the earth was growling,” the University of Virginia student later testified. Hundreds of white supremacists were marching toward her, their low dog barks alternating with rhythmic war chants: “Jews will not replace us.” “Blood and soil.” “White lives matter.” As she clutched a homemade protest banner, huddling with a small group of students around the base of a Thomas Jefferson statue, Romero feared for her life. A lit torch landed at her feet. A burst of mace hit her. “I felt like a mouse, trapped,” she said. “I felt like I’m about to be burned at the stake.”

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