Mayor of Virginia city targeted by anti-Semitic tweets after criticizing marchers
Source: reuters
14 May 2017 at 19:11 ET
The mayor of the Virginia college town of Charlottesville was the target of anti-Semitic tweets on Sunday after speaking out against white nationalists who converged on a local park carrying blazing torches the night before.
Mayor Mike Signer said two protests led on Saturday by Richard Spencer, a leader of the alt-right movement, came on the same day the city held its annual Festival of Cultures event, which celebrates diversity in the home of the University of Virginia.
Youre seeing anti-Semitism in these crazy tweets Im getting and youre seeing a display of torches at night, which is reminiscent of the KKK, Signer, who is Jewish, said in a phone interview. Theyre sort of a last gasp of the bigotry that this country has systematically overcome.
Signer issued a statement on Saturday criticizing the torch-carrying marchers as either profoundly ignorant or aiming to instill fear.............................
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