Deborah E. Lipstadt, Dorot Professor of Modern Jewish History and Holocaust Studies and Associated Faculty in the History Department, co-authored an op-ed on CNN.com titled “Three years later, Charlottesville’s legacy of neo-Nazi hate still festers.” Lipstadt wrote the article with Roberta Kaplan, lead attorney for the plaintiffs in a lawsuit against 24 Neo-Nazis and white supremacists alleged to have organized the racial and religious violence in Charlottesville in 2017. Read an excerpt from the article below along with the full piece here.

“Sadly, it is now clear that the violence and hatred evident at Charlottesville was not a passing moment or a onetime event. Its ideology has served as the inspiration for many others. The alleged killers at the Tree of Life synagogue (Pittsburgh), Chabad Center (San Diego), Walmart (El Paso), Halle synagogue (Halle, Germany) and Al Noor mosque and Linwood Islamic Centre (Christchurch, New Zealand), all had connections to and echoed the slogans and worldview so proudly proclaimed by the groups and individuals who came to Charlottesville.”