Washington – A leading white supremacist who toured the White House grounds was part of a garden tour that is open to the public, the White House said.
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Patrick Casey, who leads Identity Evropa, posted photos Wednesday on Twitter of him posing on the White House grounds.
“Evropa has landed at the White House!” he said.
Sarah Sanders, the White House spokeswoman, told JTA in an email: “He was one of more than twenty-five thousand people who came to the White House Fall Garden Tour, which is open to the public. Free tickets are made available to anyone who wants to attend.”
Identity Evropa coined the phrase “You will not replace us,” which refers to a conspiracy theory that Jews are masterminding a plan to replace whites with non-whites.
Identity Evropa participated in the neo-Nazi march in Charlottesville, Virginia, in August 2017 that ended with violence and a deadly attack on counterprotesters allegedly carried out by a white supremacist. During that march, the Identity Evropa slogan was echoed in the phrase “Jews will not replace us.”
President Donald Trump equivocated on condemning the march, blaming both sides for the violence and saying that both the marchers and the counterprotesters included “fine people.” White supremacists and neo-Nazis praised Trump for his reaction. An array of Jewish groups and lawmakers from both parties criticized him.
Jonathan Greenblatt, the national director of the Anti-Defamation League, demanded that the White House explain Casey’s presence.
“The White House should be #NoPlaceForHate,” Greenblatt said on Twitter
Neo-Nazi in the WH. “Jews will not replace us” Hashem Yerachem. Now they are openly hang out in Trumps WH. They lost the election so they don’t need to hide this. A difficult to year is coming, hopefully less and they will Impeach him sooner or he will resign.
why should they visit. The president said that there good people on both sides those with ” swastika” and the normal people. Foolish Yidden admire the president.
Jonathan Greenblatt really gets on my nerves. The White House cannot restrict visitors, no matter what their personal beliefs are, from visiting the White House; as long as they have been searched by by the Secret Service for weapons, and as long as they behave peacefully, they must be allowed entry. Even registered sex offenders, or ex-cons who are not currently wanted by law enforcement are free to visit the White House. To this date, Greenblatt has never apologized to Trump for accusing him of being the cause of the hundreds of threats to JCC’s and other Jewish institutions in 2017, when those threats were made by an American-Israeli.
How is this an issue. He was a tourist, not an invitee.
Nazi in the WH garden? Maybe in Berchtesgarten w Herr Trumpf. Not a big gadilla to alt-yidden kapos who thought kristallnacht was a fun time. RESIST THE RASHA!
Farrakhan & Sharpton made 100s of visits to the Obama White House