White supremacists made calls last week urging their online supporters to harass Jewish people in Whitefish, Montana. The anti-Semitic attacks come after Sherry Spencer, mother of prominent white nationalist and alt-right leader Richard Spencer, claimed the reaction to her son’s views hurt her real estate business in the town. Her statements have since fueled the online vitriol of trolls, who’ve labeled Jewish people there with the Star of David and even directed harassment at a child.

Neo-Nazi website The Daily Stormer made perhaps the most brazen call for anti-Semitic harassment last Friday, falsely claiming that Jewish organizations in Montana were attempting to extort the Spencer family. “All of these Jew organizations engage in this…

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