(JEWISH GROUP) Why neo-Nazis marched in Indianapolis this weekend, and almost every weekend in the US

Armed neo-Nazis, shouting “white power!” and carrying swastika flags, marched through downtown Indianapolis on Saturday. This follows similar incidents in Ohio in February and last October.

“Almost every single weekend, white supremacists are rallying in some neighborhood,” Oren Segal, vice president of the Anti-Defamation League’s Center on Extremism, said in a Nov. 2024 interview. The group’s data found 282 such events in 2023 and more than 750 since 2020.

The regularity with which they happen can both numb and instill fear in Jewish communities. Segal said they are not part of a rising trend of antisemitism in the wake of the Oct. 7 Hamas attack in Israel, but have been occurring since 2016, “around the time of the first Trump administration.”

Segal said these rallies are usually organized by small groups hoping to get attention online, where they can attract new recruits. Additionally, the marches are sometimes the result of a turf war, almost a “soap opera” between competing white supremacist groups.

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