31 Oct 2018

Mediawatch Midweek 31 October 2018

From Mediawatch, 10:00 pm on 31 October 2018

Mediawatch Midweek is our weekly catch-up with Lately. This week Jeremy chats to Karyn about his attempts to come to grips with the terrorist attack on the Synagogue in Pittsburgh that killed 11 people.

Links to items mentioned by Jeremy in tonight's broadcast:

What history teaches us about surges in anti-Semitism and anti-immigrant sentiment

Chaplin:  Premature anti-Fascist

Angry, White and American

I learned German with white supremacist Richard Spencer

Deconstructed: Is Trump Inciting Far Right Terror in the United States

Donald Trump borrows from the old tricks of fascism

The Intercept: Lessons for western democracies from the victory of Bolsonaro

Why I went to neo-Nazi website to help me process the Pittsburgh massacre

Reading Anne Frank in South Africa: Apartheid's Jewish Lesson for Trump's America

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Trapped whale shark inspires fear, then love in Tokelau