Jewish People Cry After Their Attempt To Force Woman To Sell Her Property Results In A Widespread Campaign Against Their Actions

A white supremacist website has endangered people’s lives by posting contact details and photos of Jewish residents in a small Montana town – where the mother of white supremacist Richard Spencer lives – and has urged readers to “take action”.

The Daily Stormer, a website that describes Jews as a “people without shame”, cites a Daily Mail article which alleges that Sherry Spencer was considering selling her business in Whitefish, as she claimed she was suffering backlash against her son’s views. Richard Spencer is a member of white supremacist think tank the National Policy Institute, which coined the term alt-right.

The attacks focus on a group called Love Lives Here,

which Ms Spencer accused of damaging her family.

The peace organisation, which is “committed to co-creating a caring, open, accepting and diverse community, free from discrimination and dedicated to equal treatment”, denied any wrongdoing.

The fascist website has posted photos, phone numbers, addresses and social media channels of members of Love Lives Here. It also posted a picture of a child and pasted yellow stars on each photo. Jewish people in Nazi Germany were forced to wear a similar yellow star on their clothing. The article told readers to “hit them up”.

 “Are y’all ready for an old fashioned Troll Storm?” the Daily Stormer article by Andrew Anglin read.

“This is very important,” it added. “Calling these people up and/or sending them a quick message is very easy. It is very important that we make them feel the kind of pressure they are making us feel.

“There hasn’t been a more important campaign than this.”

The FBI could not be immediately contacted for comment by The Independent.

A local rabbi contacted by The Independent said by email that “out of concern for the safety of the people being attacked in Whitefish” they did not want to provide further comment.

The “campaign”, which urges readers to tell male members to put their wives “on a leash”, has been supported by former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke. Both Spencer and Duke supported Donald Trump for president.

Love Lives Here Chairman Will Randall told the Missoulian that the discrimination has been “gut-wrenching”.

“These are some of the best people around, and to see them attacked because they’re Jewish or have a Jewish-sounding name is disgusting,” he said.

BACKGROUND OF THE ACTIONS OF LOVE LIVES HERE GROUP

Richard Spencer was raised in Texas, but has been spending time in Whitefish for years with his family.  His mother, Sherry Spencer, still lives in a beautiful home at Whitefish Mountain Resort.  She also runs a business downtown, but perhaps not for long.

It’s a new building in Whitefish’s downtown historic district.  First owned by Richard Spencer, and now owned by his mother, Sherry.  There are vacation rentals on the top floor, businesses lease at street-level.

But Sherry says her son’s political views – – and his detractors – – are forcing her to sell the property.  In an email to us, Sherry says, “As painful as this is, I am exploring a potential sale of the building.”

One of those detractors is Tanya Gersh,

a prominent member of the community, who told me in an email: “She (Sherry) is profiting off of the people of the local community, all the while having facilitated Richard’s work spreading hate by letting him live and use her home address for his organization.”

She goes on to say, “We are stunned by the actions of Love Lives Here, an organization claiming to advocate tolerance and equal treatment of all citizens, yet coursing financial harm to many innocent parties.”

Ina Albert, Love Lives Here co-founder, says, “I don’t know what she’s talking about.  We don’t cause financial harm to anybody.”

Human rights group Love Lives Here has been vocally opposed to Richard Spencer’s views, but its co-founder says she has no problem with Richard spending time, or his mother doing business in Whitefish.

“I don’t know what he does when he comes here,” says Albert.  “But that is not our problem with Richard Spencer.  It is the national policy institute and what that stands for and our town being smeared by his philosophy.”

Tanya says she does have a problem with it, though.  She says, Sherry “Could address this by selling the building, making a donation to human rights efforts, and making a statement in opposition to white supremacist ideas spread by Richard.”

One thing on which both Tanya and Sherry agree: The tenants at 22 Lupfer are stuck in the middle.  The owner of Whitefish Aesthetics tells me her association with the building is destroying her business and she’s moving out if Sherry doesn’t sell it.

It’s also been a source of contention in Whitefish.  A letter to the editor of the Daily Interlake: “The mob rule reaction to Richard Spencer’s mere existence in Whitefish reminds me of the old Frankenstein movies where the townspeople gathered with pitchforks and torches.”

And: “This ‘group’ which is supposed to love all, only loves those who agree with them.”