Press Play with Madeleine Brand
Parallels between the white nationalist movement and ISIS
Last month’s shooting at the Gilroy Garlic Festival is now being investigated as a domestic terrorism incident.
By Barbara Bogaev • • 1 min readLast month’s shooting at the Gilroy Garlic Festival is now being investigated as a domestic terrorism incident. The FBI said today that the Gilroy shooter allegedly had a “target list” that included religious groups, federal government buildings, and political institutions on both sides of the aisle.
Saturday’s shooting in El Paso, Texas, is also the latest example of a growing trend: home-grown white nationalist terrorism. The gunman allegedly targeted Hispanics, and left behind a racist and violent manifesto longing for a return to a majority-white society.
The details of this case and other attacks by white nationalists have direct parallels to ISIS in the Middle East. Looking at white nationalist terrorism through the lens of jihadism may help people understand why these attacks are so frequent and deadly.
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Barbara Bogaev
radio journalist
Sarah Sweeney
Vice President of Talk Programming, KCRW
Michell Eloy
Former Producer/Line Editor, Press Play
Amy Ta
Digital News & Culture Editor
Jessica Stern
professor at the Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, who studies terrorist groups across religions and ideologies
The full episode
2 of 5Young gay editor brings Playboy into a new era- 0:00California gun laws: What works in reducing mass shootings?
- 9:09Parallels between the white nationalist movement and ISISYou’re reading this
- 19:12Drama in Writers Guild and SAG-AFTRA elections
- 28:43Playboy Magazine's transformation in the age of #MeToo
- 41:15Remembering Nobel laureate Toni Morrison