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El Daily Stormer: Neo-Nazi Website is Now in Spanish, Too
Writer for the English-language site says forums already had participants in Spanish-speaking countries
By Michael Kunzelman
Associated Press
H
ow does a leading
neo-Nazi website
that has railed
against Hispanic
immigrants expand its
audience beyond a loyal
base of U.S. White su-
premacists? By publish-
ing a Spanish-language
edition, of course.
The Daily Stormer —
infamous for orchestrat-
ing internet harassment
campaigns by its “Troll
Army” of readers — re-
cently launched El Daily
Stormer as a “news por-
tal” tailoring its racist,
anti-Semitic content for
readers in Spain and Lat-
in America.
Andrew Auernheimer,
a notorious computer
hacker and internet troll
who writes for the En-
glish-language site, says
the Spanish edition fits
their mission to spread
Hitlerism across the
world.
“We want our message
to reach millions more
people,” he said in a tele-
phone interview.
Hate sites have realized
that the U.S. has no mo-
nopoly on white nation-
alists and other far-right
extremists, says Heidi
Beirich, director of the
Southern Poverty Law
Center’s
Intelligence
“
Gersh and other Jewish
residents of Whitefish,
Montana, of engaging
in an “extortion racket”
against the mother of
white nationalist Rich-
The White supremacist
movement has really viewed
itself as past borders
Project. Others, such
as Stormfront, already
created multilingual fo-
rums.
“The White suprema-
cist movement has real-
ly viewed itself as past
borders, reaching out to
White people in other
countries,” Beirich said.
The law center rep-
resents a Montana real
estate agent who sued
The Daily Stormer’s
founder, Andrew An-
glin, last month for un-
leashing an anti-Semitic
“campaign of terror”
against her family.
Anonymous trolls bom-
barded Tanya Gersh’s
family with hateful and
threatening
messages
after Anglin published
the family’s personal
information in a Decem-
ber post that accused
ard Spencer.
Anglin’s site takes its
name from Der Stürmer,
a newspaper that pub-
lished Nazi propagan-
da. It includes sections
called “Jewish Problem”
and “Race War.”
El Daily Stormer titles
its anti-Semitic section
“Judiadas,” an offensive
term with roots in medi-
eval Spain, where it was
invoked to justify geno-
cidal attacks on Jews.
The Spanish site also
includes appeals for do-
nations and unpaid arti-
cles, and a forum where
people complain about
Chile and Argentina fill-
ing up with “negros,” re-
ferring to people from
Peru, Bolivia, Paraguay.
Auernheimer, known
online as “weev,” said
a team of volunteers is
writing original content
for the Spanish-language
site. The site’s appeal for
unpaid
collaborators
says being a dissident
“has never been a lucra-
tive activity,” and that
it is looking for writers
“willing to risk every-
thing for the survival of
our race.”
“We have a big Span-
ish-speaking
popula-
tion on our forums, so it
was an easy direction to
branch out into,” he said.
About 40 percent of
The Daily Stormer’s 3.2
million unique monthly
visitors are in the U.S.;
the Spanish edition has
added fewer than 10,000
since its recent launch,
Auernheimer said.
Surpassing
Storm-
front as the top U.S. hate
site hasn’t been a finan-
cial boon for The Daily
Stormer, which calls
itself “100 percent read-
er-supported.”
Anglin
complained in January
that a Ukrainian ad-
vertising company had
banned them, leaving an
Australian electrician as
the site’s only advertiser.