by Matthew Friedman | Nov 8, 2019 | Nonfiction, Short Story
An icy January rain fell like bullets outside Victoria Hall in Westmount. Inside, most of the Johnny Holmes Orchestra was taking a break as Lorraine MacAllister sang a smokey cover of “Be Careful It’s My Heart” to Oscar Peterson’s spare piano accompaniment. A pair of...
by Matthew Friedman | Nov 2, 2019 | Features
Milton Kleim surprised me. I had been writing about online neo-Nazis, antisemites, and Holocaust deniers for the Montreal Gazette for quite a while when I met him, and I had thought I had it all figured out. They were skinhead louts like Jason Smith, sleazy...
by Matthew Friedman | Oct 31, 2019 | Essays
The honor guard marched onto the field as patriotic music blared from the minor-league ballpark’s PA system. A contingent of US Marines wheeled smartly and marched to the infield under the billowing Stars and Stripes in their pressed dress blues, with their white caps...
by Matthew Friedman | Oct 27, 2019 | Features
“I don’t talk to Jew journalists,” Ernst Zundel shouted into the phone before slamming the receiver down on its cradle. Mere text does little to capture the moment. You have to imagine the rage in the voice of Canada’s most notorious Holocaust denier, spoken in...
by Matthew Friedman | Oct 19, 2019 | Features
The first hint was a swastika and an SS symbol hastily spray-painted on a plywood barrier outside a building site on Newark Avenue in Jersey City. It was November 12 2016, the weekend after Donald Trump was elected president of the United States. Something was...
