Second latvian language newspaper is analysing jew

The second largest latvian language newspaper is the influential "Neatkarīgā Rīta Avīze". Not a far-right this conservative newspaper features far-right journalist and neo-nazi simphatiser Elita Veidemane frequently touching nationalistic subjects. Quite an often she interwievs well known latvian antisemite Andris Grūtups.
 

Opening the newspaper I found a totaly distastefull article, where the two are analysing jews, jewish influence, negative consecuences of smart but wrong jewish politicians and jews spreading ethnic hate. Reading the article creates a feeling, that a jewish people are driving force behind all the revolutions and politycal cataclysms. This is not the first their printed racist discussion about the "jew".

Here is online translation of the article: Grūtups: Jew Linderman trying to antagonize the Russians and Latvians

The same newspaper guys are spreading another conspiracy theory that George Soros owns a personal conspiracy network of devilish sorosites (alsou sorozīdi, sorožīdi aka soros's jews) infiltrating the politics and media. Gerorge Soros is controversial, anti-conservative and influential, but this sounds more like a modernised version "Protocols of Elders of Zion".


They do have some pro jewish articles like one appreciating art of Mark Chagal, and his paintings of goats and jews. Alsou mildly antisemitic are the largest newspaper "Diena" and its offspring "Ir", sometimes having sophisticated anti jewish remarks. Say in article about Hollywood movie there are statement that this is good choice after been tyred by all these geek jew actors.

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Latvian Borat Andris Grutups had found his 20 minuts od fame when USA state department had included in human righ report.

In January Jewish community objected to showing of a play written by prominent lawyer Andris Grutups, which involved a "blood libel". Grutups also published a book in September called Scaffold that drew criticism from Latvian academics and the Jewish community as anti-Semitic.
On May 28, a Riga court found the publisher of an anti‑Semitic and anti‑Russian newspaper not guilty of interethnic incitement. The paper had published articles referring to Jews as "kikes" and containing numerous derogatory statements about Russians living in Latvia.

However he is much well famous among jewish organisations.

Latvia's best-selling book of Christmas 2007 was an antisemitic diatribe by Andris Grutups, the co-founder of, and lawyer for, the ruling party of Latvia. His book could be summarised as "the Jews had it coming because they were all Communists".

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Interesting enought, if you switch in antisemitic texts word "jew" with "us", it sounds much more truth like. They claim that jews are spreading ethnic hate, but in reality these guys themselves are spreading ethnic hate.

Non-citizenship of Latvia

Latvia's far-right political landscape is kept solid by quite an exotic for an europeans system of non-citizenship of Latvia.

15% of nation a non-citizens are not a stateless persons or citizens of other country, still all Latvian born children of non-citizens still are non-citizens. Unlike stateless persons, non-citizens fully belongs to state, bur are deprived of voting rights and can not apply to certain state based jobs. Alsou non-citizens have Latvian passports of different colour with word 'alien' in it, so have problems going throught passport controls abroad.



To understand it, look at neigbouring regions. Similar laws exist in middle eastern tyranies. In Asad regime certain syrian ethno-religious groups are deprived of citizen rights, and in some region countries settled arabs have passports and full citizenship but bedaui don't. So Asad had declared, if 2nd/3rd generation kurdish refuges will support him, he will grant them passports and citizenship.

Like in middle east non-citizenship of Latvia is ethnic, non-citizens form lowest class of russians, ukrainians, belorussians, poles. Mostly old, poor, uneployed or uneducated. But there there are senior russian pro-democraty antiUSSR activist, whom by the Latvian laws in her old age was granted non-citizenship.

Pretty stunning curiosity is that non-citizens of Latvia call themselves a negroes, (in russian negr), however it's not so suprising understanding social status of non-citizens and russian history lacking race based slavery. Russian word for a "non-citizen" "негражданин" (negrazhdanin) sounds pretty similar to "негр" (negr) a literar russian transliteration of "negroe".

This "non-citizenship" is fractally wrong, it is wrong in all the perspectives and scales. It is undemocratic, unethical, antihuman, ethnic tension spreading, racist, human degradating, uneuropean, fascist and creating negative attitudes towards European Union amongst the russians.


Political system of non-citizenship allows neo-nazis to enter Latvian parlament coalition cause if non-citizens (15% of Latvia's residents) would have a chance to vote, they wouldn't had voted for nazis and xenophobes, thus creating balanced parlament not putting radical nationalism as main political interest.

Neo-Nazi in Latvian parlament

During his youth, Raivis Dzintars were notable far-right radical. Here he meets russian radicals of the same ideology.


He still is far-right radical, jet he has changed his company. Now he sits in much more respectable chair of Latvian parlamentary coalition.