Nazis March in Skokie ……. Again But This Time Jews Beaten, Nazis Cheered

Skokie. A Jewish neighborhood. I remember when I was young, there was a national news story that enraged the country, Nazis marching in Skokie. It set the nation on edge, so repelled was the then moral, decent nation. 45 years later, the left elites are cheering the Nazis.

In 1977, Skokie, Illinois was home to around 40,500 Jews, thousands of whom were Holocaust survivors. Then, the National Socialist Party of America, a group of self-styled Nazis planned a march. In March of that year, the group requested a permit to march through the village, and were sued by Skokie to prevent it.

Back then, the national consensus was the Nazis should not be able to march and the issue being debated was free speech.

In regard to the lawsuit to prevent a Nazi group from marching in Skokie, Illinois:

What I challenge (and not only because of that particular case) is the interpretation of demonstrations and of other actions as so-called “symbolic speech.” When you lose the distinction between action and speech, you lose, eventually, the freedom of both. The Skokie case is a good illustration of that principle. There is no such thing as “symbolic speech.” You do not have the right to parade through the public streets or to obstruct public thoroughfares. You have the right of assembly, yes, on your own property, and on the property of your adherents or your friends. But nobody has the “right” to clog the streets. The streets are only for passage. The hippies, in the 60s, should have been forbidden to lie down on city pavements. (They used to lie down across a street and cause dreadful traffic snarls, in order to display their views, to attract attention, to register a protest.) If they were permitted to do it, the Nazis should be permitted as well. Properly, both should have been forbidden. They may speak, yes. They may not take action at whim on public property.

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Yesterday in Skokie, myself & @TPUSA coworker were violently attacked by Pro-Hamas protestors while trying to escort a lost, elderly Jewish couple to the Pro-Israel event.

I was punched repeatedly, kicked in the head, and hit with a flagpole.

This is being Pro-Israel in 2023. pic.twitter.com/IYRePuiPxX

— Peter Christos (@peterchristos) October 23, 2023

Video from #Skokie clearly shows the Jewish man was set upon by a crowd after attempting to stop a woman from attacking his car with a sign. He fired to get the pile off of him & no one was injured. Stop believing the lies that a Jew randomly shot into a crowd of Palestinians. pic.twitter.com/5SeL0PUyok

— Natasha Devine (@_NatashaDevine_) October 23, 2023

America 2023.