Baby We Were Born To Run: New Jersey tells David Irving he is NOT WELCOME

“To David Irving and all aspiring white-power, anti-immigrant, queer-bashing, racist pigs - give it up! We will fight you on the streets and on the internet until you are swept into the dustbin of history.”


“To David Irving and all aspiring white-power, anti-immigrant, queer-bashing, racist pigs - give it up! We will fight you on the streets and on the internet until you are swept into the dustbin of history.”

Mere hours after those words first appeared on Holocaust denier and fascist “historian” David Irving’s hacked website, New Jersey and New York Antifascists made good on the former half of that promise by confronting David Irving at his backup speaking location in Pompton Plains, NJ.

Members of Hub City ARA, Trenton ARA, New York City ARA, and One People’s Project were made aware of Irving’s new location at a Best Western hotel located on Route 23 near Wayne, NJ. We also found out that he was staying in said hotel. Unfortunately, his speaking engagement had already begun in one of the meeting rooms. One member of ARA went inside the hotel to confirm the location, which sure enough became confirmed when they were leaving the bathroom and bumped into 3 of the attendees, including Alex Carmichael, head of the pathetic splinter group “League Of American Patriots” (as in do us all a favor and LEAP off a tall building) and self described “next Hitler.” Carmichael recognized the Antifa from ARA’s successful disruption of LEAP’s first meeting in Clifton, NJ months ago.

Now if you’re to believe their tough talk, 3 on 1 in a secluded hotel bathroom seems like a dream situation for these fascists. Instead they hid their faces and moments later we were greeted by the familiar site of arriving police protection for the Nazis.

Once the jig was up we entered into the hotel with chants of “This is OUR community! Fascists out! Fascists out,” before being forced out into the parking lot by police. Once outside we congregated by the windows of the meeting room, chanting and heckling, to remind all the attendees that they were not welcome in New Jersey, the East Coast, or anywhere else! Our chants and yelling made for quite the disruption as Irving nervously shifted in his seat and stared towards the windows. We also had lots of fun calling out attendees by name and reminding them that the hacking of Irving’s website had made all their information public and even if they had police protection tonight, they no longer had the safety of anonymity that Nazis rely on so heavily.

Eventually we proved too much and Irving called it quits. The police escorted each of the quaking attendees out of the hotel, forcing us back away from their cars, and we learned that David Irving had checked out, so we called it a night. But the message of the day was made clear to all Nazis, bigots, fascists, and scumbags:

WE ARE ANTIFA
WE KNOW WHO YOU ARE
WE ARE COMING FOR YOU

Signed affectionately,

Hub City Anti-Racist Action
Trenton Anti-Racist Action
NYC Anti-Racist Action