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David Duke - Recent activity

In 2004 David Duke published his latest controversial book: Jewish Supremacism: My Awakening on the Jewish Question. While the book's title leads one to believe it is a continuation of his first autobiographical work, the book instead purports to be a collection of historical documents that detail religious beliefs of alleged "Jewish supremacism" since antiquity. The book is dedicated to Israel Shahak, a controversial writer, who was an ardent critic of what he saw as supremacist religious teachings in modern Jewish culture. Duke denies the book is motivated by anti-Semitism.

On May 29, 2004, David Duke brought together in New Orleans leaders of the European Nationalist movement to sign an agreement that would "mainstream our cause". The New Orleans Protocol signatories pledged to avoid violence and internecine attacks. It was immediately signed by eight racialist far right figures of varying extremity, most representing organizations, including the notorious National Alliance, and Stormfront. Duke signed on behalf of his new organization, European-American Unity and Rights Organization (EURO) (previously called N.O.F.E.A.R., the National Organization for European-American Rights, until a legal challenge by Nofear caused him to change it).

In 2005, Duke teamed up with Don Black of Stormfront and delivers a one-hour webcast six days a week. Listeners of his show can ask their questions by either logging on to Stormfront's forums or sending Duke an e-mail. In addition, he tours Europe and the Middle East, promoting his book and rallying support and funding for EURO. On March 19, 2005, for example, his audience at Pedro Varela's Spanish nationalist bookshop in Barcelona was disrupted by an estimated fifty protestors. On June 3, 2005, Duke co-chaired a conference "Zionism As the Biggest Threat to Modern Civilization" in Ukraine, sponsored by the Interregional Academy of Personnel Management (MAUP), reportedly the largest non-state university in Ukraine. The conference was attended by several notable Ukrainian public figures and politicians, and writer Israel Shamir (accused of anti-Semitism by critics).[3]

In September 2005 Duke received a full Ph.D. in History from MAUP, after reportedly completing all requirements and defending a doctoral thesis "Zionism as a Form of Ethnic Supremacism" [4]. This was the Ukrainian private university from which Duke had previously received a honorary doctorate. MAUP is accused of promoting anti-Semitism by Jewish community leaders and the ADL, because of the activity of its publishing house and associations with controversial figures [5]. MAUP is generally described as a major and influential Ukrainian institution, even by its opponents.

On November 24, 2005, Duke visited Syria, addressing a rally, which was broadcast on Syrian television [6] (video), where he referred to Israel as a war-mongering country, and said that "Washington, New York and London and many other capitals of the world" are "occupied by the Zionists." Syrian parliament member Muhammad Habash replied that Duke’s visit gave Syrians a "new and very positive view of the average American." [7]

David Duke also runs a daily Live Web Radio Broadcast which can be found on his home website (www.Davidduke.com).

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