Today, I stood outside the New York Times building on 41st Street and asked them to cover it RSS Chief Mohan Bhagwat’s upcoming New York City appearance.
In February 1939, twenty-two thousand people filled Madison Square Garden for a Nazi rally — swastikas on the stage, a thirty-foot portrait of George Washington hanging between them, uniformed men working the aisles. The organizers called it a Pro-American Rally. The Times put it on the front page the next morning: “22,000 Nazis Hold Rally in Garden.”
That same year, in India, the man the RSS still calls its guru published his manifesto, praising the Nazis for purging Germany of Jews and calling it a model to follow.
On August 29, the chief of the RSS takes the stage at Madison Square Garden. They’re calling it the “Universal Oneness Celebration.” Five thousand people are expected.
In March, the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom recommended sanctioning the RSS and barring its people from entering this country. On August 19, the commission’s chairman raised the alarm about Bhagwat’s scheduled visit.
No American newspaper has covered it.
The video lays out the record — the RSS founder who met Mussolini in 1931, the British intelligence warning, what Gandhi said about them, what Nehru wrote seven weeks before he was shot, and what India’s first Home Minister put in the order that outlawed them.
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