For the second week in a row, neo-Nazis take to Nashville streets

Members of the neo-Nazi Goyim Defense League carrying Nazi flags and making Hitler salutes accosted tourists in downtown Nashville on Sunday. (Photo: John Partipilo) Photograph by John Partipilo/ Tennessee Lookout ©2024

For the second time in as many weeks, members of a neo-Nazi hate group massed in downtown Nashville, accosting passerby in Nashville’s tourist-heavy Lower Broadway entertainment district.

Members of the Goyim Defense League, some wearing masks and shirts that said “Pro-White,” carried flags emblazoned with swastikas and shouted anti-semitic epithets while attempting  to hand out flyers. Nashville police arrested one member following a fight outside the Johnny Cash Museum on 3rd Ave., S.

On Monday, group members were spotted on a Nashville interstate overpass, gesturing at motorists after dropping a banner over the side.

This follows a July 7 march through the same part of Nashville by Patriot Front, a white nationalist hate group that shares a theory of “white replacement” — that immigrants and people of color will outnumber white Americans — with the Goyim Defense League. It marked the second time in 2024 Patriot Front staged a Nashville event, the first in February.

Nashville Mayor Freddie O’Connell addressed Sunday’s march in a post on X: “Right now, though, as we see people putting effort into demonstrating hateful ideology publicly—including in Nashville—we should all work both to recognize the incredible power of the First Amendment while rejecting the most hateful and painful of its possibilities.”

A June report by the Southern Poverty Law Center found that white nationalist groups, emboldened by right-wing politics ahead of the presidential election, grew by 50% in 2023.

All photos are by John Partipilo for the Tennessee Lookout.

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Melissa Alveraz, 39, argues with members of the Goyim Defense league who yelled anti-semitic epithets at her on Nashville's Lower Broadway. (Photo: John Partipilo) Photograph by John Partipilo/ Tennessee Lookout ©2024

A member of the white nationalist hate group Goyim Defense League attempts to hand out flyers in downtown Nashville on Sunday, July 14. (Photo: John Partipilo)

A member of the Goyim Defense League yells at passerby. (Photo: John Partipilo)

A child cowers behind her mother, who confronted members of a Neo-Nazi hate group. (Photo: John Partipilo)

Deago Buck, an employee atJohnny Cash's Bar, is arrested by Metro Nashville Police on July 14, 2024 after punching a member of the Goyim Defense League. (Photo: John Partipilo)

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