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Emily Blout

Aug 11, 2022, 2:58 PM

The lies that stoked Charlottesville violence – and threatened my husband – endure

The author with her husband, then-Charlottesville-Mayor Mike Signer, and their children at a vigil commemorating the violent, 2017 'Unite the Right' event in Charlottesville, Virginia. (Courtesy, Eze Amos)

5 years after the deadly 'Unite the Right' violence during Mike Signer's tenure as mayor, antisemitic conspiracy theories still pose an imminent terrorist threat

About Me

Emily Blout, Ph.D., is a Senior Research Fellow at the International Institute for Counter-Terrorism, a visiting lecturer at the Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy, and Strategy at Reichman University, and an adjunct professor at the Center for Jewish Civilization at Georgetown University. Dr. Blout is author of Media and Power in Modern Iran (Bloomsbury, 2023) and co-author of “White Supremacist Terrorism in Charlottesville” (Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, 2021). Follow her on Twitter @emilyblout.