February 23rd 2023.
On Tuesday night, theatre-goers attending Ben Platt's Broadway musical 'Parade' were confronted by neo-Nazi protesters. The Tony-winning 29-year old actor stars in the show, which is based on the true story of Leo Frank, a Jewish factory superintendent who was wrongfully convicted of murdering 13-year-old worker Mary Phagan in 1913 and was lynched by a group of white extremists two years later. The National Socialist Movement, a neo-Nazi hate group, was seen attempting to denounce Frank's innocence and passed out flyers that contained hateful rhetoric as well as mentioned GoyimTV, a streaming platform that was linked to the LA shootings last week.
Reminding everyone of the importance of this story, Ben Platt said the 'ugly and scary' incident was a reminder of why he was telling this story.
(Image Source: https://metro.co.uk) He went on to add that if there was any doubt about the urgency of this story, the vileness on display that night should put it to rest.
Parade, a story that focuses on the anti-Semitism that lead to the 1915 lynching of Frank when he was 31-years-old. Protestors from neo-Nazi hate group The National Socialist Movement showed up to the Broadway revival of the show to demonstrate against 'romanticising pedophiles', claiming that Leo Frank was one. The mob handed out flyers denouncing the Anti-Defamation League, a non-profit civil rights law group founded over a century ago, as a direct result of Frank's murder, and also mentioned GoyimTV, a streaming platform linked to the perpetrator of an anti-Semitic LA shooting. The Parade producers stated that the 'vileness on display' was a reminder of why the story was so important to tell in the current moment.
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