Anonymous ID: 65f86e May 28, 2025, 12:40 p.m. No.23092525   🗄️.is 🔗kun

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A Virginia hotel barred antisemitic podcaster Stew Peters from its premises Tuesday, blocking him from speaking at a conference for veterans of the 1967 USS Liberty attack.

 

 

A backlash followed the revelation that Peters, an avowed Holocaust denier and white supremacist who called for a “final solution” involving the mass deportation of American Jews, had been invited to speak by the U.S.S. Liberty Veterans Association next month at its annual reunion.

 

One prominent X account focusing on antisemitism had encouraged its followers to protest Peters’ inclusion by emailing the general manager of the Sheraton Norfolk Waterside Hotel, which is hosting the conference June 6-9.

 

“The hotel owner Marriott-Bonvoy has banned Stew Peters from entering their property and has advised us he is not to speak,” LVA spokesperson John Dixon said in a statement to Norfolk news outlet WTKR.

 

It was unclear whether the LVA planned to have Peters address the group remotely, but text messages obtained by WTKR appeared to show Moe Dixon, the group’s executive director, telling Peters he was still invited to a Liberty memorial at the local Veterans of Foreign Wars office. The organization did not immediately respond to an inquiry.