‘No good Nazis’: James Murdoch pens scathing memo to Fox staff over Charlottesville and Trump
Trump’s reaction to the deadly violence in Virginia ‘concerns all of us as Americans and free people’, writes James Murdoch
James Murdoch – chief executive of 21st Century Fox and son of Donald Trump’s ally Rupert Murdoch – has become one of the most prominent voices yet to condemn the US President’s response to neo-Nazi violence in Charlottesville.
In a memo to colleagues obtained by the Hollywood Reporter, Murdoch pledged to donate US$1million to the Anti-Defamation League, which works to combat anti-semitism.
“[W]hat we watched this last week in Charlottesville and the reaction to it by the president of the United States concern all of us as Americans and free people,” Murdoch, 44, writes in the memo.
I can’t even believe I have to write this: standing up to Nazis is essential; there are no good Nazis
“These events remind us all why vigilance against hate and bigotry is an eternal obligation – a necessary discipline for the preservation of our way of life and our ideals. The presence of hate in our society was appallingly laid bare as we watched swastikas brandished on the streets of Charlottesville and acts of brutal terrorism and violence perpetrated by a racist mob.”