Leonard Zeskind

Leonard Zeskind is an American human rights activist. He is president of the Institute for Research and Education of Human Rights (IREHR), a social justice and public affairs watchdog organization.^[1] For thirteen years prior concentration on human rights, he worked in industry. He worked on an automobile assembly line, installing refrigerator motors in vending machines, and as a welder and first-class fitter in steel fabrication plants.^[2]

Leonard Zeskind
Born	1950 (age 73–74)
Nationality	American
Occupation(s)	Journalist Human rights activist

Since 1982, he has been a community activist and human rights advocate. He is known for his research into extreme right, racist, and anti-Semitic organizations in the United States. The Institute for Research and Education of Human Rights served as a resource about such groups and their members when information about them rose dramatically following the storming of the Capitol of the United States on January 6, 2021.^[3]

He is a lifetime member of the NAACP. He also has served on the board of directors of the Petra Foundation and the Kansas City Jewish Community Relations Bureau.

Zeskind wrote the book entitled Blood and Politics.

Awards

• 1998 MacArthur Fellows Program
• 1992 Petra Foundation Fellowship

Works

• "Racism, Anti-Semitism and the Murder of Dr. Tiller". The Huffington Post. June 2, 2009. Retrieved July 25, 2014.
• Blood and Politics: The History of White Nationalism from the Margins to the Mainstream, Macmillan, 2009, ISBN 978-0-374-10903-5

References

1. Staff & Board. Irehr.org (2009-09-18). Retrieved on 2010-10-23.
2. Devin Burghart. (September 18, 2009). "About: Board." IREHR website Retrieved 28 December 2023.
3. Wilson, Jason, US militia group draws members from military and police, website leak shows, The Guardian, Wednesday, March 3, 2021

External links

• Author's website
• "Leonard Zeskind: Blood and Politics", Open Source Audio
• "Right-Wing Extremism Expert Leonard Zeskind Analyzes the Movement That Nurtures Shooters Like Von Brunn and Roeder", Buzzflash, 06/11/2009
• "Leonard Zeskind on the Minutemen", Everyday Citizen, Stuart Elliott, March 19, 2008
• , Leonard talks with Bob DiCello on the legal news talk radio program, Real Law Radio, about the infiltration of the Tea Party Movement by white supremacists (Podcasts/Saturday March 27, 2010).