World Jewish Congress (WJC) President Ronald S. Lauder called on Montana’s authorities to put a stop to a ‘’March on Jews’’ being planned by neo-Nazis in the town of Whitefish on January 15. The march orgnizers also vowed to bring “high-powered rifles” to the event.

Whitefish is home to white supremacist leader Richard Spencer, president of the so-called “alt-right” National Policy Institute.

The Daily Stormer neo-Nazi website founder, Andrew Anglin, is behind the march which is set to coincide with Martin Luther King Day.

Anglin made the announcement through the media but there has been no application yet filed for a permit to march in the town.

“We are planning an armed protest in Whitefish,” Anglin wrote on his website. He said he plans the march against “Jews, Jewish businesses and everyone who supports either.”

Anglin claimed that right-wing extremists from UK, Sweden, France and Greece would be attending, along with a Hamas member who would speak “about the international threat of the Jews.”

There will be “two hundred skinhead Alt-Right Nazis marching with a guy from Hamas carrying machine guns through the center of their town!”, he said.

Ronald S.Lauder called such a march ‘’a dangerous and life-threatening rally that puts all of America at risk.”

The WJC leader said : “When notorious and self-professed neo-Nazis announce that they are planning to march through a town carrying ‘high-profiled rifles’ in an action targeting ‘Jews, Jewish business, and everyone who supports either,’ the local authorities must respond with quick alarm and vigilance.

He stressed that this rally ‘’crosses the line between freedom of expression and incitement to hatred.’’ ‘’The intention of these neo-Nazis is not just to send a political message – they are organizing a dangerous and life-threatening rally that puts all of America, including the local Jewish community, at risk,’’ he added, noting that ‘’there has been an upturn of late in public expressions of anti-Semitism and hatred of the other.’’ ‘’It is unacceptable, and unfathomable, that such incidents could happen in America,’’ Lauder said.

“All around the world, from the Jobbik Party in Hungary to the Golden Dawn in Greece, fascism is on the rise. Anti-Jewish, anti-Muslim, and anti-Black incidents are jumping at alarming rates,’’ he noted.

“Inflammatory rhetoric on the part of White Supremacists, whether targeting Jews, Blacks, Muslims or any other minority, can all too easily turn into incitement to violence and worse,’’ he said.

Lauder sent a letter to Montana Governor Steve Bullock demanding that the rally be stopped.