A Jewish real estate agent from Whitefish, Montana, is suing the founder of a neo-Nazi website who allegedly incited an anti-Semitic "troll storm" against the woman and her family. 
 
 The suit, filed in U.S. District Court of Montana on Tuesday, claims that The Daily Stormer blogger Andrew Anglin urged his online followers to direct hundreds of hateful messages — including death threats and references to the Holocaust — to Tanya Gersh and her husband and 12-year-old son. 
 
 Tanya Gersh, a real estate agent from Montana, is suing neo-Nazi blogger Andrew Anglin after he incited an anti-Semitic "troll storm" against Gersh. Dan Chung 
 
 In a December blog post, Anglin wrote, “Tell them you are sickened by their Jew agenda . . . This is very important. Calling these people up and/or sending them a quick message is very easy." 
 
 The post listed Gersh's phone number and home address, along with her 12-year-old son's Twitter handle and her husband's contact information. A "tsunami of threats" ensued, according to the lawsuit. 
 
 "My friends used to joke that I was the happiest girl on the planet," Gersh told NBC News. "Overnight, my life was stolen from me. I’m in trauma therapy and the safe world I lived in inside my beautiful mountain town was changed for me." 
 
 Anglin allegedly targeted Gersh after Sherry Spencer, the mother of well-known white nationalist Richard Spencer, accused Gersh of extorting her in order to profit from a real estate transaction. 
 
 Anglin and Spencer did not respond to request for comment from NBC News. 
 
 Related: White Nationalist Richard Spencer Assailed by Ex-Classmates, Elite Texas Prep School 
 
 A Whitefish resident for 10 years, Spencer owned a commercial building in the town, the suit claims. Locals were planning on protesting outside of Sherry Spencer's building around Nov. 13, 2016, shortly after her son gained nationwide attention for a video of him giving the Nazi salute at a white nationalist meeting in Washington D.C. 
 
 The complaint claims that Spencer hired Gersh as a real estate agent after Gersh suggested Spencer sell the building and donate the profits in order to ease tensions in the town. But on Dec. 1, Spencer "began to get cold feet" and asked to continue her sale without Gersh's help, according to the lawsuit. 
 
 Two weeks later, the suit claims, Spencer penned a Medium post saying that Gersh had threatened her into selling her building. 
 
 “[Gersh] relayed to me that if I did not sell my building, 200 protesters and national media would show up outside—which would drive down the property value—until I complied," the post reads, adding that the real estate agent was looking for "financial benefits" from threats of protests. 
 
 Related: White Nationalist Richard Spencer Removed From CPAC 
 
 The post led Anglin to go on a "campaign of terror" against Gersh — with 30 Daily Stormer articles written to date urging readers to target her, according to the suit. Anglin also encouraged his readers to share a video of Richard Spencer discussing the failed real estate deal during a radio interview on The David Duke Show, the complaint added. 
 
 One Twitter user tagged Gersh's son in a tweet reading, "psst kid, there's a free Xbox One inside this oven" alongside a photo of an oven, according to the complaint. At least 700 communications were directed at the woman's family. 
 
 For Gersh, the hate directed at her son was the most difficult to endure. 
 
 "This will follow him for the rest of his life. Those images will always be on the internet. It’s part of our regular conversations now to tell him that he's safe and he can still be proud of being Jewish," she said. 
 
 Anglin's harassment has led to medical issues for Gersh, the suit claims, including anxiety, weight gain, joint pain and hair loss. 
 
 Related: Protester Punches White Nationalist Richard Spencer During Interview 
 
 "Ms. Gersh has had panic attacks, goes to bed in tears, wakes up crying, startles easily, feels anxiety and discomfort in crowded places, has had trouble leaving her home, and fears answering her phone," her attorneys wrote. "Overall, she feels like an entirely different person than she did before the troll storm, as though she has been permanently altered." 
 
 Gersh deleted most of her social media accounts, but told NBC News it is devastating to "feel like I have to go into hiding." 
 
 Richard Cohen, president of the Southern Poverty Law Center, said the digital aspect of the case is what makes it unique. 
 
 "What makes this case different is it's one for the digital age," he said. "In the past, Anglin would’ve burned a cross on Tanya’s lawn, but now, they start a troll storm online." 
 
 Gersh is being represented by the Southern Poverty Law Center and seeks an undetermined amount in damages. She is accusing Anglin of invasion of privacy, intentional infliction of emotional distress, malice and violating the Montana Anti-Discrimination Act. ||||| This story will likely be familiar to anyone who has followed the bizarre saga of Andrew Anglin, an obsessively anti-Semitic blogger whose clownish, millennial-targeted neo-Nazi website, the Daily Stormer, has bounced across roughly nine different Internet hosts, in the wake of a post he wrote mocking the death of activist Heather Heyer. She is the woman who was killed after accused suspect James Fields rammed his car into a crowd of protesters, according to authorities, at the white nationalist “Unite the Right” event in Charlottesville, Virginia, in August. 
 
 Greg Morelli, the co-owner of a Jewish deli in Highland Park, Illinois, made an inflammatory comment on Twitter about the mass shooting that took place in Las Vegas this past Sunday night, suggesting that he felt “relief” to hear that shooter Stephen Paddock targeted white country music fans. “White people shooting white people isn’t terror,” he quipped. 
 
 Fox News and other conservative outlets, like Breitbart.com, covered the post, and those who were offended by it, in turn, unleashed a steady flow of outrage on social media—and on the Google reviews for Morelli’s place of business. 
 
 But that backlash apparently did not satiate Anglin, who has now jumped into the fray, calling for readers of his highly trafficked website to target Morelli on the grounds of him being Jewish. 
 
 “TAKE ACTION: Another Jew Celebrating Vegas Deaths – Let’s Tell Him What We Think of This!,” the subject line of Anglin’s post declares, before going on to list the phone number and address of Morelli's establishment. “I am in the process of getting some of the Illinois goys to arrange a protest outside of this kike’s deli. It looks like there’s plenty of sidewalk and parking lot space,” Anglin writes. “Tell this filthy fucking Jew that the goyim know.” (Goyim is an Old Testament word connoting non-Jews that has been appropriated by white supremacists and other anti-Semites as a way to underscore what they perceive to be persecution of whites by Jewish people.) 
 
 The post follows a familiar pattern for Anglin. In April, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) filed a lawsuit against him for allegedly orchestrating a coordinated campaign of anti-Semitic harassment against Tanya Gersh, a real estate agent in Whitefish, Montana, whom he accused of attempting to extort money from white nationalist Richard Spencer. Anglin’s post specifies to his readers “no violence, threats,” but adds that comments be tailored specifically to Morelli’s faith. “Let this filthy rat kike know what you think of him,” he writes. 
 
 Newsweek reached out to the Highland Park Police Department regarding the post, and a spokesman said they were aware of the backlash against Morelli and were conducting patrols in the area of his business. Newsweek was unable to reach Morelli for comment about Anglin’s post, and the phone lines at his establishment were not working as of Thursday afternoon. He had already issued an apology for what he wrote about the shooting, prior to Anglin’s call to “take action.” 
 
 Keep up with this story and more by subscribing now 
 
 Newsweek also made two attempts to reach Anglin for comment about his post about Morelli but did not immediately receive a response. In addition to the post on his site, Anglin called for action in response to Morelli’s post on the social media site Gab, which features a number of white supremacist users. 
 
 In a recent appearance on a white supremacist podcast, Anglin boasted that his post about Heyer, in which he called the deceased woman a “fat, childless, 32-year-old slut,” received 3.5 million hits, before GoDaddy ultimately booted him off of its domain registry. That indicates how many people might respond to a post of his calling for harassment of person based upon faith. 
 
 The game of embedding sophomorically racist memes, and whipping up cloddishly written posts based on bogus race science and white pride, has been impressively lucrative for Anglin, despite the number of times his site has been shut down on servers throughout the world. He currently receives close to $8,000 per month in donations through a website called Hatreon, which allows users to donate to white nationalist causes, and frequently reaches out to his readers asking for handouts to support his blogging career. 
 
 Anglin has gone into hiding following the incident in Whitefish, creating a problem for the SPLC, which has still not been able to serve him the lawsuit in person. He has attempted to re-brand the “alt-right” in the fallout after the events in Charlottesville, preferring to call himself an “American Nationalist.” That apes a phrase used by fellow alt-right personality Mike Cernovich, who used those words to describe his politics in an interview with The New Yorker in October 2016. The SPLC simply refers to Anglin as a neo-Nazi. 
 
 Richard Cohen, the SPLC’s president, spoke to Newsweek about Anglin’s post on Thursday. Regarding the likelihood that Morelli will be targeted with anti-Semitic abuse in the aftermath of Anglin’s post, he says that Anglin “knows what his troll army is going to do.” Cohen adds that “mobilizing people to scream anti-Semitic epithets” is not protected by the First Amendment. 
 
 “We’ll find him,” Cohen says of the pending lawsuit over Gersh, his client. “He can run, but he can’t hide.”
– Crowdfunded donations to Andrew Anglin, founder of the neo-Nazi site the Daily Stormer, have reached $150,000 to help pay for his legal defense in a lawsuit filed by the Southern Poverty Law Center. Per the Los Angeles Times, it took under two months to raise the money on the California-based site WeSearchr, which specifically champions far-right causes that won't fly on sites like GoFundMe and Kickstarter due to their hate-speech policies. The suit centers around complaints that Anglin started an anti-Semitic "troll storm" against a Jewish Montana woman and her family. NBC News reports that Anglin posted a message to his readers with Tanya Gersh's phone number, home address, and other personal information, instructing them to "tell them you are sickened by their Jew agenda." Gersh claims that hundreds of death threats and harassing messages poured in, including a tweet to her 12-year-old son that read, "Psst kid, there's a free Xbox One inside this oven." The suit says that Anglin's "campaign of terror" continued as he posted about Gersh with 30 separate Daily Stormer articles. "My friends used to joke that I was the happiest girl on the planet," Gersh says. "Overnight, my life was stolen from me. I'm in trauma therapy and the safe world I lived in inside my beautiful mountain town was changed for me." Gersh is suing Anglin for invasion of privacy, intentional infliction of emotional distress, malice, and violating the state's anti-discrimination act. SPLC President Richard Cohen expressed surprise over Anglin's rapid fundraising, given that his site's popularity centers around "vicious, incendiary, racist rhetoric."