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Extremist Groups Celebrate Har Adar Attack

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September 28, 2017 Following the September 26 attack in the West Bank settlement of Har Adar, in which a Palestinian gunman killed three Israelis, extremist groups have been posting on various forums to celebrate the attacks and incite violence against Israel and Jews worldwide. While no group has claimed responsibility for the attack, many have posted lauding the attacker and calling him “a heroic martyr,” as Hamas stated on the day of the attack. The Al-Tawhid…

ספטמבר 28, 2017

Nation of Islam Espouses New "Pot Plot" Anti-Semitic Conspiracy Theory

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September 27, 2017 During a September appearance at a mosque in Chicago, Nation of Islam student minister Wesley Muhammad claimed that Jews and the U.S. government are engaged in a “Pot Plot” to emasculate black men and turn them into homosexuals by distributing specially modified versions of marijuana. Muhammad has been dabbling in this conspiracy theory since 2016, and proposed a similar version in a June 2017 interview on Power 105.1’s The Breakfast Club, a nationwide…

ספטמבר 27, 2017

"Free Speech Week" Fizzles at UC-Berkeley; Milo Vows to Return

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September 27, 2017 Article Highlights: • Milo Yiannopoulos blames failure of his UC-Berkeley “free speech week” on university administrators • Non-event costs university an estimated $800,000 • Yiannopoulos plans October appearances at Cal State campuses After weeks of promotion and promises of appearances by bold-faced right-wing speakers from Ann Coulter to Steve Bannon, Milo Yiannopoulos’s “Free Speech Week” at UC Berkeley was…

ספטמבר 27, 2017

Older White Supremacists Rush to Appeal to the Alt Right

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September 20, 2017 Article Highlights: • Older white supremacists are adopting the slang of the alt right in an attempt to sound edgy and attract younger members. • Some white supremacists have created websites designed specifically to attract alt right adherents. • For racist neo-Confederates, the alt right offers a significant potential source of members, provided they can be converted to white Southern nationalism instead of a more universal form of white…

ספטמבר 20, 2017

ADL Reacts to President's Remarks Once Again Blaming Both Sides for Charlottesville Violence

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New York, NY, September 15, 2017... The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today reacted to remarks by President Donald Trump repeating that both sides were at fault for the deadly violence at a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville last month. The president reiterated his position on Charlottesville following a meeting with Sen. Tim Scott, the lone African-American in the U.S. Senate. Jonathan A. Greenblatt, ADL CEO, issued the following statement: "It is sad that the President seems…

ספטמבר 15, 2017

ADL: White Supremacist Group Redoubling Hate Fliering Efforts On Campus

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New York, NY, September 11, 2017 … The white supremacist group whose slogan, “You will not replace us” reverberated across the University of Virginia campus in Charlottesville earlier this summer has outlined plans for a year-long effort targeting college campuses with racist fliers, posters and stickers. Newly emboldened by the events and violence in Charlottesville and determined to recruit young followers, Identity Evropa, which advocates for the preservation of …

ספטמבר 11, 2017

Andrew Anglin: Five Things to Know

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April 25, 2018 1. Andrew Anglin runs the neo-Nazi website The Daily Stormer. Anglin launched The Daily Stormer on July 4, 2013. He says the site, which remains popular with white supremacists despite ongoing hosting issues, was his attempt to reach “all disenfranchised and angry White males under the age of thirty.” Anglin created The Daily Stormer after founding another neo-Nazi site, Total Fascism, in 2012. Previously, Anglin was a 9/11 “truther”…

אפריל 25, 2018

Racist books, tracts now part of Identity Evropa’s campus propaganda efforts

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September 08, 2017 Identity Evropa's latest efforts at targeting college campuses include fliers that promote a range of racist books and propaganda tracts. The white supremacist group has been actively targeting colleges and universities across the United States. In the first weeks of September, Identity Evropa fliers were found on campuses in California, Long Beach Community College and Santa Rosa Junior College, as well as the University of Illinois at Urbana…

ספטמבר 08, 2017

Identity Evropa/American Identity Movement

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Update: American Identity Movement (AIM), an alt right white supremacist group formerly known as Identity Evropa, was disbanded in November 2020. AIM’s decline began in November 2019 after the group’s leader, Patrick Casey, began to collaborate with “America First” podcaster Nick Fuentes and his Groyper Army. AIM was created in March 2019 as a rebranding of Identity Evropa, a white supremacist group that had been active from March 2016 through March 2019. Under the AIM…

ספטמבר 06, 2017

Westboro Baptist Church: Legacy of Hate

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March 01, 2019 The Topeka, Kansas-based Westboro Baptist Church (WBC) has a well-earned reputation as one of America's most reviled hate groups. The small, virulently homophobic group stages vitriolic, highly visible protests nationwide against groups and individuals they’ve identified as supporters of “homosexuality,” or who otherwise subvert what they refer to as “God’s law.” Through outrageous statements and postings on their various websites, the…

מרץ 01, 2019

ISIS Supporters Distribute Series of Articles Encouraging Lone-Wolf Attacks

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September 01, 2017 Islamic State is using Jihadi online forums to release a three-part English-language guide to conducting lone-wolf terror attacks. The first two articles frame the 1990 assassination of Meir Kahane as a model for future attacks, but also promote more unusual attack methods -- such as injecting poison into consumer products at shopping malls. The series strongly resembles other forms of propaganda, issued in a more informal format. It illustrates the repetitive,…

ספטמבר 01, 2017

Anti-Semitic Incidents in the U.S. in the Wake of Charlottesville Rally

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Anti-Semitic Imagery - Queens Apartment Building

August 30, 2017 The violent white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, which featured anti-Semitic chants and imagery on full display, has fueled concern about whether the kind of hatred and violence seen in Charlottesville could inspire copycat incidents or acts of hate against Jews or Jewish institutions in other parts of the country. While it is impossible to directly link anti-Semitic incidents seen elsewhere to the horrific displays of hate witnessed in Charlottesville…

אוגוסט 30, 2017

Al-Faisal Indictment Is Significant Blow to ISIS Propaganda

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August 30, 2017 Sheikh Abdullah al-Faisal, also known as Trevor William Forrest, was indicted on Friday, August 25th and charged with recruiting would-be terrorists for the Islamic State. Al-Faisal was arrested in Kingston, Jamaica, and he will be extradited to New York following his court appearance. Al-Faisal’s arrest comes after a year-long investigation by the NYPD Intelligence Bureau and Manhattan District Attorney’s Office’s Counter Terrorism Program in which an…

אוגוסט 30, 2017

ADL Hires Former DHS Director George Selim as Senior Vice President of Programs

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New York, NY, August 28, 2017 … The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today announced the appointment of George Selim, a leading expert on Homeland Security and countering violent extremism (CVE), as Senior Vice President of Programs. In this newly created position, George will report directly to ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt. Selim will lead ADL’s education, law enforcement, and community security programs, and oversee its Center on Extremism. George has served Presidents Bush,…

אוגוסט 28, 2017

Antifa pose challenges for police and counter-protesters alike

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August 24, 2017 Over the past several months, in Boston, Charlottesville, Berkeley, and beyond, many thousands of peaceful counter-protesters have taken to the streets to speak out against the hateful ideology of white supremacists and other bigots. Among those counter-protesters, a small number of antifa, or “anti-fascists,” have encouraged -- and sometimes actively engaged in -- violence. The antifa concept originated in Europe in the 1960s and 1970s. The idea behind it…

אוגוסט 24, 2017

Zionism Is Nothing Like White Supremacy

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ADL responded to an op-ed by a Jewish Voice for Peace staffer, who asserted that alt-right leader Richard Spencer was right in his remarks that Zionism is akin to white supremacy. Days after the horrific showcase of American far-right extremism in Charlottesville, America’s leading extremist, white supremacist leader Richard Spencer, appeared on an Israeli television newscast and compared his hate-filled ideology to Jewish nationalism, declaring it “white Zionism.” …

אוגוסט 22, 2017

Extremist Groups and Trends in Arizona: 5 Things You Need to Know

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August 22, 2017 Updated: August 28, 2017 On Friday, August 25, President Trump pardoned Joe Arpaio. The following is part of ADL's statement condemning the President's decision: "No person in this country is above the law. Arpaio was convicted by a federal judge, and has never shown any remorse for his unlawful acts and his unabashed bigotry. The president’s decision to pardon him is inexcusable." President Trump’s August 22 rally in Phoenix, Arizona, is being billed…

אוגוסט 22, 2017

We Must Grapple With History to Move Forward

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August 18, 2017 By Lauren Jones Civil Rights National Counsel at the Anti-Defamation League On August 17, 1915 a mob dragged Leo Frank, a Jewish superintendent at a pencil factory in Georgia, from his prison cell, drove him to a place where others stood ready with a noose, and lynched him. They called themselves the Knights of Mary Phagan. A crowd of men, women and children looked on and cheered. Within the local community, the members of the lynch mob were well-known. But their…

אוגוסט 18, 2017

Responding to Charlottesville, U.S. Conference of Mayors and ADL Join on Action Plan to Combat Hate, Extremism & Discrimination

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More than 200 mayors pledge to vigorously fight bigotry, work to build tolerance in their cities <img src="/sites/default/files/styles/max_325x325/public/2017-08/adl-unites-states-mayors.jpg?itok=jWmkJ9uT" alt="ADL in association with USCM"/> ‘Mayors’ Compact to Combat Hate, Extremism and Bigotry’ calls for fully-resourced law enforcement and civil rights investigations of domestic terrorism and hate crimes New York, NY/Washington, August 18, 2017 –…

אוגוסט 18, 2017

White Supremacists React Gleefully to President Trump's "Rogue" Press Conference

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August 17, 2017 White supremacists are eager to capitalize on the chaos and violence in Charlottesville, and they’re feeling emboldened and validated by President Trump’s weak response to Unite the Right. They view his remarks as a tacit approval of their message. Online -- from Twitter and other mainstream social media platforms to the corners of the dark web -- white supremacists are celebrating the “victory” in Charlottesville, devising plans for their next…

אוגוסט 17, 2017