December 22, 2019 THE WEEK'S BIG 3 The United States Military Academy is investigating whether cadets and midshipmen intentionally flashed a white supremacist hand sign on national television prior to the Army vs Navy football game. A Pennsylvania man has been charged with vandalism and commercial burglary, with a penalty enhancement for a hate crime, after allegedly desecrating a synagogue in Beverly Hills. And ADL’s Center on Extremism has uncovered more disturbing information about…

December 17, 2019 Further evidence of alleged Jersey City shooter David Anderson’s extremist views has emerged in the form of a Facebook account with username Dawad Maccabee, which was active from July to December 2015. Anderson is one of the two individuals who allegedly attacked the JC Kosher Supermarket in Jersey City, NJ, on December 10, 2019, killing three people. Earlier that day he allegedly killed police detective Joseph Seals. The Facebook profile features images of Anderson and…

December 13, 2019 On December 10, 2019, David N. Anderson and Francine Graham allegedly shot and killed Jersey City Police Detective Joseph Seals after he approached them in the Bayview cemetery. The perpetrators then drove through Jersey City, bypassing other buildings and pedestrians before stopping outside the JC Kosher Supermarket, where Graham allegedly fired shots into the establishment, killing three civilians inside the store and injuring another. The pair then barricaded themselves…

December 13, 2019 THE WEEK'S BIG 3 Two gunmen motivated by anti-Semitism and anti-law enforcement beliefs attacked a Kosher supermarket in Jersey City on Tuesday, killing four people. President Trump signed an executive order that would ensure incidents of anti-Semitism be treated under federal as vigorously as other forms of discrimination. West Virginia fired three state employees and suspended more than 30 others after a photo surfaced showing a recent graduating class of correctional…

December 11, 2019 UPDATE: On December 12, NJ Attorney General Gurbir Grewal held a press conference in which he stated that the shooting in Jersey City on December 10 is being investigated as an act of domestic terrorism that was motivated by anti-Semitic and anti-law enforcement sentiments. According to Grewal, officials are still investigating David Anderson’s and Francine Graham’s social media accounts, but they believe at this time that while the alleged shooters were…

December 05, 2019 THE WEEK’S BIG 3 Online retail giant Amazon removed from its marketplace holiday ornaments, bottle openers and other products that displayed images from the Nazi concentration camp, Auschwitz. In related news, the International Skating Union (ISU) apologized after nominating a Russian skater, who donned Auschwitz-themed attire, for costume of the year. And in Montreal, McGill University’s student government was condemned after forcing one of its members to…

December 02, 2019 Telegram, the online social networking app, may not be a household name in the U.S. like Twitter or Facebook, but with well over 200 million users, it has a significant audience. And it is gaining popularity. Telegram has become a very popular online gathering place for the international white supremacist community and other extremist groups who have been displaced or banned from more popular sites. The platform, which is a cloud-based chat and group messaging app,…

November 25, 2019 In his remarkable address at ADL’s Never is Now Summit last week, the comedian and actor Sacha Baron Cohen called out major social media platforms, including Facebook and Twitter, for failing to stop the spread of anti-Semitism and hate on their platforms. “All this hate and violence is being facilitated by a handful of internet companies that amount to the greatest propaganda machine in history,” Baron Cohen said in his remarks,…

November 22, 2019 THE WEEK’S BIG 3 Actor, screenwriter and director Sacha Baron Cohen slammed Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and other tech giants for their role in facilitating the spread of online misinformation and hate. A new global survey finds that about one in four Europeans harbors anti-Semitic beliefs. And in Monsey, New York, an Orthodox Jewish man was stabbed walking to morning shul; it was not immediately clear whether it was a hate crime. Read on for more on these…