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Young Right-Wing Americans Forging Ties with European Ethno-Nationalists

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Young Right-Wing Americans Forging Ties with European Ethno-Nationalists
In May 2022, young American right-wing activists attended the CPAC Hungary conference and held their own meeting with youth leaders of xenophobic and ethno-nationalist European political parties. This gathering, along with the CPAC Hungary event, demonstrates the interconnectedness of American and European far-right thinking, and highlights the xenophobic, nationalistic rhetoric that is being promoted – and applauded – on both sides of the Atlantic. Some of the young American attendees also have ties to right-wing extremists.
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ADL and National Urban League to Partner on New Hub for Countering Domestic Extremism and Political Violence

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ADL, National Urban League and The Joyce Foundation
Joyce Foundation Grant will help kickstart Project CODE Washington, DC, June 13, 2022 -- ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) and the National Urban League today announced a new partnership bringing together two venerable civil rights organizations in service of fighting the dire and deadly threats of domestic extremism and political violence.  Through a new grant awarded by the Joyce Foundation, the organizations will launch Project CODE (Collaborative Organizations to End Domestic…
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New Report Sounds Alarm on Range of Extremist Threats in New York State

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New York, NY, June 1, 2022 – The white supremacist shooting at a supermarket in Buffalo was the latest example of a broad and troubling trend of rising extremism in New York State, according to a new report issued today by the ADL (Anti-Defamation League) Center on Extremism and the Community Security Initiative (CSI). The report, “Hate in the Empire State: Extremism & Antisemitism in New York” presents a disturbing snapshot of increasing extremism in the state,…
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Right-Wing Extremists Eye Leaked Abortion Ruling as Opportunity for Violence

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Right-Wing Extremists Eye Leaked Abortion Ruling as Opportunity for Violence
The May 2, 2022, leak of the draft opinion overturning the 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling has animated people on both sides of the abortion debate. And as pro-choice advocates are vowing to protest the potential loss of reproductive freedom, right-wing extremists advocating for -- and in some cases threatening -- violence against them.
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Deplatform Tucker Carlson and the "Great Replacement" Theory

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In the wake of the horrific racist massacre in Buffalo, NY, Stop Hate for Profit is calling on mainstream social media platforms Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Twitch, Discord, and Reddit to immediately stop the spread of hateful white supremacist rhetoric that has incited acts of violence by permanently banning repeat perpetrators like Tucker Carlson, Laura Ingraham and others from their platforms and enforcing their own hate speech policies with regard to the Great Replacement theory and white supremacy. This article describes the forms that the Great Replacement Theory takes on these platforms and the platform policies they are violating.
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Clear Pattern of Israel-related Antisemitism Evident on Some Midwestern Campuses

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Clear Pattern of Israel-related Antisemitism Evident on Some Midwestern Campuses
In recent years, several college campuses across the Midwest have seen a troubling pattern of antisemitic anti-Israel activity. Recent examples have included: the targeting of Hillel, the premier center for Jewish student life on college campuses, with graffiti reading “Free Palestine” and an object thrown during an anti-Israel protest; the dissemination of a pamphlet depicting Israeli Jews as pigs; a call to “LEAVE [Israel] if you are Jewish” and a meme posted on social media encouraging others to “start shaming Zionists” to “go back to Brooklyn.”
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CPAC Conference in Hungary Views Viktor Orban’s Nationalism as A Model to Follow

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CPAC
The American Conservative Union held a Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Budapest, Hungary, May 19-22, 2022, marking the first time the gathering has been held in Europe. Speakers from both the U.S. and Hungary delivered speeches that referred to America’s “wokeness” and framed a “fight” to save America and the West from “socialism,” liberal democracy and the progressive left.
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Some Nakba Day Events Descend into Support for Violence, Antisemitism

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Some Nakba Day Events Descend into Support for Violence, Antisemitism
Nakba (“catastrophe” in Arabic) Day, held on May 15 each year, is marked by Palestinians and their supporters, including many anti-Israel activists, as a day to mourn the creation of the State of Israel on May 14, 1948 and advocate for the Right of Return of Palestinian refugees.
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Striking Similarities Between Gendron and Tarrant Manifestos

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Striking Similarities Between Gendron and Tarrant Manifestos
The ADL Center on Extremism has found remarkable parallels and overlap between online manifestos posted by accused Buffalo shooting perpetrator Payton Gendron and Christchurch shooter Brenton Tarrant. While Gendron’s language is notably more antisemitic than Tarrant’s, entire portions of the texts are identical.
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Footage of Buffalo Attack Spread Quickly Across Platforms, Has Been Online for Days

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Buffalo
The livestream of the accused Buffalo shooter’s deadly May 14, 2022, attack at a Buffalo supermarket was available briefly via Twitch, but the footage spread quickly across online platforms, and remains online for public consumption. Five full days after the shooting rampage, the ADL Center on Extremism (COE) was able to find the footage on platforms as diverse as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Reddit, Telegram, Bitchute and Gab.
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Unmasking a Florida-Based Neo-Nazi “Grandfather”

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Unmasking a Florida-Based Neo-Nazi “Grandfather”
On May 7, 2022, a small group of neo-Nazis stationed themselves outside the entrance to Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida, waving swastika flags and shouting into a megaphone. Among them was a man who goes by the name “Grandfather” on social media. The ADL Center on Extremism (COE) has identified him, with a high degree of certainty, as 74-year-old veteran David Howard Wydner, who has a significant history of antisemitic stunts.
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Leading Social Justice Organizations Call for National Summit on Right-Wing Extremism

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“Long past time for a whole-of-society response,” insist National Urban League, Anti-Defamation League, League of United Latin American Citizens, Asian Americans Advancing Justice - AAJC, National Action Network New York, NY, May 15, 2022 – Following the horrific attack in Buffalo, national organizations representing racial and ethnic groups targeted by violent extremists today urged President Biden to convene a summit to confront the threat. The National Urban League,…
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Buffalo Shooter’s Weapons Covered in White Supremacist Messaging

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Payton Gendron
In the aftermath of the May 14, 2022, mass shooting that left 10 people dead and three more injured in Buffalo, NY, the ADL Center on Extremism (COE) has reviewed images of what appear to be weapons, armor and other gear owned by the alleged shooter, Payton Gendron. Gendron, who wore a sonnenrad, a symbol appropriated by the Nazi Party and widely used by modern white supremacists, mimicked a tactic used by white supremacist Brenton Tarrant, scrawling white supremacist…
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ADL Says Buffalo Shooter Latest in A Long Line of White Supremacist Terrorists Who Embraced Racist, Antisemitic “Great Replacement Theory”

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Killer’s manifesto called for a “real war” of “the Gentiles versus the Jews”New York, NY, May 14, 2022 … The alleged white supremacist who opened fire in a supermarket in Buffalo, NY, killing 10 and injuring three, is the latest in a long line of violent domestic terrorists who embraced the virulently racist and antisemitic “Great Replacement” conspiracy theory, and who turned to violence apparently after ingesting white supremacist and…
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Quds Day Exposes Iran’s Genocidal Ambitions – Again

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By Aykan Erdemir Since Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution, the clerical regime has observed the last Friday of the month of Ramadan as  International Quds (i.e. Jerusalem) Day, using it as an opportunity to spread antisemitic hate, incite violence against the Jewish people, and call for the destruction of the State of Israel. Last year, for example, the main English-language Twitter account attributed to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei (@khamenei_ir)…
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Holocaust Analogies Frequently Used as Fodder for Social and Political Commentary

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Holocaust Analogies Frequently Used as Fodder for Social and Political Commentary
The Holocaust – the systematic murder of six million Jews and millions of others by the Nazis and their collaborators during World War II – stands out as a preeminent example of modern-day state-sponsored mass murder. Despite the Holocaust’s distinctive status, or perhaps because of it, politicians, activists and other public figures often invoke inappropriate Holocaust comparisons to highlight the ostensible “danger” of a social or political act. Even with…
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