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Farrakhan’s Influence and Absence Mark Nation of Islam’s Annual Conference

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An image of an eclipse on a black background, with the quote "Repent, for the kingdom of God is at hand" in front of the eclipse. The image advertises a speech by Louis Frarakhan to be delivered at Nation of Islam's 2025 Saviours' Day conference.
The Nation of Islam (NOI) held its annual Saviours’ Day conference in Chicago, IL, from February 21–23, 2025. In a marked departure from over forty years of tradition, longtime NOI leader Louis Farrakhan, 91, was mostly absent from the weekend’s activities, which were also smaller in scale than usual. Nonetheless, Farrakhan and NOI’s familiar brand of conspiratorial and antisemitic rhetoric — including some of the same claims that Farrakhan made during his 2024…
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Who is Funding U.S. Anti-Israel Groups?

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A new ADL Center on Extremism report analyzing the funding sources of anti-Israel & anti-Zionist organizations based on tax records and other public information
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Murder of Dallas Police Officer Marks Latest in String of Violent Sovereign Citizen Encounters with Law Enforcement

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Corey Cobb Bey expressed his sovereign citizen beliefs in numerous social media posts, such as this 2016 post on Twitter. (Screenshot)
The murder of a police officer in Dallas last month by a suspected adherent of the sovereign citizen movement became the latest in an alarming rise of violent incidents this year involving individuals who subscribe to the extreme right-wing, anti-government ideology and law enforcement officials. In fact, 2024 has been a record year for violent encounters between police and sovereign citizens. In the space of just six months between March and August 2024, sovereign citizens opened fire on…
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Summer of Hate: White Supremacist Activity from Memorial to Labor Day

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An image of two individuals associated with White Lives Matter Montana demonstrating on an overpass display a sign that reads, “white man zone” and a banner which reads: “Non-white? Non-American.”
From Memorial Day through Labor Day 2024, the ADL Center on Extremism (COE) tracked a sustained, high level of white supremacist activity that included paramilitary-style marches, demonstrations, “fight nights,” propaganda drives, and disruption of public forums across the country. COE documented 64 white supremacist events across 25 states between May 27 and September 2, 2024. A majority of these events were small, with just five to 12 participants, but there were also larger…
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Far-Right UK Riots Blamed on Israel by Conspiracy Theorists

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Riots across the United Kingdom involving far-right elements broke out after the murder of three young girls at a dance class in the Southport knife attack was falsely attributed to a recently arrived Muslim migrant. It is predictable but still problematic to see Israel scapegoated as the cause of the riots raging across the United Kingdom involving far-right elements. This is happening across social media. The claims have no basis and contribute to the increasing anxiety among the Jews in the…
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Far-Right Influencers on X Promote Anti-Zionism, Hate and Conspiracy Theories

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An analysis by the ADL Center on Extremism identified five influencers on X whose engagement spiked in the days and weeks after Hamas’s attack on Israel, with content that included virulent anti-Zionism alongside antisemitic tropes, disinformation and other forms of hateful or harmful rhetoric. In the six months following October 7, 2023, the combined audience engagement on X for these five influencers—Jackson Hinkle, Lucas Gage, Jake Shields, Sam Parker and CensoredMen&mdash…
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Trump Assassination Attempt Sparks Antisemitic Conspiracy Theories and Violent, “Revenge” Rhetoric

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Trump Assassination Attempt Sparks Antisemitic Conspiracy Theories and Violent, “Revenge” Rhetoric
On July 13, 2024, Donald Trump suffered minor injuries when an individual fired multiple shots at the former president shortly after Trump took the stage during a campaign rally in Butler, PA. The attack killed one rally attendee and injuring three, including the former President. The shooter has been identified as 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks of Bethel Park, PA. While the motivation for the attack remains unknown, federal law enforcement are treating the incident as an assassination…
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"Time to Escalate": Anti-Israel Activists Intensify Protests with Violent, Direct Actions

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This composite image of three photos shows anti-Israel protesters in New York, NY lighting flares and displaying the symbols of U.S.-designated terror groups at separate events between April and June 2024
Across the country in recent months, many anti-Israel activists have been engaged in strategic “escalation” to further their cause. These actions have included increasingly aggressive and targeted protests, property destruction and defacement, physical takeovers of institutions deemed to be “complicit” in alleged Israeli military actions, and even multiple cases of ideologically motivated arson attacks.  For the most part, the tactics themselves — such as…
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Anti-Israel Summer “Schools” Emerge Nationwide

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Composite image from the Western Massachusetts Popular University for Palestine Instagram showing headshot photos of a group of historical figures around a banner that reads “University for the PEOPLE” in red and brown paint. The people in the photo, from bottom left, are: Leila Khaled, Aimé Césaire, Kwame Nkrumah, Rosa Luxemburg, Basil al-Araj, Huey P. Newton, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Mao Zedong, Vladimir Lenin and Frantz Fanon.
While the anti-Israel encampments have largely been dismantled, their architects appear determined to capitalize on what they see as their most successful organizing tactic in a decade. “Summer school” is now in session, led locally and nationally by pro-Palestinian individuals and groups.  These ”schools” — currently scheduled to run from June through August — are designed to educate and train student and community activists. Some are only open to…
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Denial and Distortion of the Hamas-led October 7 Attack: An Overview of False Narratives

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Since October 7, extremists and conspiracy theorists have promoted mis- and disinformation narratives about the reality of Hamas’s unprecedented, multi-pronged attack on Israel, attempting to deny or minimize the tragedy and shift the blame towards victims, a majority of whom were innocent civilians. These misleading or false claims — many of which have proliferated on mainstream social media platforms — manipulate and distort the facts of the mass assault, invalidate the…
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GAI Music Creation Tool Suno Has Been Weaponized to Promote Hate

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GAI Music Creation Tool Suno Has Been Weaponized to Promote Hate
Extremists and online trolls are using Suno, an increasingly influential Generative Artificial Intelligence (GAI) music creation tool, to make songs promoting hate speech, racist stereotypes, calls for violence and extremist rhetoric. The tool, created by Suno AI, became popular in 2023 after the company announced a partnership with Microsoft.  Today, many users employ the tool for innocuous purposes. However, the ADL Center on Extremism has discovered a vast library of disturbing songs…
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How Antisemites, Extremists and Conspiracy Theorists are Exploiting the Anti-Vax Movement

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How Antisemites, Extremists and Conspiracy Theorists are Exploiting the Anti-Vax Movement
While the days of lockdowns and social distancing are behind us, anti-vaccine narratives remain prevalent on social media, and extremists continue to exploit these sentiments to recruit new members, raise money and mainstream their beliefs. Many extremists view anti-vaxxers as a massive pool of potential fresh recruits and followers primed for the “red pill.”      While the mainstreaming of once-fringe anti-vaccine beliefs poses obvious risks to public health,…
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“Fight Until Victory”: Speakers & Guests Declare Full Support for Terrorism at “People’s Conference for Palestine”

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Featured speakers during the “People’s Conference for Palestine” in Detroit on May 24–26, 2024
As the “People’s Conference for Palestine” got underway in Detroit, MI on May 24, the packed audience cheered as Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM) organizer and conference MC Mohammed Nabulsi opened by offering “salutations to our people in Palestine and to our noble, steadfast Resistance.” Nabulsi garnered further enthusiastic applause when he urged “eternal glory to our martyrs” and called to “liberate every inch of Palestine, from the Jordan…
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Support for October 7 Attack, Glorification of Terror Mark 2024 Nakba Day Events

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Anti-Israel protesters display a banner depicting Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) convicted terrorist Leila Khaled at a Nakba Day event in Orlando, FL on May 11, 2024. (source: Instagram)
Nakba Day commemorations across the United States, already charged events, were compounded this year by a sharp rise in anti-Israel activity tied to the Israel-Hamas war that was triggered by the October 7 mass terror attacks. Nakba Day (“catastrophe” in Arabic) is commemorated annually on May 15 by Palestinians and their supporters worldwide to mourn the events related to the creation of the State of Israel, including its impact on Palestinians, and to advocate for the…
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“Propaganda for Fun:” How Extremists Use GAI to Camouflage Hate

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“Propaganda for Fun:” How Extremists Use GAI to Camouflage Hate
Disturbing memes and images created using Generative Artificial Intelligence (GAI) are polluting social media with camouflaged hate and extremist propaganda. Innovations in AI technology, plus a wider range of tools available than ever before, have enabled the use of AI image generators for nefarious purposes—some of which have been coordinated and crowdsourced online. In the last year, one GAI feature has emerged as a favorite among extremists: The ability to embed shapes, symbols and…
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Campus Antisemitism Surges Amid Encampments and Related Protests at Columbia and Other U.S. Colleges

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Campus Antisemitism Surges Amid Encampments and Related Protests at Columbia and Other US Colleges
Anti-Zionist student groups on more than 100 U.S. college and university campuses have established “encampments” in recent days to ostensibly protest Israel’s actions in Gaza and their academic institutions’ alleged “complicity” in those actions. College campuses have been the site of many tense anti-Israel protests and antisemitic incidents since the start of the ongoing Israel-Hamas war that began with Hamas’s October 7, 2023, terrorist attack. These…
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“Israel is ISIS” and other lies about the Crocus City Hall terror attack

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“Israel is ISIS” and other lies about the Crocus City Hall terror attack
Conspiracy theories and antisemitic narratives have flooded social media in the wake of an Islamic State-claimed terror attack at a music venue outside Moscow.  On March 22, 2024, four gunmen attacked concertgoers at Crocus City Hall, shooting into the crowd and using explosives to set the building on fire, killing at least 130 people and injuring at least 140 others.  Hours after the attack, the Amaq News Agency, a propaganda arm of the Islamic State (IS or ISIS), claimed…
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Men Going Their Own Way (MGTOW): What You Need to Know

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What You Need To Know: "Men Going Their Own Way"
Part of the ADL Center on Extremism’s coverage of the misogynist manosphere and its subcultures, each of which impacts women’s experiences of safety and equity – online and offline.     Men Going Their Own Way (MGTOW) is a distinct faction of the “manosphere,” the broad set of male supremacist, anti-feminist, misogynist and sometimes violent extremist movements that exist largely online. The MGTOW movement began online in the early 2000s when…
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TikTok Ban Feared, Antisemitic Conspiracy Theories Follow

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TikTok Ban Feared, Antisemitic Conspiracy Theories Follow
On March 13, 2024, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill that could potentially lead to a nationwide ban of the popular social media platform TikTok. According to the bill, the issue stems from TikTok being owned by a “foreign adversary,” which poses a national security threat. TikTok’s China-owned parent company ByteDance would be required to find another buyer within six months to avoid the app being pulled from app stores in the US. While the bill has not yet…
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