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How to Talk to Young People About the El Paso Shooting (En Español)

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Female Tutor Leading Discussion Group Amongst High School Pupils

August 05, 2019 Updated August 2020 In August 2019, at a time when parents and teachers should have been be thinking about children’s new notebooks and back-to-school jitters, they instead had to contemplate how to talk with their children about mass shootings and anti-immigrant bias. On Saturday, August 3, 2019 a gunman opened fire in a shopping center in El Paso, Texas—a city that prides itself as one of the safest in the U.S. Some families were there to do their…

August 05, 2019

Mass Shooting in El Paso: What We Know

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August 04, 2019 On Saturday morning, August 3, 2019, a gunman opened fire at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, and at the adjacent Cielo Vista Mall. The death toll is believed to be at least 20, and several dozen people are reportedly injured. The alleged shooter, 21-year-old Patrick Crusius of Allen, Texas, was taken into custody shortly after the shooting. The FBI has reportedly opened a domestic terrorism investigation into the shooting, while Texas authorities are…

August 04, 2019

Exposing the Sale of Far-Right Hate on Amazon

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August 02, 2019 THE WEEK'S BIG 3 A new report from ADL reveals extremist items, including those promoting white supremacy, are widely available for purchase on Amazon, despite the company’s terms of service against such products. The alleged gunman responsible for killing three at a California food festival promoted a book cited by white supremacists on social media shortly before opening fire. The NonProfit Times is out with their annual “Power and Influence Top 50,”…

August 02, 2019

Food Festival Shooter Promoted Obscure Social Darwinist Screed

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July 30, 2019 After a deadly shooting spree at the Gilroy (California) Garlic Festival on July 28 that left three dead and 15 injured, an Instagram account was discovered that appears to have recently been created by the shooter, Santino Legan. In a post made not long before the attack, Legan asked why towns were overcrowded and open space paved over to make room for “hoards [sic] of mestizos and Silicon Valley white tw*ts.” Legan also urged people to read the book Might…

July 30, 2019

Amazon: Hate for Sale

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July 29, 2019 Items and merchandise promoting right-wing extremist ideologies, including white supremacy and the anti-government militia movement, are still being offered for sale by various third-party sellers on Amazon, in apparent violation of the company’s own policies, according to a recent search of the retailing site by experts in ADL’s Center on Extremism. Hateful books (including paradigmatic white supremacist novel The Turner Diaries) are easily accessible, usually…

July 29, 2019

Congress Needs to Act to Save the U.S. Refugee Resettlement Program

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July 24, 2019 On the heels of the implementation of an interim final rule that all but ends asylum protections for Central American and other migrants and the further expansion of the administration’s Remain In Mexico policy, several reports last week indicated that the Trump Administration may also be considering slashing refugee admissions to the U.S. to zero next year, essentially halting the U.S. refugee admissions program. The U.S. has historically resettled more refugees than…

July 24, 2019

A New Beginning for Jewish Relations with the WCC?

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July 19, 2019 By Rabbi David Sandel | ADL Director of Interreligious Engagement At a meeting held in Paris, June 25-27, the International Jewish Committee on Interreligious Consultations (IJCIC) and the World Council of Churches (WCC) restored formal relations after a hiatus of more than two decades. IJCIC, a consortium of 11 international Jewish organizations, was founded in the wake of the Second Vatican Council and is the Vatican’s official dialogue partner with…

July 19, 2019

President Trump Tells Four Democratic Congresswomen to “Go Back” to Where They Came From

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July 19, 2019 Edition: July 18, 2019 THE WEEK’S BIG 3 President Trump directs “blatantly racist” tweets at four Democratic Congresswomen of color, telling them to “go back” to where they came from. Argentina marks the solemn 25th anniversary of the bombing of a Jewish community center in Buenos Aires, which killed 85 and wounded 300. White supremacists in Massachusetts have launched a coordinated fliering campaign, targeting area synagogues with propaganda…

July 19, 2019

White Supremacists, Extremists Celebrate President Trump’s Latest Racist Tweets

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July 15, 2019 UPDATE: At a July 17 campaign rally in Greenville, North Carolina, Trump supporters broke out into chants of “Send Her Back,” an apparent reference to Ilhan Omar, a naturalized U.S. citizen who was born in Somalia. President Trump, who appeared to do nothing to stop the chants as they happened, initially claimed he was “not particularly happy” about the crowd’s chanting, but several days later defended rally attendees, calling them “incredible…

July 15, 2019

Unpacking Facebook's Civil Rights Audit's Second Report

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July 02, 2019 While Facebook is working with leading civil society organizations, including ADL, to address civil rights concerns on their platform, their latest report raises more questions than it answers about how Facebook intends to do this. Many of the audit committee’s recommendations are not novel but, if implemented, would be valuable steps forward in addressing hate, harassment and radicalization on Facebook — such as blocking for targets of large-scale…

July 02, 2019

VK.com: Linking American White Supremacists to International Counterparts

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July 02, 2019 Even as mainstream social media companies are struggling to eliminate extremist content and users from their platforms, the opportunities of scale and reach provided by these platforms continue to be leveraged and weaponized by extremists. And as mainstream companies increase their content moderation efforts to clamp down on hate, extremists are migrating to other platforms. White supremacists are relatively easy to find on mainstream sites like Facebook and Twitter, despite…

July 02, 2019

White Supremacists Increase Efforts to Recruit on College Campuses

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June 28, 2019 Edition: June 27, 2019 THE WEEK’S BIG 3 White supremacists increased college campus recruiting efforts with more propaganda distributions for the third straight year. ADL and partners are teaming up in an initiative to help redirect those seeking extremist content on the internet to material that exposes the falsehoods of these hateful movements. In a victory for immigration advocates, the Supreme Court ruled the Trump Administration cannot, for now, include the…

June 28, 2019

White Supremacists Continue to Spread Hate on American Campuses

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June 27, 2019 June 2019 ADL’s Center on Extremism monitors the growing white supremacist propaganda efforts, including those targeting U.S. college campuses. During the 2018-2019 school year, from September 1, 2018 to May 31, 2019, ADL documented 313 cases of white supremacist propaganda on campus – a 7% increase from the 292 recorded during the 2017-2018 academic year. This increase was particularly evident during the 2019 spring semester, which saw more…

June 27, 2019

It's Time for Congress to Restore the Voting Rights Act

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June 25, 2019 UPDATE: On June 26th, ADL submitted this statement urging passage of the Voting Rights Advancement Act as part of House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties hearings entitled “Continuing Challenges to the Voting Rights Act Since Shelby County v. Holder. This week marks six years since the Supreme Court’s disastrous decision in Shelby County v. Holder gutted a key provision of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the nation…

June 25, 2019

On Stonewall 50, Take Action to Pass the Equality Act

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June 24, 2019 Fifty years ago in June 1969, police raided the Christopher Street bar in Manhattan’s West Village, the Stonewall Inn. The raid came amidst a broader police crackdown on gay bars for operating without state liquor licenses, although at the time the State Liquor Authority refused to grant licenses to bars that served LGBTQ people. Indeed, 50 years ago - LGBTQ people generally lived in the shadows, subject to violence and government-sanctioned discrimination…

June 24, 2019

Alleged synagogue shooting plot by neo-Nazi sympathizer leads to arrest

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June 21, 2019 THE WEEK'S BIG 3 In a major decision involving the use of religious symbols, the Supreme Court ruled that a 40-foot-tall cross can continue to stand on public land. An apparent neo-Nazi sympathizer allegedly plotted to commit a mass shooting at a synagogue in the Bay Area before being thwarted by police. A new report from ADL reveals that domestic Islamist terrorism decreased in 2018. Read on for more on these headlines, news you can use to fight hate, and the latest info…

June 21, 2019

Join Us in Ensuring That the US Remains a Refuge for Those Most in Need.

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June 19, 2019 Asylum seekers and refugees coming to the United States are often fleeing extreme danger, persecution and violence. Under national and international law, they have the right to seek asylum and protection in our country. The United States also has a moral duty to give them the opportunity to build safer and better lives, and to serve as a beacon of hope for families seeking refuge. Throughout our history, refugees and asylum seekers have contributed to our economy and society. …

June 19, 2019

U.S. Quds Day Rallies Marked by Inflammatory Rhetoric

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June 19, 2019 Incendiary anti-Israel rhetoric and occasional support for terrorism marked Quds (Jerusalem Day) events in eight U.S. cities, held Friday, May 31st and Saturday, June 1st. The annual day of anti-Israel activism was originally conceived by the leader of the 1979 Iranian Revolution and Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khomeini. While Quds Day events in Europe and the Middle East draw thousands of people, attendance in the U.S. was relatively sparse. Quds Day events took place in…

June 19, 2019

Take Action: Anti-Semitism is Escalating in Europe

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June 17, 2019 Alarming reports from Europe show sharp increases in violent anti-Semitic incidents. Europe is facing a shocking rise in anti-Semitism — driven by right-wing nationalist extremism, institutional anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism in left-wing political parties, and rising violent Islamist radicalization. This triple threat breeds anxiety across European Jewish communities. Furthermore, a recent CNN poll found that a third of Europeans knew little to nothing about the Holocaust…

June 17, 2019

Senior Pranks Are Fun Until They're Not: What to Do When Pranks are Biased and Offensive

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June 17, 2019 It’s that time of year when seniors play “pranks” as a final goodbye to their high school days. Intended to cause havoc, senior pranks may be planned for weeks or months leading up to graduation. These pranks are often harmless, fun and light-hearted and, in the best of cases, reflect a positive climate and school spirit. But some pranks have the opposite effect. They are offensive, harmful to individual students and negatively impact school climate. These…

June 17, 2019