January 22, 2018 <img src="/sites/default/files/2018-01/Fantasy%20Homlands_0.png?itok=gZsbGhKM" alt="Fantasy homelands"/> Jackman, Maine, population 862, touts itself as “a recreational and forestry-based community that prides itself on being both a tourist friendly community and a great region that helps create your next vacation memories.” Recently fired town manager Tom Kawczynski has a very different vision. According to his GAB (social media)…
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January 22, 2018 Key Points
R.A.M. (Rise Above Movement) is a white supremacist group based in Southern California whose members believe they are fighting against a “modern world” corrupted by the “destructive cultural influences” of liberals, Jews, Muslims and non-white immigrants. They refer to themselves as the “premier MMA (mixed martial arts) club of the Alt-Right.”
R.A.M. operates like a street-fighting club. Members actively train to do…
January 17, 2018 Updated: July 16, 2019 It has become commonplace to witness a public display of bigoted and offensive language. In a tweet, President Trump remarked that four U.S. Congresswomen of color (Ocasio-Cortez, Omar, Pressley and Tlaib) should “go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came.” The language of "go back to where you came from" is widely recognized as a racist slur, and in particular this one is also…
January 12, 2018 White supremacists expressed delight online after President Trump’s reported remarks about “shithole” majority black countries.
Mr. Trump made the comments Thursday afternoon during a White House meeting about immigration, asking the assembled group of Senators and Representatives why he would want “all these people from shithole countries,” referring to African nations and Haiti, adding that the United States should admit more people from…
January 10, 2018 By Brittan Heller | Director of the Center for Technology and Society & Aaron Sussman | Associate National Civil Rights Counsel
It was a hoax turned deadly. On the evening of December 28, a distressed-sounding man called the police in Wichita, Kansas, and confessed that he had shot his father in the head, was holding his mother and sibling hostage, and had poured gasoline in the house, threatening to set it on fire. He then gave the police his address.
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January 03, 2018 The founders of our nation chose population as the basis for sharing political power – not wealth or land. The decennial census, required by the U.S. Constitution, provides the basis for that population count – and for apportioning the number of U.S. House of Representatives among the states, the number of Electoral College votes each state has, and to draw congressional, state legislative, and even city council district lines. The population figures…
December 29, 2017 Updated: January 11, 2018
By Melissa Garlick | Civil Rights National Counsel
Preventing young immigrant girls in government-funded shelters from accessing abortion care is just the latest effort by the Trump Administration to obstruct the rights of immigrants and the reproductive rights of women in America.
When a 17-year-old immigrant girl, living in a government-funded shelter, needed an abortion last month, the government refused to let her leave the…
December 22, 2017 Legislation similar to North Carolina’s infamous anti-LGBTQ law – HB 2 – was recently filed for the Florida State Legislature’s upcoming 2018 session. Florida House Bill 871 and Senate Bill 1290 would immunize private employers and businesses from local laws that prohibit discrimination against LGBTQ people in employment, housing, or public accommodations.
The legislation is stealth in nature because the terms sexual orientation or gender identity…
December 20, 2017 At the Anti-Defamation League, 2017 was a year of heightened challenges and unforeseen obstacles to our mission to fight anti-Semitism and secure justice and fair treatment for all. In 2017 hate crimes rose, bomb threats shattered the Jewish community’s sense of security, anti-Semitic incidents increased, white supremacists were emboldened, domestic terrorism reared its ugly head, anti-immigrant rhetoric soared, and discriminatory policies such as the Muslim travel ban…
by: Rabbi David Sandmel December 20, 2017 On the first night of Chanukah, Mr. Oren David, Ambassador of Israel to the Holy See hosted a festive reception in the library of the Vatican’s Commission for Religious Relations with the Jews. The reception was not only in honor of Chanukah, but also to acknowledge the visit to the Vatican by a delegation from the International Jewish Committee on Interreligious Consultations (IJCIC).
Ambassador David welcomed all the guests. Cardinal Kurt…
December 19, 2017 Following Monday's implementation of new safety rules on Twitter, a number of users associated with white supremacy and other hateful ideologies found themselves no longer allowed on the platform.
"ADL commends Twitter for taking these significant steps to tackle hate on their platform. We long urged Twitter to push back against hateful and violent rhetoric, and these latest actions are encouraging," CEO and National Director Jonathan Greenblatt said in a statement. …
December 19, 2017 President Trump’s December 6 declaration recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of the State of Israel and setting in motion the relocation of the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem engendered strong diplomatic protests, as well as some protests in the streets.
Moving beyond their initial outraged reaction, some Arabic-language media is continuing to focus on this issue, with editorial cartoons suggesting Jewish and Israeli domination of the United States.
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America’s deadly epidemic of school shootings continued last week, when William Atchison, a 21-year-old gas station attendant, disguised himself as a student and went to Aztec High School in northwestern New Mexico to conduct a shooting spree, something he had fantasized about for some time.
Atchison killed two students, Casey Jordan Marquez and Francisco Fernandez, and shot at a number of others before killing himself, a shocking and tragic turn of events for the people of Aztec…
December 18, 2017 Cartoons published in Qatari media used anti-Semitic imagery in its criticism of a Bahraini non-governmental delegation to Israel as an act of betrayal of Arab nationalism.
According to reports, an unofficial Bahraini delegation comprised of religious figures made a visit to Jerusalem this month in order to convey a message of tolerance. Bahrain has no formal ties with Israel and this is considered a first-of-its-kind visit; in response to criticism over the visit,…
December 14, 2017 After several weeks of discord, Identity Evropa has parted ways with Richard Spencer. This comes as a blow to the alt right leader, who counted on IE to loyally attend and promote his events.
Evan McLaren, the Executive Director of Spencer’s National Policy Institute and former Identity Evropa member, tweeted, “It is upsetting to observe a worthwhile activist group, into which much value was built and for which I was once a state coordinator, now being led so…
December 12, 2017 In reaction to President Trump’s announcement that the US would recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and begin the process of relocating the US embassy to Jerusalem, there have been a number of anti-Israel protests and anti-Semitic incidents in major cities across the Middle East, Europe and North America.
North America
Virulent anti-Israel protests were held in more than a dozen cities across the United States on December 8-10.
Many of the…
December 11, 2017 President Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital was widely condemned by Arab governments. Arabic-language media followed suit, and some outlets even used the historic declaration to propagate anti-Semitic cartoons relating to Jews, Jerusalem, and/or U.S.-Israel relations. In some instances, these cartoons suggest that Israel controls or dominates U.S. foreign policy, for example depicting U.S. President Donald Trump as a puppet operated by Israeli…
December 08, 2017 All online platforms with user-generated content struggle with how best to moderate that content.The stakes are especially high when the platform is exclusively aimed at young children.
This is something YouTube, whose parent company Google is part of ADL’s Problem-Solving Lab, learned in a particularly disturbing way, as the young viewers of its popular YouTube Kids app were suddenly exposed to videos of their favorite characters suffering grisly deaths,…
December 07, 2017 Updated: December 18, 2017 Editor's Note: Christian Picciolini and ADL's work battling extremism was featured on Sunday, Dec. 17 on 60 Minutes on CBS.
As the one-time leader of one of the most infamous white supremacist groups in America, Christian Picciolini was once so immersed in the hate movement that his name appeared prominently in an ADL report on neo-Nazi activity in Illinois.
Picciolini had swastika and racist tattoos on his arms and led…
by: Rabbi David Sandmel December 04, 2017 On Chanukah, we celebrate religious and national freedom. In the second century B.C.E., according to the available sources, the Maccabees led the Judeans in a revolt against the Seleucid king Antiochus, who outlawed the practice of Judaism to control his empire. He oppressed the people and desecrated the Temple in Jerusalem.
After defeating the Seleucids, who had overextended themselves in their war against Egypt, the Hasmoneans recaptured the…