by: Marilyn Mayo August 23, 2016 A “white lives matter” protest that targeted the Houston offices of the NAACP was organized by local leaders of Aryan Renaissance Society (ARS), a small but long-standing white supremacist group.
During the August 21 protest, the ARS symbol, a lightning bolt and a runic symbol, was visible on the group’s “white lives matter” banner and on white shirts worn by some of the dozen or so participants. Their message also included a sign…
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by: David Robbins August 19, 2016 How an Injustice Committed Over 100 Years Ago Inspires Our Commitment to Justice Today
By Jonathan Greenblatt
CEO of the Anti-Defamation League
This blog originally appeared on Medium
This week, we mark a somber anniversary of the 101st anniversary of the lynching of Leo Frank, a Jewish businessman sent to Georgia to manage his family’s pencil factory. This lynching took place at a time of rampant anti…
by: Marilyn Mayo August 12, 2016 On August 11, 2016, a jury convicted white supremacist Billy Ray Mount, of Clearlake, California, on charges of second-degree murder.
Mount, 36, a member of the racist skinhead organization Volksfront, killed Steven Galvin in a drive-by shooting on July 2, 2015, apparently in retaliation for Galvin’s alleged theft of a tablet computer.
Volksfront is a virulently racist and anti-Semitic group founded in Portland, Oregon, in 1994, whose primary…
by: Oren Segal August 10, 2016 Recently, The Satanic Temple announced that it plans starting after school clubs for the coming school year and sent letters to a number of public school districts advising them of its intentions. Under a 2001 U.S. Supreme Court ruling, K-12 public schools must allow these clubs if they allow secular community groups to use their facilities. But a key supporter of the 2001 decision and after-school access for Christian "Good News Clubs"…
by: Marilyn Mayo August 09, 2016 A SWAT team with the Gladstone Police Department in Northwestern Oregon rescued a woman being held hostage by a barricaded white supremacist following a shootout with police.
The incident began on August 8, 2016, when Jeffrey Carl Giddings, a convicted felon and career criminal, fled on a bicycle from an officer who was attempting to stop him for a traffic violation.
A short time later, Giddings allegedly opened fire on a police sergeant who had located him…
by: Jinnie Spiegler August 04, 2016
On the final night at the Democratic National Convention, a Muslim American couple named Khizr and Ghazala Khan came to the stage and delivered a patriotic speech about their son, a U.S. Army Captain who died in 2004 in Iraq serving his country. Khizr Khan, as his wife looked on, spoke for a mere six minutes. The speech was so riveting that the discussion about it continued into the next day and beyond, many people calling it was one of the…
by: Oren Segal August 03, 2016 Khizr Khan has been in the public eye since he spoke at the 2016 Democratic National Convention. In reacting to Khan’s prominence, some long-time anti-Muslim activists are seeking to discredit him.
Anti-Muslim extremist, Walid Shoebat, who is known for promoting Christian militancy, published an article on his website claiming that Khizr Khan, the father of Cpt. Humayan Khan is “a Muslim Brotherhood Agent Who Wants To Advance Sharia Law And…
by: David Robbins August 02, 2016 Everyone Should Take to Heart Mr. and Mrs. Khan’s Underlying Message About the Evils of Prejudice
By Jonathan Greenblatt
CEO of the Anti-Defamation League
This blog originally appeared on Medium
Like millions of Americans, I was enthralled by the presentation of Khizr Khan at the Democratic National Convention. It was not only a highlight of the convention, but also a moment particular to the changing America of the 21st…
by: Oren Segal July 21, 2016 The leader of the Aryan Circle Motorcycle Club (MC), David Wayne Williams (aka Big Dave) of Mamou, Louisiana, has been arrested along with seven other Aryan Circle members and associates for their alleged roles in the shooting death of Clifton Hallmark.
The Evangeline Parish Sheriff's office has charged Anissa Hallmark, Michael Auxilien, Elizabeth Auxilien, David Wayne Williams, Christa Williams, Heather Tate, Jeremey Wade Jorden, and Brian Elliot Granger with…
by: Oren Segal July 21, 2016
Al Malahem media, Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP)’s propaganda wing, released a new pamphlet examining the details of the July 14 attack in Nice, France, and encouraging copy-cat attacks.
The pamphlet is the second in a series called "Inspire Guides," which state that they are designed to “[provide] guidance to the Lone Mujahid (fighter)” and to “follow-up, guide, put right and cor…
by: Oren Segal July 21, 2016
Court proceedings have indicated that Arizona resident Mahin Khan, arrested on July 1 for allegedly plotting to bomb a DMV on behalf of ISIS and the Pakistani Taliban, had considered directing his attack against a local Jewish Community Center (JCC) before choosing the DMV as his final target. His planning, as well as anti-Semitic statements he made, serve as a critical reminder of the nexus between anti-Semitism and Islamic extremism.
Khan had allegedly…
by: Shaya Lerner July 21, 2016 Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shukri’s July 10th visit to Israel and meeting with Israeli PM Netanyahu was the first such trip in nine years. In Israel, Shukri’s visit was greeted as reflective of warming relations between Jerusalem and Cairo who signed a peace agreement in 1979. For some in Egypt, the visit sparked protest against this act of normalization.
According to reports in Arab media, Egyptian journalists burned…
by: Oren Segal July 19, 2016 Since January 2009, ADL has tracked 70 incidents in which shots were fired between police and domestic ideological extremists. Eighty-four percent of those involved were purveyors of extreme right-wing ideologies.
The July 17 attack on Baton Rouge police marks the ninth such incident this year. With nine incidents year-to-date, verses a full-year average of 8.5 for the past seven years (2009-2015), these incidents are occurring at an alarming…
by: Mark Pitcavage July 18, 2016
After authorities identified Gavin Eugene Long as the man who shot and killed three police officers from Baton Rouge and East Baton Rouge on July 17, unconfirmed media reports claimed that Long (who also used the name Cosmo Setepenra) had connections with the anti-government extremist sovereign citizen movement.
Sovereign citizens believe that a conspiracy subverted and replaced the original U.S. government with an illegitimate “de…
by: Oren Segal July 15, 2016 The use of a vehicle to kill civilians in yesterday’s apparent terror attack in Nice, France, serves as a reminder of how terrorist groups and their supporters encourage their adherents to carry out attacks with common resources.
In addition to run-over style attacks, terrorists have encouraged the use of common items such as household products to make bombs, as well as various other tactics in their online magazines, speeches and other propaganda.
The…
by: David Robbins July 15, 2016
Over the next two weeks, Republicans and Democrats convene their conventions – the equivalent of the MLB All-Star Game for political junkies. While the conventions are often a spectacle of political theater, this year it feels like the drama that has taken center stage is overshadowing important policy issues.
This hasn’t happened in a vacuum. For years, America’s political debate has been sliding toward greater polarization and…
July 14, 2016
It has been a rough summer as the topic of guns, violence, police and bias scream across the news headlines and our smart phones.
Still reeling from the June 12 massacre of 49 people at a gay nightclub in Orlando, a few short weeks later we watched on video the back-to-back shooting deaths by police of Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge, LA and Philando Castile in Falcon Heights, MN. Just a day later, as cities across the country engaged in protests over these…
by: Oren Segal July 14, 2016 The leaders of the New Black Panther Party (NBPP), the largest organized anti-Semitic and racist Black militant group in America, will be in Cleveland July 14-17 ahead of the Republican convention, where they will likely inflame the already tense situation following the fatal shootings of Alton Sterling in Louisiana and Philando Castile in Minnesota and the killing of five police officers in Dallas. …
by: Jinnie Array July 13, 2016
The Pokémon GO app is a hybrid virtual and real world game. The game’s objective is to use a smartphone to find, see and capture/collect virtual Pokémon characters. Many players find the game highly engaging, entertaining and even addictive. Pokémon characters are apparently randomly distributed on the game’s map, but can also be collected at “Pokestops,” locations in the real world based on points…
by: Shaya Lerner July 11, 2016 Graffiti recently on view in East Jerusalem, including on Salah El-Din street (the area’s main business district), highlights the incitement to violence seeping into the daily lives of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians living in that area. It serves as a reminder of the fragility of the relative calm Jerusalem has enjoyed in recent weeks, having previously been a focal point in the wave of Palestinian terror which began in September of 2015, often…