April 10, 2017 An online campaign of anti-Semitism has been directed at Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and advisor over the past week. It comes in the context of Trump’s removal of chief strategist Stephen Bannon from the National Security Council and reports about a feud between Bannon and Kushner as well as airstrikes in Syria in response to the chemical attack last week.
This campaign of anti-Semitism has been driven by white supremacists and anti-Semites…
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April 04, 2017 Today is Equal Pay Day, which marks how far into this year women on average have to work to receive the same pay that men in equivalent jobs took home last year. In other words, because women make less than men in the same jobs, they have to work longer for the same pay.
On average, in 2017 women make 80 cents for every dollar paid to men. For women of color, the gap is even wider. Compared with each dollar that white non-Hispanic men take home, black women on average…
April 04, 2017 The past two years have been challenging for certain groups of people, especially those targeted during the 2016 presidential election campaign with taunts, verbal attacks, name-calling and threats. Now that the election is over, those threats have resulted in proposed policy, legislation and executive orders affecting those very same people. This has left many—especially immigrants and Muslim people—feeling fearful, on edge, marginalized and worried about their…
March 30, 2017 Dozens of people showed up at the Indiana State House in Indianapolis on March 25, 2017, to support President Trump and his administration at a “Make America Great Again” (MAGA) rally, one of a number of such events held around the country that weekend. Waving Trump signs and American flags, many participants were everyday Americans excited about their president.
But about a dozen of the ralliers—a significant portion of the whole—were a little…
March 24, 2017 In the Tennessee legislature, a stealth bill that would have the same detrimental impact on LGBTQ people as the now notorious North Carolina HB 2 has passed the Senate and is moving forward in the House of Representatives.
House Bill 54 would effectively immunize private employers and business from local ordinances that prohibit discrimination against LGBTQ people in employment, housing or public accommodations.
The legislation is stealth in nature because the terms…
March 24, 2017 On Tuesday, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued new guidelines for the use of electronic devices on certain airlines and aircraft bound to the U.S. from eight majority-Muslim countries: “Electronic devices larger than a cell phone/smart phone will not be allowed to be carried onboard the aircraft in carry-on luggage or other accessible property. Electronic devices that exceed this size limit must be secured in checked luggage.”
The DHS release states…
March 21, 2017 The irony was thick this week when a Massachusetts rabbi wrote a blog piece musing about the dangerous effects of online trolling, citing the neo-Nazi website The Daily Stormer as a prime perpetrator. A Daily Stormer writer immediately pounced, posting a story ridiculing the rabbi’s concern and encouraging readers to, yes, troll her via Twitter (he provided the rabbi’s handle) “to thank her for spreading degeneracy among the Jews, or for helping spread our fame…
March 20, 2017 While ADL has documented nearly 120 incidents of white supremacist activity at college campuses across the country, racists have turned their attention to another group they want to attract—high school students. Between January and March of this year, there have been four incidents of white supremacists targeting high schools with fliers.
It is not unusual for white supremacists to target young people who have not yet matured and are susceptible to new ideas. The…
March 15, 2017 On Sunday morning, U.S. Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) took to Twitter to express some feelings about immigration, finding common cause with a well-known anti-immigration activist from Europe. “Wilders understands that culture and demographics are our destiny,” the Congressman wrote. “We can’t restore our civilization with somebody else’s babies.”
King was referring to Dutch politician Geert Wilders, an anti-Muslim crusader who is…
March 07, 2017 On March 2, Olympia police arrested racist skinhead Frank Glen Cole, Jr., 32, for an alleged armed robbery that occurred on December 29, 2016. He also faces weapon charges. Cole, who has an extensive and felonious criminal history, is a member of the Hakenkreuz Skinheads (HSH), and the latest of several persons associated with the gang to be arrested in recent months.
Another HSH associate, Daniel Brett Rowe, 32, of Richland, was arrested in August 2016 for allegedly…
March 06, 2017 Updated: June 09, 2017 White supremacists are engaged in unprecedented outreach efforts on American college campuses – another sign that these hate groups feel emboldened by the current political climate.
Throughout the 2016-17 school year, students, faculty and staff on 110 American college campuses were confronted by 159 incidents of racist fliers and stickers, as well as numerous on-campus appearances by white supremacists and…
March 06, 2017
The United States Supreme Court today issued an order declining to decide the issues in Gloucester County School Board v. G.G., a case involving the question of whether a Virginia school board’s policy of banning transgender boys and girls from using the same restrooms as their peers violated Title IX, a federal law prohibiting sex discrimination in publicly funded education programs. The Court, which had been set to hear the case on March 28th, sent the…
March 03, 2017
Federal and New York authorities announced on Friday that Juan Thompson of Missouri had been charged in connection with threats made to a number of Jewish Community Centers (JCCs) across the country.
Thompson has been charged with making the threats as part of a campaign of stalking “a former romantic interest.” William F. Sweeney, Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI’s New York Field Division, said that Thompson’s harassment campaign…
February 28, 2017
Anti-Israel groups are exploiting current anti-Trump activism to bring attention to their cause. Their strategy: Drawing specious comparisons between the planned wall dividing the U.S. and Mexico and Israel’s security fence in the West Bank and Gaza.
The comparisons are evident on social media platforms, including Facebook and Twitter, and were also on display during the recent protests at major airports across the country, where…
February 27, 2017
Last week, the Trump administration rescinded guidance from a “Dear Colleague” letter that the Obama administration sent to school districts in 2016. The letter, from the Justice and Education Departments, made it clear that they were interpreting Title IX nondiscrimination laws that prohibit discrimination on the basis of sex, to include transgender students. The letter stated that every K-12 school district, state education association and high school…
February 21, 2017 In light of bomb threats aimed at Jewish institutions, anti-Semitic fliers posted at campuses, the desecration of a Jewish cemetery in St. Louis, and the lashing out at a Jewish reporter by President Trump, anti-Semites are having a field day. Each time a Jewish person or institution is targeted, anti-Semites believe they are winning the battle against what they allege is Jewish domination of the country.
Most recently, anti-Semites alleged that Jews themselves are…
February 21, 2017
Label 56, a white supremacist e-commerce app, was removed from Google’s play store this week after ADL notified the platform of the app’s connections to a racist skinhead website.
The app acts as a sales platform for the Label 56 website, a leading white power music label. The website, which sells books, clothing, flags, jewelry and stickers, also distributes racist podcasts.
The e-commerce website behind the app started operations in…
February 21, 2017
Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) has confirmed Rasmea Odeh as a keynote speaker at their national conference in Chicago, March 31st – April 2nd.
Rasmea Odeh, a convicted terrorist, is the Associate Director at the Arab American Action Network in Chicago (AAAN). Odeh was a member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), which is designated as a terrorist organization by the U.S. State Department.
Founded by George Habash in 1967, PFLP became…
February 16, 2017
On February 15, FBI agents arrested Benjamin Thomas Samuel McDowell, 29, of Conway, South Carolina, alleging he purchased a gun from an undercover agent from the FBI posing as someone connected with a faction of the neo-Nazi group Aryan Nations. McDowell, a convicted felon not allowed to own guns, was charged with illegal possession of a firearm.
According to authorities, McDowell also indicated to the agent that he was interested in committing a “Dylann…
February 13, 2017 For a number of years, the alt right was mostly an online movement, with the exception of a few annual conferences held by American Renaissance and the National Policy Institute, two white supremacist organizations. Now its adherents are trying to meet, network, and plan actions in cities and on campuses around the county. Alt right groups have been plastering universities with fliers, meeting at forums and events in different parts of the country, organizing…