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…
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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…
by: Oren Segal July 07, 2016 Philando Castile. Alton Sterling. Sandra Bland. Walter Scott. Freddie Gray. Tamir Rice. Michael Brown. Eric Garner. Tragically, the list goes on and on. According to The Guardian, at least 136 black people have been killed by police since the beginning of 2016, and 306 were killed in 2015.
For every person on that list, there is a family in mourning and friends who are in pain. Each time—as with the families and communities of Philando Castile and Alton…
by: Jonathan Greenblatt July 07, 2016 This blog originally appeared in Medium.
As we approach the first anniversary of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) it is an appropriate time to reassess the merits of the deal. ADL was among the nuclear deal’s critics.
Beyond the nuclear restraints it would impose on Iran, our concern is that it would normalize an expansionist, militant regime whose unrepentant and fundamentalist ideology was not tamed by the deal.
Unlike…
by: Shaya Lerner July 06, 2016 Following the spate of gruesome Palestinians terror attacks which took the lives of Hallel Ariel and Rabbi Miki Mark (whose killing was glorified on Arabic-language social media), a video has surfaced on social media calling for the killing of Israeli Knesset Member and Temple Mount activist Yehuda Glick. Glick, like the late Rabbi Mark, lives in the settlement of Otniel. He is best known for surviving a Palestinian assassination attempt in October 2014 in…
by: Shaya Lerner July 06, 2016 As the Iranian government commemorated Al-Quds (Jerusalem) Day on Friday, July 1st, which included the usual protests involving the burning of US and Israeli flags, some senior Iranian religious leaders and government officials expressed their desire to see Israel’s destruction. These pronouncements, some of which echoed prior comments made by Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei, included:
“Today the most important point for the…
by: Oren Segal July 06, 2016 Updated July 21, 2016
The GOP convention in Cleveland (July 18-21) is a key opportunity for a range of extremists and bigots who seek publicity to voice their support or opposition to Donald Trump – and their hatred for anyone who disagrees with them.
As the Anti-Defamation League has noted, the 2016 U.S. Presidential campaign – and one candidate in particular – has elicited unprecedented levels of engagement and enthusiasm among anti…
by: David Robbins July 01, 2016 Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO and National Director of the Anti-Defamation League, has joined the Aspen Ideas Festival to discuss the debate on college campuses and beyond about the meaning of free speech and language that crosses a line and actually diminishes, rather than fosters, open discourse.
This blog originally appeared on Medium
The tug of war between ideas
is not new on college campuses. The very nature of the university is to gain knowledge…
by: Shaya Lerner July 01, 2016 Al-Quds (Jerusalem) Day, which takes place on the last Friday of Ramadan, was initiated in 1979 by Ayatollah Khomeini, leader of the Islamic revolution in Iran, as a show of solidarity with the Palestinians and to assert the Islamic claim over Jerusalem. While events are held around the world, in Iran, it is often marked by a hateful demonstration of anti-Israel and anti-Semitic sentiment, manifest in government organized rallies and other activities…
by: Marilyn Mayo June 28, 2016 A coterie of racist skinheads and other white supremacists staged a rally at the state capitol in Sacramento, California, this past weekend, a rally that degenerated into a bloody brawl when the racists were attacked by a larger group of left-wing counter-demonstrators. At least 10 people were reportedly injured.
Both sides came prepared for a fight, after a previous brawl in southern California earlier in the year, and both sides declared “success&rdquo…
by: Oren Segal June 27, 2016
Al Malahem media, Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP)’s propaganda wing, released a pamphlet on June 23 that praised the Orlando shooting and provided suggestions for copying it and making additional attacks both more lethal and better suited to AQAP’s propaganda aims.
The four-page PDF pamphlet, which was released on Telegram, was titled “Inspire Guide: Orlando Operation,” and included multiple references to Inspire magazine, AQAP…
by: Marilyn Mayo June 24, 2016 A billboard in Tennessee has gotten a lot of attention due to its controversial slogan, “Make America White Again.” The billboard belongs to Rick Tyler, an independent candidate running for a seat in Tennessee’s 3rd Congressional District. Tyler, who has ties to both anti-government extremism and white supremacy, is one of a number of extremists in recent years who has had no chance of winning but has used a political campaign to promote racist…
by: Oren Segal June 24, 2016 This weekend marks the third anniversary of Shelby County v. Holder, in which the Supreme Court, by a narrow 5-4 margin, struck down key
protections of the landmark Voting Rights Act of 1965 (VRA), essentially gutting the heart of the nation’s most important and effective civil rights law. We were reminded of the dangerous struggles to enact this law when, earlier this week, the Department of Justice closed its investigation into the…