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Active Club Network

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Active Club Network
Key Points: Active Clubs are a nationwide network of localized white supremacist crews who are largely inspired by Robert Rundo’s white supremacist Rise Above Movement (R.A.M.) Active Club members see themselves as fighters training for an ongoing war against a system that they claim is deliberately plotting against the white race. Active Clubs distribute white supremacist propaganda, participate in small-scale demonstrations, and often gather privately for training events…
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National Socialist Front (NSF)

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NatSoc Florida (NSF)
Key Points National Socialist Front (NSF) is a small neo-Nazi group based primarily in Florida. After rebranding as a national group in late 2023, NSF formed a new chapter on the central coast of California. NSF openly promotes antisemitism, fascism and white supremacy through online posts, in-person demonstrations and propaganda distributions. NSF’s demonstrations and propaganda primarily target the Jewish and LGBTQ+ communities.  In October 2024, NSF leader Josh Nunes announced…
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Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP)

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Students from Brooklyn College and supporters hold signs during a pro-Palestinian protest at the entrance of the New York campus on October 12, 2023
Key Points SJP refers to a network of anti-Zionist student groups on university campuses across the U.S.SJP is also used as shorthand for National SJP or NSJP, the National Students for Justice in Palestine, which is led by a Steering Committee.Individual SJP chapters and National SJP have justified and/or glorified the Hamas-led October 7 attack on Israel. They were also a central organizer of the 2024 student encampments across US universities and colleges.SJP chapters take their cues from…
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The Black Hammer Organization

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The Black Hammer Organization
Key Points The Black Hammer Organization’s primary ideology is anti-colonialism, although they also promote far-right, antisemitic and anti-Zionist ideas.The leader of the Black Hammer Organization is Augustus Cornelius Romain Jr. AKA “Commander in Chief" Gazi Kodzo.At its peak in the summer of 2020, the group boasted a few dozen members in chapters across the country and Kenya. By 2022, most of its chapters have become inactive, and its numbers have dwindled to, likely, no more…
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Musa Abu Marzuq

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In detailing connections between the Richardson, Texas-based Holy Land Foundation (HLF) and Hamas, Attorney General John Ashcroft cited longtime Hamas operative Musa Abu Marzuq's (Marzook) early involvement in the HLF.
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The Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development

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IntroductionThe Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development (HLF), once considered the largest Muslim charity in the U.S., has been shut down by the government for funding Hamas. On May 27, 2009, a federal judge in Dallas handed down sentences ranging from 15 to 65 years in prison to five of the charity's founders and former fundraisers. A federal jury returned guilty verdicts on all 108 counts against the HLF and its five former officers on November 24, 2008. The federal government proved…
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White Lives Matter

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White Lives Matter
The mission of ADL is to stop the defamation of the Jewish people and to secure justice and fair treatment to all.
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Goyim Defense League

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Goim Defence League
Key PointsThe Goyim Defense League is a loose network of individuals who promote vitriolic antisemitism and white supremacist themes through online activity, propaganda distributions, and real-world actions.The group includes a few dozen core influencers and live streamers, a larger group of supporters willing to engage in on-the-ground activity, and tens of thousands of online followers.GDL operates GoyimTV, a video platform that streams antisemitic content, with monetized livestreams funding…
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Nationalist Social Club (NSC-131)

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Nationalist Social Club
Key Points NSC-131 is a neo-Nazi group based in the New England region.Members consider themselves soldiers at war with a hostile, Jewish-controlled system that is deliberately plotting the extinction of the white race.NSC-131 seeks to form an underground network of white men who are willing to fight against their perceived enemies through localized direct actions.Members espouse racism, antisemitism and intolerance via the Internet, propaganda distributions and the use of…
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Incels (Involuntary celibates)

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Key Points  Incels are heterosexual men who blame women and society for their lack of romantic successA subset of the online misogynist “manosphere” that includes Pick Up Artists and Men’s Rights Activists, incels are known for their deep-seated pessimism and profound sense of grievance against womenThe incel ideology is rooted in the belief that women have too much power in the sexual/romantic sphere and ruin incels’ lives by rejecting themIncels are the most…
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Patriot Front

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On May 13, 2023, approximately 150 members of Patriot Front marched through the National Mall in Washington, D.C. Source: Telegram.
Key Points Members of the white supremacist group Patriot Front believe that their ancestors conquered America and bestowed it to them, and no one else. Patriot Front defines itself as an organization of “American nationalists,” justifying its hate and intolerance under the guise of preserving America’s identity as a “Pan-European nation.” Since 2019, Patriot Front has been responsible for the vast majority of white supremacist propaganda distributed in the United…
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Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP)

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Demonstrators organized by Jewish Voice for Peace and IfNotNow rally to demand a ceasefire in Gaza on October 18, 2023 near the U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC.
Key PointsJewish Voice for Peace (JVP) is a radical anti-Israel and anti-Zionist activist group that advocates for the eradication of Zionism and the boycott of Israel.JVP does not represent the mainstream Jewish community, which it views as bigoted for its association with Israel.JVP promotes messaging that descends into the antisemitic vilification of “Zionists,” and can include classic antisemitic tropes and support for terrorists.JVP blamed Israel for the Hamas October 7,…
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