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Terrorist Bomb Incidents in Minnesota and Illinois Linked to Militia Group

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March 16, 2018 On March 13, members of the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force swooped into the tiny unincorporated community of Clarence, Illinois, to arrest four people on charges of possession of fully automatic weapons. But the real attention-grabber was the revelation in the related criminal complaint that three of them are also suspects in two 2017 terrorist pipe-bomb incidents. On August 5, 2017, a pipe bomb exploded at the Dar Al-Farooq Islamic Center in…

March 16, 2018

ADL Statement on Facebook Videos With Mothers and Children Threatening Muslims, Mosque in Arizona

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New York, NY, March 15, 2018 … The following is a statement from Anti-Defamation League (ADL) CEO Jonathan Greenblatt in response to a series of videos on Facebook where two mothers take their children to a mosque near Tempe, Ariz., to threaten Muslims in the community. Watching these videos is extremely disturbing and ugly on so many levels. It’s bad enough that these individuals felt emboldened to go to this mosque and threaten the security of those peacefully practicing…

March 15, 2018

New White Supremacist Tactic: Banners of Hate

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March 14, 2018 From Seattle to Orlando and Los Angeles to Boston, white supremacists are displaying large banners from highway overpasses and in other highly visible locations as part of an effort to promote their groups and ideologies. While white supremacists have been using banners for some time, the number of banners deployed in the past ten months marks an unprecedented trend, according to new data from ADL’s Center on Extremism. From May 2017, when the recent proliferation began,…

March 14, 2018

Extremists Exploit Gun Control Issue to Stir Hatred of Jews

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March 05, 2018 White supremacists are attempting to exploit the tragic mass shooting in Parkland, Florida, and the ensuing debate over gun control to push an anti-Semitic agenda. Some are seizing the moment as an opportunity to demonize Jews, while others are claiming gun rights as a "white identity" issue. Many are publicly framing the battle over gun control as a struggle between beleaguered whites who want to preserve their traditions in the face of a Jewish onslaught. White…

March 02, 2018

Louis Farrakhan … Again

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by: Jonathan Greenblatt | March 01, 2018 Medium In recent times, there has been one constant in anti-Semitism in America: Louis Farrakhan. His lacerating speeches over more than three decades and more from his pulpit and perch at the Nation of Islam have repeatedly placed Jews at the center of conspiracy theories blaming them for everything from controlling the banks and media to engineering the slave trade. The longtime leader of the Nation of Islam, Farrakhan’s name has become…

March 01, 2018

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Iranian Regime Continues to Propagate Anti-Semitic Tropes

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February 28, 2018 The Iranian Javan (young) website published an article on February 13, 2018 which demonstrates the Islamic Republic’s consistent use of anti-Semitic tropes to promote the regime’s entrenched hostility towards Israel. The piece appears at a time of growing tensions between Iran and Israel and within Iranian society, and feeds into long utilized conspiracy theories propagated by the Islamic Republic about Israel and Jews, as well as their demonization of Western…

February 28, 2018

ADL Asks YouTube to Take Down Neo-Nazi Video Inciting Violence

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New York, NY, February 27, 2018 … Following is a statement from Anti-Defamation League (ADL) CEO Jonathan Greenblatt in response to news that YouTube would not take down anti-Semitic videos from the neo-Nazi group Atomwaffen Division that call for gassing Jews and a “race war”: Just today we released a report showing a 60% increase in anti-Semitic incidents over the past year, and we know this type of material only contributes to that. These videos are not only…

February 27, 2018

Anti-Semitic Incidents Surged Nearly 60% in 2017, According to New ADL Report

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New York, NY, February 27, 2018 … The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) said in a new report today that the number of anti-Semitic incidents was nearly 60 percent higher in 2017 than 2016, the largest single-year increase on record and the second highest number reported since ADL started tracking incident data in the 1970s. The sharp rise, reported in ADL’s Audit of Anti-Semitic Incidents, was in part due to a significant increase in incidents in schools and on college campuses,…

February 27, 2018

Farrakhan Rails Against Jews, Israel and the U.S. Government in Wide-Ranging Saviours' Day Speech

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February 26, 2018 On February 25th, Nation of Islam’s longtime leader Louis Farrakhan spoke at the Wintrust Arena in Chicago. As in previous Saviours’ Day speeches, Farrakhan used the opportunity to rail against the Jews, Israel and the U.S. government. Before Farrakhan’s keynote address, fellow Nation of Islam principals Ava Muhammad, Nuri Muhammad and Ishmael Muhammad shared remarks. In a short speech, Ava Muhammad warned the crowd that the end of days…

February 26, 2018

Six Months Later: White Supremacists After Charlottesville

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On August 11, 2017, the world watched in horror as hundreds of torch-wielding white supremacists descended on the University of Virginia’s bucolic campus, chanting, “Jews will not replace us!” The next day, the streets of Charlottesville exploded in violence, ringing with the hateful, racist shouts of the neo-Nazis, Klan members and alt right agitators who put aside their internecine differences to gather in an unprecedented show of unity. Their stated common cause: To…

February 11, 2018

Was Blaze Bernstein's Murder a Hate Crime? We Need to Know.

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by: Jonathan Greenblatt | February 05, 2018 USA Today The cold-blooded murder of Blaze Bernstein has horrified the Jewish community and indeed all Americans. It is hard to come to terms with the shocking brutality that ended the life of such a bright and promising young man. At just 19, Blaze already had shown an aptitude for writing and the arts, even while excelling in a rigorous molecular sciences program at the University of Pennsylvania. Blaze will always be remembered for the…

February 05, 2018

ADL Finds Alarming Increase in White Supremacist Propaganda on College Campuses Across U.S.

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New data show incidents more than tripled in 2017 New York, NY, February 1, 2018 … New data released today by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) shows an alarming increase in white supremacist propaganda on U.S. college campuses during the 2017 fall semester. Since September 1, 2016, ADL’s Center on Extremism has recorded 346 incidents where white supremacists have used fliers, stickers, banners, and posters to spread their message. These incidents targeted 216 college campuses …

January 31, 2018

Far Right Trolls Recast “No Means No” and “My Body My Choice” as Anti-Immigrant Memes

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January 30, 2018 At a time when women have become increasingly vocal in addressing critical issues like sexual harassment and sexual violence, reproductive rights, workplace opportunity and equal pay, a group of far right trolls have deliberately appropriated slogans from the women’s movement in service of their own xenophobic cause. The far right campaign appropriates “No Means No” and recasts “My Body My Choice” as “My Borders My Choice.” …

January 30, 2018

Congressional Candidate Paul Nehlen Spouts Racist, Anti-Semitic Rhetoric

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January 24, 2018 Paul Nehlen, a Wisconsin Republican who hopes to unseat House Speaker Paul Ryan, is increasingly spewing anti-Semitic conspiracy theories and unapologetically racist jargon from his official Twitter account and on white supremacist podcasts. Nehlen, a businessman with no political experience, ran unsuccessfully against Ryan in 2016. This year, he initially set out to woo right-of-center Republicans with an “America First” campaign, but appears to have tacked…

January 24, 2018

White Supremacist Town Manager Envisions "Homeland" for Whites

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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)…

January 22, 2018

Letter to the NY Times Regarding Homegrown Terrorism

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The following letter was submitted to The New York Times in response to "White House Tries to Link Immigration and Terrorism" (Jan. 17) Letters to the Editor New York Times To the Editor: Re “White House Tries to Link Immigration and Terrorism” (news article, Jan. 17): The Trump administration’s report trying to link foreign-born immigrants to terrorism muddies the waters by giving an incomplete picture of the sources of extremist violence in…

January 21, 2018

Homeland Security is Wrong. Most Extremists are American Born

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by: Jonathan Greenblatt | January 18, 2018 The Forward A new report, commissioned by the Trump Administration as part of its efforts to enact new restrictions on immigration, bends over backwards to selectively pick and choose cases in which immigrants who entered the country through the diversity visa lottery or other immigration programs were directly linked to terror plots. The unsubtle agenda of the report is to link terrorism and extremist violence with immigrants. What’s…

January 18, 2018

White Supremacists Praise Trump's Inflammatory Immigration Remarks

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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 12, 2018

ADL Disappointed by Decision Not to Retry Cliven Bundy and Others for 2014 Armed Standoff in Nevada

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New York, NY, January 8, 2018 … The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today expressed disappointment in the announcement by a federal judge in Nevada that prosecutors would not be allowed to retry Cliven Bundy and other alleged ringleaders of a 2014 armed standoff in Nevada between anti-government extremists and the federal government on conspiracy and other federal charges. Bundy and a host of anti-government and anti-public lands extremists allegedly employed armed force and threats in…

January 08, 2018

So-Called "Twitter Purge" Deletes Accounts of Prominent White Supremacists, Hate Groups

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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