Edan Alexander is free at last. Shortly after Hamas began its attack on October 7, 2023, Edan Alexander, an American-Israeli from Tenafly, New Jersey, was able to speak to his mother and tell her he was alright. Just half an hour later, she couldn’t reach him. Edan's family heard nothing from him for over a year and a half, except for the cruel propaganda videos released by the terrorists holding Edan hostage. After 584 days of agony, torture, and darkness – Edan has finally…
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White supremacists, antisemites and racists rally behind a woman who called a Black child a racial slur, helping her raise over $700K while spreading hate.
Masar Badil, also known as the Palestinian Alternative Revolutionary Path Movement, is a transnational extreme anti-Zionist organization. Its activities include co-hosting events and rallies with the terror-connected and fellow extreme anti-Zionist organization Samidoun, publishing inflammatory statements that glorify violence against the State of Israel and Zionists and hosting webinars featuring members of U.S.-designated Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs) Hamas and Ansar Allah…
Episode 4.8: Antisemitism in America: The Stories Behind the NumbersReleased on April 22, 2025, ADL’s 2024 Audit of Antisemitic Incidents tabulated 9,354 antisemitic incidents of harassment, vandalism and assault across the U.S.—the highest number recorded since ADL began tracking these incidents in 1979. In this episode of extremely, Oren and Jessica sit down with three of ADL’s Regional Directors for a closer look at how antisemitism is manifesting in communities…
Roblox has established itself as one of the most popular online gaming platforms for children and teens, drawing millions of gamers worldwide on a daily basis. But beneath its kid-friendly façade, it has also been plagued by crisis and controversy surrounding issues such as content moderation, player safety and exposure to inappropriate content. More recently, the ADL Center on Extremism (COE) has uncovered a disturbing subculture on Roblox that centers around mass violence. A group…
1. The Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism is a non-profit organization seeking to dismantle Zionism. The Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism (ICSZ) is a far-left, explicitly anti-Zionist non-profit organization founded in 2023 by prominent anti-Zionist activists and academics who seek the villainization and wholesale rejection of Zionism—the movement for the self-determination and statehood of the Jewish people in their ancestral homeland, Israel—from academia…
In 2024, the ADL Center on Extremism (COE) documented white supremacist propaganda distributions in every U.S. state and the District of Columbia, except Hawaii. Our 2024 assessment focuses on messaging-- the common themes behind the thousands upon thousands of propaganda incidents that have plagued American cities across the nation. White supremacist groups chose to respond to current events and the elevation of certain narratives in the media by tailoring their propaganda accordingly. In…
New York, NY, March 27, 2025 … In 2024, the ADL Center on Extremism (COE) documented white supremacist propaganda distributions in every U.S. state and the District of Columbia, except Hawaii. The 2024 assessment focused on the common themes behind the thousands of propaganda incidents that plagued American cities across the nation, finding that most of the white supremacist propaganda distributed included antisemitic or anti-immigrant language. Some groups leaned into both of…
Episode 4.7ADL's annual Never Is Now summit took place in early March 2025 in New York City, and extremely™ was there for a live taping. In this episode, hosts Oren Segal and Jessica Reaves weighed in on the funding of extremism, the online cultures of violence and where the lines between misogyny and extremism begin to blur. Plus, they opened up the floor to questions from the show's listeners. extremely™ is a podcast from the ADL Center on Extremism. Sign up for our weekly…
New York, NY, March 18, 2025, … The Secure Community Network (SCN) and the ADL’s (the Anti-Defamation League) Center on Extremism (COE) successfully launched their new Regional Security & Intelligence Briefings Pilot Program on Wednesday, 19 February with an inaugural event in Denver, Colorado. This groundbreaking initiative, hosted in collaboration with JEWISHcolorado, gathered nearly 50 community leaders for a dynamic discussion focused on antisemitism,…
Nueva iniciativa fortalece los esfuerzos para monitorear, exponer y luchar contra el antisemitismo y el antisionismo mediante la capacitación, el análisis y la colaboración Nueva York, Nueva York, 10 de marzo de 2025 ... La Liga Antidifamación (ADL) y la Confederação Israelita do Brasil (CONIB) anunciaron hoy una nueva asociación para fortalecer los esfuerzos destinados a combatir el antisemitismo, el antisionismo y las amenazas…
Episode 4.6On this inaugural episode of extremely™ brief, the letter 'A' is for accountability. First, we look at the pardon of approximately 1,500 January 6 insurrectionists, including roughly 200 who were directly convicted of instigating violence against law enforcement that day. Now out of prison, they are free to seek revenge, run for office or possibly just peruse their local library. Meta announced it was removing its agreement with a consortium of fact-checkers in favor of …
In a notable development for the anti-Israel movement, prominent American and international anti-Zionist activists traveled to Lebanon last month to attend the joint funeral of Hassan Nasrallah and Hashem Safieddine, leaders of the Lebanon-based, U.S.-designated terror group Hezbollah. Many other such activists marked the occasion by openly expressing their admiration for these notorious terror leaders at anti-Israel demonstrations and online. Attendees at Nasrallah and Safieddine’s…
Nueva York, Nueva York, 2 de marzo de 2025 ... La Liga Antidifamación (ADL) honró hoy al juez argentino Carlos A. Mahiques con el Premio de la Fundación Leon y Marilyn Klinghoffer en la Cumbre Nacional de Liderazgo 2025. El juez Mahiques recibió este honor por ser el autor de la opinión mayoritaria en el fallo histórico de la Cámara Federal de Casación Penal argentina del 11 de marzo de 2024. Esta decisión puso en evidencia el…
ADL Honors Judge Carlos Mahiques for Bold Ruling on Iran's Role in AMIA Bombings
The Nation of Islam (NOI) held its annual Saviours’ Day conference in Chicago, IL, from February 21–23, 2025. In a marked departure from over forty years of tradition, longtime NOI leader Louis Farrakhan, 91, was mostly absent from the weekend’s activities, which were also smaller in scale than usual. Nonetheless, Farrakhan and NOI’s familiar brand of conspiratorial and antisemitic rhetoric — including some of the same claims that Farrakhan made during his 2024…
New York, NY, February 21, 2025 … For the third year in a row, murders in the United States connected to extremism have declined, according to new data from ADL (the Anti-Defamation League). Domestic extremists were involved in the killing of at least 13 people in 2024, a significant drop from the 20 extremist-related murders in 2023. However, this trend will not continue. The ADL Center on Extremism (COE) has already documented 15 extremist-related murders in 2025 so far, 14 of them…
New York, NY, February 6, 2025 … ADL (the Anti-Defamation League), Paul Weiss and Taft today filed a civil lawsuit against the neo-Nazi extremist group Blood Tribe, its leaders, and additional unnamed individuals, seeking compensatory and punitive damages for the campaign of harassment and intimidation they unleashed against the people and city of Springfield, Ohio, beginning in July 2024. The filing in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio alleges that Blood Tribe…
Throughout 2024, the ADL Center on Extremism documented the tactics deployed by extremists and purveyors of hate to promote false narratives, as well as the harmful impact of conspiracy theories, misinformation and disinformation on communities including Jews, immigrants and other marginalized groups. Predicting how extremists may weaponize false narratives requires an understanding of the strategies that allow them to spread most effectively. Here, we highlight three key mis-…
While much of the world welcomed the prospect of a pause in hostilities and the release of hostages following news of the ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas in mid-January, leading voices in the U.S. anti-Zionist movement responded by doubling down on extreme and inflammatory positions and support for violent action. In online statements and at on-the-ground rallies in the days following the deal — which was announced on January 15, 2025, and officially began with a multiphase…