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The Order

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The Order was an American white supremacist terrorist group from the early to mid-1980s which committed assassinations, armored car robberies and bombings for several years before being brought down by law enforcement.

ALTERNATE NAMES: Silent Brotherhood, Brüder Schweigen

Unforgiven

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The Unforgiven are a large white supremacist prison gang based in the Florida prison system. Their main symbol consists of an interlocking Iron Cross and swastika, with SS lightning bolts in the center.

Universal Aryan Brotherhood

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The Universal Aryan Brotherhood is a white supremacist prison gang based in the Oklahoma prison system, one of several such gangs that have used "brotherhood" in their title. Despite the gang's name, it has no connection to the original Aryan Brotherhood, which is based in the California and federal prison systems.

USAS

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The United Society of Aryan Skinheads (USA) is a white supremacist gang active in the prisons and on the streets. Although it originated in Oregon, it is essentially based in California. USAS members primarily use one or more of three symbols: the white power fist, the Valknot, and bindrunes.

Vinlanders Social Club

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The Vinlanders Social Club (VSC) is one of the larger hardcore racist skinhead gangs in the United States, with their strongest bases of support in Indiana and Arizona.

ALTERNATE NAMES: VSC

Vinlanders Social Club (hand sign)

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The handsign used by the Vinlanders Social Club, a racist skinhead gang, consists of holding up the first, second, and fourth fingers of one hand.

Volksfront (hand sign)

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Members of the white supremacist group Volksfront have used several handsigns to represent their gang. A common one-handed sign features the fingers of the right hand divided into a "V" shape, often held over the chest. A two-handed sign uses one hand to make a "V" shape (using two or four fingers) and the other hand to make the shape of the letter "F."

Volksfront Flag

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Volksfront is a hybrid racist skinhead gang/neo-Nazi group that started in the Pacific Northwest in the 1990s.

WAR (Arkansas prison gang)

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White Aryan Resistance (WAR) is the name of a large, Arkansas-based white supremacist prison gang, who borrowed the name from California white supremacist Tom Metzger. Their main symbol is an elaborate pyramid-shaped tattoo that contains symbols representing rank and other meanings.

ALTERNATE NAMES: White Aryan Resistance (gang)

White Aryan Resistance

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White Aryan Resistance (WAR) was a loosely organized racist skinhead movement in the late 1980s and early 1990s centered around white supremacist Tom Metzger. Now the symbol is associated with Metzger himself or used as a general hate symbol.

ALTERNATE NAMES: WAR, Insurgent

White Knights

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The White Knights are a Texas-based white supremacist prison gang (also active in Arizona in recent years). Their main symbol consists of a knight's helmet containing a skull. Behind the skull are two crossed swords, while the words "white" and "knight" appear on "rockers" above and below the skull.

ADL Hails U.S. Decision Allowing American Citizens Born in Jerusalem to Have "Israel" Listed on Passport

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New York, NY, October 29, 2020 ... ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) welcomed today’s announcement by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo that American citizens, born in Jerusalem, can finally choose to have their city of birth listed as “Jerusalem, Israel” on their U.S. passports. Through advocacy and in the courts, ADL consistently has opposed the longtime State Department policy that did not permit Americans born…

October 29, 2020

Words Matter: Reflecting on the 25 Years Since Yitzhak Rabin’s Assassination

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by: Ken Jacobson October 28, 2020 Note: This blog originally appeared in The Times of Israel on Oct. 28, 2020. Twenty-five years have passed since the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, the winner of the 1994 Nobel Peace Prize for his attempts to achieve a lasting peace with the Palestinian Authority. Inevitably, a sad milestone like this causes us to look back at that day, to assess its significance from the perspective of a quarter of a century later, and to…

October 28, 2020

Antisemitic Arabic-language Cartoons in The Wake of Israeli-Arab Normalization

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September 17, 2020 Since Israel’s founding in 1948, only two countries have moved to establish ties with the Jewish State – Egypt in 1978 and Jordan in 1994. Last week saw two additional countries – the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Bahrain – sign normalization agreements with Israel, an indication that hostile regional attitudes towards Israel are shifting. And indeed, there are reports that additional Arab countries may&nbsp…

September 17, 2020

ADL Marks “Historic Day” of Signing of Israel-UAE/Bahrain Agreement

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New York, September 15, 2020 … ADL (Anti-Defamation League) today celebrated the historic signing of agreements between Israel and the United Arab Emirates and the Kingdom of Bahrain that usher in a new era of open and normalized relations between the Jewish state and these nations. “In the midst of health, economic, environmental and political crises, we pause and celebrate the enormity of this historic moment of normalization between Israel and the UAE…

September 15, 2020

ADL Welcomes Historic Israel-Bahrain Agreement

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New York, September 11, 2020... ADL (Anti-Defamation League) welcomed the historic announcement by the Governments of Israel, the Kingdom of Bahrain, and the United States to fully normalize relations between Israel and Bahrain, which comes on the heels of last month’s historic UAE-Israel agreement. "I applaud the Israeli and Bahraini leaders for reaching this historic accord," said ADL CEO Jonathan A. Greenblatt. "Making peace between nations in this manner is a courageous action…

September 11, 2020

Blood & Honour

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Group Status: Active (see below) Blood & Honour (the British spelling is typically used, even in the United States) is an international racist skinhead umbrella group started decades ago by British white supremacist and singer Ian Stuart Donaldson. It has chapters or associated groups around the world, primarily in Europe. Several American white supremacist groups proclaim an association with Blood & Honour, as do many individual white supremacists. Because of the latter, use of…

ADL Applauds Historic Israel-UAE Agreement

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New York, August 13, 2020 … ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) applauded the Governments of Israel, the United Arab Emirates, and the United States for today's historic announcement agreeing to work towards fully normalizing relations and announcing plans for cooperation across numerous civil fields between Israel and the Emirates. ADL also welcomed the announcement that Israel will suspend declaring sovereignty over territory in the West Bank, which we hope will help sustain…

August 13, 2020

Acuerdos de Abraham

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Los Acuerdos de Abraham son una serie de acuerdos bilaterales mediados por Estados Unidos que normalizaron las relaciones entre Israel y tres países árabes: Baréin y los Emiratos Árabes Unidos el 15 de septiembre de 2020, y Marruecos el 22 de diciembre de 2020. La Declaración de los Acuerdos de Abraham, firmada por funcionarios de Baréin, Emiratos, Israel y Estados Unidos el 15 de septiembre de 2020, “alienta los esfuerzos para promover el di…

July 30, 2025

Eslogan: Palestina libre

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El lema “Palestina libre” ha sido utilizado durante mucho tiempo en manifestaciones, cánticos, pancartas, internet y grafitis por quienes defienden los derechos de los palestinos. Desde el 7 de octubre, el eslogan ha sido utilizado regularmente por activistas y organizaciones antiisraelíes en los campus universitarios y otros lugares, y en numerosas ocasiones, se ha dirigido de forma maliciosa contra judíos y otras personas. En muchos sentidos, el eslogan es…

July 30, 2025