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Dangerous videos pushed on YouTube; Iranian textbooks more antisemitic than ever; Synagogue and Holocaust memorial vandalized

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February 12, 2021 THE WEEK’S BIG 3 Google's YouTube is still recommending extremist and white supremacist videos to viewers already susceptible to racial hatred, a new report from ADL found. Iranian schools are teaching antisemitism, hatred and conspiratorial material in their textbooks, according to a comprehensive analysis by ADL. Police in Spokane, WA are looking for the person who painted swastikas on the Temple Beth Shalom building and a Holocaust memorial. Read on for more…

February 12, 2021

ADL Report Finds Iranian Textbooks Are Replete with Hatred Against Jews and Americans

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School children are taught to glorify terrorism; Textbooks blame Western media for exaggerating coronavirus to undermine the Iranian revolution New York, NY, February 11, 2021 … A comprehensive study of state textbooks exposes how students in Iran are being taught antisemitism, hatred and incitement to violence against America, Israel and the Jewish people. Released by ADL (Anti-Defamation League) on the 42nd anniversary of the Iranian revolution, the new study reveals that current…

February 10, 2021

Global Antisemitism: Select Incidents in 2021

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January Argentina A Jewish family was physically and verbally assaulted Canada Swastikas were spray painted on a synagogue Greece A monument to the Holocaust was defaced Iraq Antisemitic comments were made by the country's former Prime Minister Poland Nazi symbols were spray painted on the wall of a Jewish cemetery Turkey Classic antisemitic tropes appeared in a pro-government…

February 09, 2021

ADL’s offensive against domestic terrorism; Administration embraces IHRA definition of antisemitism; Rep. Greene loses committee slots for pro-QAnon comments

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February 05, 2021 THE WEEK’S BIG 3 In the aftermath of the deadly Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, ADL launched PROTECT -- a “whole of society” offensive, comprising federal and state governments and the tech sector, to combat domestic terrorism. A senior State Department official announced that the Biden administration “embraces and champions” an internationally recognized definition of antisemitism. Despite urging from ADL, civil rights activists and…

February 05, 2021

GameStop Stock Spike Awakens Classic Antisemitic Conspiracy Theories

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February 01, 2021 Users across social media platforms evoked antisemitism during and in the wake of the GameStop incident that took place at the end of January 2021. (photo source: Twitter) During the final week of January 2021, beleaguered retailer GameStop’s stock was driven to astronomical new highs when posters on the r/WallStreetBets subreddit launched a buying frenzy -- ostensibly aimed at soaking the Wall Street hedge funds that had shorted the stock for profit. As the…

February 01, 2021

ADL Gives Twitch High Marks for Efforts to Combat Holocaust Denial on Their Platform

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In new report card, Twitter, YouTube, TikTok and Roblox earn a “C” while Facebook barely passes with a “D” New York, NY, January 27, 2021 … ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) today issued a report card grading each of the 10 major digital social platforms for their efforts to effectively address Holocaust denial content on their platforms. The assessment, released as the world commemorates International Holocaust Remembrance Day, found that Twitch is the most…

January 26, 2021

Nation of Islam’s Wesley Muhammad calls COVID-19 Punishment for “Sins” of Jews, Israel

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January 15, 2021 On January 10, 2021, Nation of Islam (NOI) Student Minister Dr. Wesley Muhammad provided the latest example in the group’s long history of virulent antisemitism. Muhammad delivered a two-hour sermon, broadcast live from NOI’s national headquarters in Chicago, in which he explicitly and repeatedly blamed Jews and Israel for the coronavirus pandemic. As of January 14, his sermon, titled “Beyond Tuskegee: Why Black People Must Not Take the Experimental COVID-19…

January 15, 2021

Anti-Israel Groups and Activists Link Capitol Hill Rioters with Israel and her Supporters

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January 13, 2021 As images of the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol have been shared across social media, activists in the broader anti-Israel movement used photos that showed the appearance of an incongruous Israeli flag among pro-Trump protestors at the rally and outside the Capitol to falsely link Zionism and Israel with the extremism of January 6. According to photos and reports, other national…

January 13, 2021

WJC and ADL Call on Tech Companies to Enforce Policies Banning Antisemitic and Hate Products

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New York, NY, January 13, 2021 – In the wake of the violent Jan. 6 assault on Capitol Hill where numerous extremists were captured on video wearing antisemitic sweatshirts and displaying other hateful items available from online retailers, ADL (Anti-Defamation League) and the World Jewish Congress (WJC) today called on all companies that operate online marketplaces to strengthen and better enforce policies banning any product that promotes or glorifies white supremacy, racism, Holocaust…

January 13, 2021

Los Antisemitas Implican a Judíos y Sionistas en la Violencia de DC

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January 07, 2021 Manifestantes dentro del Capitolio de EE.UU, uno de ellos con una camisa que dice “Campamento Auschwitz” — Fuente: ITV news A pocas horas de que extremistas pro-Trump irrumpieron en el edificio del Capitolio de los EE.UU., ideólogos, activistas y adeptos a las teorías de conspiración antisemitas intentaron implicar a los judíos y a los sionistas en la violencia. Aunque estos antisemitas tienen una variedad de…

January 07, 2021

Antisemites Implicate Jews, Zionists in DC Violence

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January 07, 2021 Protestors—one wearing a “Camp Auschwitz” sweatshirt—inside the U.S. Capitol building. Photo credit: ITV news In the hours since pro-Trump extremists stormed the U.S. Capitol building, antisemitic ideologues, activists and conspiracy theorists have attempted to implicate Jews and Zionists in the violence. Although these antisemites have a range of opinions about President Trump, many were united in their belief that the events of Wednesday,…

January 07, 2021

Propaganda Aprobada por el Estado: Irán Termina su Tercer Concurso de Caricaturas del Holocausto

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January 04, 2021 Por David Andrew Weinberg El 1ero de enero del 2021 funcionarios iraníes —actuando con el apoyo del Líder Supremo Jameneí— publicaron los resultados del tercer concurso iraní de caricaturas políticas destinadas a promover la negación del Holocausto. Los concursos anteriores sobre este horrendo tema se celebraron con el apoyo del Estado iraní en 2006 y 2016. Una vez más, el esfuerzo de Irán…

January 04, 2021

ADL and CSI Announce Security Partnership for Expanded Cooperation and Coordination

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New York, December 30, 2020 … In response to various threats to the local Jewish community in recent years, including a series of violent attacks affecting Jewish communities of Jersey City, Monsey and Brooklyn last year, ADL’s Center on Extremism and the Community Security Initiative (CSI) today announced a partnership to focus on the security needs of the Jewish communities of greater New York City. The Center on Extremism is the ADL’s research and investigative arm…

December 30, 2020

“The Great Reset” Conspiracy Flourishes Amid Continued Pandemic

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December 29, 2020 Since first emerging in the spring of 2020, “The Great Reset” conspiracy has gained traction with the ongoing spread of COVID-19 in both mainstream and fringe circles alike. In its most common form, adherents warn that “global elites” will use the pandemic to advance their interests and push forward a globalist plot to destroy American sovereignty and prosperity. However, there are more outlandish and pernicious strains of the conspiracy, and the…

December 29, 2020

Proud Boys’ Bigotry is on Full Display

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December 24, 2020 In mid-December an image started circulating on social media. The image was taken in Washington, D.C. and featured a man standing alongside a group of Proud Boys and wearing a t-shirt emblazoned with the cryptic text “6MWE.” This code for “6 Million Wasn’t Enough” is a not-so-veiled reference to the Holocaust. The man, who has not yet been identified, also wore a Proud Boys baseball hat and the skull face mask popular among -- but not…

December 24, 2020

ADL Welcomes Verdict in Halle, Germany Synagogue Attack

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New York, December 21, 2020 … ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) welcomed today’s verdict of a maximum sentence of life imprisonment for the white supremacist terrorist who attacked the synagogue in Halle, Germany on Yom Kippur last year, murdering two people outside the synagogue. “Today’s verdict of a maximum sentence of life imprisonment will keep the Jewish community safe from this particular white supremacist terrorist and will hopefully send a strong signal of…

December 21, 2020

NY Jewish high school’s website defaced with Neo-Nazi imagery; Driver shouted antisemitic slurs, ran over man at menorah lighting; Senate votes to upgrade antisemitism special envoy to ambassador status

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December 17, 2020 THE WEEK’S BIG 3 The website of a Jewish high school in suburban New York was hacked and defaced with swastikas and antisemitic slurs. A member of a Chabad in Lexington was severely injured when a driver shouting antisemitic slurs dragged and ran over him outside the Jewish Student Center near the University of Kentucky. And the Senate passed a bipartisan bill by unanimous consent upgrading the status of the State Department Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat…

December 17, 2020

Pro-Trump Rallies in DC Attract Extremists & Erupt into Violence

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December 13, 2020 On December 12, 2020, multiple pro-Trump demonstrations took place in Washington, DC, including one that was organized by white supremacists and another that included extremist speakers on their dais. Later that evening over 100 members of the right-wing extremist group the Proud Boys roamed the streets of the city while chanting expletive-laced slogans against Black Lives Matter and Antifa. The Jericho March The largest event of the day was a prayer…

December 13, 2020

Anne Frank memorial defaced; Christchurch attach report says New Zealand police failed to enforce firearm license checks; Facebook to start aggressively policing anti-Black hate speech

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December 11, 2020 THE WEEK’S BIG 3 The only Anne Frank memorial in the United States was vandalized Tuesday, a distressing display of hate that has prompted a police investigation. A report into last year's Christchurch mosque attack found that New Zealand security agencies were "almost exclusively" focused on the threat from Islamist terrorism, and police failed to enforce proper checks on firearm licenses. Facebook is embarking on a major overhaul of its algorithms that detect hate…

December 11, 2020

ADL Task Force Welcomes Passage of House Resolutions Supporting Mideast Minorities

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New York, NY, December 7, 2020 … ADL’s (the Anti-Defamation League) Task Force on Middle East Minorities today welcomed the bipartisan passage of two important House Resolutions that the Task Force had endorsed earlier this year as part of its work supporting the rights of vulnerable groups. The Task Force consists of scholars, experts, and activists who serve as an advisory body to augment ADL’s work in protecting vulnerable…

December 08, 2020