Volksfront is a hybrid racist skinhead gang/neo-Nazi group that started in the Pacific Northwest in the 1990s.
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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)
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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
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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.
November 06, 2020 THE WEEK’S BIG 3
As the country waited anxiously for all the votes to be counted in the U.S. presidential election, ADL urged calm and patience and reiterated our longstanding calls that every vote counts and every vote must be counted. Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Republican candidate from Georgia who has espoused the antisemitic QAnon conspiracy theory and employed racist rhetoric during her congressional campaign was elected to the House of Representatives. And ADL…
New York, NY, October 9, 2020 ... ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) today issued a new study showing a dramatic spike in anti-Asian sentiment and conspiracy theories about the spread of coronavirus in conversations on Twitter in the days immediately following the president’s first tweet about his positive diagnosis on October 2.
The new study of Twitter conversations and activity, conducted by ADL’s Center for Technology and Society, found that in the 12 hours after the…
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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…
June 18, 2020 Amid the ongoing threat of the coronavirus, there are surging reports of xenophobic and racist incidents targeting members of the Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) community in the U.S.
Since January 2020, there have been a significant number of reports of AAPI individuals being threatened and harassed on the street. These incidents include being told to “Go back to China,” being blamed for “bringing the virus” to the United…
Atlanta, GA, June 14, 2020 … ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) and the NAACP today called for the swift passage of HB 426, the Georgia Hate Crimes legislation, and committed to working for further actions to reform the state’s antiquated criminal justice system. Both organizations issued a joint statement in the wake of the police shooting of Rayshard Brooks, an African American man on Friday night in Atlanta.
“Ahmaud Arbery. George Floyd. Breonna Taylor. Rayshard…
June 12, 2020 THE WEEK’S BIG 3
A man who rammed his truck into a crowd of peaceful protesters in Virginia on Sunday, injuring one person, is a Ku Klux Klan leader, authorities said. NASCAR said Wednesday that it is banning the display of the Confederate flag at all of its events and properties. A video of a uniformed New York City police officer appearing to make a white power symbol at a George Floyd protest Saturday in New York City has prompted an internal review.
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March 27, 2020 THE WEEK’S BIG 3
An apparent white supremacist suspected of plotting to attack a Missouri hospital caring for coronavirus patients was killed during a shootout with FBI agents, authorities said Wednesday. Brenton Tarrant, the man accused of killing 51 worshippers at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand last year, has pleaded guilty. The Attorney General of New York has launched a hotline for people to report hate crimes and biased incidents against Asian-Americans…
March 24, 2020 As America responds to the spread of the coronavirus pandemic, we here at ADL are actively mobilized and continuing our important work of “Fighting Hate for Good.” While recognizing we live in uncertain and unpredictable times, we also realize our vital mission to “stop the defamation of the Jewish people and to secure justice and fair treatment to all” continues, and remains just as important now as it did a week, a month, or a year ago.
While…
We have to join together to fight this virus effectively. Now is not the time to be torn apart by hatred. March 20, 2020 By Andrew Yang and Jonathan A. Greenblatt
As the fast-spreading coronavirus pandemic threatens to tax our public health systems, takes a toll on the economy and upends nearly every aspect of our lives, there’s a serious risk that the compounding public anxiety around the virus could lead to the spread of another serious contagion: the scapegoating and blaming of…
El Paso shooting by white supremacist capped a bloody decade for the extreme right New York, NY, February 26, 2020 … Right-wing extremists were responsible for the vast majority of extremist-related murders in the United States in 2019, with the El Paso shooting capping off a bloody decade during which the far right was responsible for 76 percent of all extremist-related murders.
ADL (Anti-Defamation League)’s annual Murder and Extremism report found that of the 42 extremist…
February 21, 2020 THE WEEK’S BIG 3
At least nine people were killed when a white supremacist opened fire at a hookah bar and other sites in Hanau, Germany. A religiously observant teenage table tennis star, who observes the Jewish sabbath, will be unable to participate in upcoming Olympic trials because the event partially falls on a Saturday. ADL has called on the annual carnival in the Belgian city of Aalst to withdraw the antisemitic caricatures which – as in previous years …
January 16, 2020 THE WEEK’S BIG 3
With the assistance of ADL’s Center on Extremism, an alleged neo-Nazi was arrested on Friday for his apparent role in a nationwide swatting campaign. In testimony before a House subcommittee, ADL’s CEO urged Congress to take action to curb online hate speech, if the social media companies continue to fail to do so. In an effort to label Democrats as sympathetic toward Iran, President Trump retweeted an Islamophobic and doctored image of…
Remarks by Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO, ADL January 15, 2020
Washington, D.C., January 15, 2020
Chairman Rose, Ranking Member Walker, Chairman Thompson and all the distinguished Members of the Subcommittee: On behalf of ADL, thank you for the opportunity to testify here today and share our perspective.
For more than a century, ADL has been battling anti-Semitism and fighting to secure justice and fair treatment to all. We stand on the front lines of fighting hate in any…
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Now more than ever we need strong hate crime laws to ensure that the punishment for targeting individuals or institutions for violence or vandalism for no other reason than their religious affiliation, skin color or other personal characteristic is appropriate.
Contrary to Myron Magnet’s claims, hate-crime laws punish conduct and not thought (“‘Hate Crime’ Is Only a Step Away From Thoughtcrime,” op-ed, Jan. 2…
Albany, NY, January 8, 2020 … ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) today praised New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo for his proposal to introduce a bill in 2020 that would for the first time classify mass violence motivated by hate as domestic terrorism and establish a task force to examine the issue. Under this initiative, announced at today’s State of the State speech in Albany, hate crimes committed with the intent to cause mass casualties would be considered “domestic acts of…
January 06, 2020 Jonathan A. Greenblatt Remarks (as delivered)
To the Solidary March Against Anti-Semitism
New York, NY | January 5, 2020
My name is Jonathan Greenblatt and I am the CEO of the Anti-Defamation League.
I am so moved to look out at this crowd and see so many people: elected officials and children… rabbis and ministers… Jews and non-Jews… all here to make it very clear that New York will not tolerate anti-Semitism... that New York is no place for…