Jewish Community Faces Unprecedentedly High Threat Environment
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Since Jan. 2020, the ADL Center on Extremism has documented 21 terrorist plots or attacks targeting Jews, Zionists or Jewish institutions in the U.S. Fifteen of these occurred after October 7, 2023.
Swaths of Anti-Zionist Movement Legitimize Killings at D.C. Jewish Museum
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Many in anti-Zionist circles are celebrating and justifying the murders of two Israeli embassy staffers, and in some cases, even encouraging further violence.
Extremists and Conspiracy Theorists Deny the Capital Jewish Museum Shooting With ‘False Flag’ Narrative
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In the wake of the murder of two people at the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C., conspiracy theories about the shooting quickly circulated on social media from users across the political spectrum. The most prevalent of these conspiratorial posts alleged that the shooting was a purposeful and coordinated “false flag” attack carried out by the Israeli or U.S. government to make Jews and Israel look sympathetic, tighten relations between the two countries or rationalize going…
In Latest Attack on Jewish Community, Suspect in Museum Shooting Posted Manifesto Calling to 'Bring the War Home'
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The ADL Center on Extremism has been able to connect the alleged suspect, with a high degree of certainty, to the manifesto, titled “Escalate For Gaza, Bring The War Home.”
ADL Devastated at Heinous Jewish Museum Attack in Washington, D.C.
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“Unfortunately, this tragedy was inevitable” after a year of increasing antisemitic incitement and harassment New York, NY, May 22, 2025 … ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) today issued the following statement in response to last night’s heinous attack against two individuals attending an event at the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C. hosted by the American Jewish Committee. The suspect in the killings of Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim, both employees at the…
Under the Radar: Militias Use New Terminology to Hide in Plain Sight
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Militia groups are increasingly adopting new terms that allow them to camouflage their extremist ideology, sidestep public scrutiny and grow their networks.
ADL Welcomes Return of Israeli-American Edan Alexander from Hamas Captivity
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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…
White Supremacists Help Raise Hundreds of Thousands For Woman Who Hurled Slur at Black Child
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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…
Antisemitism in America: The Stories Behind the Numbers
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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…
The Dark Side of Roblox: ‘Active Shooter Studios’ Create Maps Based on Real-Life Mass Shootings
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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…
The Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism: Five Things to Know
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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…
White Supremacist Propaganda Focused on Jews and Immigrants in 2024
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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…
White Supremacist Propaganda Focused on Jews and Immigrants in 2024
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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…
SCN and ADL Launch Regional Security & Intelligence Briefings
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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,…
La ADL y CONIB se asocian para combatir el antisemitismo y el extremismo en Brasil
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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 …
Anti-Israel Activists Display Brazen Support for Terror at Hezbollah Chiefs’ Beirut Funeral
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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…
La ADL distingue al juez Carlos Mahiques por su trascendental fallo sobre el papel desempeñado por Irán en el atentado a la AMIA
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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…