Organization calls on public leaders to avoid antisemitic rhetoric during 2020 election, shares resource with candidates New York, NY, March 12, 2020 … Beginning this week, ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) will share a new comprehensive guide to contemporary antisemitism with candidates running for national office in 2020, as well as every member of Congress. Antisemitism Uncovered: A Guide to Old Myths in a New Era identifies some of the most stubborn tropes about Jews, explains why…
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March 10, 2020 “Finally! Science has discovered a cure for the most insidious disease of our time…Jewishness.”
Shortly after posting this to Telegram, referring to a news report that three Israelis had been quarantined as possible carriers of the coronavirus, the same poster wrote, “3 down, 5,999,997 to go!”
As the number of confirmed cases of coronavirus surges globally, extremists continue to use the virus to advance their bigotry and antisemitism…
March 6, 2020
Suzanne Scott
CEO
Fox News Media
1211 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10036
Dear Ms. Scott:
We were deeply disturbed by remarks of Fox News anchor Raymond Arroyo during last night’s broadcast of “The Ingraham Angle,” where he asserted that Michael Bloomberg, the Jewish former presidential candidate, will be a “Biden Puppet Master.” This charge, and the comments that followed about Bloomberg’s wealth and power, play into…
March 06, 2020 White supremacist Robert Sterkeson interrupted Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders’ Thursday, March 5, 2020, rally in Phoenix, Arizona, when he waved a Nazi flag behind Sanders. Fellow rally attendees quickly pulled the flag from Sterkeson’s hands, and security teams removed him from the Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum.
Sterkeson, of Glendale, Arizona, is a self-described “stunt activist” who has harassed a range of Jewish and…
March 05, 2020 Anti-Israel activism at the March 2020 AIPAC conference was tainted by antisemitism when disparate groups from across the ideological spectrum held protests outside the annual meeting.
The most prominent organization present was the extreme anti-Israel activist group Al Awda, which has a history of promoting antisemitism and expressing support for terrorism. Al Awda collaborated with the fringe anti-Zionist ultra-Orthodox Jewish group Neturei Karta.
Meanwhile, members of…
March 04, 2020 Two speeches delivered by Louis Farrakhan as part of the Nation of Islam’s annual Saviours’ Day celebration included expressions of homophobia, transphobia, anti-white racism, and antisemitism. In his speeches, which took place in Detroit on February 23 and in Chicago on March 1, 2020, Farrakhan also claimed that the biblical descriptions of Jesus as the messiah were actually referring to Farrakhan himself. Farrakhan sees himself as a Christ-like figure and a prophet…
February 26, 2020 On February 26, 2020, authorities arrested five members of Atomwaffen Division, including former Texas state Atomwaffen leader John Cameron Denton. These are just the latest detentions targeting the neo-Nazi group, whose active membership has been decimated in the last two years by a steady stream of federal charges and arrests.
Denton is charged with conspiracy to commit an offense against the United States, and interstate threats to injure, stemming from his alleged role…
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…
New York, NY, February 14, 2020 … ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) today called on USA Table Tennis (USATT) to accommodate the Jewish religious observance of an Orthodox teenager at the upcoming U.S. Olympic Table Tennis Team trials scheduled in Santa Monica, CA for later this month.
According to reports, Estee Ackerman, an Orthodox-Jewish teenager, likely will not be able to compete at the Olympic trials because one day of the four-day tournament falls on Saturday, the Jewish…
Nearly 160 percent increase in U.S. campus propaganda incidents during fall semester New York, NY, February 12, 2020 … White supremacist propaganda distribution more than doubled in 2019 over the previous year, making it the highest year on record for such activity in the United States, according to new data released today by ADL (the Anti-Defamation League).
The data shows a substantial increase of incidents both on- and off-campus. A total of 2,713 cases of literature distribution…
February 11, 2020 Click here to view a PDF version of this blog.
ADL’s Center on Extremism tracked an ever-growing number of white supremacist propaganda efforts in 2019, including the distribution of racist, anti-Semitic and anti-LGBTQ fliers, stickers, banners and posters. The 2019 data shows an increase of incidents both on and off campus, with a total of 2,713 cases reported (averaging more than seven incidents per day), compared to 1,214 in 2018 – a doubling in activity…
February 11, 2020 On February 10, 2020, U.S. Army Specialist Jarrett William Smith pleaded guilty to unlawfully distributing instructions for making explosive devices over social media. According to the Department of Justice announcement, Smith pleaded guilty to two counts of distributing information related to explosives, destructive devices and weapons of mass destruction.
Smith was associated with the neo-Nazi organization Feuerkrieg Division at the time of his arrest. The ADL's…
January 31, 2020 THE WEEK’S BIG 3
A new poll released this week by ADL shows that despite a rise in anti-Semitic violence in recent years, the proportion of Americans holding “intensely” anti-Semitic views remains small. Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib of Michigan was asked to apologize after retweeting a false claim that a Palestinian child had been killed by Israelis, with some likening the accusation to a blood libel. As we commemorate the 75th anniversary of the liberation…
Remarks by Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO, ADL January 29, 2020 Good morning, Chairwoman Maloney, Ranking Member Jordan and distinguished Members of the Committee: On behalf of ADL, thank you for the opportunity to testify here today and share our perspective.
I am feeling inspired because I just returned from the World Holocaust Forum in Jerusalem where more than 45 world leaders recommitted themselves to addressing hate.
I want to give a special thank you to Chairwoman Maloney for…
New ADL poll found 19 percent of Americans think “Jews Still Talk Too Much” about the Holocaust; Belief in dual loyalty trope and “Jews killed Christ” myth remains disturbingly high New York, NY, January 29, 2020 … Amid the worst outbreak of anti-Semitic violence in decades, a new survey released today from ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) found more than half of American adults (61 percent) polled agree with at least one or more classic anti-Semitic canards…
January 23, 2020 THE WEEK’S BIG 3
Three men linked to The Base – a violent white supremacist group – were arrested in Maryland and Delaware on federal felony charges after plotting to kill pro-gun control protesters at a Virginia rally in hopes of starting a race war. The anti-Semitic and conspiracy-promoting “news” outlet TruNews was once again granted White House press credentials, this time to cover the World Economic Forum in Davos. U.S. officials, 50 world…
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…
January 16, 2020 In recent years, deadly white supremacist violence at houses of worship in Pittsburgh, Christchurch, and Poway demonstrated the clear line from violent hate speech and radicalization online to in-person violence. With perpetrators of horrific violence taking inspiration from online forums, leveraging the anonymity and connectivity of the internet, and developing sophisticated strategies to spread their messages, the stakes couldn’t be higher in tackling online extremism…
Remarks by George Selim, Senior Vice President for Programs, ADL January 15, 2020 Washington, D.C., January 15, 2020
Chairman Cleaver, Ranking Member Hill, members of the subcommittee – good morning. My name is George Selim, I serve as Senior Vice President for Programs at the ADL.
For decades, ADL has fought against anti-Semitism and bigotry in all forms by exposing extremist groups and individuals who spread hate and incite violence. Today, ADL is the foremost non…
Washington, DC, January 15, 2020 … ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) CEO Jonathan A. Greenblatt called on leaders across the political spectrum to “stop politicizing anti-Semitism and weaponizing it for partisan gain.”
In testimony before the House Subcommittee on Intelligence and Counterterrorism, Greenblatt urged Congress to put more pressure on social media companies to “shut down the neo-Nazis and anti-Semites on their platforms.” He renewed ADL…