May 13, 2021 Over the past 25 years, numerous white supremacists have targeted the Jewish community in the U.S. through terrorist acts, conspiracies and plots. Here is a selection of significant incidents from 1994 through 2021. Assumption, Illinois, 2020: Federal agents charged Randall Burrus with weapons offenses in connection with an alleged white supremacist plot to attack a synagogue or mosque. This is linked to the April 15, 2020 incident involving John Michael Rathbun in…

July 23, 2019 By Robert Trestan and Jeremy Burton “Teaching High School Students to Demonize Israel” (Tablet, July 18) falsely portrays the Boston area’s two major mainstream Jewish community organizations’ role in a seven-year-old controversy regarding the Newton public school district’s use of the Arab World Studies Notebook and other materials in Newton North High School’s World History classes. Our organizations, ADL and JCRC, are in fact deeply…

by: Kenneth Jacobson | July 16, 2019 The New York Jewish Week There’s a lot of talk these days coming from different quarters about how sad and dangerous it is that even a subject such as anti-Semitism has been politicized. It’s a good thing that people are standing up in protest, but in many cases, those raising awareness of the problem are themselves guilty of reinforcing the trend. There are a number of characteristics of this politicization. But the two most significant…

July 15, 2019 JTA By Sharon Nazarian | ADL Senior Vice President of International Affairs In any crime against a community, certain things must happen to provide some measure of healing and redemption. But as we approach the 25th anniversary of the horrific bombing of the AMIA Jewish center in Buenos Aires, Argentina, these necessary steps have not taken place. Despite years of activity and rhetoric, justice has not been achieved for the victims, their families and Latin…

We're co-opting the online platforms that embolden extremists who fan the flames of bigotry and violent fantasies to stop them before they act. by: Jonathan Greenblatt | July 01, 2019 The Times of Israel From hateful speech on Stormfront and Gab to the harassment of rabbis walking down the street in Germany to recent deadly violence at houses of worship in Pittsburgh, Christchurch, and Poway, it is painfully clear how online radicalization truly endangers communities. There’s a bright…

June 21, 2019 Recent incidents of white supremacist terrorist activity have prompted the public, researchers, and cyber hate and harassment experts to focus on smaller online message boards and forums like Gab and 8chan. These platforms rose to prominence by permitting any content to be posted, no matter how extreme, without consequence. In fact, they boast about being unhindered by content moderation niceties. A particularly worrying trend is the increasing reach and influence of these…