National average of 13 incidents per day; 27% rise in propaganda targeting Jews and Jewish institutions New York, NY, March 3, 2022 … White supremacist propaganda distribution remained at historic levels across the United States in 2021, with a total 4,851 cases of racist, antisemitic and other hateful messages reported by ADL (Anti-Defamation League). The latest data comes amid a surge in antisemitic hate fliering in January and February targeting at least 15 states nationwide.
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February 28, 2022 The Nation of Islam (NOI) held its annual Saviours’ Day event on February 27, 2022. The event, which commemorates the birth of NOI founder Fard Muhammad and culminates in a keynote address by longtime NOI leader Louis Farrakhan, regularly features extensive antisemitic, bigoted and conspiratorial rhetoric.
In 2022, Farrakhan again injected antisemitism into his address, claiming that Jews are the enemy of Jesus and promoting antisemitic tropes about Jewish…
February 27, 2022 The America First Political Action Conference (AFPAC III) was held on February 25, 2022, in Orlando, Florida. This annual white supremacist event is purposely held in Orlando to coincide with the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) event taking place nearby. This year, nine individuals, including white supremacists, media personalities and political figures spoke at the conference (three of these speakers spoke virtually through pre-recorded videos).
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February 25, 2022 Nicholas Fuentes, a well-known white supremacist pundit and organizer, will host his third annual America First Political Action Conference (AFPAC III) in Orlando, Florida on February 25, 2022. Fuentes founded AFPAC in 2020 to serve as a counterweight to the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) event being held at the same time, also in Orlando.
Fuentes’ third AFPAC conference will not only bring together the Groypers, followers and supporters of…
February 25, 2022 On February 23, 2022, the People’s Convoy trucker demonstration, ostensibly aimed at ending nationwide COVID-related policies, departed the Adelanto Stadium parking lot in Southern California, bound for Washington, D.C. Smaller convoys, like the one that launched the same day in Scranton, PA, are being planned in several states, but the People’s Convoy is the most organized and high-profile of these protests. While there is no evidence of extremist groups…
February 23, 2022 On Saturday, February 19, 2022, 43-year-old Benjamin Jeffrey Smith allegedly fired into a crowd of racial justice protestors, killing one woman and injuring five other people. Smith reportedly initially yelled at the group of protesters who were gathering on his block in Portland, Oregon, to protest the recent police killing of Amir Locke, a Black man who was shot while Minneapolis police were serving a no-knock warrant. Smith, who police have named as the primary suspect,…
February 16, 2022 Truckers line up their vehicles on Metcalfe Street as they honk their horns in Ottawa, Canada on February 5, 2022. | Minas Panagiotakis/Getty Images - Source: Politico
For the second time since February 13, an unknown hacker leaked information from GiveSendGo, a Christian-oriented crowdfunding website, revealing identifying information of people donating both to Canada’s “Freedom Convoy” protest and the January 6 demonstration outside the U.S. Capitol…
White supremacists killed more people in 2021 than any other type of extremist New York, NY, February 15, 2022 … Right-wing extremists were linked to at least 26 extremist-related murders in the United States in 2021 and have been responsible for 75 percent of such murders in the last ten years, according to new data from ADL (Anti-Defamation League).
According to an annual analysis of extremist fatalities by ADL Center on Extremism, domestic extremists were responsible for…
February 04, 2022 NSM members demonstrating in Orlando, Florida, January 29, 2022
On February 4, 2022, the Orange County (Florida) Sheriff’s Department arrested and charged three participants of a neo-Nazi demonstration in Orlando, Florida, for their alleged role in the January 29, 2022, hate crime assault of David Newstat, who is Jewish.
Newstat, who saw the demonstration and stopped to confront the group, said he was spit on, pepper-sprayed and punched. Video of the altercation…
New York, NY, February 4, 2022 … Michael Sheetz, a seasoned trial lawyer and commercial litigator in Boston who also served as lead counsel for many civil rights groups in important litigation helping to enhance diversity in public schools, has been appointed President of the ADL (Anti-Defamation League) Foundation.
A partner in the Boston office of Cooley LLP and a longtime ADL volunteer both at the local
and national levels, Sheetz will lead the board that oversees the…
Remarks by Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO, ADL February 02, 2022
February 2, 2022
Mr. Chairman, Ranking Member Katko, Members of the Committee, good morning. I am Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO and National Director of ADL, the Anti-Defamation League, the oldest anti-hate organization in America. It is an honor to appear before you today to address the current terrorism landscape and the dire threat that extremists pose to the United States.
Since 1913, ADL has worked to stop the…
January 25, 2022 Oregon State Rep. candidate Dan Tooze wearing hat with Proud Boy symbol (Source: Telegram)
The American political landscape one year after the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol reflects the yawning divides highlighted on that violent day and reveals the extent to which extremist beliefs have become part of the mainstream.
As the 2022 midterm election campaigns kick into high gear, ADL’s Center on Extremism is tracking more than 100 problematic political…
January 20, 2022 1. Los judíos son la comunidad religiosa más atacada en Estados Unidos.
Según los datos anuales del FBI sobre delitos de odio, definidos como delitos criminales motivados por prejuicios, los delitos contra la comunidad judía constituyen más de la mitad de todos los delitos basados en la religión. El número de delitos de odio contra los judíos ha oscilado entre 600 y 1.200 al año desde que el FBI comenzó…
January 19, 2022 Sovereign citizen guru Bobby Lawrence appeared on QAnon conspiracy theorist Ann Vandersteel's show, SteelTruth, on June 1, 2021, where he discussed how to become an American State National. Source: Rumble
More than a year after Q’s final post and the January 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., a small but growing number of QAnon adherents are openly embracing the beliefs of the anti-government extremist sovereign citizen movement.
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January 17, 2022
1. Jews are consistently the most targeted religious community in the U.S.
According to the FBI’s annual data on hate crimes, defined as criminal offenses which are motivated by bias, crimes targeting the Jewish community consistently constitute over half of all religion-based crimes. The number of hate crimes against Jews has ranged between 600 and 1,200 each year since the FBI began collecting data in the 1990s. There were 683 hate crimes against Jews in…
January 16, 2022 On Saturday, January 15, 2022, a gunman entered Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville, Texas, during services, taking three congregants and a rabbi as hostages. The standoff ended more than ten hours later with all hostages released, apparently unharmed, and the alleged perpetrator, identified as 44-year-old British national Malik Faisal Akram, dead.
The synagogue was streaming its service on Facebook when the perpetrator entered the building and the initial period of…
ADL urges Congress to increase nonprofit security funding to $360 million for FY 2022 New York, NY, January 16, 2022 … In the aftermath of a hostage crisis at a Texas synagogue that fortunately ended with all hostages being freed safely, ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) called on Congress to double funding for the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s Nonprofit Security Grant Program, which provides non-profit organizations, including Jewish schools and houses of worship, with…
New York, NY, January 15, 2022 … ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) tonight praised Texas law enforcement and the FBI for their work in bringing to an end the tense hostage situation at Congregation Beth Israel synagogue in Colleyville.
Jonathan A. Greenblatt, CEO and National Director, issued the following statement:
We are deeply grateful to Texas law enforcement and the FBI for their work in ending the tense hostage situation in Colleyville and for the safe return…
January 15, 2022 Originally posted: October 4, 2010
A Pakistani woman with alleged links to Al Qaeda convicted for attempting to kill U.S. security personnel in Afghanistan has blamed her guilty verdict on Israel.
On February 3, 2010, Aafia Siddiqui, 37, was found guilty in a New York federal court of two counts of attempted murder, armed assault, using and carrying a firearm and assault of U.S. officers and employees for shooting…
January 12, 2022 Latin American countries have struggled to keep up with economic pressures, which had started prior to the COVID-19 pandemic and were exacerbated by the health crisis. Furthermore, political polarization seems to have permeated across the region with elections that appear to favor populist far left and far right candidates.
What will this all mean for the Jewish communities in the region in 2022?
The Jewish…