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Far Right Trolls Recast “No Means No” and “My Body My Choice” as Anti-Immigrant Memes

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January 30, 2018 At a time when women have become increasingly vocal in addressing critical issues like sexual harassment and sexual violence, reproductive rights, workplace opportunity and equal pay, a group of far right trolls have deliberately appropriated slogans from the women’s movement in service of their own xenophobic cause. The far right campaign appropriates “No Means No” and recasts “My Body My Choice” as “My Borders My Choice.” …

January 30, 2018

Congressional Candidate Paul Nehlen Spouts Racist, Anti-Semitic Rhetoric

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January 24, 2018 Paul Nehlen, a Wisconsin Republican who hopes to unseat House Speaker Paul Ryan, is increasingly spewing anti-Semitic conspiracy theories and unapologetically racist jargon from his official Twitter account and on white supremacist podcasts. Nehlen, a businessman with no political experience, ran unsuccessfully against Ryan in 2016. This year, he initially set out to woo right-of-center Republicans with an “America First” campaign, but appears to have tacked…

January 24, 2018

White Supremacist Town Manager Envisions "Homeland" for Whites

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January 22, 2018 <img src="/sites/default/files/2018-01/Fantasy%20Homlands_0.png?itok=gZsbGhKM" alt="Fantasy homelands"/> Jackman, Maine, population 862, touts itself as “a recreational and forestry-based community that prides itself on being both a tourist friendly community and a great region that helps create your next vacation memories.” Recently fired town manager Tom Kawczynski has a very different vision. According to his GAB (social media)…

January 22, 2018

Letter to the NY Times Regarding Homegrown Terrorism

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The following letter was submitted to The New York Times in response to "White House Tries to Link Immigration and Terrorism" (Jan. 17) Letters to the Editor New York Times To the Editor: Re “White House Tries to Link Immigration and Terrorism” (news article, Jan. 17): The Trump administration’s report trying to link foreign-born immigrants to terrorism muddies the waters by giving an incomplete picture of the sources of extremist violence in…

January 21, 2018

Homeland Security is Wrong. Most Extremists are American Born

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by: Jonathan Greenblatt | January 18, 2018 The Forward A new report, commissioned by the Trump Administration as part of its efforts to enact new restrictions on immigration, bends over backwards to selectively pick and choose cases in which immigrants who entered the country through the diversity visa lottery or other immigration programs were directly linked to terror plots. The unsubtle agenda of the report is to link terrorism and extremist violence with immigrants. What’s…

January 18, 2018

White Supremacists Praise Trump's Inflammatory Immigration Remarks

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Richard Spencer Norway, Trump Immigration

January 12, 2018 White supremacists expressed delight online after President Trump’s reported remarks about “shithole” majority black countries. Mr. Trump made the comments Thursday afternoon during a White House meeting about immigration, asking the assembled group of Senators and Representatives why he would want “all these people from shithole countries,” referring to African nations and Haiti, adding that the United States should admit more people from…

January 12, 2018

No Longer Just a Prank: "Swatting" Incident Turns Deadly in Kansas

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January 10, 2018 By Brittan Heller | Director of the Center for Technology and Society & Aaron Sussman | Associate National Civil Rights Counsel It was a hoax turned deadly. On the evening of December 28, a distressed-sounding man called the police in Wichita, Kansas, and confessed that he had shot his father in the head, was holding his mother and sibling hostage, and had poured gasoline in the house, threatening to set it on fire. He then gave the police his address. …

January 10, 2018

ADL Disappointed by Decision Not to Retry Cliven Bundy and Others for 2014 Armed Standoff in Nevada

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New York, NY, January 8, 2018 … The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today expressed disappointment in the announcement by a federal judge in Nevada that prosecutors would not be allowed to retry Cliven Bundy and other alleged ringleaders of a 2014 armed standoff in Nevada between anti-government extremists and the federal government on conspiracy and other federal charges. Bundy and a host of anti-government and anti-public lands extremists allegedly employed armed force and threats in…

January 08, 2018

ADL Commends Facebook for Removing Anti-Jewish Conspiracy Page

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New York, NY, January 4, 2018 ... Facebook has removed a disgusting and highly controversial anti-Semitic page that has been on its platform for at least five years. The page peddled one of the worst anti-Jewish conspiracies from medieval times: Jewish ritual murder of non-Jews. Said Jonathan Greenblatt, Anti-Defamation League CEO and National Director: “We have been calling for the removal of this hateful, anti-Semitic Facebook page since 2014. It’s long overdue that…

January 04, 2018

So-Called "Twitter Purge" Deletes Accounts of Prominent White Supremacists, Hate Groups

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December 19, 2017 Following Monday's implementation of new safety rules on Twitter, a number of users associated with white supremacy and other hateful ideologies found themselves no longer allowed on the platform. "ADL commends Twitter for taking these significant steps to tackle hate on their platform. We long urged Twitter to push back against hateful and violent rhetoric, and these latest actions are encouraging," CEO and National Director Jonathan Greenblatt said in a statement. …

December 19, 2017

ADL Releases Report on Patriot Front, White Supremacist Group Based in Texas

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Houston, TX, December 19, 2017 … The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today released a report on a new white supremacist group very active in Texas whose members maintain their ancestors conquered America and bequeathed it only to them. Patriot Front espouses racism, anti-Semitism and other types of hatred under the guise of preserving the “ethnic and cultural origins” of their European ancestors. Their activity includes hanging banners on college campuses and from…

December 19, 2017

New Mexico School Shooter Also Fixated on Violence Against Jews

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America’s deadly epidemic of school shootings continued last week, when William Atchison, a 21-year-old gas station attendant, disguised himself as a student and went to Aztec High School in northwestern New Mexico to conduct a shooting spree, something he had fantasized about for some time. Atchison killed two students, Casey Jordan Marquez and Francisco Fernandez, and shot at a number of others before killing himself, a shocking and tragic turn of events for the people of Aztec…

December 18, 2017

Dissension Reshapes and Divides the Alt-Right

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December 14, 2017 After several weeks of discord, Identity Evropa has parted ways with Richard Spencer. This comes as a blow to the alt right leader, who counted on IE to loyally attend and promote his events. Evan McLaren, the Executive Director of Spencer’s National Policy Institute and former Identity Evropa member, tweeted, “It is upsetting to observe a worthwhile activist group, into which much value was built and for which I was once a state coordinator, now being led so…

December 14, 2017

YouTube Takes Step Toward Embracing Human Moderation and Fighting Abuse

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December 08, 2017 All online platforms with user-generated content struggle with how best to moderate that content.The stakes are especially high when the platform is exclusively aimed at young children. This is something YouTube, whose parent company Google is part of ADL’s Problem-Solving Lab, learned in a particularly disturbing way, as the young viewers of its popular YouTube Kids app were suddenly exposed to videos of their favorite characters suffering grisly deaths,…

December 08, 2017

Behind the Making of 'The Work of Humanity'

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December 07, 2017 Updated: December 18, 2017 Editor's Note: Christian Picciolini and ADL's work battling extremism was featured on Sunday, Dec. 17 on 60 Minutes on CBS. As the one-time leader of one of the most infamous white supremacist groups in America, Christian Picciolini was once so immersed in the hate movement that his name appeared prominently in an ADL report on neo-Nazi activity in Illinois. Picciolini had swastika and racist tattoos on his arms and led a small empire…

December 07, 2017

Hate Groups Increasingly Raising Money Online

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New ADL report finds hate groups are still poorly funded, but look to crowdfunding, cryptocurrency, other tools New York, NY, December 5, 2017 … The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) is calling on credit card companies and online crowdfunding sites to more closely monitor white supremacists’ compliance with their terms of services and policies in light of a new report highlighting how racists exploit online platforms to raise money for their racist “cause.” Funding Hate…

December 05, 2017

Extremists React to Acquittal in Kate Steinle Murder Case

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December 01, 2017 Thursday’s acquittal of undocumented immigrant Jose Ines Garcia Zarate in the 2015 murder of Kathryn (Kate) Steinle has sparked an outcry from white supremacists and other extremists. Zarate claims he unintentionally killed Steinle when a stolen gun he was carrying went off accidentally. While a San Francisco jury agreed with this assessment, right-wing extremists are framing the acquittal as a symptom of multiculturalism, blaming Jews and non-whites for the…

December 01, 2017

ADL Submits Policy Recommendations to House Homeland Security Committee Hearings on Worldwide Threats

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Calls for improved federal agency coordination and better hate crime data collection New York, NY, November 30, 2017 … The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today submitted a written statement to the House Committee on Homeland Security on how to keep America secure in the new age of terror. The committee on “World Wide Threats: Keeping America Secure in the New Age of Terror,” convened hearings earlier today on Capitol Hill. ADL’s testimony provided a broad…

December 01, 2017

Britain First: What You Need to Know

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November 29, 2017 This backgrounder is based on information from Hope Not Hate, an organization based in London: http://www.hopenothate.org.uk/ Origins of Britain First Britain First (BF) is a far-right, anti-Muslim, anti-immigrant group founded in 2011 by former members of the British National Party (BNP), a far-right political party with ties to neo-Nazis. The group is estimated to have about a thousand members. Britain First was founded by Jim Dowson and Paul Golding in…

November 29, 2017

A Short History of How Donald Trump Amplifies Extremism & Hate on Twitter

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November 29, 2017 President Donald Trump retweeted three violent, anti-Muslim videos Wednesday. It is just the latest illustration of how the president bolsters and amplifies the messages of extremists and other purveyors of hate. Trump retweeted the videos from the account of Jayda Fransen, the deputy leader of Britain First, a far right extremist anti-Muslim group with ties to the British National Party, a racist, anti-minority neo-Fascist group. Such extremist propaganda is one of…

November 29, 2017