November 06, 2017 “It’s okay to be white,” stated the flier posted on the door of a high school in Silver Spring, Maryland.  The flier, consisting of nothing but that phrase in large type on an otherwise blank sheet of paper, also appeared in numerous other places around the U.S. on Halloween, including Illinois, Indiana, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Ohio, Washington, and Illinois, as well as Alberta in Canada. More instances appeared over the weekend of November 4-5. …

November 01, 2017 White supremacists have been fighting among themselves ever since the violent Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. That infighting escalated following last weekend’s White Lives Matter (WLM) rally in Shelbyville, Tennessee.   About 200 white supremacists around the country attended the WLM rally.  The main organization behind the rally was the Nationalist Front, which includes groups such as League of the South, a Southern…

October 24, 2017 The white supremacist Nationalist Front will hold a series of “White Lives Matter” protests at various points in Tennessee on Saturday, October 28, 2017. The events will begin at 10am EST and culminate in a private social event that evening. With an expected attendance of around 200 people, this could be the largest gathering of white supremacists since Unite the Right in Charlottesville, Virginia. The morning protests will be held in Shelbyville, and will…

October 18, 2017 U.S. Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) brought Holocaust denier and high-profile alt right troll Charles C. Johnson to a meeting at the U.S. Capitol in early October. Rohrabacher and Johnson were reportedly on the Hill to discuss Wikipedia founder Julian Assange with U.S. Sen Rand Paul (R-KY). This comes after Johnson arranged an August meeting in London between Rohrabacher and Assange. Johnson bolstered his credentials as a Holocaust denier back in January during an “Ask…

October 18, 2017 White supremacist and alt right leader Richard Spencer will speak at the University of Florida in Gainesville at 2:30 pm on Thursday, October 19. In anticipation of the event, Florida Gov. Rick Scott has declared a state of emergency, and has activated the state’s National Guard. University officials estimate they will spend at least $500,000 on security for the event. Spencer’s past speeches have attracted a number of his fellow white supremacists, and this is…

October 03, 2017 In August 2016, then-NFL San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick decided to take a stand about racial injustice by refusing to stand for the National Anthem at football games. He spent much of the season either sitting or kneeling during the anthem. Fast forward to the 2017 football season where the controversy emerged again when on a Sunday in September, more than 200 NFL players took a knee during the Anthem.  This recent controversy over NFL players and…

September 28, 2017 Following the September 26 attack in the West Bank settlement of Har Adar, in which a Palestinian gunman killed three Israelis, extremist groups have been posting on various forums to celebrate the attacks and incite violence against Israel and Jews worldwide.  While no group has claimed responsibility for the attack, many have posted lauding the attacker and calling him “a heroic martyr,” as Hamas stated on the day of the attack. The Al-Tawhid…

September 27, 2017 During a September appearance at a mosque in Chicago, Nation of Islam student minister Wesley Muhammad claimed that Jews and the U.S. government are engaged in a “Pot Plot” to emasculate black men and turn them into homosexuals by distributing specially modified versions of marijuana. Muhammad has been dabbling in this conspiracy theory since 2016, and proposed a similar version in a June 2017 interview on Power 105.1’s The Breakfast Club, a nationwide…

September 20, 2017 Article Highlights: • Older white supremacists are adopting the slang of the alt right in an attempt to sound edgy and attract younger members. • Some white supremacists have created websites designed specifically to attract alt right adherents. • For racist neo-Confederates, the alt right offers a significant potential source of members, provided they can be converted to white Southern nationalism instead of a more universal form of white supremacy. Like…

September 18, 2017 By: Marvin D. Nathan, National Chair       Jonathan A. Greenblatt, CEO & National Director Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, is both a celebratory holiday and a time for serious introspection. It is a celebration of the creation of the Universe and of G-d's sovereignty over that Universe. And, it is a time to look into oneself to examine where one has been and where one is going. In this spirit, we offer on behalf of ADL, the…

August 30, 2017 The violent white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, which featured anti-Semitic chants and imagery on full display, has fueled concern about whether the kind of hatred and violence seen in Charlottesville could inspire copycat incidents or acts of hate against Jews or Jewish institutions in other parts of the country. While it is impossible to directly link anti-Semitic incidents seen elsewhere to the horrific displays of hate witnessed in Charlottesville…

August 29, 2017 Adults and children alike are grappling to make sense of current events. Discussions of racism, anti-Semitism and social injustice have become increasingly contentious as images of white supremacists carrying torches and chanting hateful rhetoric in Charlottesville fill our social media feeds and television screens. Children are attuned to these conversations and disturbing images of violence, hate and incivility, and are seeking comfort and answers from teachers, family…