March 29, 2018 1. RICHARD SPENCER IS AN ALT RIGHT LEADER.
Spencer has become the most recognizable public face of the alt right, a loose network of people who promote white identity and reject mainstream conservatism in favor of politics that embrace implicit or explicit racism, anti-Semitism and white supremacy. Spencer coined the term “alternative right” (from which “alt right” is derived) in 2008 in an article in Taki’s Magazine, a far-right publication…
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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…
September 08, 2017 Identity Evropa's latest efforts at targeting college campuses include fliers that promote a range of racist books and propaganda tracts. The white supremacist group has been actively targeting colleges and universities across the United States.
In the first weeks of September, Identity Evropa fliers were found on campuses in California, Long Beach Community College and Santa Rosa Junior College, as well as the University of Illinois at Urbana…
April 25, 2018 1. Andrew Anglin runs the neo-Nazi website The Daily Stormer.
Anglin launched The Daily Stormer on July 4, 2013. He says the site, which remains popular with white supremacists despite ongoing hosting issues, was his attempt to reach “all disenfranchised and angry White males under the age of thirty.” Anglin created The Daily Stormer after founding another neo-Nazi site, Total Fascism, in 2012. Previously, Anglin was a 9/11 “truther”…
September 01, 2017
Islamic State is using Jihadi online forums to release a three-part English-language guide to conducting lone-wolf terror attacks. The first two articles frame the 1990 assassination of Meir Kahane as a model for future attacks, but also promote more unusual attack methods -- such as injecting poison into consumer products at shopping malls. The series strongly resembles other forms of propaganda, issued in a more informal format. It illustrates the repetitive,…
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 30, 2017 Sheikh Abdullah al-Faisal, also known as Trevor William Forrest, was indicted on Friday, August 25th and charged with recruiting would-be terrorists for the Islamic State. Al-Faisal was arrested in Kingston, Jamaica, and he will be extradited to New York following his court appearance.
Al-Faisal’s arrest comes after a year-long investigation by the NYPD Intelligence Bureau and Manhattan District Attorney’s Office’s Counter Terrorism Program in which an…
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…
August 29, 2017 In response to the recent events in Charlottesville, Facing History and Ourselves, Teaching Tolerance, the Anti-Defamation League, the American Federation of Teachers, and EduColor teamed up to support educators as they return to the classroom. Hosted and led by AFT, we asked educators what topics they were most concerned about and addressed them in a co-hosted webinar, “When Hate Is in the Headlines: Resources for K–12 Educators.” Together, we offered…
August 18, 2017 By Lauren Jones
Civil Rights National Counsel at the Anti-Defamation League
On August 17, 1915 a mob dragged Leo Frank, a Jewish superintendent at a pencil factory in Georgia, from his prison cell, drove him to a place where others stood ready with a noose, and lynched him. They called themselves the Knights of Mary Phagan. A crowd of men, women and children looked on and cheered. Within the local community, the members of the lynch mob were well-known. But their…
August 17, 2017 White supremacists are eager to capitalize on the chaos and violence in Charlottesville, and they’re feeling emboldened and validated by President Trump’s weak response to Unite the Right. They view his remarks as a tacit approval of their message. Online -- from Twitter and other mainstream social media platforms to the corners of the dark web -- white supremacists are celebrating the “victory” in Charlottesville, devising plans for their next…
August 17, 2017 On August 13th, Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula released the 17th issue of Inspire magazine featuring instructions from the “AQ-Chef,” including “a simple method for targeting trains…[involving] derailing a train from the railroad by placing an object on the tracks.” The magazine supplements the instructions with a list of priority targets, ranking “Jewish interests everywhere” first.
While this is not the first time al-Qaeda…
August 16, 2017 At the “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, anti-Semitism was on full display. White supremacists marched through the streets shouting obscenities at crowds of protesters where they spewed Nazi slogans, anti-Semitic, racist and homophobic phrases. The chaos surrounding the event was significant for a number of reasons, even beyond the violence and hatred on display. Rally organizers convinced hundreds of white supremacists to overlook their ideological…
August 15, 2017 Alongside the racism, nativism and xenophobia on display at Unite the Right, the event was also an expression of the animating power of anti-Semitism.
Marchers threw Nazi salutes as they waved swastika flags, proudly wore swastika pins and shirts, and shouted “sieg heil!” A sign carried by rally-goers warned that the “Jewish media is going down;” another declared that “Jews are Satan’s children.” A white…
by: Oren Segal | August 15, 2017 The Hill The would-be rally in Charlottesville and its aftermath appears to have sparked a new refrain: “White civil rights movement.”
The chaos surrounding the “Unite the Right” event in Virginia was significant for a number of reasons, even beyond the violence and hatred on display. The largest public gathering of white supremacists in at least a decade, the group showcased remarkable cohesion among a broad cross-section of the…
August 13, 2017 Racial hatred, bias and white supremacy were on full display in Charlottesville, Virginia this weekend.
In the largest and most violent gathering of white supremacists in decades, “Unite the Right” brought together white supremacist groups including the alt-right, neo-Nazis and the Ku Klux Klan. Their stated goal was to save the statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee, because like other places in the South, there are still monuments there celebrating heroes…