by: Oren Segal February 25, 2015
Missouri has had long experience with white supremacists ranging from neo-Nazis to the Ku Klux Klan, but in recent years a new threat has emerged in the Show Me state: white supremacist prison gangs. Some states have been plagued by such gangs for years, but until recently, Missouri had only a limited experience with them.
Now, however, there are a number of white supremacist gangs active in Missouri, typically emerging in prisons and…
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February 17, 2015 Read what ADL has discovered about homegrown Islamic extremism and the influence of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS or ISIL). This new report from ADL's Center on Extremism provides information on:
Americans implicated in terror-related activity
How terrorist groups such as ISIS and Al Qaeda leverage social media to recruit Americans
The role of anti-Semitism in terrorist narratives
Americans Implicated in Terror-Related Activity
At least 17…
February 02, 2015 2015 began with heinous attacks in Paris by Islamic extremists directly targeting Jews and those perceived to be treating Islam inappropriately. Two gunmen, brothers Chérif and Saïd Kouachi, attacked the offices of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo on January 9, killing 11 members of the staff and a policeman. Two days later, on January 11, a friend of the Kouachis, Amedy Coulibaly, went into a HyperCacher supermarket – at the…
by: Kenneth Jacobson | January 31, 2015 Santa Cruz Sentinel The latest strategy being used by those who make a career of assaulting the good name of the state of Israel is to link the issue of full equality for African-Americans, as symbolized by the word “Ferguson,” with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The most recent egregious example of this took place in Santa Cruz at an event on Jan. 28 commemorating Martin Luther King Jr. sponsored by UC Santa Cruz.
The announced speaker…
February 02, 2015 Aftermath is a foreign language film (recently released on DVD) that tells the story of two brothers from a small town in Poland, outside Warsaw. Franek, who has been living in the United States for the past thirty years and Jozek, who still lives on the family farm in Poland and whose wife and children have recently inexplicably left him, make a discovery that breaks open all they know about their family and the town around them. The film is based on the events of the…
by: Lorraine Array January 22, 2015 "After Auschwitz, the human condition is not the same, nothing will be the same."
- Elie Wiesel
January 27th marks the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz Birkenau Concentration Camp by the Russian army at the end of World War II. For those who were able to survive the horrors of Auschwitz, finally hearing the words “We’re free! We’re free!” echoing across the camp barracks must have seemed…
by: Kenneth Jacobson | January 20, 2015 JTA The latest strategy being used by those who make a career of assaulting the good name of the State of Israel is to link the issue of full equality for African-Americans, as symbolized by the word “Ferguson,” with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. There is a long history of using legitimate American social justice issues to undermine the Jewish state. We saw it during the Vietnam War, where small contingents linked opposition to the war to…
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is Monday, January 16, and many educators will take the opportunity to teach about King and his enormous contributions to our society. As educators, how we approach the teaching of this holiday makes an impact on how students understand the larger context of the Civil Rights Movement and whether they make a connection between the past struggles to the current day and their own lives. Here are some thoughts about teaching the topic in a meaningful way…
by: Oren Segal December 17, 2014 Malala. Ferguson. Immigration. Ebola. Voter ID Laws. Climate Change. These are just a few of the topics teachers are regularly and actively bringing into their classrooms.
Whether they teach English, Social Studies, Advisory or another subject and whether they have five minutes or decide to do a week- long study, teachers know that topics in the news will engage and interest students in a deep and meaningful way. Research…
by: Oren Segal December 05, 2014 In the wake of two grand jury decisions—in Ferguson, MO and Staten Island, NY—not to indict the police officers who were involved in the killing of black men, the time has come to ask ourselves: Where do we go from here? There are a myriad of ideas and legislation on the table--diversity training for the police, funding to provide body cameras for police officers and legislation to tighten standards on military-style equipment for local police…
November 20, 2014 I am honored to be in Sofia today, together with the Anti-Defamation League’s top leadership, at the invitation of President Plevneliev, who was our guest in Washington last year, as a headline speaker at our major event to celebrate ADL’s 100th anniversary.
ADL plays an active role in international affairs and we meet with many presidents, prime ministers, and foreign ministers. We could have invited the German Chancellor, the French…
November 18, 2014 Read the full report here: Khalid Muhammad In His Own Words (PDF).
Khalid Muhammad died on February 17, 2001 from the effects of a brain aneurysm. Prior to his death, his words and deeds had been the focus of increasing public attention. A former national spokesman for the Nation of Islam (NOI), Muhammad was exceedingly confrontational in his rhetoric. His supporters viewed his hateful diatribes as expressions of rage that traditional Black leaders were unable or…
November 10, 2014 A few days before Halloween, many residents of Prattville, Alabama, woke to find their front doors and yards festooned with racist fliers in plastic bags weighted down with rocks, courtesy of the Missouri-based Traditionalist American Knights of the Ku Klux Klan (TAK).
“The TAK of the KKK is a pro-White, Christian organization,” the fliers began. “We are dedicated to preserving our race, our heritage and our American way of life.” …
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October 28, 2014. Prattville, Alabama. Fliering by the Traditionalist American Knights of the Ku Klux Klan (TAK).
October 24, 2014. Bentonville, Arkansas. Fliering by the TAK.
October 16, 2014. Van Zandt County, Texas. Fliering by the Texas Knights of the Ku Klux Klan.
October 12, 2014. Hamilton, Ohio. Fliering by the TAK.
October 10, 2014. St. Louis and Jefferson Counties, Missouri. Fliering by the TAK.
October 8,…
October 24, 2014 For a print-friendly version of the report, please see: Anti-Israel Activity on Campus After Operation Protective Edge (PDF)
Student groups seeking to isolate and delegitimize Israel, to stifle dialogue and control the message about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict have organized activities on college and university campuses for several years.
These efforts polarize campuses, inflame existing tensions and intimidate students. In light of the previous academic year…
October 15, 2014 When planning a special event, either on site or off site, it is important that consideration be given to the safety and security of the attendees. As Director of Security for a large urban, convention hotel, I have had the opportunity to work with many groups and the following is some of the advice I offer.
Any time a group of likeminded people comes together for a common purpose, there is an opportunity for a person or group of people to take issue and…
September 24, 2014 The Metropolitan Opera’s production of The Death of Klinghoffer has once again thrust this highly controversial and deeply flawed John Adams opera into the news.
In May 2014, the Met announced it would cancel plans for a global simulcast of the opera “in response to concerns that the opera’s broadcast to 66 countries around the world could promote anti-Semitism and legitimize terrorism.” But since then…
September 22, 2014 In the course of the time it takes me to introduce Eric Schmidt, the esteemed recipient of ADL’s International Leadership Award, Google will handle in the neighborhood of 12 million searches. Or, put another way, in one month Google - the company which Eric steered as CEO for more than a decade and now serves as Executive Chairman – handles over a 100 billion searches. Wow!
Added to that almost 6 billion hours of video on Google-owned YouTube are…
September 12, 2014 Preamble
Our struggle against the Jews is very great and very serious. It needs all sincere efforts. It is a step that inevitably should be followed by other steps. The Movement is but one squadron that should be supported by more and more squadrons from this vast Arab and Islamic world, until the enemy is vanquished and Allah's victory is realised.
Article Seven
The Islamic Resistance Movement is one of the links in the chain of the struggle against the Zionist…
September 05, 2014
ADL LETTER TO PRESIDENT ERDOGAN
July 18, 2014
His Excellency Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
President of the Republic of Turkey
Dear Mr. President,
We are alarmed by the increasingly hostile environment toward Israel in Turkey, which now is extending to include the Turkish Jewish community.
This hostility has manifested in a number of areas, including your own comments comparing Israeli leaders with Hitler and harshly criticizing Israel,…