by: Oren Segal August 03, 2016 Khizr Khan has been in the public eye since he spoke at the 2016 Democratic National Convention. In reacting to Khan’s prominence, some long-time anti-Muslim activists are seeking to discredit him.
Anti-Muslim extremist, Walid Shoebat, who is known for promoting Christian militancy, published an article on his website claiming that Khizr Khan, the father of Cpt. Humayan Khan is “a Muslim Brotherhood Agent Who Wants To Advance Sharia Law And…
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by: David Robbins August 02, 2016 Everyone Should Take to Heart Mr. and Mrs. Khan’s Underlying Message About the Evils of Prejudice
By Jonathan Greenblatt
CEO of the Anti-Defamation League
This blog originally appeared on Medium
Like millions of Americans, I was enthralled by the presentation of Khizr Khan at the Democratic National Convention. It was not only a highlight of the convention, but also a moment particular to the changing America of the 21st…
The following letter appeared in the New York Jewish Week on July 27, 2016 Letters to the Editor
New York Jewish Week
To the Editor:
We need to set the record straight on several points raised in a recent letter taking issue with the Anti-Defamation League’s efforts to advocate for the fair treatment of African-Americans at the hands of police (“Critical Of #BlackLivesMatter,” Letters, July 22).
First of all, ADL has not endorsed the Black Lives Matter movement…
July 28, 2016 1. David Duke has been active in the white supremacist movement for over 40 years. In 1974, he founded the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. Recognizing that he could gain more attention by recasting his racism in more palatable terms, Duke shed his Klan robes and in 1981 founded the National Association for the Advancement of White People (NAAWP). Though its ideology mirrored the Klan, he presented the group as “primarily a white rights lobby…
Jerusalem, July 27, 2016 … The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today strongly condemned passage in the Knesset of the “mikvah law,” which bars the ritual immersion of converts by non-Orthodox rabbis in public mikvahs (ritual baths), saying that it is using a state-funded facilities to discriminate. Immersion in the mikvah is the final step in the process of converting to Judaism. The law, initiated by MK Moshe Gafni, strives to override the Israeli Supreme Court…
by: Kenneth Jacobson | July 27, 2016 The Times of Israel Upon hearing the initial report that Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas was asking the Arab League to sue Great Britain for its Balfour Declaration of 1917, I thought this must be a satire of the sort put out by The Onion. I was wrong as it turned out. Apparently, Abbas is serious. So let’s treat his initiative seriously.
The Balfour Declaration, a statement by the then Foreign Secretary of Great Britain, Lord Balfour,…
New York, NY, July 26, 2016 … The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today condemned the terror attack at a church during Mass in Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray, near Rouen. Two assailants murdered an 86-year-old priest and took several hostages before being killed by French police. The French government has said that the attackers pledged allegiance to ISIS, and that the terror group has claimed responsibility for the attack. According to ADL’s Center on Extremism, this incident is the fifth…
by: Oren Segal July 21, 2016 The leader of the Aryan Circle Motorcycle Club (MC), David Wayne Williams (aka Big Dave) of Mamou, Louisiana, has been arrested along with seven other Aryan Circle members and associates for their alleged roles in the shooting death of Clifton Hallmark.
The Evangeline Parish Sheriff's office has charged Anissa Hallmark, Michael Auxilien, Elizabeth Auxilien, David Wayne Williams, Christa Williams, Heather Tate, Jeremey Wade Jorden, and Brian Elliot Granger with…
by: Oren Segal July 21, 2016
Al Malahem media, Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP)’s propaganda wing, released a new pamphlet examining the details of the July 14 attack in Nice, France, and encouraging copy-cat attacks.
The pamphlet is the second in a series called "Inspire Guides," which state that they are designed to “[provide] guidance to the Lone Mujahid (fighter)” and to “follow-up, guide, put right and cor…
by: Oren Segal July 21, 2016
Court proceedings have indicated that Arizona resident Mahin Khan, arrested on July 1 for allegedly plotting to bomb a DMV on behalf of ISIS and the Pakistani Taliban, had considered directing his attack against a local Jewish Community Center (JCC) before choosing the DMV as his final target. His planning, as well as anti-Semitic statements he made, serve as a critical reminder of the nexus between anti-Semitism and Islamic extremism.
Khan had allegedly…
by: Shaya Lerner July 21, 2016 Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shukri’s July 10th visit to Israel and meeting with Israeli PM Netanyahu was the first such trip in nine years. In Israel, Shukri’s visit was greeted as reflective of warming relations between Jerusalem and Cairo who signed a peace agreement in 1979. For some in Egypt, the visit sparked protest against this act of normalization.
According to reports in Arab media, Egyptian journalists burned…
by: Oren Segal July 19, 2016 Since January 2009, ADL has tracked 70 incidents in which shots were fired between police and domestic ideological extremists. Eighty-four percent of those involved were purveyors of extreme right-wing ideologies.
The July 17 attack on Baton Rouge police marks the ninth such incident this year. With nine incidents year-to-date, verses a full-year average of 8.5 for the past seven years (2009-2015), these incidents are occurring at an alarming…
by: Mark Pitcavage July 18, 2016
After authorities identified Gavin Eugene Long as the man who shot and killed three police officers from Baton Rouge and East Baton Rouge on July 17, unconfirmed media reports claimed that Long (who also used the name Cosmo Setepenra) had connections with the anti-government extremist sovereign citizen movement.
Sovereign citizens believe that a conspiracy subverted and replaced the original U.S. government with an illegitimate “de…
New York, NY, July 17, 2016 … Experts from the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) will be participating in the upcoming First Global Forum Against Anti-Semitism in Latin America where they will be offering their expertise on a number of critical issues, including combating the rising tide of anti-Semitism and best practices in tackling cyberhate. The forum, which begins today in Buenos Aires, Argentina, will address anti-Semitism in Latin America with discussions focusing on education,…
by: Oren Segal July 15, 2016 The use of a vehicle to kill civilians in yesterday’s apparent terror attack in Nice, France, serves as a reminder of how terrorist groups and their supporters encourage their adherents to carry out attacks with common resources.
In addition to run-over style attacks, terrorists have encouraged the use of common items such as household products to make bombs, as well as various other tactics in their online magazines, speeches and other propaganda.
The…
by: David Robbins July 15, 2016
Over the next two weeks, Republicans and Democrats convene their conventions – the equivalent of the MLB All-Star Game for political junkies. While the conventions are often a spectacle of political theater, this year it feels like the drama that has taken center stage is overshadowing important policy issues.
This hasn’t happened in a vacuum. For years, America’s political debate has been sliding toward greater polarization and…
New York, NY, July 15, 2016 … The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) expressed shock and outrage at a horrific terrorist attack in Nice, France, which targeted revelers at Bastille Day celebrations. The driver of the truck used in the attack was identified as Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel, a 31-year-old French Tunisian. At least 84 people were killed when a truck was driven into a crowd of revelers. “This attack was the ninth attack by terrorists since Charlie Hebdo. Their aim is to weaken…
New York, NY, July 15, 2016 … The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) welcomed today’s statement by UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova, who condemned attempts to deny the Jewish connection to Jerusalem.
At UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee, currently meeting in Istanbul, a draft resolution on the Old City of Jerusalem is being negotiated. A similar resolution in April by UNESCO’s Executive Board condemned Israel for alleged “Jewish fake graves” on the Temple…
July 14, 2016
It has been a rough summer as the topic of guns, violence, police and bias scream across the news headlines and our smart phones.
Still reeling from the June 12 massacre of 49 people at a gay nightclub in Orlando, a few short weeks later we watched on video the back-to-back shooting deaths by police of Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge, LA and Philando Castile in Falcon Heights, MN. Just a day later, as cities across the country engaged in protests over these…
by: Oren Segal July 14, 2016 The leaders of the New Black Panther Party (NBPP), the largest organized anti-Semitic and racist Black militant group in America, will be in Cleveland July 14-17 ahead of the Republican convention, where they will likely inflame the already tense situation following the fatal shootings of Alton Sterling in Louisiana and Philando Castile in Minnesota and the killing of five police officers in Dallas. …