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From San Diego to Montreal: Antisemitism Serves as a Throughline in Recent Extremist Shootings

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Photo: Police near the scene of an active shooter situation on June 22, 2026 in Montreal, Canada. According to reports, a police officer was killed in a shootout, and a suspect was also killed at the scene. (Andrej Ivanov/Getty Images)
A shooter opened fire in Montreal’s Côte-des-Neiges neighborhood on June 22, resulting in two deaths and one injury before responding law enforcement killed the perpetrator.  The perpetrator was identified by law enforcement as a 25-year-old Canadian man; whether or not the shooter selected specific targets is unknown. ADL analysis of a lengthy manifesto reportedly left behind by the shooter reveals a range of extremist views, including antisemitism, incel-linked ideas, and…
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A Decade of Attacks on Synagogues Worldwide

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Photo: Law enforcement vehicles are seen in the parking lot of Temple Israel in West Bloomfield, Michigan, following an active shooter on March 12, 2026. According to authorities, a suspect is dead after ramming a vehicle into the Detroit-area synagogue. (Emily Elconin/Getty Images)
ADL has tracked roughly 80 attacks on synagogues worldwide in the past decade — with the pace accelerating sharply since the October 7, 2023, Hamas-led terror attacks on Israel
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The ADL Year in Review: 2025

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Year in Review 2025
ADL's 2025 Year in Review is a month-by-month rundown of what we went through and accomplished as we came together to fight hate and share hope.
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Happy Rosh Hashanah

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Honey and pomegranate
As we begin the Jewish New Year of Rosh Hashanah tomorrow at sundown, we want to share insights from ADL Rabbinic Fellow David Wolpe with you. We hope that everyone in the ADL community can find something important to consider in his essay about how we can all aspire to push for a world without hate in the days to come. Although Rosh Hashanah often sparks thoughts about the state of the world, it also asks us to look inside ourselves. I find the teaching that follows helpful both…
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Anti-Israel Activists Co-opt American Tragedies to Target Israel

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​ This spring and summer, as headlines across the United States have focused on urgent issues like the dangers of gun violence and threats to reproductive care, prominent anti-Israel groups and individuals have sought to tether these American issues to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, doubling down on anti-Zionist tropes and false accusations against the state of Israel. These groups include Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) and Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), both of which…
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President Biden’s Visit to Israel Sees Uptick in Anti-Zionist Rhetoric

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U.S. President Joe Biden, who is currently visiting Israel, the Palestinian Authority, and Saudi Arabia, reiterated the strong friendship and strategic alliance between Israel and the United States, paid tribute to Holocaust survivors, and even self-identified as a Zionist, at a time when the term is being demonized by Israel’s detractors. Outraged by this show of support for the Jewish State, individuals and groups in the anti-Israel movement in the United States assailed President…
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Antisemitic Conspiracy Theories Abound Around Russian Assault on Ukraine

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Antisemitic Conspiracy Theories Abound Around Russian Assault on Ukraine
March 09, 2022 Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, extremists and antisemites across the ideological spectrum have used the war as fodder for promoting antisemitic conspiracy theories. Emanating from classic antisemites and white supremacists, as well as QAnon influencers and Proud Boys acolytes, classic tropes of Jewish power, financial control and “abuse” of the Holocaust narrative abound online. In just a few short weeks, tens of thousands of social…
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Seis datos sobre las amenazas a la comunidad judía

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Six Facts About Threats to the Jewish Community
January 20, 2022 1. Los judíos son la comunidad religiosa más atacada en Estados Unidos. Según los datos anuales del FBI sobre delitos de odio, definidos como delitos criminales motivados por prejuicios, los delitos contra la comunidad judía constituyen más de la mitad de todos los delitos basados en la religión. El número de delitos de odio contra los judíos ha oscilado entre 600 y 1.200 al año desde que el FBI comenzó…
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Six Facts About Threats to The Jewish Community

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Six facts
January 17, 2022   1. Jews are consistently the most targeted religious community in the U.S. According to the FBI’s annual data on hate crimes, defined as criminal offenses which are motivated by bias, crimes targeting the Jewish community consistently constitute over half of all religion-based crimes. The number of hate crimes against Jews has ranged between 600 and 1,200 each year since the FBI began collecting data in the 1990s. There were 683 hate crimes against Jews in…
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Pakistani Woman Linked to Al Qaeda Found Guilty in New York

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January 15, 2022 Originally posted: October 4, 2010 A Pakistani woman with alleged links to Al Qaeda convicted for attempting to kill U.S. security personnel in Afghanistan has blamed her guilty verdict on Israel. On February 3, 2010, Aafia Siddiqui, 37, was found guilty in a New York federal court of two counts of attempted murder, armed assault, using and carrying a firearm and assault of U.S. officers and employees for shooting…
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One Year After Ban, Holocaust Denial Remains on Facebook

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Holocaust denial on Facebook
December 01, 2021 UPDATE: As of December 9, 2021, Facebook has removed all nine posts reported on the platform in conjunction with our research.  October 2021 marked one year since Facebook banned Holocaust denial from its platform and officially classified Holocaust denial as hate speech instead of misinformation. On the first anniversary of this policy’s enactment on Facebook properties, analysts in ADL’s Center on Extremism (COE) sought to determine whether the…
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Leaders Gather in Malmö for Forum to Tackle Antisemitism; Hack Exposes Police Officers Who Signed up to Oath Keepers

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ADL Headlines newsletter
October 15, 2021 THE WEEK’S BIG 3 International and Jewish community leaders gathered in Malmö, Sweden this week for a conference to combat antisemitism and advance Holocaust remembrance. Twitter is struggling to curtail COVID-19 misinformation and hate speech originating from the fringe social network Gab and migrating to find massive audiences on the platform, according to a new report released by ADL. A review of recently revealed membership rolls for the far-right group Oath…
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Antisemitism on Twitter: Reactions to Middle East Conflict

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May 14, 2021 UPDATED May 16, 2021 The increasing conflict in Israel and Gaza in May 2021 has elicited social media commentary from around the world. In some cases, criticism of Israel has crossed the line into antisemitism. On Twitter, a number of antisemitic trends have emerged, including praise for Hitler, promoting tropes about Jewish control and demonizing all Jews. Invocation of Hitler and the Holocaust Antisemitic posts referencing Hitler and claiming he was “right&rdquo…
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TruNews’ Antisemitism and Conspiracies Reach Growing Facebook Audience

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TruNews dumpster fire
March 25, 2021 UPDATE: According to the TruNews website, the channel was banned from Facebook on April 3, 2021, and the TruNews page has been removed from the platform.  In early 2020, ADL wrote about TruNews and its host and founder, Rick Wiles, detailing the fundamentalist Christian video streaming site’s consistently antisemitic, anti-Zionist, anti-LGBTQ+ and Islamophobic rhetoric. In July 2020, a follow-up piece focused on TruNews’ use of…
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Asian Americans report increase in online hate; Jewish woman attacked on London street; Holocaust terms used by Mass. school football team

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ADL Headlines newsletter
March 25, 2021 THE WEEK’S BIG 3 Asian Americans reported the single biggest increase in serious incidents of online hate and harassment as racist and xenophobic slurs blaming people of Asian descent for the coronavirus pandemic spread over the past year, according to a new survey from ADL. ADL is asking for an independent investigation into a Massachusetts high school football team that used Holocaust-related language including “Auschwitz” and Jewish words in its on-field…
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Aqsa Week 2021 Features Inflammatory, Anti-Israel Rhetoric

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Aqsa
March 18, 2021 From March 6-12, 2021, anti-Israel groups American Muslims for Palestine (AMP) and UK-based Friends of Al-Aqsa held an all-virtual Aqsa Week, described on AMP’s website as “programs and educational webinars... that focused on Jerusalem, its Islamic significance...the Prophetic connection to Palestine to[sic] the dark era of the Crusades and US/UK policy towards Jerusalem.” Many events, however, featured speakers who veered into inflammatory rhetoric,…
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