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Keeping the Lights On: How Cloudflare Sustains Violent Extremism, Graphic Violence and Terrorism Online
Report
This report details the real human impact of some of the sites Cloudflare sustains and evaluates the systemic policy and enforcement gaps that allow them to remain operational.
Sweden’s leading right-wing extremist group: Violence, Antisemitism and International Connections. Acknowledgements: Contributing authors to this report were Jonathan Leman and Morgan Finnsiö of Expo Foundation, Stockholm, a valued ADL partner in the fight against extremism.
The fanatically antisemitic Nordic Resistance Movement (NRM) is the Nordic region’s leading and most dangerous right-wing extremist group.
Over the quarter-century of its existence, the NRM has…
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Argentina
San Juan: Escuela Modelo de San Juan students reportedly made a Nazi-themed school project parodying Aqua’s “Barbie Girl” song. The school dismissed the teacher and had students study anti-Semitism in response
Canada
Montreal: A Jewish student at McGill University faced pressure to resign from her student government position for accepting Hillel Montreal’s invitation to travel to Israel and the West…
For five years, Sheikh Faisal was the “religious sanctioner” for the foremost Islamist extremist group in the U.S., Revolution Muslim. From 2007-2011, Revolution Muslim brought Al-Qaeda’s ideology to the United States and, with it, a rabid anti-Semitism.
Military Operation Against Iranian Regime Fuels Wave of Antisemitic Conspiracy Theories, Calls for Mobilization
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The U.S. and Israeli military operation against the Iranian regime triggered an immediate surge of antisemitic, anti-Zionist and conspiratorial commentary that spanned the ideological spectrum. COE is tracking 7 rhetorical trends.
Overt Antisemitic and Extreme Anti-Israel Rhetoric Continue to Spike After U.S. Strikes Iran Nuclear Sites
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In the aftermath of the U.S strikes on Iran's nuclear sites, we're seeing a continued spike in antisemitic and conspiratorial anti-Israel rhetoric—from extremist influencers and public-facing leaders.
Antisemites and extremists of varying ideologies quickly reacted to reports of preemptive Israeli strikes against the Iranian regime with their predictable hate-filled rhetoric.
La ADL y CONIB se asocian para combatir el antisemitismo y el extremismo en Brasil
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Nueva iniciativa fortalece los esfuerzos para monitorear, exponer y luchar contra el antisemitismo y el antisionismo mediante la capacitación, el análisis y la colaboración Nueva York, Nueva York, 10 de marzo de 2025 ... La Liga Antidifamación (ADL) y la Confederação Israelita do Brasil (CONIB) anunciaron hoy una nueva asociación para fortalecer los esfuerzos destinados a combatir el antisemitismo, el antisionismo y las amenazas…
Anti-Israel Activists Display Brazen Support for Terror at Hezbollah Chiefs’ Beirut Funeral
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In a notable development for the anti-Israel movement, prominent American and international anti-Zionist activists traveled to Lebanon last month to attend the joint funeral of Hassan Nasrallah and Hashem Safieddine, leaders of the Lebanon-based, U.S.-designated terror group Hezbollah. Many other such activists marked the occasion by openly expressing their admiration for these notorious terror leaders at anti-Israel demonstrations and online. Attendees at Nasrallah and Safieddine’s…
The Anti-Defamation League’s Task Force on Middle East Minorities condemns the murder of Rabbi Kogan in the United Arab Emirates
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Rabbi Kogan’s murder highlights vital need for UAE to prioritize fight against extremism New York, NY, November 25, 2024 ... The Anti-Defamation League’s (ADL) Task Force on Middle East Minorities condemns the tragic murder of Chabad emissary Rabbi Zvi Kogan in the United Arab Emirates. This horrific act underscores the urgent need to confront rising extremism, antisemitism, and hatred in the Middle East. We appreciate the quick action by UAE authorities to apprehend three…
Far-Right UK Riots Blamed on Israel by Conspiracy Theorists
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Riots across the United Kingdom involving far-right elements broke out after the murder of three young girls at a dance class in the Southport knife attack was falsely attributed to a recently arrived Muslim migrant. It is predictable but still problematic to see Israel scapegoated as the cause of the riots raging across the United Kingdom involving far-right elements. This is happening across social media. The claims have no basis and contribute to the increasing anxiety among the Jews in the…
Andrew Tate is a British-American former kickboxer and reality television star with millions of social media followers – 8.5 million on X (formerly Twitter) alone.
ADL Report Says Leading European Neo-Nazi Group Exports Antisemitism Across Scandinavia and Beyond
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Sweden’s Nordic Resistance Movement held 185 “combat training” sessions in 2020 and has served as inspiration for American white supremacists New York, NY, March 28, 2022 … A new report from ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) identifies the Nordic Resistance Movement of Sweden as the region’s most dangerous right wing extremist group, saying that the virulently antisemitic hate group poses “an ongoing and serious public security threat” and is exporting…
Antisemitic Conspiracy Theories Abound Around Russian Assault on Ukraine
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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…
White Supremacists, Other Extremists Respond to Russian Invasion of Ukraine
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March 03, 2022 In the week since Russian President Putin declared a “special military operation” in Ukraine, the Russian leader has become a pariah among much of the global community. Even white supremacist communities, once steadfast in their support for Putin’s Russia, are now questioning whether the invasion is worth the cost in “white” lives. They are also railing against non-white refugees resettling in “white” Europe and offering support for a…
Seis datos sobre las amenazas a la comunidad judía
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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…
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…
January 12, 2022 Latin American countries have struggled to keep up with economic pressures, which had started prior to the COVID-19 pandemic and were exacerbated by the health crisis. Furthermore, political polarization seems to have permeated across the region with elections that appear to favor populist far left and far right candidates.
What will this all mean for the Jewish communities in the region in 2022?
The Jewish…
One Year After Ban, Holocaust Denial Remains on Facebook
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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…