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'Rapist,' 'Pedophile,' 'Zionist Trash': Pro-Terror Symbols, Clashes With Police, and Hateful Rhetoric Punctuate Protest at Park East Synagogue

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A protest at Park East Synagogue in Manhattan on Tuesday, May 05, 2026, in New York City. (Selcuk Acar/Anadolu via Getty Images).
The second major anti-Israel protest at Park East Synagogue in New York City in less than a year featured a Hezbollah flag, signs equating Zionism with Nazism and terrorism, and stickers depicting a swastika inside a Star of David. The crowd protesting “The Great Israeli Real Estate Event 2026” grew to hundreds as the evening went on. There were significant clashes between protesters and law enforcement; one officer was hospitalized and police used pepper-spray. Based on footage…
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Tucker Carlson

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Screenshot: Tucker Carlson hosts white supremacist Nick Fuentes on an October 2025 episode of The Tucker Carlson Show. (Source/YouTube)
Former Fox News top host Tucker Carlson has become a leading mainstream amplifier of antisemitic tropes and conspiracy theories, extremist voices, and anti-Israel disinformation.
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Incitación: Antisemitismo y Violencia en los Libros de Texto Estatales de Irán

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David Andrew Weinberg es el Director de Asuntos Internacionales de la ADL en Washington. También es el experto principal de la organización en materia de incitación antisemita estatal en el Medio Oriente; es autor de monografías anteriores en las que evalúa los libros de texto escolares impresos por el Reino de Arabia Saudita, así como por escuelas privadas del Líbano alineadas con Hezbolá. Antes de incorporarse a la ADL, Dr…
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Incitement: Antisemitism and Violence in Iran’s Current State Textbooks

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DOWNLOAD FULL REPORT David Andrew Weinberg is ADL’s Washington Director for International Affairs. He also serves as the organization’s lead analyst on state-enabled antisemitic incitement in the Middle East, for instance authoring previous monographs assessing school textbooks printed by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia as well as by private schools in Lebanon aligned with Hezbollah. Prior to joining ADL, Dr. Weinberg served as a Senior Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of…
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Top 10 Moments of Hate of 2019

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Hate-fueled mass shootings horrifyingly make up half of our 2019 Top Ten Incidents of Hate List. Three of the shootings took place in houses of worship: two synagogues, and two mosques. One of those shootings was on the holiest day of the year, Yom Kippur. Three perpetrators were white supremacists, two are believed to have ties to an anti-Semitic sect of the Black Hebrew Israelite movement. Two shootings were overseas, three of them spanned both coasts of the U.S. Hate spread across the…
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Alireza Arafi in His Own Words

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A day after Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed during an attack by Israel and the United States on February 28, 2026, Alireza Arafi was appointed as the Islamic Republic of Iran’s interim leader as a member of the Leadership Council, which is tasked with fulfilling the supreme leader’s role until the Assembly of Experts elects a new leader. A review of Arafi’s public statements, especially open letters reproduced on the Guardian Council…
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Massive Iranian Regime News Operation is Spreading Antisemitic Propaganda to Spanish-Speaking Masses

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ADL report finds “dramatic escalation” in hateful rhetoric on Iran’s HispanTV since 10/7 New York, NY, February 17, 2026 … The official propaganda outlet of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Latin America significantly ramped up its hateful rhetoric over the last two years, according to a report from ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) issued today. The report found that Iran’s HispanTV routinely publishes content that advances antisemitic tropes about Jewish power,…
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UpScrolled Social Media Platform Attracts Virulent Antisemites, Lacks Enforcement Protections

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Image: Collage of posts on X encouraging users to join UpScrolled to spite the Jews.
“F--- the jews! Find me on UpScrolled,” proclaimed one antisemitic influencer last month to her 1.3 million followers on X. UpScrolled, a social media platform launched in June 2025 in response to purported suppression of speech on other platforms, attracted just 20,000 users in its first two months, growing to 150,000 by January 2026. But following panicked and conspiratorial claims about changes to TikTok’s U.S. operating structure, UpScrolled’s user base exploded to…
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The Act Now to Stop War and End Racism (ANSWER) Coalition

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Photo: An ANSWER Coalition protest opposing the military operation against the Iranian regime on March 2, 2026 in New York City. (Adam Gray/Getty Images)
Key PointsThe Act Now to Stop War and End Racism (ANSWER) Coalition, established in 2001, is an anti-imperialist organization that often calls for anti-Israel and anti-war protests across the United States.The ANSWER Coalition frequently organizes mass actions nationwide, including over 150 protests opposing the 2026 military operation against the Iranian regime, as well as hundreds of protests following Hamas’s October 7, 2023 terror attack on Israel and during the subsequent Israel…
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Alireza Arafi en sus propias palabras

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Un día después de que el Líder Supremo iraní, el ayatolá Alí Jamenei, fuera asesinado durante un ataque de Israel y Estados Unidos el 28 de febrero de 2026, Alireza Arafi fue designado líder interino de la República Islámica de Irán como miembro del Consejo de Liderazgo, encargado de cumplir las funciones del líder supremo hasta que la Asamblea de Expertos elija a un nuevo líder. Una revisión de las…
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Digital Couriers: How U.S. Anti-Israel Activists Amplify Terror Propaganda on Mainstream Platforms

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Since Hamas’s October 7, 2023, attacks, analysts from the ADL Center on Extremism (COE) have tracked how some U.S.-based anti-Zionist activists and groups, including Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) chapters, are amplifying propaganda from Palestinian Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs) and others to promote support for the “resistance” — a euphemistic reference to the various terrorist groups responsible for violent attacks against Israel, including &nbsp…
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Pro-Hamas Chant at Queens Synagogue Protest Signals Further Normalization of Terror Rhetoric

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Protesters organized by Pal-Awda participate in a January 8, 2026, protest outside Young Israel of Kew Gardens Hills in Queens, New York
The explicit celebration of Hamas at a protest targeting a Queens synagogue last week serves as a stark reminder of a disturbing new reality: Pro-terror expressions are becoming openly normalized within the U.S. anti-Israel movement. The January 8 demonstration outside of Young Israel of Kew Gardens Hills in Queens, New York, was ostensibly a protest of an Israeli real estate event taking place inside the synagogue. It quickly devolved into calls to “Globalize the Intifada,” shouts…
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