Remarks by George Selim, Senior Vice President for Programs, ADL September 18, 2019 Washington, D.C., September 18, 2019
My name is George Selim, I serve as the Senior Vice President of Programs at ADL, the Anti-Defamation League. For decades, ADL has fought against bigotry and anti-Semitism by exposing extremist groups and individuals who spread hate and incite violence. Today, ADL is the foremost nongovernmental authority on domestic terrorism, extremism, hate groups and hate…
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Remarks by Sharon Nazarian, Senior Vice President for International Affairs, ADL September 18, 2019 Washington, D.C., September 18, 2019
Good afternoon Chairmen Deutch and Rose, Ranking Members Wilson and Walker, and members of the subcommittees. My name is Sharon Nazarian, I serve as Senior Vice President for International Affairs at the Anti-Defamation League. It is an honor to appear before you today.
I am here today to speak to you about the internationalization and increasing…
Flyers found across campus are confirming alt-right groups may still have a presence at the University of Nevada, Reno.
American Identity Movement and Identity Evropa
Reddit user UNRThrowAway posted in the r/unr subreddit exposing the American Identity Movement’s flyers and posters in Mack Social Science on Monday, Sept. 9.
The American Identity Movement is a non-profit “identitarian” organization founded on March 8, 2018 by Patrick Casey. AIM preaches nationalism…
The Hollywood Reporter, September 10, 2019, by Scott Feinberg… One hundred years after the future Führer first declared “the final goal” to eradicate Jews, Netlglix’s Ted Sarandos, NBCUniversal’s Ron Meyer and more join the Museum of Tolerance’s Rabbi Marvin Hier to highlight the memory and lessons of the Holocaust.
At a time when hate speech and hate crimes are surging all around the world, West L.A.’s Museum of Tolerance is…
New York Times, August 22, 2019… In a ruling that kicks at the foundation of how America chooses presidents, a federal appeals court on Tuesday said members of the Electoral College, who cast the actual votes for president, may choose whomever they please regardless of a state’s popular vote.
The ruling by the United States Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit in Denver said Colorado was out of bounds in 2016 when it canceled the vote of a so-called faithless…
On August 8, 2019, the FBI arrested Conor Climo, a Las Vegas-based security guard, on weapons charges for possession of an unregistered firearm. According to analysis by ADL’s Center on Extremism (COE), Climo, apparently using a variety of aliases, was actively engaged online for several years with other white supremacists, moving between Daily Stormer community boards, Discord servers and encrypted Wire chats.
In June 2019, the COE provided law enforcement officials familiar with…
"I learned what an ally really is and how we have our differences but can still protect each other." - High School Student, Denver School of the Arts"This is my third time seeing an ADL presentation and I always learn something and get inspired to change for the better." -High School Student, BBYO"I have learned that we all have to be proud of who we are. " -High School Student, South High School "I learned how important it is to stay strong and know the facts, so you can stand up for yourself…
Thursday, August 8, Las Vegas FBI arrested a 23-year-old male. During the arrest agents found guns, ammunition, and bombmaking materials in his home. As stated in the criminal complaint filed, a target list was found that included a gay nightclub, a synagogue, and the ADL Nevada office, all in Las Vegas.
The Nevada regional office of the Anti-Defamation League and Jewish Nevada have been in close contact with law enforcement. ADL requested additional police patrols and a heightened…
WASHINGTON — Nebraska State Sen. John McCollister is speaking out against his own Republican Party and President Donald Trump.
“The Republican Party is enabling white supremacy in our country,” McCollister wrote on Twitter on Sunday night. “As a lifelong Republican, it pains me to say this, but it’s the truth.”
In a phone interview Monday, McCollister said he has been concerned about the direction of his party for some time, but the…
May 13, 2021 Over the past 25 years, numerous white supremacists have targeted the Jewish community in the U.S. through terrorist acts, conspiracies and plots. Here is a selection of significant incidents from 1994 through 2021.
Assumption, Illinois, 2020: Federal agents charged Randall Burrus with weapons offenses in connection with an alleged white supremacist plot to attack a synagogue or mosque. This is linked to the April 15, 2020 incident involving John Michael Rathbun in…
July 23, 2019 By Robert Trestan and Jeremy Burton
“Teaching High School Students to Demonize Israel” (Tablet, July 18) falsely portrays the Boston area’s two major mainstream Jewish community organizations’ role in a seven-year-old controversy regarding the Newton public school district’s use of the Arab World Studies Notebook and other materials in Newton North High School’s World History classes.
Our organizations, ADL and JCRC, are in fact deeply…
A Hebrew version of this article originally appeared in Makor Rishon on June 10th. by: Carole Nuriel | July 23, 2019 It has been more than three weeks since the earthquake that rocked Israel in wake of the shooting of Israeli-Ethiopian teenager Solomon Tekah by an off-duty police officer. The national debate that began with an emphasis on the details of the shooting incident has since turned into a discourse on the image of Israeli society – who we are and how we relate to the other…
by: Kenneth Jacobson | July 16, 2019 The New York Jewish Week
There’s a lot of talk these days coming from different quarters about how sad and dangerous it is that even a subject such as anti-Semitism has been politicized. It’s a good thing that people are standing up in protest, but in many cases, those raising awareness of the problem are themselves guilty of reinforcing the trend.
There are a number of characteristics of this politicization. But the two most significant…
Our Education Director, Dr. Lara Trubowitz, was interviewed by NPR Illinois about a recent ADL Center on Extremism report showing that white supremacist propaganda on college campuses increased 57 percent across the Midwest region.
According to Dr. Trubowitz, “Once upon a time white supremacist propaganda would have said ‘keep the immigrants out,’ or ‘keep the Jews out.’” Now “it might say something like ‘diversity is…
July 15, 2019 JTA By Sharon Nazarian | ADL Senior Vice President of International Affairs
In any crime against a community, certain things must happen to provide some measure of healing and redemption.
But as we approach the 25th anniversary of the horrific bombing of the AMIA Jewish center in Buenos Aires, Argentina, these necessary steps have not taken place.
Despite years of activity and rhetoric, justice has not been achieved for the victims, their families and Latin…
July 12, 2019 Dear Chairman Cummings and Ranking Member Jordan:
We write to provide the views of ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) in advance of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing on the “Trump Administration’s Child Separation Policy: Substantiated Allegations of Mistreatment.” Since our founding in 1913, ADL’s mission has been to stop the defamation of the Jewish people and to secure justice and fair treatment to all. We represent a…
We're co-opting the online platforms that embolden extremists who fan the flames of bigotry and violent fantasies to stop them before they act. by: Jonathan Greenblatt | July 01, 2019 The Times of Israel From hateful speech on Stormfront and Gab to the harassment of rabbis walking down the street in Germany to recent deadly violence at houses of worship in Pittsburgh, Christchurch, and Poway, it is painfully clear how online radicalization truly endangers communities. There’s a bright…
June 27, 2019 By Grant R. Vousden-Dishington | Research Software Engineer, ADL's Center for Technology and Society
From the moment the attacker began live-streaming his lethal assault on the Al-Noor Mosque and Linwood Islamic Center in Christchurch, New Zealand, the significance of social media in driving the conversation about the incident was inevitable. Despite local law enforcement alerting Facebook to the live broadcast of the attack on their platform, and rapid action taken by…
The Daily Progress, June 24, 2019, WASHINGTON — Here’s how area members of Congress voted on major issues during the legislative week ending June 21:
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Citizenship question on census. Voting 192 for and 240 against, the House on June 20 defeated a Republican effort to fund the Trump administration’s proposed addition of a citizenship question to the 2020 census. The amendment was offered to a $690.4 billion spending package (HR…
June 21, 2019
Recent incidents of white supremacist terrorist activity have prompted the public, researchers, and cyber hate and harassment experts to focus on smaller online message boards and forums like Gab and 8chan. These platforms rose to prominence by permitting any content to be posted, no matter how extreme, without consequence. In fact, they boast about being unhindered by content moderation niceties. A particularly worrying trend is the increasing reach and influence of these…