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Summer of Hate: White Supremacist Activity from Memorial to Labor Day

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An image of two individuals associated with White Lives Matter Montana demonstrating on an overpass display a sign that reads, “white man zone” and a banner which reads: “Non-white? Non-American.”
From Memorial Day through Labor Day 2024, the ADL Center on Extremism (COE) tracked a sustained, high level of white supremacist activity that included paramilitary-style marches, demonstrations, “fight nights,” propaganda drives, and disruption of public forums across the country. COE documented 64 white supremacist events across 25 states between May 27 and September 2, 2024. A majority of these events were small, with just five to 12 participants, but there were also larger…
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The Impact of Divestment Campaigns on Rising Antisemitism

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Campus activism surrounding the Palestinian-Israeli conflict often presents a skewed narrative, painting Israel as the sole aggressor and magnifying its flaws beyond those of any other nation. While all countries have their shortcomings and deserve scrutiny, Israel stands out as a unique target of widespread university divestment campaigns, suggesting a disproportionate focus on its actions and policies. Through their rhetoric and demands, anti-Israel divestment campaigns can feed into the…
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The Legal Risks of Divestment from Israel for University Endowments

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There are many reasons why it’s a bad idea for university endowments to divest from Israel. Divestment serves to delegitimize Israel and puts the onus for solving the longstanding Palestinian-Israeli conflict on only one side. It could also likely lead to economic ramifications, such as reduced alumni giving and lower returns, as well as open up the potential for heavier taxation of endowment income.     Beyond all of these arguments, universities that decide to divest…
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The Economic Risks of Divestment from Israel for University Endowments

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As encampment protests riled college campuses throughout the Spring 2024 semester, some universities agreed to formally consider protestors’ demands that their endowments divest from companies with business interests in Israel. It is the latest iteration of the years-long Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) campaign that seeks to isolate Israel economically.    Brown University reached an agreement for student protestors to take down their encampment and refrain from…
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Turkey Attacker Inspired by Accelerationism and Mass Killers, Manifesto Shows

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Turkey Attacker Inspired by Accelerationism and Mass Killers, Manifesto Shows
An 18-year-old suspect who livestreamed himself stabbing multiple people near a mosque in the Turkish city of Eskişehir on August 12, 2024, was fueled by the extremist belief in accelerationism and motivated by past mass killers including white supremacists, an analysis by the ADL Center on Extremism has shown.    Wearing a skull mask and a tactical vest with a sonnenrad patch — both common symbols utilized by white supremacists and accelerationists — and armed with…
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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…
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Haniyeh in His Own Words

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Ismail Haniyeh, who was killed on July 31, 2024 in Tehran, led the so-called politburo of Hamas, a US-designated Islamist terror organization dedicated to the destruction of the State of Israel and the establishment of an Islamic state between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea. Hamas’ founding covenant issued in 1988, which echoes the notorious Protocols of the Elders of Zion charging Jews with an international conspiracy to gain control of the world, is…
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Targeting Hillel, Antisemites and Anti-Israel Activists Push to Undermine Jewish Life on Campus

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Protesters demonstrate against Hillel at Baruch College in New York, NY on June 5, 2024. The banner reads "It's right to rebel, Hillel go to hell!" with an inverted red triangle over the i in Hillel.
Hillel International, the premier Jewish on-campus organization that supports Jewish life at hundreds of colleges across the United States and abroad, has been one of the most frequent targets of anti-Israel activists and other antisemites in recent months, totaling more than a hundred incidents in the U.S. since Hamas’s October 7, 2023 attack on Israel. Jewish students and Hillel staff members have received threatening emails and phone calls; Hillel buildings have been vandalized and…
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Samidoun: What You Need to Know

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A Palestinian girl stands near a poster of Ibrahim al-Nabulsi, a commander of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigade, one of the main terrorist groups present in the West Bank operating under the ruling Fatah party, who was killed by Israeli troops in August 2022. The poster bears the Samidoun logo
Introduction Anti-Zionist group Samidoun (derived from the Arabic word for “steadfast”) is a self-described solidarity network for Palestinian inmates in Israeli prisons. In October 2024, the U.S. and Canadian governments sanctioned Samidoun as a "sham charity that serves as an international fundraiser for The Popular Front for The Liberation of Palestine" (PFLP), a designated terror group in the U.S., Canada, the European Union, Israel, and Japan. On October 15, 2024, the U.S…
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Far-Right Influencers on X Promote Anti-Zionism, Hate and Conspiracy Theories

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An analysis by the ADL Center on Extremism identified five influencers on X whose engagement spiked in the days and weeks after Hamas’s attack on Israel, with content that included virulent anti-Zionism alongside antisemitic tropes, disinformation and other forms of hateful or harmful rhetoric. In the six months following October 7, 2023, the combined audience engagement on X for these five influencers—Jackson Hinkle, Lucas Gage, Jake Shields, Sam Parker and CensoredMen&mdash…
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"Time to Escalate": Anti-Israel Activists Intensify Protests with Violent, Direct Actions

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This composite image of three photos shows anti-Israel protesters in New York, NY lighting flares and displaying the symbols of U.S.-designated terror groups at separate events between April and June 2024
Across the country in recent months, many anti-Israel activists have been engaged in strategic “escalation” to further their cause. These actions have included increasingly aggressive and targeted protests, property destruction and defacement, physical takeovers of institutions deemed to be “complicit” in alleged Israeli military actions, and even multiple cases of ideologically motivated arson attacks.  For the most part, the tactics themselves — such as…
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Anti-Israel Summer “Schools” Emerge Nationwide

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Composite image from the Western Massachusetts Popular University for Palestine Instagram showing headshot photos of a group of historical figures around a banner that reads “University for the PEOPLE” in red and brown paint. The people in the photo, from bottom left, are: Leila Khaled, Aimé Césaire, Kwame Nkrumah, Rosa Luxemburg, Basil al-Araj, Huey P. Newton, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Mao Zedong, Vladimir Lenin and Frantz Fanon.
While the anti-Israel encampments have largely been dismantled, their architects appear determined to capitalize on what they see as their most successful organizing tactic in a decade. “Summer school” is now in session, led locally and nationally by pro-Palestinian individuals and groups.  These ”schools” — currently scheduled to run from June through August — are designed to educate and train student and community activists. Some are only open to…
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Denial and Distortion of the Hamas-led October 7 Attack: An Overview of False Narratives

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Since October 7, extremists and conspiracy theorists have promoted mis- and disinformation narratives about the reality of Hamas’s unprecedented, multi-pronged attack on Israel, attempting to deny or minimize the tragedy and shift the blame towards victims, a majority of whom were innocent civilians. These misleading or false claims — many of which have proliferated on mainstream social media platforms — manipulate and distort the facts of the mass assault, invalidate the…
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GAI Music Creation Tool Suno Has Been Weaponized to Promote Hate

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GAI Music Creation Tool Suno Has Been Weaponized to Promote Hate
Extremists and online trolls are using Suno, an increasingly influential Generative Artificial Intelligence (GAI) music creation tool, to make songs promoting hate speech, racist stereotypes, calls for violence and extremist rhetoric. The tool, created by Suno AI, became popular in 2023 after the company announced a partnership with Microsoft.  Today, many users employ the tool for innocuous purposes. However, the ADL Center on Extremism has discovered a vast library of disturbing songs…
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How Antisemites, Extremists and Conspiracy Theorists are Exploiting the Anti-Vax Movement

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How Antisemites, Extremists and Conspiracy Theorists are Exploiting the Anti-Vax Movement
While the days of lockdowns and social distancing are behind us, anti-vaccine narratives remain prevalent on social media, and extremists continue to exploit these sentiments to recruit new members, raise money and mainstream their beliefs. Many extremists view anti-vaxxers as a massive pool of potential fresh recruits and followers primed for the “red pill.”      While the mainstreaming of once-fringe anti-vaccine beliefs poses obvious risks to public health,…
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“Fight Until Victory”: Speakers & Guests Declare Full Support for Terrorism at “People’s Conference for Palestine”

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Featured speakers during the “People’s Conference for Palestine” in Detroit on May 24–26, 2024
As the “People’s Conference for Palestine” got underway in Detroit, MI on May 24, the packed audience cheered as Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM) organizer and conference MC Mohammed Nabulsi opened by offering “salutations to our people in Palestine and to our noble, steadfast Resistance.” Nabulsi garnered further enthusiastic applause when he urged “eternal glory to our martyrs” and called to “liberate every inch of Palestine, from the Jordan…
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