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Top 10 Moments of Inspiration and Hope in 2021

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Amanda Gorman recites her 2021 inaugural poem, "The Hill We Climb"

As the year draws to a close, ADL looks back on the moments from 2021 that gave us hope and encouragement that our hundred-plus-year fight against antisemitism and hate is making progress. And there were plenty of big, inspirational moments to choose from in 2021: A $26 million verdict against the white supremacists responsible for Charlottesville; the launch of a $1.1 billion foundation to help prevent Anti-Asian hate crimes; and meaningful legal victories against racially motivated…

December 20, 2021

“Holocuento y otras mentiras”: El antisemitismo en español en Facebook

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Una de las muchas revelaciones condenatorias de la denunciante de Facebook Frances Haugen durante su testimonio en el Congreso el 5 de octubre fue que la plataforma dedica el 87% de sus investigaciones y recursos a combatir la desinformación en contenidos en inglés, cuando sólo el 9% de sus usuarios son angloparlantes. La falta de control de los contenidos de odio en idiomas distintos al inglés ha contribuido a alimentar conflictos mundiales tales como la guerra…

December 08, 2021

The Anti-Israel Movement on U.S. Campuses, 2020-2021

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During the 2020-2021 academic year, much of the anti-Israel activist movement on campus continued to vilify Israel and Zionism and ostracize pro-Israel and Zionist students. This action disproportionately impacts large percentages of Jewish students, for whom a connection with Israel is an integral component of their religious, social, or cultural lives and identities. Many Jewish students reported feeling compelled to hide aspects of their identities. The campus anti-Israel movement…

December 07, 2021

How Platforms Rate on Hate: Measuring Antisemitism and Adequacy of Enforcement Across Reddit and Twitter

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How much hate exists online, and how large is its reach? Is it possible to independently evaluate the claims tech companies make about the amount of hate on their platforms and how effectively they are addressing it? To answer these questions, ADL Center for Technology and Society (CTS) is building the Online Hate Index (OHI), a machine learning system that detects hate targeting marginalized groups on online platforms. This report presents the inaugural findings of the OHI’s…

December 01, 2021

“Holostory and Other Lies”: Spanish-Language Antisemitism on Facebook

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One of the many damning revelations from Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen during her Congressional testimony on October 5 was that the platform devotes 87% of its research and resources on fighting misinformation to English-language content when only 9% of its users are English speakers. The lack of content moderation over hateful content in languages other than English has helped fuel global conflicts such as the civil war in Ethiopia. And it appears Facebook’s efforts in…

November 23, 2021

Responding to Antisemitic Incidents: A Resource for Jewish Communities

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* NOTICE: This publication is not intended as and does not constitute legal or other professional advice, nor is it intended to provide comprehensive, institution-specific advice on security matters. For comprehensive, institution-specific security advice, a security professional should be consulted. ADL and the URJ are not responsible for, and will not be liable for, any damages you or your organization might incur that are associated with the use, non-use, or misuse of this publication or…

November 03, 2021

The ADL-Hillel Campus Antisemitism Survey: 2021

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DOWNLOAD THE PDF REPORTAntisemitism has been a problem on college and university campuses for decades. But while the climate for Jewish students had been improving for many years, we are seeing an alarming new uptick in the number of reported antisemitic incidents across the country. Swastikas, Nazi symbols and other antisemitic graffiti have been reported on numerous campuses, and antisemitic tropes hurled at Jewish students have made headlines. Most notably, white supremacists…

October 26, 2021

What’s Wrong with Transparency Reporting (and How to Fix It)

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By: Kiki Sorensen, Flickr, CC: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ We know that social media platforms play a large role in spreading hate speech, racism, and misinformation. In Facebook’s case, blockbuster disclosures by whistleblower Frances Haugen, a former product manager on the company’s now-disbanded civic integrity team, revealed that the company buried internal research showing it was aware of the ways the platform creates societal harm. Transparency reports…

October 12, 2021

The Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association (CSPOA) and Richard Mack: How Extremists Are Successfully Infiltrating Law Enforcement

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Full Report The Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association (CSPOA) is an anti-government extremist group whose primary purpose is to recruit sheriffs into the anti-government “patriot” movement. CSPOA is led by Richard Mack, a former Arizona sheriff who gained celebrity on the right in the 1990s after suing to overturn a prominent gun control measure, the Brady Law, especially after the Supreme Court ruled largely in his favor. The central tenet of CSPOA, borrowed…

September 20, 2021

QAnon’s Antisemitism and What Comes Next

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If there is a single thread that links QAnon’s origins, its current state, and where the conspiracy theory is likely to go in the short- to medium-term, it’s antisemitism. QAnon’s antisemitism has been most visible at two points: its beginnings – when it emerged from the swastika-studded fever swamp that is 4chan – and the present, when the most popular QAnon influencer, GhostEzra, is an open Nazi who praises Hitler, admires the Third Reich, and decries the…

September 17, 2021

Hate is No Game: Harassment and Positive Social Experiences in Online Games 2021

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Ninety-seven million Americans play online multiplayer games. While virtually all players surveyed in ADL’s third annual report on experiences1 in online games appreciated the social connectivity of gaming, an alarmingly large majority continue to encounter a firehose of hate and harassment. ADL’s survey explores the social interactions, experiences, attitudes, and behaviors of online multiplayer gamers nationwide. This year’s survey again asked about the experiences of a…

September 13, 2021

Antisemitic Conspiracies About 9/11 Endure 20 Years Later

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In the days following the 9/11 terrorist attacks on America, conspiracy theorists across the ideological spectrum dismissed the widely accepted version of events and instead crafted alternative narratives about the perpetrators, their motive, and other details about the attacks. Some of these conspiratorial claims directly implicated Jewish people and Israel in the attacks, in a continuation of centuries-old antisemitic tropes about Jews supposedly manipulating world events for their own…

September 09, 2021

2021 Online Antisemitism Report Card

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In recent years, American Jews have faced increased threats of violence and harassment both online and offline. According to ADL’s annual Audit of Antisemitic Incidents, 2019 and 2020 were, respectively, the highest and third-highest years on record for cases of harassment, vandalism, and assault against Jews in the United States since tracking began in 1979. The recent conflict between Israel and Hamas, after which there was an increase in antisemitic incidents reported domestically,…

July 29, 2021

2021 Far-Right Conferences: QAnon and Other Extremist Ideologies Dominate Events

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Since the chaos of the January 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, disparate groups of Trump supporters advocating the former president’s false assertions of a stolen election, QAnon adherents, election fraud promoters and anti-vaccine activists have organized events around the country to promote their causes. This phenomenon underscores the extent to which the line separating the mainstream from the extreme has blurred, and how mainstream efforts to undermine democratic…

July 29, 2021

Extremist and Hate Groups May be Abusing Non-Profit Status

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A number of extremist and hate groups are currently registered as tax-exempt organizations with theIRSand many of these groups appear to be abusing their tax-exempt status.

June 21, 2021

Veterans and Extremism: What We Know

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On January 6, 2021, hundreds of fanatic Trump supporters and right-wing extremists intent on interfering with the confirmation of the 2020 presidential election results stormed the U.S. Capitol, where they fought police and destroyed property until finally evicted hours later. The events of that day shocked the country, but the riot’s aftermath also surprised many Americans as the subsequent arrests of rioters included a number of people with connections to the U.S. military…

June 16, 2021

Audit of Antisemitic Incidents 2020

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Antisemitic incidents remained at a historically high levelacross the U.S. in 2020, with a total of 2,024 incidents of assault, harassment and vandalism reported to ADL.

April 21, 2021

Politics, Gaming Culture, and Content Moderation on Twitch

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Both politicians and video game streamers are not strangers to being targeted by online hate and harassment. Concerned about the risk that an outpouring of public hate could result when these two groups appear together online, ADL’s Center for Technology and Society (CTS) reviewed four high-profile livestreaming events occurring between October 2020 and February 2021 on the social media platform Twitch. The goal was to determine why or why not these events had devolved into hotbeds of…

April 15, 2021

Online Hate and Harassment: The American Experience 2021

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How safe are social media platforms now? Throughout 2020 and early 2021, major technology companies announced that they were taking unprecedented action against the hate speech, harassment, misinformation and conspiracy theories that had long flourished on their platforms. According to the latest results from ADL’s annual survey of hate and harassment on social media, despite the seeming blitz of self-regulation from technology companies, the level of online hate and harassment…

March 22, 2021

White Supremacist Propaganda Spikes in 2020

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Propaganda from groups such as Patriot Front, New Jersey European Heritage Association, Folks Front, and the Nationalist Social Club ADL’s Center on Extremism (COE) tracked a near-doubling of white supremacist propaganda efforts in 2020, which included the distribution of racist, antisemitic and anti-LGBTQ fliers, stickers, banners and posters. The 2020 data shows a huge increase of incidents from the previous year, with a total of 5,125 cases reported (averaging more than 14…

March 15, 2021