August 17, 2017 White supremacists are eager to capitalize on the chaos and violence in Charlottesville, and they’re feeling emboldened and validated by President Trump’s weak response to Unite the Right. They view his remarks as a tacit approval of their message. Online -- from Twitter and other mainstream social media platforms to the corners of the dark web -- white supremacists are celebrating the “victory” in Charlottesville, devising plans for their next…
4256 Results
In the 1930s, the dean of Yale University’s medical school — who was Jewish himself — reportedly advised his admissions team, “Never admit more than five Jews, take only two Italian Catholics, and take no blacks at all.”
The American college campus has come a long way in the past century. Colleges are more diverse, and there are greater efforts to create inclusive environments whereby all students feel comfortable on campus. But that does not mean you…
August 17, 2017 On August 13th, Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula released the 17th issue of Inspire magazine featuring instructions from the “AQ-Chef,” including “a simple method for targeting trains…[involving] derailing a train from the railroad by placing an object on the tracks.” The magazine supplements the instructions with a list of priority targets, ranking “Jewish interests everywhere” first.
While this is not the first time al-Qaeda…
August 16, 2017 At the “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, anti-Semitism was on full display. White supremacists marched through the streets shouting obscenities at crowds of protesters where they spewed Nazi slogans, anti-Semitic, racist and homophobic phrases. The chaos surrounding the event was significant for a number of reasons, even beyond the violence and hatred on display. Rally organizers convinced hundreds of white supremacists to overlook their ideological…
New York, NY, August 15, 2017 … Jonathan A. Greenblatt, CEO and National Director of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), released the following statement on President Trump’s remarks today:
We have a history in this country of presidents standing up to bigotry and hate. Today, for the second time in four days, President Trump did the opposite.
President Trump went beyond the pale today in equating racist white supremacists in Charlottesville with counter protesters who…
August 15, 2017 Alongside the racism, nativism and xenophobia on display at Unite the Right, the event was also an expression of the animating power of anti-Semitism.
Marchers threw Nazi salutes as they waved swastika flags, proudly wore swastika pins and shirts, and shouted “sieg heil!” A sign carried by rally-goers warned that the “Jewish media is going down;” another declared that “Jews are Satan’s children.” A white…
by: Oren Segal | August 15, 2017 The Hill The would-be rally in Charlottesville and its aftermath appears to have sparked a new refrain: “White civil rights movement.”
The chaos surrounding the “Unite the Right” event in Virginia was significant for a number of reasons, even beyond the violence and hatred on display. The largest public gathering of white supremacists in at least a decade, the group showcased remarkable cohesion among a broad cross-section of the…
August 13, 2017 Racial hatred, bias and white supremacy were on full display in Charlottesville, Virginia this weekend.
In the largest and most violent gathering of white supremacists in decades, “Unite the Right” brought together white supremacist groups including the alt-right, neo-Nazis and the Ku Klux Klan. Their stated goal was to save the statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee, because like other places in the South, there are still monuments there celebrating heroes…
New York, NY, August 13, 2017 … The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) strongly condemns the violence yesterday surrounding the “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, and the hatred on display from a range of white supremacist groups. ADL has reported extensively on right-wing extremism and the rise of the alt-right.
ADL supports the response from many elected officials, public figures and community leaders and welcomes President Trump’s condemnation of…
August 13, 2017 On the morning of Saturday, August 12, hundreds of white supremacists descended on Charlottesville, Virginia, for the Unite the Right rally. The rally never happened, but it almost didn’t matter: The event was the largest and most violent gathering of white supremacists in decades.
On Friday afternoon, over the objections of the Charlottesville city council, Unite the Right organizer Jason Kessler secured a permit to gather in one of the typically bucolic college town…
Expresses Concern Over Volume and Variety of White Nationalists and Alt-Right Adherents Slated to Attend New York, NY, August 11, 2017 … The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has released an analysis ahead of the “Unite the Right” rally set to take place tomorrow, Saturday, August 12 in Charlottesville, Virginia. The League’s Center on Extremism estimates the rally has the potential to be the largest white supremacist gathering in a decade.
“The white supremacist…
New York, NY, August 8, 2017 … The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today issued the following statement after developments in the case of the Israeli-American teenager Michael Kadar, who was accused of carrying out a series of bomb threats against Jewish community institutions this year. The reports allege that Kadar sold his services on an online platform that was shut down by U.S. authorities last month:
The new information does not change our view that the bomb threats against…
August 07, 2017
A variety of white supremacists, self-identified white nationalists and others on the extreme right are gearing up for the “Unite the Right” rally on August 12 in Charlottesville, Virginia. The event has the potential to be the largest public gathering of white supremacists in at least a decade; ADL predicts as many as 500 Unite the Right supporters could show up. Charlottesville law enforcement estimates total crowd size could reach 4,000,…
The National Socialist Movement, though relatively small, is currently the largest neo-Nazi group in the United States.
ALTERNATE NAMES: NSM
Read more about National Socialist Movement
August 04, 2017 On August 5th, 2012, six Sikh worshippers were killed, and four others wounded, by a white supremacist skinhead at their Gurdwara in Oak Creek, Wisconsin. The shooter then turned his gun on himself. Less than a week after the tragedy, US Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. participated in a memorial service for the victims, stating that the crime was “an act of terrorism, an act of hatred, a hate crime.”
Now, five year later, as we observe the anniversary of this…
New York, NY, August 2, 2017 … The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today expressed concern over the Reforming American Immigration for Strong Employment (RAISE) Act, a new bill in the Senate endorsed earlier today by President Trump and designed to cut legal immigration to the United States.
The bill, introduced by Sens. Tom Cotton and David Perdue, would reportedly limit the number of foreign nationals who are eligible to obtain green cards to reunite with their families already in…
New York, NY, August 1, 2017 … The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today welcomed progress announced by Google and YouTube in blocking and removing extremist content on YouTube. Google recently started using machine learning technology, which has allowed it to remove more than 75 percent of violent extremism videos during the past month.
ADL is a select contributing member of YouTube’s Trusted Flagger program, created in 2012 to enable organizations to notify the platform of…
August 03, 2017 The Sicarii Black Hebrew Israelites also known online as Sicarrii 1715, are a San Diego-based anti-Semitic and racist fringe religious group whose followers believe that Blacks, Hispanics, and Native Americans are the true descendants of the 12 Tribes of Israel. The hate group, predominantly based in California, has roughly 15-20 members who actively participate in weekly public demonstrations in downtown San Diego and hundreds of followers online. These events generally…
San Francisco, CA, July 28, 2017 … The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today welcomed the apology of a California imam who, during a Friday sermon a week ago, had fervently prayed for the liberation of the Al-Aqsa Mosque from “the filth of the Jews.”
Joined at a press conference by religious and community leaders, Imam Ammar Shahin of the Islamic Center of Davis apologized for the anti-Semitism in his sermon, acknowledging that “I said things that were hurtful to Jews…
July 28, 2017 Since July 14, 2017, the Al-Aqsa events have shaken both the geopolitical and virtual landscape of Jerusalem, and tensions have generated hateful, anti-Semitic speech from international terror groups and everyday-Twitter users. On July 27, the Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula media outlet, al-Malahem Media, released a 13-minute video titled, “For You, oh Al-Aqsa,” featuring Khalid Batarfi, one of the organization’s senior military commanders.
The video…