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Young Right-Wing Americans Forging Ties with European Ethno-Nationalists

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Young Right-Wing Americans Forging Ties with European Ethno-Nationalists
In May 2022, young American right-wing activists attended the CPAC Hungary conference and held their own meeting with youth leaders of xenophobic and ethno-nationalist European political parties. This gathering, along with the CPAC Hungary event, demonstrates the interconnectedness of American and European far-right thinking, and highlights the xenophobic, nationalistic rhetoric that is being promoted – and applauded – on both sides of the Atlantic. Some of the young American attendees also have ties to right-wing extremists.
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You Don’t Need a Map to Find Antisemitism

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The Boston “Mapping Project” is not a one-off from a fringe group. Rather, it exemplifies how the increasingly aggressive purveyors of anti-Zionism are spewing raw antisemitism into the mainstream. The movement barely attempts to use the fig leaf of opposition to Israeli policies to cover a venomous hostility to the Jewish people.
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Volkswagen Group and ADL Extend their Partnership

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  Published: 06.13.2022 Antisemitism Globally Wolfsburg, Germany, June 13, 2022 — Volkswagen Group announced today its intentions to extend its partnership with the ADL (Anti-Defamation League) for three more years. The alliance is one of several initiatives the Group is taking to build and advance its culture of remembrance. After three years of prosperous and meaningful collaboration and considering the undiminished relevance of their joint initiatives,…
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ADL and National Urban League to Partner on New Hub for Countering Domestic Extremism and Political Violence

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  Published: 06.13.2022 Extremism, Terrorism & Bigotry Joyce Foundation Grant will help kickstart Project CODE Washington, DC, June 13, 2022 — ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) and the National Urban League today announced a new partnership bringing together two venerable civil rights organizations in service of fighting the dire and deadly threats of domestic extremism and political violence. Through a new grant awarded by the Joyce Foundation, the…
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Anne Frank’s Betrayal and the Sensationalizing of History

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Happy Anne Frank 1942
The author and publishers of a new book on Anne Frank's plight have turned one of the few at least partially upbeat stories of Jewish life and thought during the Holocaust into one of Jewish perfidy and treachery. The timing couldn’t be worse: antisemitism is flourishing once again, and Holocaust memory is diminishing.
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Right-Wing Extremists Eye Leaked Abortion Ruling as Opportunity for Violence

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Right-Wing Extremists Eye Leaked Abortion Ruling as Opportunity for Violence
The May 2, 2022, leak of the draft opinion overturning the 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling has animated people on both sides of the abortion debate. And as pro-choice advocates are vowing to protest the potential loss of reproductive freedom, right-wing extremists advocating for -- and in some cases threatening -- violence against them.
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Catholic Jewish Dialogue

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For more than 35 years, ADL has sponsored a Catholic/Jewish Dialogue to bring together Roman Catholics and Jews to talk and listen to one another, discuss differences and similarities and encourage understanding of and respect for each other’s beliefs. The group also works to develop relationships that will help address issues that may arise in the Catholic and/or Jewish communities. The Dialogue is purposely kept to a limited group to foster the dialogue process and to insure that…
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ADL Letter to the Washington Post Regarding Recent Column Attacking ADL Methodology

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The following letter was submitted to the Washington Post in response to "Beware the data on American right-wing violence" (May 23) To the Editor: In “Beware the data on American right-wing violence,” Megan McArdle admits that far right violence is a problem, but insinuates it isn’t necessarily a bigger problem than other kinds of ideological violence. She offers no evidence but tries to make her case by second-guessing ADL’s annual reports on extremist-connected…
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Helping Students Make Sense of News Stories about Bias and Injustice

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Girl Writes Justice for Mike Brown in Chalk Ferguson Missouri
For Educators When there are national news stories that involve incidents of bias and injustice, young people want to be part of the conversation. Even at a young age, they hear adults talking about what’s happening, read about the story on social media or learn about it through television. Rather than protect children and youth from what’s going on in the world, there are age-appropriate and constructive ways to engage them in understanding the situation. Teachers…
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Sobre la definición de trabajo del antisemitismo de la IHRA

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¿Qué es la definición de trabajo del antisemitismo de la IHRA? En 2016, la Alianza Internacional para el Recuerdo del Holocausto (IHRA, por sus siglas en inglés), compuesta por 31 Estados, entre ellos Estados Unidos, adoptó formalmente la Definición de trabajo del antisemitismo de la IHRA (“la definición de la IHRA”). La definición de la IHRA, publicada inicialmente por una agencia de la Unión Europea en 2005, ha sido…
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Deplatform Tucker Carlson and the "Great Replacement" Theory

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In the wake of the horrific racist massacre in Buffalo, NY, Stop Hate for Profit is calling on mainstream social media platforms Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Twitch, Discord, and Reddit to immediately stop the spread of hateful white supremacist rhetoric that has incited acts of violence by permanently banning repeat perpetrators like Tucker Carlson, Laura Ingraham and others from their platforms and enforcing their own hate speech policies with regard to the Great Replacement theory and white supremacy. This article describes the forms that the Great Replacement Theory takes on these platforms and the platform policies they are violating.
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Clear Pattern of Israel-related Antisemitism Evident on Some Midwestern Campuses

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Clear Pattern of Israel-related Antisemitism Evident on Some Midwestern Campuses
In recent years, several college campuses across the Midwest have seen a troubling pattern of antisemitic anti-Israel activity. Recent examples have included: the targeting of Hillel, the premier center for Jewish student life on college campuses, with graffiti reading “Free Palestine” and an object thrown during an anti-Israel protest; the dissemination of a pamphlet depicting Israeli Jews as pigs; a call to “LEAVE [Israel] if you are Jewish” and a meme posted on social media encouraging others to “start shaming Zionists” to “go back to Brooklyn.”
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Some Nakba Day Events Descend into Support for Violence, Antisemitism

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Some Nakba Day Events Descend into Support for Violence, Antisemitism
Nakba (“catastrophe” in Arabic) Day, held on May 15 each year, is marked by Palestinians and their supporters, including many anti-Israel activists, as a day to mourn the creation of the State of Israel on May 14, 1948 and advocate for the Right of Return of Palestinian refugees.
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Striking Similarities Between Gendron and Tarrant Manifestos

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Striking Similarities Between Gendron and Tarrant Manifestos
The ADL Center on Extremism has found remarkable parallels and overlap between online manifestos posted by accused Buffalo shooting perpetrator Payton Gendron and Christchurch shooter Brenton Tarrant. While Gendron’s language is notably more antisemitic than Tarrant’s, entire portions of the texts are identical.
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Footage of Buffalo Attack Spread Quickly Across Platforms, Has Been Online for Days

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Buffalo
The livestream of the accused Buffalo shooter’s deadly May 14, 2022, attack at a Buffalo supermarket was available briefly via Twitch, but the footage spread quickly across online platforms, and remains online for public consumption. Five full days after the shooting rampage, the ADL Center on Extremism (COE) was able to find the footage on platforms as diverse as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Reddit, Telegram, Bitchute and Gab.
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Unmasking a Florida-Based Neo-Nazi “Grandfather”

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Unmasking a Florida-Based Neo-Nazi “Grandfather”
On May 7, 2022, a small group of neo-Nazis stationed themselves outside the entrance to Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida, waving swastika flags and shouting into a megaphone. Among them was a man who goes by the name “Grandfather” on social media. The ADL Center on Extremism (COE) has identified him, with a high degree of certainty, as 74-year-old veteran David Howard Wydner, who has a significant history of antisemitic stunts.
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An Interview with Stefan and Serge Goldberg

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 The ADL Mountain States Region is pleased to share with our community the following interview with Stefan and Serge Goldberg, second generation Holocaust survivors and supporters of ADL’s Hidden Child Foundation. We had the opportunity to speak with the Goldbergs to learn more about their family’s story of survival and legacy for the future. An edited version of that conversation is presented below. ADL: We are so grateful that you were able to share your story with us…
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