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Beyond the Statistics: Counting and Responding to Hate Crimes

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August 10, 2018 This week is the anniversary of the white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, which attracted hundreds of bigots from around the country. We remember the TIKI torches, the chants “Jews will not replace us!” from angry white men, and the bias-motivated murder of counterprotester Heather Heyer. On this anniversary, as groups in many cities are rededicating themselves to&nbsp…

August 10, 2018

Letter to the New York Times Regarding Alex Jones' Removal From Social Media Platforms

Media Watch

The following letter was submitted to The New York Times in response to "Free Speech Experts Argue Against Infowars Founder" (Aug. 8) To the Editor: The debate over whether Alex Jones should have been removed from Facebook, Apple and other platforms seems almost quaint and academic when one looks closely at his long history of spreading outright lies and appeals to bigotry. After the violent alt-right protest in Charlottesville, Va., a year ago, Mr. Jones announced that he…

August 09, 2018

Unite the Right Anniversary Event Planned for Washington, D.C.

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August 07, 2018 The Unite the Right anniversary rally will take place at 4:30pm on Sunday, August 12 in Lafayette Park in Washington, D.C. Organizer Jason Kessler is promoting the event as a way to protest the “human rights abuses” he claims took place at the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. Despite his assurances that no “extreme elements” will be involved in the 2018 rally, Kessler has invited leaders from the alt right, as well as other…

August 07, 2018

Mark Collett: Britain’s Alt Right Social Media Propagandist

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June 13, 2018 On June 12, Rep. Steve King (R-IA), who has a history of making inflammatory and xenophobic statements, re-tweeted an anti-immigration post written by a man named Mark Collett. This left a lot of people wondering: Who is Collett? Short answer: A British white supremacist. Longer answer: Read on. Mark Collett is a British white supremacist with an active social media audience across the English-speaking world. Collett became active in the British far right in the…

June 13, 2018

Anti-Semitic Senate Candidate Patrick Little Blames Jews for His Crushing Primary Defeat

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June 08, 2018 When Patrick Little’s anti-Semitic campaign run for Dianne Feinstein’s U.S. Senate seat ended in a crushing defeat, he cried foul, while some among his white supremacist supporters have responded with talk of revolution, violence, and the need for white supremacist candidates to focus on areas of the country with a white majority. Little won about 1.4 percent of the vote, or roughly 61,000 votes, according to initial counts. In a post-election livestream,…

June 08, 2018

Anti-Semitic Robocalls Supporting Patrick Little Proliferate in California

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Patrick Little: "The Holocaust is a lie."

May 18, 2018 By Oren Segal | Director of the Center on Extremism Supporters of Patrick Little’s campaign for Dianne Feinstein’s U.S. Senate seat have taken up a disturbing new tactic: virulently anti-Semitic robocalls. Little, an unabashed anti-Semite and racist who attended the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, is polling at around 18%, well behind Feinstein in California’s party-blind June 5th…

May 18, 2018

Extremists Exploit Gun Control Issue to Stir Hatred of Jews

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March 05, 2018 White supremacists are attempting to exploit the tragic mass shooting in Parkland, Florida, and the ensuing debate over gun control to push an anti-Semitic agenda. Some are seizing the moment as an opportunity to demonize Jews, while others are claiming gun rights as a "white identity" issue. Many are publicly framing the battle over gun control as a struggle between beleaguered whites who want to preserve their traditions in the face of a Jewish onslaught. White…

March 02, 2018

Louis Farrakhan … Again

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by: Jonathan Greenblatt | March 01, 2018 Medium In recent times, there has been one constant in anti-Semitism in America: Louis Farrakhan. His lacerating speeches over more than three decades and more from his pulpit and perch at the Nation of Islam have repeatedly placed Jews at the center of conspiracy theories blaming them for everything from controlling the banks and media to engineering the slave trade. The longtime leader of the Nation of Islam, Farrakhan’s name has become…

March 01, 2018

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Anti-Semitic Incidents Surged Nearly 60% in 2017, According to New ADL Report

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New York, NY, February 27, 2018 … The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) said in a new report today that the number of anti-Semitic incidents was nearly 60 percent higher in 2017 than 2016, the largest single-year increase on record and the second highest number reported since ADL started tracking incident data in the 1970s. The sharp rise, reported in ADL’s Audit of Anti-Semitic Incidents, was in part due to a significant increase in incidents in schools and on college campuses,…

February 27, 2018

Farrakhan Rails Against Jews, Israel and the U.S. Government in Wide-Ranging Saviours' Day Speech

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February 26, 2018 On February 25th, Nation of Islam’s longtime leader Louis Farrakhan spoke at the Wintrust Arena in Chicago. As in previous Saviours’ Day speeches, Farrakhan used the opportunity to rail against the Jews, Israel and the U.S. government. Before Farrakhan’s keynote address, fellow Nation of Islam principals Ava Muhammad, Nuri Muhammad and Ishmael Muhammad shared remarks. In a short speech, Ava Muhammad warned the crowd that the end of days…

February 26, 2018

So-Called "Twitter Purge" Deletes Accounts of Prominent White Supremacists, Hate Groups

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December 19, 2017 Following Monday's implementation of new safety rules on Twitter, a number of users associated with white supremacy and other hateful ideologies found themselves no longer allowed on the platform. "ADL commends Twitter for taking these significant steps to tackle hate on their platform. We long urged Twitter to push back against hateful and violent rhetoric, and these latest actions are encouraging," CEO and National Director Jonathan Greenblatt said in a statement. …

December 19, 2017

New Mexico School Shooter Also Fixated on Violence Against Jews

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America’s deadly epidemic of school shootings continued last week, when William Atchison, a 21-year-old gas station attendant, disguised himself as a student and went to Aztec High School in northwestern New Mexico to conduct a shooting spree, something he had fantasized about for some time. Atchison killed two students, Casey Jordan Marquez and Francisco Fernandez, and shot at a number of others before killing himself, a shocking and tragic turn of events for the people of Aztec…

December 18, 2017

Extremists React to Acquittal in Kate Steinle Murder Case

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December 01, 2017 Thursday’s acquittal of undocumented immigrant Jose Ines Garcia Zarate in the 2015 murder of Kathryn (Kate) Steinle has sparked an outcry from white supremacists and other extremists. Zarate claims he unintentionally killed Steinle when a stolen gun he was carrying went off accidentally. While a San Francisco jury agreed with this assessment, right-wing extremists are framing the acquittal as a symptom of multiculturalism, blaming Jews and non-whites for the…

December 01, 2017

Nation of Islam and alt right revisit common ground: Racism and anti-Semitism

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November 16, 2017 A few days before the 22nd anniversary of the Million Man March/Holy Day of Atonement, NOI’s leader, Louis Farrakhan tweeted: “Black People: We should be more convinced that it is time for us to separate and build a nation of our own.” Farrakhan’s pronouncement, which was echoed in his anniversary speech, “Separation or Death,” was retweeted nearly 2.9K times, a number that included alt-right leaders Richard Spencer and Mike Enoch, as…

November 16, 2017

Three Texas Men Arrested Following Richard Spencer’s University Speech

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October 20, 2017 Three Texas men are currently in jail in Alachua County, Florida on charges of attempted homicide for their roles in an altercation following Richard Spencer’s speech at the University of Florida in Gainesville yesterday. The three men allegedly yelled, “Heil Hitler,” while driving by a group standing near a bus stop, leading to an altercation in which one of them, Tyler Tenbrink, reportedly fired a gun. All three men, William Fears, Colton Fears, and…

October 20, 2017

Neo-Nazi Site Encouraging Supporters in Florida to Target Jewish and Black Institutions

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October 19, 2017 Andrew Anglin, a neo-Nazi who runs The Daily Stormer website, is encouraging supporters who can’t get into Richard Spencer’s speech at the University of Florida to target Jewish and black religious and cultural institutions. In a piece posted to his website, Anglin encouraged his followers to go to Spencer’s speech dressed in regular clothes and to cover up any racist tattoos. He suggested that they not wear khakis and polo shirts, which is widely…

October 19, 2017

U.S. Representative Brings Holocaust Denier to Meeting on Capitol Hill

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October 18, 2017 U.S. Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) brought Holocaust denier and high-profile alt right troll Charles C. Johnson to a meeting at the U.S. Capitol in early October. Rohrabacher and Johnson were reportedly on the Hill to discuss Wikipedia founder Julian Assange with U.S. Sen Rand Paul (R-KY). This comes after Johnson arranged an August meeting in London between Rohrabacher and Assange. Johnson bolstered his credentials as a Holocaust denier back in January during an “Ask…

October 18, 2017

Richard Spencer: Five Things to Know

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March 29, 2018 1. RICHARD SPENCER IS AN ALT RIGHT LEADER. Spencer has become the most recognizable public face of the alt right, a loose network of people who promote white identity and reject mainstream conservatism in favor of politics that embrace implicit or explicit racism, anti-Semitism and white supremacy. Spencer coined the term “alternative right” (from which “alt right” is derived) in 2008 in an article in Taki’s Magazine, a far-right publication…

March 29, 2018

Nation of Islam Espouses New "Pot Plot" Anti-Semitic Conspiracy Theory

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Breakfast Club - Wesley Muhammed Interview

September 27, 2017 During a September appearance at a mosque in Chicago, Nation of Islam student minister Wesley Muhammad claimed that Jews and the U.S. government are engaged in a “Pot Plot” to emasculate black men and turn them into homosexuals by distributing specially modified versions of marijuana. Muhammad has been dabbling in this conspiracy theory since 2016, and proposed a similar version in a June 2017 interview on Power 105.1’s The Breakfast Club, a nationwide…

September 27, 2017

ADL: White Supremacist Group Redoubling Hate Fliering Efforts On Campus

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New York, NY, September 11, 2017 … The white supremacist group whose slogan, “You will not replace us” reverberated across the University of Virginia campus in Charlottesville earlier this summer has outlined plans for a year-long effort targeting college campuses with racist fliers, posters and stickers. Newly emboldened by the events and violence in Charlottesville and determined to recruit young followers, Identity Evropa, which advocates for the preservation of …

September 11, 2017