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Deadly New Orleans Attack Fuels Conspiracy Theories About Immigrants, Israel

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The deadly New Year’s attack in New Orleans, Louisiana, left a city reeling and social media awash in hateful lies and conspiracy theories about immigrants, Israel and a government cover-up.   In the early morning of January 1, 2025, 42-year-old Houston, Texas resident Shamsud-Din Jabbar, drove his car into a crowd of revelers on Bourbon Street, killing at least fourteen people and injuring dozens more before he was shot and killed by police. While law enforcement is still…
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Unity of Fields: What You Need to Know

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Unity of Fields shares an “anonymous” photo submission of vandals spray-painting Google offices in San Francisco on the first anniversary of the October 7, 2023 attack
Unity of Fields (UoF), formerly Palestine Action U.S., is a radical far-left, anti-Zionist “direct action network” that engages in calls for violence against those it considers supportive of Israel or Zionism, or “complicit” in Israel’s alleged actions, and promotes aggressive, targeted protests and the defacement of property belonging to Jewish and non-Jewish organizations and individuals. In May 2025, Unity of Fields appeared to justify the…
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Hayat Tahrir Al-Sham: Extremist Record and Regional Ambitions of Syria’s New Rulers

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On November 27, 2024, Syrian rebel groups launched a major offensive against the regime of Bashar Al-Assad. Within days, forces led by Hayat Tahrir Al-Sham (HTS), and supported by the Turkey-backed Syrian National Army and a range of anti-Assad militias, had taken Aleppo and Hama. On December 8, 2024, the rebel forces took Damascus, forcing Assad to flee the country. The HTS leadership quickly assumed control of government institutions, appointed an interim prime minister, and declared itself…
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The Islamic Republic of Iran – A History of Repressing Minorities

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The ongoing military conflict in Iran has the potential to reshape the country, not least for its diverse range of religious and ethnic minorities. While Iran has a deep and ancient history of religious and ethnic pluralism, the 1979 revolution set in motion almost five-decades of systematic persecution against the country's minority communities and Iranian women in the name of the Islamic Republic.     Since 1979, the Islamic Republic has imposed a theocratic order…
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Increase in Islamist Extremist Terror Incidents Targeting the U.S. in 2024, ADL Evaluation Finds

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New York, NY, December 2, 2024 … Islamist extremist terror incidents targeting the United States increased in 2024 after several years of reduced activity, according to an evaluation released today by the ADL (Anti-Defamation League) Center on Extremism. Federal and state authorities have arrested individuals in seven different incidents on charges related to five unsuccessful plots and two actual attacks in the past year. At least three of these incidents targeted Jewish or…
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Islamist Terror Incidents Targeting U.S. Increase in 2024

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January 2, 2025, Update: In the month since this article was originally published, at least two more Islamist-related terror incidents have occurred in the United States, including the deadly vehicular attack in New Orleans, Louisiana, on New Year’s Day 2025, which killed 14 people and wounded dozens more. The New Orleans incident was the deadliest Islamist terror attack in the United States since the 2016 shooting at Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida, which killed 49 people. Islamist…
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The Anti-Defamation League’s Task Force on Middle East Minorities condemns the murder of Rabbi Kogan in the United Arab Emirates

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Rabbi Kogan’s murder highlights vital need for UAE to prioritize fight against extremism New York, NY, November 25, 2024 ... The Anti-Defamation League’s (ADL) Task Force on Middle East Minorities condemns the tragic murder of Chabad emissary Rabbi Zvi Kogan in the United Arab Emirates. This horrific act underscores the urgent need to confront rising extremism, antisemitism, and hatred in the Middle East. We appreciate the quick action by UAE authorities to apprehend three…
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Millions of Examples of Extremist and Antisemitic Content Found on Steam, New Platform-Wide ADL Analysis Finds

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New York, NY, November 14, 2024, …  More than 1.8 million unique pieces of extremist or hateful content, including explicitly antisemitic, neo-Nazi and Islamist terrorist material, were identified on Steam, the world’s largest and most popular online gaming marketplace, new research from ADL (Anti-Defamation League) finds. In an unprecedented platform-wide capture of all publicly available profiles, groups and comments (as of July 2024), the ADL Center on Extremism (COE)…
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extremely Newsletter

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Welcome to extremely™, a weekly newsletter from the ADL Center on Extremism and your go-to resource for emerging trends and developments in extremism and hate. In This Week's NewsletterThe Fringe Left and Right Unite Around an Age-Old Conspiracy Theory     “I can prove to you that Israel controls our country,” The Young Turks co-creator Cenk Uygur proclaimed earlier this month on X. The following week, the left-wing commentator praised Tucker Carlson and…
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Declaración de la ADL sobre el pogromo contemporáneo en Ámsterdam

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Miles de israelíes perseguidos y brutalmente agredidos en ataque antisemita en Ámsterdam  Nueva York, NY, 8 de noviembre de 2024… La Liga Antidifamación (ADL) expresó hoy su profundo horror e indignación por el violento, generalizado y aparentemente premeditado y coordinado ataque antisemita de anoche contra los aficionados al fútbol israelíes en Ámsterdam, tras el partido entre el Maccabi Tel Aviv y el Ajax. Miles de israel…
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ADL Statement Regarding Modern-Day Pogrom in Amsterdam

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Scores of Israelis Hunted Down, Brutally Assaulted in Antisemitic Attack in Amsterdam  New York, NY, November 8, 2024 ... ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) today expressed its deep horror and outrage at the violent, widespread, and apparently premeditated and coordinated antisemitic attack on Israeli soccer fans in Amsterdam, following a game between Maccabi Tel Aviv and Ajax last night.    Scores of Israelis were hunted down, brutally assaulted and injured. The attackers’…
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"We're in Trouble": The 2024 Election and the Rise of Disinformation

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 Episode 4.4: "We're in Trouble": The 2024 Election and the Rise of DisinformationIn this special election episode of extremely, Oren Segal and Jessica Reaves sit down with not one but two (!!) dis/misinformation experts. Dr. Claire Wardle is an associate professor in the Department of Communication at Cornell University, specializing in user-generated content and misinformation, and Liz Landers is a national correspondent leading the disinformation desk at Scripps News, covering the…
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PFLP 'Charity' Arm Samidoun Has Long Played a Role in Anti-Israel Movement on U.S. Campuses

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Anti-Zionist group Samidoun, sanctioned by the U.S. in October 2024 for its role as a “sham charity” operating as an international fundraising arm of the U.S. government-designated terror organization the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), has long played a role in the anti-Israel movement on U.S. campuses. The group, which the U.S. considers to be a front for the PFLP in countries where it is declared a terrorist organization, has been featured as a “pro…
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The ADL Debunk: False Narratives Around the 2024 Presidential Election

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False and misleading narratives about the upcoming 2024 U.S. presidential election are spreading widely among extremists and purveyors of hate and conspiracy theories. While some of the most common mis- and disinformation narratives circulating today were also prominent during the 2020 election and the 2022 midterms, others are newer — inspired by current events in America and around the world. These narratives are also being deployed using a range of strategies and tactics…
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Anti-Israel Activists Pay Tribute To 10/7 Architect Yahya Sinwar, Reflecting Pattern of Glorifying “Martyred” Terror Chiefs

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An anti-Israel protester displays a photograph of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar in New York, NY, on October 18, 2024, two days after he was killed by Israeli military forces in Gaza.
After Israeli military forces killed Hamas leader and October 7 architect Yahya Sinwar in Gaza on October 16, 2024, U.S. anti-Israel activists quickly responded with praise and veneration for the terrorist who masterminded the deaths of approximately 1,200 Israelis and foreign nationals and the abduction of some 250 people just over one year ago. Student groups, including numerous chapters of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), were among the loudest voices memorializing Sinwar with…
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ADL: Death of Arch-Terrorist Yahya Sinwar Truly is ‘Justice Served’

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New York, NY, October 17, 2024 … ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) today welcomed the death of Hamas arch-terrorist Yahya Sinwar at the hands of an Israel Defense Forces patrol in Gaza. Jonathan A. Greenblatt, ADL CEO and National Director, issued the following statement: The reported death of arch-terrorist Yahya Sinwar at the hands of an ordinary IDF patrol truly is justice served. As we have seen with the killing of Bin Laden, Baghdadi, Nasrallah, and other evil terrorist masterminds,…
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ADL Welcomes Decision by U.S. Treasury to Sanction Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Network

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New York, NY, October 15, 2024 … ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) today welcomed the decision by the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control, in a joint action with Canada, officially designating the Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, or “Samidoun,” as a sham charity that serves as an international fundraiser for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a U.S.-designated foreign terrorist organization. Jonathan A…
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Extremists Co-Opt Hurricane Response to Blame Israel, Incite a Storm of Hateful Narratives

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On October 8, 2024, an antisemitic Telegram channel used Generative Artificial Intelligence (GAI) to depict the Happy Merchant as Hurricane Milton.
Right-wing extremists have been exploiting the devastation surrounding Hurricane Helene — a storm that has so far claimed the lives of at least 230 people in the southeast U.S. — and now Hurricane Milton, to advance antisemitic or anti-Israel conspiracy theories that federal disaster assistance has been slow or inadequate because they believe the U.S. is sending funds and personnel to Israel instead. Extremist groups have a history of participating in disaster relief efforts to…
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Intimidation, Harassment and Support for Hamas Mark Widespread Anti-Israel Student Protests on 10/7 Anniversary

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Protesters on the campus of Drexel University in Philadelphia, PA, celebrate Hamas’s October 7, 2023, attack on Israel one year later by carrying a banner that reads “Victory to the Palestinian Resistance” alongside paraglider and weapons imagery.
On the grim anniversary of Hamas’s October 7, 2023 terror massacre in southern Israel, when thousands of terrorists killed some 1,200 people and took about 250 hostages, anti-Israel student group demonstrations on U.S. campuses again featured extreme pro-terror messages that glorified the attack and sought to disrupt campus life. Some events were marked by vandalism, intimidation and harassment. On a day when Jewish people around the world were mourning the deadliest day for Jews since…
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