Research & Analysis

Springfield, April 9, 2025 … ADL Midwest (the Anti-Defamation League) and state legislators will hold a news conference today, Wednesday, April 9, at 1:00 pm to discuss ADL’s new report highlighting the rise in extremism and extremist activity across Illinois as tracked by ADL’s Center on Extremism.  The news conference will take place in the Blue Room of the Illinois State Capitol Building in Springfield. The report provides specific overviews of extremist activity in…

New York, NY, June 1, 2025 — ADL (Anti-Defamation League) is closely monitoring of reports of a violent antisemitic attack during today’s Run for Their Lives event in Boulder, Colorado. This attack occurred at a weekly gathering where Jewish community members run and walk in solidarity with the hostages kidnapped by Hamas on October 7. The suspect, identified by authorities as Mohamed Sabry Soliman, 45, allegedly yelled "Free Palestine" during the attack. There were 15 victims in…

New York, NY, March 27, 2025 … In 2024, the ADL Center on Extremism (COE) documented white supremacist propaganda distributions in every U.S. state and the District of Columbia, except Hawaii. The 2024 assessment focused on the common themes behind the thousands of propaganda incidents that plagued American cities across the nation, finding that most of the white supremacist propaganda distributed included antisemitic or anti-immigrant language.  Some groups leaned into both of…

New York, NY, March 18, 2025, … The Secure Community Network (SCN) and the ADL’s (the Anti-Defamation League) Center on Extremism (COE) successfully launched their new Regional Security & Intelligence Briefings Pilot Program on Wednesday, 19 February with an inaugural event in Denver, Colorado. This groundbreaking initiative, hosted in collaboration with JEWISHcolorado, gathered nearly 50 community leaders for a dynamic discussion focused on antisemitism,…

Nueva iniciativa fortalece los esfuerzos para monitorear, exponer y luchar contra el antisemitismo y el antisionismo mediante la capacitación, el análisis y la colaboración  Nueva York, Nueva York, 10 de marzo de 2025 ... La Liga Antidifamación (ADL) y la Confederação Israelita do Brasil (CONIB) anunciaron hoy una nueva asociación para fortalecer los esfuerzos destinados a combatir el antisemitismo, el antisionismo y las amenazas…

New York, NY, February 21, 2025 … For the third year in a row, murders in the United States connected to extremism have declined, according to new data from ADL (the Anti-Defamation League). Domestic extremists were involved in the killing of at least 13 people in 2024, a significant drop from the 20 extremist-related murders in 2023. However, this trend will not continue. The ADL Center on Extremism (COE) has already documented 15 extremist-related murders in 2025 so far, 14 of them…

New York, NY, February 6, 2025 … ADL (the Anti-Defamation League), Paul Weiss and Taft today filed a civil lawsuit against the neo-Nazi extremist group Blood Tribe, its leaders, and additional unnamed individuals, seeking compensatory and punitive damages for the campaign of harassment and intimidation they unleashed against the people and city of Springfield, Ohio, beginning in July 2024.  The filing in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio alleges that Blood Tribe…

ADL Statement on the Situation in Syria

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…

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…

Anti-Jewish hate crimes increased by 63% since 2023, FBI reportsNew York, NY, September 23, 2024 …  Data released today by the Federal Bureau of Investigation reveals that reported hate crime incidents across the country reached a record high of 11,862 in 2023. In 2023, reported single-bias anti-Jewish hate crime incidents rose to 1,832 incidents, a sharp increase of 63 percent from 2022, and the highest number ever recorded by the FBI since it began collecting data in 1991…

New York, NY, July 14, 2024 ... ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) today issued a statement in response to the attempted assassination of former President Donald J. Trump at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania. Jonathan Greenblatt, ADL CEO, issued the following statement: The shooting of former President Trump at a campaign rally is a chilling moment that reminds us of our fragility. Unfortunately, it is almost unsurprising in a public context of escalating tension, intensifying rhetoric, and…

New York, NY, March 26, 2024 … White supremacist propaganda distribution reached historic levels across the United States in 2023, with a total of 7,567 incidents, a 12-percent increase from 2022, according to the ADL (Anti-Defamation League) Center on Extremism’s annual assessment. With an average of about 20 incidents per day, 2023 marked the highest level of incidents since ADL began tracking such data in 2017. This was the second consecutive year that ADL has recorded record…