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Unite the Right 2 Highlights Challenges Facing Alt Right, Other White Supremacists

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August 15, 2018 Sparsely attended and heavily protested, Unite the Right 2 reflected the challenges facing the alt right and the larger white supremacist movement. As he made his way towards D.C.’s Lafayette Park, rally organizer Jason Kessler was accompanied by about 30 right wing speakers and activists and a police escort. A massive police presence kept throngs of counter-protesters at a distance from Kessler and his group. There were no major incidents of violence, though some…
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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…
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White Supremacists Gather for Nationalist Solutions Conference

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June 19, 2018 The Council of Conservative Citizens, a once-prominent white supremacist group that has been dormant for several years, reemerged to hold the “Nationalist Solutions” conference June 15-17 in Burns, Tennessee. The event was a joint effort with the California-based white supremacist group American Freedom Party (AFP). The conference, which took place in Montgomery Bell State Park, attracted roughly 70 attendees and speakers. The two-day event featured a…
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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…
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Turkish President Compared Israel To Nazi Germany In Recent Remarks on Gaza

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May 31, 2018 As world attention focused on the demonstrations taking place earlier this month along the Gaza border, Turkish President Recept Tayyip Erdogan fanned the flames of incitement against Israel and Jews with remarks comparing Israel to Nazi Germany. It was just another in a long line of his vocal criticism of Israel, using incendiary language and anti-Semitic statements to attack Israel and mobilize Turkish and Muslim action against the Jewish State. Just days after the May 14…
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Anti-Semitic Robocalls Supporting Patrick Little Proliferate in California

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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…
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Qatari Backing for Extremist Preachers and Anti-Semitic Incitement

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April 10, 2018 In preparation for the Qatari Emir’s visit today to Washington, the White House announced last week that President Trump thanked the monarch by phone for his country’s “continuing commitment” to countering extremism. However, in the last year Qatar’s government has actually continued to use its prominent platforms to promote strident anti-Semitic preachers, a practice President Trump and Congressional leaders should raise with the Qatari Emir Tamim…
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Westboro Baptist Church: Legacy of Hate

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March 01, 2019 The Topeka, Kansas-based Westboro Baptist Church (WBC) has a well-earned reputation as one of America's most reviled hate groups. The small, virulently homophobic group stages vitriolic, highly visible protests nationwide against groups and individuals they’ve identified as supporters of “homosexuality,” or who otherwise subvert what they refer to as “God’s law.” Through outrageous statements and postings on their various websites, the…
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The Oath Keepers

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For Law Enforcement Read the report: The Oath Keepers: Anti-Government Extremists Recruiting Military and Police (PDF) In the past several years, the Oath Keepers, an anti-government right-wing fringe organization, attracted considerable media attention for activities that included showing up in Ferguson, Missouri, during protests and unrests following the shooting of a young African-American male by a Ferguson police officer in 2014.  Oath Keepers also appeared as self…
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Hizb ut-Tahrir Emerges in America

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IntroductionHizb ut-Tahrir (HT), an international organization that seeks to establish a worldwide Islamic theocracy, is increasing its efforts to spread its message and recruit members in the U.S. The American branch of HT convened its 2012 Khilafah Conference, titled "Revolution: Liberation by Revelation," on June 17, 2012, in the Chicago suburb of Hickory Hills, IL. Messages at the conference primarily centered on promoting the organization's vision of establishing a worldwide Caliphate and…
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Decade After 9/11, Antisemitic Conspiracy Theories 'Alive And Well'

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August 30, 2011 Ten years after  9/11, antisemitic conspiracy theories surrounding the attacks are "alive and well" and fueled by an entrenched propaganda industry, according to the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), which today issued a new report showing how these theories have grown and evolved over the last decade. In "Decade of Deceit: Antisemitic 9/11 Conspiracy Theories 10 Years Later," ADL looks at the individuals who continue to circulate distorted conspiracy theories about 9/11,…
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The Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL)

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An August 2024 PSL rally in Seattle
The Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL) is a socialist political party in the United States that incorporates virulent anti-Zionism as a core organizing principle.
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764

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The logo for 764 in gray text over the Leviathan Cross, also known as Satan's Cross.
Hidden behind screens, members of the 764 network groom and trick minors through sextortion, swatting and abuse - all to gain clout online. While some are extremists, most are driven by nihilism and a desire for status and fame.
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American Blackshirts Movement (ABM) 

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American Blackshirts meetup in Florida, October 2024. (Source: Telegram)
The American Blackshirts Movement is a white supremacist, antisemitic, anti-immigrant and anti-LGBTQ+ group primarily active in Texas, Florida and Georgia.
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Accelerationism

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Key Points Accelerationism is an ideology within some segments of the white supremacist movement that promotes violent actions and sabotage as a means to accelerate the perceived inevitable collapse of society, allowing followers to establish a white ethno-state in the aftermath.The modern iteration of white supremacist accelerationism gained traction in extremist spaces in the 2010s following the revival of neo-Nazi James Mason’s Siege essays from the 1990s.White supremacist…
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Palestine News Network (PNN)

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PNN targets Jews and others with provocative, antagonizing street interviews and posts pro-terror content, emerging after the Oct. 7 Hamas-led massacre in Israel.
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American Muslims for Palestine (AMP)

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A screenshot from an AMP mashup video from June 2021 showing AMP Executive Director Dr. Osama Abuirshaid speaking at a demonstration in Washington, D.C., standing alongside Nerdeen Kiswani and Abdullah Akl, leaders of radical anti-Zionist group Within Our Lifetime (WOL)
Key Points American Muslims for Palestine is at the core of the anti-Israel and anti-Zionist movement in the United States.AMP’s leadership frequently engages in rhetoric that promotes antisemitic tropes and support for violence against Israel, such as praising Hamas for the October 7, 2023 attack which marked the deadliest massacre of Jewish people since the Holocaust.A current board member of AMP was implicated in Hamas activity in the 1990s, according to an FBI memorandum.AMP has…
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International Solidarity Movement (ISM)

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Palestinian and activists from the International Solidarity Movement (ISM) protest against Israel's security fence on August 15, 2003 at the West Bank Palestinian village of Khirbet Ras Atira. (David Silverman/Getty Images)
Key Points Founded in 2001, the International Solidarity Movement (ISM) has sought to disrupt Israeli military operations in the Palestinian territories, primarily via on-the-ground, direct actions by international volunteers alongside locals in the West Bank and Gaza.These actions are coupled with advocacy work, sometimes in conjunction with other anti-Zionist groups, to promote international support for Palestine. ISM has drawn international attention and helped shape discourse around the…
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Democratic Socialists of America (DSA)

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A man holds a Democratic Socialist of America flag at a vigil in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, November 20, 2022. (Aimee Dilger/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)
DSA is America's largest socialist organization. It made anti-Zionism a core organizing principle in 2025. Its rhetoric fueled 2025-26 electoral wins.
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