Hate in America:
Yesterday, the head of an antisemitic and white supremacist group (and his supporters) dropped banners over the 405 in Los Angeles. One banner read, "Kanye is right about the Jews.”
K-Pop stans from TikTok are flooding the
#MillionMAGAMarch
hashtag with pictures of pancakes. It's basically unusable right now.
@SheaDepmore
appears to have kicked it off.
Intense account by
@RepJayapal
on surviving the siege. “I’m quarantining now because I am convinced that where we ended up, in the secured room - where there were over 100 people and many were Republicans not wearing masks - was a superspreader event.”
#SavePepe
The legal campaign to take Pepe the Frog back from the alt-right is now in California federal court as artist Matt Furie has filed a copyright lawsuit against Alex Jones' InfoWars.
@thr
That a 97-year-old Jewish woman (imagine all she had experienced in her life) was slaughtered in a synagogue by a white supremacist in 2018 America is simply unbearable. My heart aches for all the victims and their families.
#PittsburghSynagogueShooting
The group responsible for the antisemitic banners over the highway in Los Angeles espouses its vitriolic antisemitism and white supremacist themes via the internet, through propaganda distributions and in street actions.
This group often live-streams their activity for donations (as they did yesterday in Los Angeles), including confronting and harassing Jews. This video further explains 👇
Patriot Font - the white supremacist group that marched through Washington DC today - is responsible for the majority of the over 10,000 white supremacist propaganda distribution incidents nationwide since 2018.
Visit the
@ADL
H.E.A.T. map to learn more👇
Notable that the man w/ antisemitic sign at coronavirus restrictions protest in Columbus appears to have also attended a neo-Nazi NSM meeting in Pennsylvania last year w/ a white supremacist who allegedly planned to bomb a Missouri hospital last month. 👇
The man holding the antisemitic sign at yesterday’s protest against coronavirus restrictions in Columbus, Ohio (on right), appears to be a member of the neo-Nazi NSM and also participated in the Motor City Pride protest last June (on left).👇
Our findings indicate a 61.3% increase in the volume of tweets (excluding retweets) referencing “Jews” or “Judaism” with an antisemitic sentiment in the two weeks following Musk's Twitter takeover, compared to the two weeks prior.
Stark results from MIT’s Laboratory for Social Machines: False information retweeted by more people than the true stuff, and faster to boot. True stories take, on average, six times longer than falsehoods to reach at least 1,500 people. via
@TheEconomist
On this day in 1964, Andrew Goodman, James Chaney & Michael Schwerner were murdered during Freedom Summer in Mississippi by members of the Ku Klux Klan. They were there to help register African-Americans to vote. I wrote a paper about it in high school and it changed my life.
FBI director Christopher Wray said the FBI is placing the risk of
violence from racially motivated violent extremists in the U.S. “on the same footing" as threats posed to the country by foreign terrorist organizations such as ISIS and its sympathizers.
The group responsible for the Los Angeles banner drop has also attempted to capitalize on
@kanyewest
’s comments by targeting the Black community; in the group’s Telegram chat, members discussed creating new fliers blaming Jews for the Atlantic slave trade.
Over the past ten years (2010-2019), right-wing extremists have been responsible for 76% of extremist-related murders in the U.S. White supremacists specifically have accounting for 60%.👇
My girlfriend woke me up to tell me that one of the Twin Towers was on fire.
I turned on the TV just before the second plane hit.
I looked out my window.
I took this picture of what I saw from my apartment on the Upper East Side.
#WhereWereYou
The man holding the antisemitic sign at yesterday’s protest against coronavirus restrictions in Columbus, Ohio (on right), appears to be a member of the neo-Nazi NSM and also participated in the Motor City Pride protest last June (on left).👇
I spoke with
@DanaBashCNN
a few weeks ago about how the group responsible for yesterday’s incident in Los Angeles tries to turn their antisemitism into entertainment and raises money for their activity online.
Antisemitism continues to rise around the world - due in large part to social media. For my special Rising Hate: Antisemitism in America, I spoke with experts who detailed just how rapidly the hate is spreading & how disturbing the content can become. Tune in tomorrow at 9pm.
While Ye (formerly Kanye West) has been no stranger to controversy in recent years, his most recent rhetoric has helped advance the spread of longstanding hateful and false narratives shared by extremist groups.
Learn more 👇
Reports indicate that 31 members of the white supremacist “Patriot Front” were arrested today in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, on charges of “conspiracy to riot.” They were apparently making their way to a Pride event in a UHaul.
The
#Poway
Synagogue shooting may prove to underscore, once again, the ongoing threat posed by domestic extremists. Over the last decade, 73.3 % of all extremist-related fatalities in the U.S. can be linked to right-wing extremists. Learn more 👇
A fourth man has been found guilty of taking part in the violent beating of a black man in a downtown
#Charlottesville
parking garage during the “Unite the Right” rally in 2017.
We are horrified by an awful case of
#antisemitism
graffiti at Etz Chayim synagogue in
@ALcomHuntsville
, especially during Passover when people focus on liberation and unity. We must always stand up to antisemitism and hatred.
The number of anti-Semitic incidents in the U.S. rose nearly 60 percent in 2017 - the largest single-year increase on record and the second highest number reported since
@ADL_National
started tracking such data in the 1970s.
Horrible news out of Jacksonville. Three killed in what local law enforcement describe as a hate-motivated attack. The presence of an apparent manifesto and the markings on the gun are sadly reminiscent of the Buffalo grocery store shooting last year.
A handful of high-follower social media accounts have driven the rapid spread of dangerous and false narratives designed to marginalize and demonize the LGBTQ+ community. Learn more 👇
The self-identified Virginia Ku Klux Klan leader accused of driving a truck through Black Lives Matter protesters over the summer was sentenced to 3 years and 8 months in prison on Tuesday.
The Klansman accused of driving into a crowd of protesters in Virginia once identified himself as the state leader (Grand Dragon) for the Rebel Brigade Knights, a VIrginia-based Klan group.
Re-upping this report on how extremist voices have launched a significant attack against the LGBTQ+ community in 2021-2022. The result of this widespread hateful rhetoric has been a spike in harassment, threats and violence targeting the LGBTQ+ community.
“Law enforcement officials say they have a tentative identification, but they're not yet revealing the name. The gunman is a white male, born in 1990 who is heavily tattooed, the officials said.”
#Borderline
#ThousandOaks
via
@NBCNews
As the country inevitably starts to move its attention away from the carnage in Buffalo, do not forget the lives lost:
Roberta A. Drury
Margus D. Morrison
Andre Mackneil
Aaron Salter
Geraldine Talley
Celestine Chaney
Heyward Patterson
Katherine Massey
Pearl Young
Ruth Whitfield
During his turn to speak at the neo-Nazi rally in Little Rock, Arkansas, today Aryan Nations’ Julian Calfy called out ADL for speaking out against white supremacist conspiracies. Well, he got that right.
Three neo-Nazis charged in assault of Jewish man in Florida. The
@ADL
Center on Extremism helped identify the suspects in this incident.
That is what we do.
Amazing news. Thank you
@verizon
for joining the fight against hate and bigotry by pausing your advertising on Facebook’s platforms. This is how we make real change. By coming together and telling Facebook it’s time to
#StopHateForProfit
.
Christopher Cantwell, a white supremacist accused of using tear gas during a torch-lit march in Charlottesville, has been banned from the Commonwealth of Virginia for five years. via
@cbs6
Today
@ADL
called on DHS & Trump Admin to immediately cease excessive, unilateral federal law enforcement operations in Portland, and urged Congress to hold hearings on allegations into use of unwarranted force & dangerous tactics against protesters there.
Based on the latest results in the
#2022Midterms
, more than 13.4 million Americans cast votes for candidates who are members or supporters of extremist groups. This reflects a troubling reality we've been warning about for years: extremism is now part of the political mainstream.
A warrant has been issued for the arrest of Jason Van Dyke, a Texas-based lawyer and former Proud Boy member, after he failed to show up Friday for a bond hearing in connection with a death threat he allegedly made.
Apparent supporters of Patriot Front, a white supremacist group whose members maintain that their ancestors conquered America and bequeathed it to them and no one else, are marching in Indianapolis.
The U.S. government is acknowledging for the first time that right-wing extremists were responsible for the majority of fatal domestic terrorist attacks last year, according to an internal report circulated by the Department of Homeland Security last week.
Hate in America: An investigator testified today that a California man charged w/ killing a gay Jewish student had anti-gay and anti-semitic materials on his phone, as well as 100 pieces of content related to the violent white supremacist group Atomwaffen.
As the country inevitably starts to move its attention away from the carnage in Buffalo, do not forget the lives lost:
Roberta A. Drury
Margus D. Morrison
Andre Mackneil
Aaron Salter
Geraldine Talley
Celestine Chaney
Heyward Patterson
Katherine Massey
Pearl Young
Ruth Whitfield
Unrepentant White Supremacist Gets 2 Years for Hate Vandalism in Virginia:
"Heil Hitler. No regrets," the 20-year-old told police when asked if he had a message for his victims >
@ShaunKing
Our new report, Extremist Murders in the United States in 2017, reveals white supremacist related killings more than doubled from 2016. Over the last decade, 71% of all extremist-related fatalities were linked to right wing extremists.
In case you missed it (I don’t think you did)...
@ADL
calls for Tucker Carlson to be fired over ‘replacement theory’ remarks. Carlson’s language “was not just a dog whistle to racists — it was a bullhorn.”
Another iconic image from this moment in time...
Retired Marine protests in front of the Utah State Capital on Friday in Salt Lake City.
Photo: Rick Bowmer
@AP
FBI says an armed 26-year-old Missouri man who breached a secured area to stop an Amtrak train in southwest Nebraska in October has links to a white supremacist group & expressed an interest in "killing black people.” >
ADL’s Center on Extremism (COE) has identified 212 of the roughly 800 individuals who are believed to have breached the building on January 6. Of the 212, 25 percent have ties to known right-wing extremist groups. Learn more:
The U.S. Marine Corps has taken steps to combat racial extremists in its ranks, issuing an updated order emphasizing that participation in white supremacist and other groups is prohibited >
The ADL Center on Extremism has, w/ a high degree of confidence, identified “Clandestine,” the man behind the Ukrainian biolab conspiracy theory, showing how a fringe QAnon figure sparked a viral conspiracy that made its way from QAnon to the world stage.
The three men charged with threatening extreme violence against Planned Parenthood facilities this month all used iFunny, an online social platform known for white supremacist content.
I testified this morning on behalf of
@ADL
before the U.S. House Oversight Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties about confronting white supremacy and threats to democracy. Thank you
@RepRaskin
for your leadership.
“Active Clubs” have cropped up across the United States, signaling a renewed effort from the Rise Above Movement (R.A.M.) to spread their influence with a focus on real-world white supremacist activity. 👇
In the past 10 years (2012-2021), right-wing extremists have been responsible for 75% of the extremist-related murders in the U.S. Three out of four of those right-wing extremist killings were at the hands of white supremacists.
Patriot Front, formed by “Unite the Right” participant Thomas Rousseau, is one of the most visible white supremacist groups. It was responsible for 80% of the white supremacist propaganda distributions recorded by ADL Center on Extremism in 2020. 👇
Facebook said Tuesday that it had shut down pages and accounts associated the white supremacist American Guard, whose members were discussing bringing weapons to the protests that are happening across the country.
A rare 🧵
1) I am often very proud of the work we do at ADL’s Center in Extremism, which is staffed by the most dedicated and talented group I have ever worked with. My team spends a lot of time in dark spaces, but that means when light emerges, it is often that much brighter.
Brutal hate crime in Tennessee where a man with deep ties to white supremacists confesses to burning a black man alive because of his race in letter from prison.
@ADL_National