This discussion guide about the musical Parade will help middle and high school students and adults reflect upon and discuss the themes and artistic elements of Parade.
November 20, 2020 By David Andrew Weinberg
The Yemeni Embassy in Washington recently released a report featuring primary source documents on the core ideology of the Houthi insurgents who seized Yemen’s capital in 2014. That report, authored by Embassy official Salem Baafi, makes a case that antisemitism and other forms of hate form an essential part of the worldview and motivation of Yemen’s Houthi rebels.
The Houthis’ oft-invoked slogan is itself antisemitic…
LOS INCIDENTES ANTISEMITAS EN ESTADOS UNIDOS SE MANTUVIERON EN UN NIVEL HISTÓRICAMENTE ALTO EN 2020
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La Auditoría anual de la ADL monitorea más de 2.000 incidentes en Estados Unidos, el tercer total anual más alto registrado. April 27, 2021 Nueva York, NY, 27 de abril de 2021 ... Los incidentes antisemitas se mantuvieron en un nivel históricamente alto en todo Estados Unidos en 2020, con un total de 2.024 incidentes de asalto, acoso y vandalismo reportados a la ADL (Liga Antidifamación). A pesar de que los incidentes antisemitas disminuyeron en un 4% tras…
Domestic Terrorism and Violent Extremism: Examining the Threat of Racially, Ethnically, Religiously, and Politically Motivated Attacks
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Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Jonathan Greenblatt August 05, 2021
Mr. Chairman, Ranking Member Portman, Members of the Committee, good morning. It is an honor to appear before you today to address the dire threat posed to this country by domestic terrorism and violent extremism.
For more than a century, ADL has worked to stop the defamation of the Jewish people and to secure justice and fair treatment to all. To deliver on that…
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…
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,…
White Supremacist Terrorist Acts, Conspiracies and Plots against Jews
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May 13, 2021 Over the past 25 years, numerous white supremacists have targeted the Jewish community in the U.S. through terrorist acts, conspiracies and plots. Here is a selection of significant incidents from 1994 through 2021.
Assumption, Illinois, 2020: Federal agents charged Randall Burrus with weapons offenses in connection with an alleged white supremacist plot to attack a synagogue or mosque. This is linked to the April 15, 2020 incident involving John Michael Rathbun in…
Private and Public Sector Leaders Host First-Of-Its-Kind Summit To Discuss Solutions To Extremism & Political Violence
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Speakers include the mayors of five large cities; top administration officials, Gold Star parent Khizr Khan New York, NY, November 14, 2018 … ADL and a diverse group of partners, will convene the Fall Summit for “Communities Overcoming Extremism: The After Charlottesville Project,” on November 28-30, 2018. This national capacity-building project is focused on empowering communities with tools to combat the dramatic rise in extremism, intolerance, and political violence…
ADL Partners with Network Contagion Research Institute to Study How Hate and Extremism Spread on Social Media
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New York, NY, March 12, 2019 … ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) today announced a partnership with the Network Contagion Research Institute to produce a series of reports that take an in-depth look into how extremism and hate spread on social media – and provide recommendations on how to combat both.
The Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI) deploys machine learning tools to expose hate on digital social networks within a cross-platform, public-minded and…
Educational Reform to Tackle Extremism Making Progress in the Middle East
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New York, NY, September 9, 2021 ... Educational reform in the Middle East is providing hope for continued progress in tackling extremism, according to a new report published today by the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change (TBI) and the Anti-Defamation League (ADL).
The new report “Peace and Tolerance Education in the Arab World Two Decades after 9/11” authored by David Andrew Weinberg, ADL’s Washington Director for International Affairs, is a pioneering joint…
ADL Report Investigates Links Between Misogyny and White Supremacy
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New York, NY, July 24, 2018 … For the first time, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) is investigating misogyny as a dangerous and underestimated component of extremism. In a new report released today “When Women are the Enemy: The Intersection of Misogyny and White Supremacy,” ADL finds a powerful connection between the “men’s rights” arena and white supremacist ideologies. The report marks a new prioritization of misogyny as a part of the organization&rsquo…
ADL Welcomes Hate Crime Charge in Blaze Bernstein Killing
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Orange County, CA, August 2, 2018 … The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today welcomed the decision to bring a hate crime charge against Samuel Woodward, the man previously charged with the killing of his former high school classmate, Blaze Bernstein.
Woodward also faces felony murder charges in connection with the death of Bernstein, whose body was found in a shallow grave in Orange County in January with more than 20 stab wounds.
According to the Orange County District Attorney…
ADL Statement on Former White House Speechwriter Darren Beattie
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New York, NY, August 20, 2018 ... Anti-Defamation League (ADL) released the following statement today concerning recently departed White House speechwriter Darren Beattie:
We are glad that Darren Beattie, who spoke at a recent conference of the racist, far-right H. L. Mencken Club and participated in a panel discussion with white nationalist Peter Brimelow, creator of the racist website V-Dare, is no longer employed at the White House.
Since it is not abundantly clear, we would like…
Atlanta, GA, August 28, 2018 … ADL today condemned a savage, brutal murder likely motivated by racism and white supremacist ideology. The suspect, John Carothers, has apparent ties to the white supremacist movement.
Last March, he allegedly burned to death an African-American man, Robert Miller, at a VA assisted living facility. Law enforcement recently uncovered a jailhouse letter penned by Carothers to a white supremacist group, in which he admits to the murder…
ADL Welcomes Enactment of Legislation to Address Bomb Threats Against Religious Institutions and Community Centers
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New York, NY, September 7, 2018 …The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today welcomed House passage of S. 994, the “Protecting Religiously Affiliated Institutions Act of 2018.” The Senate had approved this measure, an amendment to the 1988 Church Arson Prevention Act, earlier this week.
ADL CEO and National Director Jonathan A. Greenblatt issued the following statement:
We welcome enactment of this important legislation and applaud the strong and…
ADL Commends Administration's New Counterterrorism Strategy for Recognizing Range of Threats, Including Domestic Extremists
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New York, NY, October 5, 2018 …ADL welcomed the administration’s new National Strategy for Counterterrorism’s recognition of the broad spectrum of extremist threats faced by the United States and other countries. The strategy document, released yesterday, comes as ADL issued a comprehensive new report on the white supremacist threat in the U.S., taking stock of the ideology and tactics of modern white supremacy and offering legislative and policy recommendations for…
ADL, New America Provide First Real-Time Look at How Extremists Target Minority Groups on Twitter
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Part of ongoing efforts to understand the spread of hate across social media Washington, D.C., October 15, 2018 … The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and New America today unveiled a new interactive dashboard that provides the first real-time visualization of extremist content on Twitter targeting Jews, Muslims, the LGBTQ community, and other minority groups. The tool is part of a joint initiative to increase the understanding of how extremists are using social media and adapting their…
ADL Report Says Leading European Neo-Nazi Group Exports Antisemitism Across Scandinavia and Beyond
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Sweden’s Nordic Resistance Movement held 185 “combat training” sessions in 2020 and has served as inspiration for American white supremacists New York, NY, March 28, 2022 … A new report from ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) identifies the Nordic Resistance Movement of Sweden as the region’s most dangerous right wing extremist group, saying that the virulently antisemitic hate group poses “an ongoing and serious public security threat” and is exporting…
New Defendants Added to Lawsuit Seeking to Hold January 6th Insurrectionists Accountable for Damage To DC, Our Democracy & Local Law Enforcement
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Oath Keepers Leader Stewart Rhodes Among Newly Added Defendants Washington, DC, April 1, 2022 ... Today, ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) joined D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine, the States United Democracy Center, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP and Dechert LLP in announcing the addition of more defendants, including Oath Keepers leader Stewart Rhodes, to a federal lawsuit filed by the Office of the Attorney General (OAG) seeking to hold two violent groups and certain of…