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Anti-Israel activists, Terrorist Organizations Hail Aaron Bushnell as a “Martyr” After Self-Immolation Outside Israeli Embassy

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Anti-Israel activists, Terrorist Organizations Hail Aaron Bushnell as a “Martyr” After Self-Immolation Outside Israeli Embassy
On February 25, 2024, Aaron Bushnell, an active-duty member of the U.S. Air Force, approached the Israeli Embassy in Washington, D.C., and set himself on fire to protest the ongoing Israel-Hamas war, saying he would “no longer be complicit in genocide.” His act of protest has garnered praise from anti-Israel groups and foreign terrorist organizations (FTOs).  Bushnell is the second person to self-immolate in front of a U.S.-based Israeli government building in protest of the…
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Anti-Israel Protesters Glorify Terror Groups, Violence

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Anti-Israel Protesters Glorify Terror Groups, Violence
UPDATE: April 26, 2024 Explicit support for recognized terror groups and the glorification of prominent individuals affiliated with those groups continues to feature prominently at anti-Israel protests across the country. As documented by ADL, notable recent examples of this support for terror have surfaced at “Popular University for Gaza” campus encampments and Quds Day protests in April 2024 and at International Women’s Day protests in March 2024. There have been numerous…
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Blood Libel on Wheels: Anti-Israel Activists Using Digital Billboard Trucks to Share Antisemitic Messages

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Billboard trucks primary
In recent years, activists have harnessed the marketing power of digital billboard trucks to promote their messages. Since the October 7, 2023, Hamas terrorist attack on Israel, anti-Israel activists have increasingly used these vehicles, adorned with propaganda, to spread anti-Zionist and antisemitic themes, including a modern form of the blood libel: that Israelis harvest Palestinian organs. These trucks, bearing a variety of anti-Israel and antisemitic messages, are sponsored by U.S…
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Anti-Israel Activists Applaud Houthi Violence

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Anti-Israel Activists Applaud Houthi Violence
In the aftermath of October 7, 2023, and the start of the Israel-Hamas war, some anti-Israel activists have boldly expressed support for terrorism against the State of Israel and Jews, which at first manifested in explicitly supporting Hamas. More recently, these activists and leftist groups have also expressed admiration for another group they consider allies in the fight against U.S. imperialism and Zionism: the Houthis. The Houthis, an Iranian-regime backed U.S.-designated terrorist group…
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Hamas in Its Own Words

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On October 7, Hamas attacked Israel, slaughtering around 1,200 men, women, children, and infants in the largest and most brutal massacre of Jews since the Holocaust. Hamas terrorists intentionally recorded their murder, rape, and torture of civilians, including around 200 foreign nationals, and took at least 240 hostages back with them to Gaza.  The physical attack was followed by a propaganda and disinformation campaign. Knowing that Israel would have no choice but to respond to the…
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Unfounded Claims of “Organ Harvesting” Reignite Embers of Decades-Old Hospital Scandal and Centuries-Old Trope

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Gloved hands in operating room
Longstanding accusations of Israeli organ harvesting have reemerged in the aftermath of the October 7 massacres. This conspiracy theory plays on the blood libel trope, which dates to the Middle Ages and alleges that Jews use the blood of Christian children to bake their Passover bread. In the current Israeli-Palestinian context, organs are substituted for blood, and in some cases, activists are alleging that Israel purposefully kills Palestinians to harvest their organs.   In…
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Denialism in the Wake of the Oct. 7 Massacre

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In the wake of the October 7 Hamas massacre, many expressions of solidarity with the Palestinians displayed anti-Israel sentiment and support for Hamas. This includes demonstrations in the Arab World, anti-Israel rallies in the United States, as well as statements by some faculty and student groups on US campuses.   Furthermore, a survey conducted by ADL’s Center for Technology and Society found that most Americans have been exposed to hateful online misinformation and…
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Post 10/7, BDS Activists Are Refocused on Attacking Israeli, Jewish Businesses and Individuals 

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Screenshot from the spreadsheet “is your fav author a Zionist”, circulated in May 2024
Since the Hamas-led terror massacre in southern Israel on October 7, 2023, BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions) campaigns directly targeting “Zionist” institutions, businesses or individuals, have persisted in response to Israel’s operations against Hamas in the Gaza Strip. BDS is a component of a long history of campaigns and efforts to delegitimize and isolate Israel. In recent years, this has explicitly focused on the rejection, isolation and marginalization of&nbsp…
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At Anti-Israel March in D.C., Explicit Expressions of Support for Terror and Antisemitism

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Sign at DC march
Hundreds of organizations from across the country marched in Washington, D.C., on Saturday, November 4, 2023. The official published demands of the protest included ceasefire to the Hamas-Israel war, an end of the “siege of Gaza” and the termination of all U.S. aid to Israel. Yet attendees, who numbered in the tens of thousands, went much further and leaned into rhetoric supporting the October 7 Hamas massacre and other acts of terror targeting Israel, calls for the end of Israel,…
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Roger Waters en sus propias palabras

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Roger Waters, cofundador y vocalista de la banda Pink Floyd, es un destacado activista antiisraelí y partidario del movimiento de Boicot, Desinversión y Sanciones (BDS). Su activismo se ha caracterizado cada vez más por hacer uso de tópicos antisemitas, incluidos el del poder judío o "sionista", comparar a Israel con la Alemania nazi, y menospreciar a cualquiera que manifieste apoyo, aunque sea tangencial, a la existencia de Israel. La retórica…
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Quds Day Vitriol Offers No Cover for Iran’s Bankrupt Regime

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By Meir Javedanfar  Last month, the Islamic Republic of Iran again marked Quds Day, which has been commemorated on the last Friday of the month of Ramadan by the clerical regime since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, with its usual chants of “Death to Israel” and “Death to America.” Over the decades, Tehran has repeatedly used Quds Day as an opportunity to spread anti-Israel hatred, incite violence against Israelis, and call for the destruction of the Jewish state…
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ADL Letter to The Honorable Kevin McCarthy Re: Nakba Day Event at the Capitol

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May 9, 2023 The Honorable Kevin McCarthy Speaker U.S. House of Representatives Washington, D.C. 20515 Dear Mr. Speaker: I write to alert you to an event featuring Representative Rashida Tlaib that is taking place on Wednesday, May 10th at the U.S. Capitol Visitor's Center entitled, "Nakba 75 & the Palestinian People.” In previous years, many Nakba Day events have devolved into hateful, anti-Israel and even antisemitic language. Just last year, in May 2022,…
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Symbol: Inverted Red Triangle

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Since the October 7, 2023 attack by Hamas against Israel, the inverted red triangle has, in many cases, come to signify support for violent Palestinian resistance against Israel and against Zionists and Jewish people more broadly. It is used both offline and online, sometimes in the form of an emoji (🔻), and has been spraypainted on Jewish homes and institutions, often alongside antisemitic and threatening slogans.     The symbol first appeared in propaganda videos from…
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Roger Waters In His Own Words

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Roger Waters, the co-founder and lead singer of the band Pink Floyd, is a leading anti-Israel activist and vocal supporter of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement. His activism has increasingly been characterized as playing into antisemitic tropes, including those about Jewish or “Zionist” power; comparing Israel to Nazi Germany; and disparaging anyone who conveys even tangential support for Israel’s existence. Waters’ inflammatory rhetoric spans back…
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Palestinian Violence Glorified, Israel Demonized as Wave of Terror Persists

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The wave of Palestinian terrorism in October, including the murder of a soldier in a drive-by shooting in the West Bank and a shooting attack in East Jerusalem, which claimed the life of Israeli soldier Noa Lazar, has once again brought to the fore the demonization of Israel and the glorification of violence. Notably, the current wave of violence saw the emergence of a Palestinian terrorist organization called The Lion’s Den, a relatively small group based in the West Bank city of…
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