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Vinlanders Social Club

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The Vinlanders Social Club (VSC) is one of the larger hardcore racist skinhead gangs in the United States, with their strongest bases of support in Indiana and Arizona.

ALTERNATE NAMES: VSC

Vinlanders Social Club (hand sign)

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The handsign used by the Vinlanders Social Club, a racist skinhead gang, consists of holding up the first, second, and fourth fingers of one hand.

Volksfront (hand sign)

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Members of the white supremacist group Volksfront have used several handsigns to represent their gang. A common one-handed sign features the fingers of the right hand divided into a "V" shape, often held over the chest. A two-handed sign uses one hand to make a "V" shape (using two or four fingers) and the other hand to make the shape of the letter "F."

Volksfront Flag

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Volksfront is a hybrid racist skinhead gang/neo-Nazi group that started in the Pacific Northwest in the 1990s.

WAR (Arkansas prison gang)

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White Aryan Resistance (WAR) is the name of a large, Arkansas-based white supremacist prison gang, who borrowed the name from California white supremacist Tom Metzger. Their main symbol is an elaborate pyramid-shaped tattoo that contains symbols representing rank and other meanings.

ALTERNATE NAMES: White Aryan Resistance (gang)

White Aryan Resistance

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White Aryan Resistance (WAR) was a loosely organized racist skinhead movement in the late 1980s and early 1990s centered around white supremacist Tom Metzger. Now the symbol is associated with Metzger himself or used as a general hate symbol.

ALTERNATE NAMES: WAR, Insurgent

White Knights

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The White Knights are a Texas-based white supremacist prison gang (also active in Arizona in recent years). Their main symbol consists of a knight's helmet containing a skull. Behind the skull are two crossed swords, while the words "white" and "knight" appear on "rockers" above and below the skull.

Antisemitic Arabic-language Cartoons in The Wake of Israeli-Arab Normalization

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September 17, 2020 Since Israel’s founding in 1948, only two countries have moved to establish ties with the Jewish State – Egypt in 1978 and Jordan in 1994. Last week saw two additional countries – the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Bahrain – sign normalization agreements with Israel, an indication that hostile regional attitudes towards Israel are shifting. And indeed, there are reports that additional Arab countries may&nbsp…

September 17, 2020

ADL Applauds Historic Israel-UAE Agreement

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New York, August 13, 2020 … ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) applauded the Governments of Israel, the United Arab Emirates, and the United States for today's historic announcement agreeing to work towards fully normalizing relations and announcing plans for cooperation across numerous civil fields between Israel and the Emirates. ADL also welcomed the announcement that Israel will suspend declaring sovereignty over territory in the West Bank, which we hope will help sustain…

August 13, 2020

Dissolve the Jewish State? Peter Beinart is Wrong

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Note: This letter was published in The New York Times on July 10, 2020. July 9, 2020 Letters to the Editor The New York Times To the Editor: Re “I No Longer Believe in a Jewish State” (Op-Ed, July 9): With all his soothing words about equality and blissful coexistence, Peter Beinart is calling for the elimination of the Jewish state itself. His contortions to argue that Zionism does not require an independent Jewish state are transparently false and a tactic to…

July 23, 2020

Blood & Honour

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Group Status: Active (see below) Blood & Honour (the British spelling is typically used, even in the United States) is an international racist skinhead umbrella group started decades ago by British white supremacist and singer Ian Stuart Donaldson. It has chapters or associated groups around the world, primarily in Europe. Several American white supremacist groups proclaim an association with Blood & Honour, as do many individual white supremacists. Because of the latter, use of…

Extremists Support Protests Against COVID-19 Quarantine; Over Half of US Jews have Experienced or Seen Antisemitism, Survey Shows

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April 24, 2020 THE WEEK’S BIG 3A series of anti-quarantine rallies took place across the country this week, several of which were sponsored in whole or part by identified extremists and featured antisemitic content. A new ADL survey released on Holocaust Remembrance Day found that more than half of America’s Jews have either experienced or witnessed an antisemitic incident over the past five years. And Israel’s year-long political stalemate has come to an end, with the…

April 24, 2020

ADL International Affairs Top 10 Notable Accomplishments in 2019

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March 09, 2020 2019 was a significant year for ADL’s international engagement, furthering our work fighting global antisemitism and hate, combatting delegitimization of Israel, and promoting a secure Jewish and democratic Israel at peace with her neighbors. ADL’s international action included the release of groundbreaking research and reports, high-level appearances by ADL experts, and advocacy and programs furthering our global priorities. Topping the list of…

March 09, 2020

Far-Right Extremists Killed At Least 38 in US in 2019; White Supremacists Arrested After Threats; Sanders Claims AIPAC is Platform for Bigotry

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February 27, 2020 THE WEEK’S BIG 3 Far-right extremists killed at least 38 people in the U.S. in 2019, the sixth deadliest year on record violence by all domestic extremists since 1970, according to a new report. Federal prosecutors charged five people allegedly linked to a neo-Nazi group for engaging in a campaign to intimidate and harass journalists, activists and a member of the President’s cabinet. Calling AIPAC a platform “for leaders who express bigotry,”…

February 27, 2020

United Nations Partition Plan 1947 (UN Resolution 181)

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Following the British announcement that it would end its authority over Palestine, the question of sovereignty was considered by the United Nations Special Committee on Palestine (UNSCOP). The UNSCOP report recommended the division of the British Mandate-controlled area of Palestine into two states, one Arab and one Jewish, with Jerusalem to be an “international” city. According to the plan, the two states, roughly equal in size and natural resources, would cooperate on major…

September 01, 2016

Any U.S.-Iran Talks Must Address the Elephants in the Room

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by: Jonathan Greenblatt | September 19, 2019 The Times of Israel Heading into the U.N. General Assembly next week, it is rumored that President Trump might sit down with his Iranian counterpart, Hassan Rouhani, when world leaders are gathered in New York City. This despite claims by U.S. officials that Iran was responsible for the drone attacks on Saudi oil fields, the defiant posture of President Trump toward the regime since he came to office, and the Iranian insistence…

September 19, 2019

Israel's General Election: An ADL Primer

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September 12, 2019 What do I need to know about Israel’s election? On September 17, 2019, Israel will hold an election for the 22nd Knesset. The victor of the elections in Israel is determined by the party’s ability to form a coalition government (representing at least 61 seats in the Knesset), therefore making the balance of power between the right and left blocs a key issue. According to the Israeli political system, it is not the party which wins the largest number of…

September 12, 2019

Setting the Record Straight: Jewish Communal Response to Middle East Curriculum in Newton Schools

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July 23, 2019 By Robert Trestan and Jeremy Burton “Teaching High School Students to Demonize Israel” (Tablet, July 18) falsely portrays the Boston area’s two major mainstream Jewish community organizations’ role in a seven-year-old controversy regarding the Newton public school district’s use of the Arab World Studies Notebook and other materials in Newton North High School’s World History classes. Our organizations, ADL and JCRC, are in fact deeply…

July 23, 2019

It's Time to Put an End to "Us" and "Them" Mentality in Israeli Society

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A Hebrew version of this article originally appeared in Makor Rishon on June 10th. by: Carole Nuriel | July 23, 2019 It has been more than three weeks since the earthquake that rocked Israel in wake of the shooting of Israeli-Ethiopian teenager Solomon Tekah by an off-duty police officer. The national debate that began with an emphasis on the details of the shooting incident has since turned into a discourse on the image of Israeli society – who we are and how we relate to the other…

July 23, 2019

April 2019 ADL International Affairs Newsletter

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May 23, 2019 AROUND THE WORLD Middle East ADL Task Force on Middle East Minorities to Host Launch Event in Washington, DC April 30 Please join the ADL Task Force on Middle East Minorities at a special event discussing Vulnerable Minorities, Illiberal Ideologies and Governments: How to Build a Better Future for Minorities in the Middle East on April 30 at the Brookings Institution, Falk Auditorium. For more information and to register, please click here. ADL Congratulates PM…

May 23, 2019