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Pandemic gives rise to antisemitic ‘Zoombombing’; Federal hate crime charges filed in Ahmaud Arbery death; NY synagogues vandalized

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April 30, 2021 THE WEEK’S BIG 3 ADL counted 196 cases of antisemitic “Zoombombing” attacks in the U.S. last year, including 114 against Jewish institutions, according to its annual report released this week. Three Georgia men were indicted on federal hate crime charges in connection with the death of Ahmaud Arbery, a 25-year-old Black man who was shot to death while jogging through a South Georgia neighborhood last year. Authorities in New York City are looking for the…

April 30, 2021

On Yom HaShoah, Why Must We Remember the Holocaust?

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by: Kenneth Jacobson | April 07, 2021 The Times of Israel It is now 76 years since the death camp at Auschwitz was liberated. As we commemorate Yom HaShoah this week, it is useful to take a look at how the Holocaust is affecting public morality all these years later — and how it is still being abused. It is both helpful and not helpful to talk about the Holocaust when discussing the disturbing resurgence of anti-Semitism in the world today. On the one hand, as reflected in ADL…

April 07, 2021

Qatari Textbooks Teach that Jews are Treacherous

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April 05, 2021 By David Andrew Weinberg Two years ago, Qatar came under criticism when passages in its state textbooks that contained antisemitic and other extremist messages were made public, including by ADL. While some of the passages that ADL called out have since been removed, a new review of Qatari textbooks for the 2020-21 school year unfortunately confirms that this problem still persists. After the February 2019 publication of analyses by ADL and the Middle East Media…

April 05, 2021

Antisemitism in Jordanian Textbooks

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March 31, 2021 By David Andrew Weinberg A review of middle school and high school textbooks from a Jordanian government website has found that the country’s official textbooks continue to promulgate hateful language about Jews and Israel. By fueling antisemitism, such school lessons run counter to Jordan’s previously stated goals for educational reform. In response to ISIS territorial gains across Jordan’s borders with Syria and Iraq, in 2015 the Kingdom’s…

March 31, 2021

ADL Applauds Introduction of Social Media Transparency Bill

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Calif. legislation would require social media companies to publicly disclose corporate policies and key data and metrics on enforcement New York, NY, March 30, 2021...ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) welcomed the introduction of legislation from California State Assemblymember Jesse Gabriel that would require social media platforms to publicly disclose their content moderation policies regarding online hate/racism, disinformation, extremism, harassment and foreign interference, as well as key…

March 30, 2021

TruNews’ Antisemitism and Conspiracies Reach Growing Facebook Audience

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March 25, 2021 UPDATE: According to the TruNews website, the channel was banned from Facebook on April 3, 2021, and the TruNews page has been removed from the platform. In early 2020, ADL wrote about TruNews and its host and founder, Rick Wiles, detailing the fundamentalist Christian video streaming site’s consistently antisemitic, anti-Zionist, anti-LGBTQ+ and Islamophobic rhetoric. In July 2020, a follow-up piece focused on TruNews’ use of…

March 25, 2021

Asian Americans report increase in online hate; Jewish woman attacked on London street; Holocaust terms used by Mass. school football team

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March 25, 2021 THE WEEK’S BIG 3 Asian Americans reported the single biggest increase in serious incidents of online hate and harassment as racist and xenophobic slurs blaming people of Asian descent for the coronavirus pandemic spread over the past year, according to a new survey from ADL. ADL is asking for an independent investigation into a Massachusetts high school football team that used Holocaust-related language including “Auschwitz” and Jewish words in its on-field…

March 25, 2021

Twitter Must De-Platform Iran’s Supreme Leader

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March 19, 2021 By David Andrew Weinberg Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is the Supreme Leader of Iran and an active presence on various social media platforms in multiple languages. And although he uses these accounts to spread hatred, violence, and dangerous disinformation – let alone his calls to destroy the State of Israel – these platforms allow him to keep doing so in seeming violation of their own policies. This is in purported deference to his status as a political…

March 19, 2021

Aqsa Week 2021 Features Inflammatory, Anti-Israel Rhetoric

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March 18, 2021 From March 6-12, 2021, anti-Israel groups American Muslims for Palestine (AMP) and UK-based Friends of Al-Aqsa held an all-virtual Aqsa Week, described on AMP’s website as “programs and educational webinars... that focused on Jerusalem, its Islamic significance...the Prophetic connection to Palestine to[sic] the dark era of the Crusades and US/UK policy towards Jerusalem.” Many events, however, featured speakers who veered into inflammatory rhetoric,…

March 18, 2021

Two Neo-Nazis, Including “Jew Slayer,” Arrested on Weapons Charges

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February 22, 2021 On February 5, 2021, the FBI arrested Christian Michael Mackey, an alleged member of neo-Nazi group Iron Youth, on charges of an unlawful sale of a firearm. Mackey allegedly attempted to sell his gun to someone identified to him as a known felon, but Mackey seemed primarily concerned that the buyer was “based”— which in this case means that he subscribes to white supremacist beliefs. According to the affidavit, Mackey allegedly incited others in an…

February 22, 2021

The Infrastructure of Hate: Epik Hosts Extremist Groups

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February 22, 2021 Social media platforms have received the lion’s share of attention for enabling users to spread hate and disinformation and plan and incite violence and terrorist acts. Flying under the radar are infrastructure providers like Epik, a domain registrar and web hosting company that works with nearly 750,000 websites and is ranked among the 50 largest web hosts. A domain is the address of a website you type into the URL bar of an internet browser. Domain registrars are…

February 22, 2021

ADL calls out antisemitism in Poland, Hungary, Russia and British Labour Party; Extremists face repercussions after riot; NAACP sues Trump and Giuliani

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February 19, 2021 THE WEEK’S BIG 3 Authorities in Poland, Russia, Hungary and some lawmakers in Britain’s Labour Party used antisemitism for political means, according to a new ADL report. ADL has positively identified 212 of the estimated 800 individuals who are believed to have breached the U.S. Capitol on January 6, revealing a wide array of domestic extremists were among those who unleashed their fury on legislators and Capitol police, leading to five deaths and scores of…

February 19, 2021

Dangerous videos pushed on YouTube; Iranian textbooks more antisemitic than ever; Synagogue and Holocaust memorial vandalized

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February 12, 2021 THE WEEK’S BIG 3 Google's YouTube is still recommending extremist and white supremacist videos to viewers already susceptible to racial hatred, a new report from ADL found. Iranian schools are teaching antisemitism, hatred and conspiratorial material in their textbooks, according to a comprehensive analysis by ADL. Police in Spokane, WA are looking for the person who painted swastikas on the Temple Beth Shalom building and a Holocaust memorial. Read on for more…

February 12, 2021

Global Antisemitism: Select Incidents in 2021

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January Argentina A Jewish family was physically and verbally assaulted Canada Swastikas were spray painted on a synagogue Greece A monument to the Holocaust was defaced Iraq Antisemitic comments were made by the country's former Prime Minister Poland Nazi symbols were spray painted on the wall of a Jewish cemetery Turkey Classic antisemitic tropes appeared in a pro-government…

February 09, 2021

ADL’s offensive against domestic terrorism; Administration embraces IHRA definition of antisemitism; Rep. Greene loses committee slots for pro-QAnon comments

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February 05, 2021 THE WEEK’S BIG 3 In the aftermath of the deadly Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, ADL launched PROTECT -- a “whole of society” offensive, comprising federal and state governments and the tech sector, to combat domestic terrorism. A senior State Department official announced that the Biden administration “embraces and champions” an internationally recognized definition of antisemitism. Despite urging from ADL, civil rights activists and…

February 05, 2021

ADL Supports Reforming Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act to Hold Tech Companies Accountable, Prioritize Users and Protect Civil Rights

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New York, NY, February 5, 2021 … ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) issued the following statement in response to the introduction of the “Safeguarding Against Fraud, Exploitation, Threats, Extremism, and Consumer Harms Act” or the SAFE TECH Act from Senators Mark Warner (D-VA), Mazie Hirono (D-HI), and Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) and which proposes reforms to Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act that would directly address tech platform involvement in discrimination,…

February 05, 2021

Doxing Should Be Illegal. Reporting Extremists Should Not.

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January 15, 2021 We live more and more in digital spaces, so we have to work harder to distinguish protected online speech from unprotected online conduct. In the wake of the attack at the U.S. Capitol on January 6—an attack that was planned, mobilized and livestreamed online—this work has gained an even greater sense of urgency, especially when it comes to doxing. Many people define doxing as posting someone’s personal information online. But doxing as a blanket…

January 15, 2021

How Platforms Can Stem Abuses of Livestreaming After the Storming of the Capitol

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January 15, 2021 A livestream video shot by a newly-elected West Virginia lawmaker shows a disturbing gap between what a mob of Trump supporters who attacked the Capitol thought about the events of January 6 and what the rest of the world actually saw. Derrick Evans, a freshman member of the West Virginia House of Delegates, viewed fellow rioters swarming around him and forcing entry into the Capitol as a celebration. He was visibly giddy. But for horror-struck viewers, it was a violent…

January 15, 2021

Open Letter to the U.S. Department of Justice: ADL Calls for a Criminal Investigation of Gab

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January 13, 2021 The January 6 attack at our nation’s Capitol was deliberate and coordinated. Individuals who broke the law must be held accountable, but we cannot ignore that social media platforms, like Gab, may well bear a measure of criminal responsibility for the attack as well. To the extent Gab intentionally served as a forum for people to plan, coordinate, engage in or otherwise facilitate the criminal activity that took place on January 6, a Department of Justice investigation…

January 13, 2021

Propaganda Aprobada por el Estado: Irán Termina su Tercer Concurso de Caricaturas del Holocausto

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January 04, 2021 Por David Andrew Weinberg El 1ero de enero del 2021 funcionarios iraníes —actuando con el apoyo del Líder Supremo Jameneí— publicaron los resultados del tercer concurso iraní de caricaturas políticas destinadas a promover la negación del Holocausto. Los concursos anteriores sobre este horrendo tema se celebraron con el apoyo del Estado iraní en 2006 y 2016. Una vez más, el esfuerzo de Irán…

January 04, 2021