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Footage of Buffalo Attack Spread Quickly Across Platforms, Has Been Online for Days

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The livestream of the accused Buffalo shooter’s deadly May 14, 2022, attack at a Buffalo supermarket was available briefly via Twitch, but the footage spread quickly across online platforms, and remains online for public consumption. Five full days after the shooting rampage, the ADL Center on Extremism (COE) was able to find the footage on platforms as diverse as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Reddit, Telegram, Bitchute and Gab.
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The Horrific Mass Shooting in Buffalo: How to Talk with Young People

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Another mass shooting has taken place, a violent massacre in which the shooter targeted a Black community after posting a white supremacist tract online that espoused virulently antisemitic and racist beliefs.  On May 14, 2022, a gunman entered a supermarket in a largely Black neighborhood in Buffalo, New York and shot thirteen people, killing ten people and injuring at least three others. Almost all of the victims are Black. The gunman was identified by law enforcement as eighteen…
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Buffalo Shooter’s Weapons Covered in White Supremacist Messaging

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Payton Gendron
In the aftermath of the May 14, 2022, mass shooting that left 10 people dead and three more injured in Buffalo, NY, the ADL Center on Extremism (COE) has reviewed images of what appear to be weapons, armor and other gear owned by the alleged shooter, Payton Gendron. Gendron, who wore a sonnenrad, a symbol appropriated by the Nazi Party and widely used by modern white supremacists, mimicked a tactic used by white supremacist Brenton Tarrant, scrawling white supremacist…
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Buffalo Shooter's Manifesto Promotes "Great Replacement" Theory, Antisemitism and Previous Mass Shooters

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On May 14, 2022, a gunman killed 10 people and injured 3 more inside a Tops supermarket in Buffalo, New York, after espousing violent white supremacist and antisemitic views online. In court following his arrest, the alleged gunman, identified as 18-year-old Payton S. Gendron, from Southern Tier, New York, pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder and was ordered held without bail. According to an online screed Gendron allegedly posted shortly before the attack, his goal was to &ldquo…
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Remarks by Jonathan Greenblatt to the ADL Virtual National Leadership Summit

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May 01, 2022 Thank you for that kind introduction. I am so glad to welcome you – leaders from coast to coast committed to the fight against antisemitism and hate. I don’t need to tell you how important and pressing this work is. All of you know this from the work you do in your communities. You know when a synagogue or cemetery is desecrated. You know the families who have to comfort their children after a slur is hurled their way – online or in real life. You all…
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Jonathan Greenblatt's Remarks to the U.S. Agency for International Development on Holocaust Remembrance Day

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Thank you so much for inviting me to join this commemoration today. On Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, we join with communities across the world to remember the attempted annihilation of the Jewish people. I’m honored to be with you all at USAID because in many ways your work is about hope, the one true antidote to hate, and a force that should provide the inspiration to prevent future horrors as we saw in the Holocaust. But this day is deeply personal to me. My…
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Holocaust Analogies Frequently Used as Fodder for Social and Political Commentary

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Holocaust Analogies Frequently Used as Fodder for Social and Political Commentary
The Holocaust – the systematic murder of six million Jews and millions of others by the Nazis and their collaborators during World War II – stands out as a preeminent example of modern-day state-sponsored mass murder. Despite the Holocaust’s distinctive status, or perhaps because of it, politicians, activists and other public figures often invoke inappropriate Holocaust comparisons to highlight the ostensible “danger” of a social or political act. Even with…
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Auditoría de la ADL revela que los incidentes antisemitas en Estados Unidos alcanzaron su máximo histórico en 2021

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Se reportaron incidentes en los 50 estados, incluyendo un pico drástico durante el conflicto entre Hamás e Israel; los ataques contra sinagogas y centros comunitarios judíos aumentaron un 61 % April 26, 2022 Nueva York, NY, 26 de abril de 2022 ... Los incidentes antisemitas alcanzaron un máximo histórico en Estados Unidos durante 2021, con un total de 2.717 incidentes de asalto, acoso y vandalismo reportados a la Liga Antidifamación (ADL). Esto…
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ADL Finds Facebook Posts Linking to Problematic Sites at Alarming Rates

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ADL Finds Facebook Posts Linking to Problematic Sites at Alarming Rates
April 11, 2022 Over a hundred million American adults read news on social media, but in the wake of the crisis in Ukraine, antisemitism, hate speech, and disinformation have spread widely on Facebook. ADL researchers found evidence of the continued presence of problematic posts on the platform, the most popular site for getting news, as well as the prevalence of external links directing users to alternative platforms and sites popular among extremists. Roughly 61% of these posts included links…
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Helping Students Make Sense of News Stories about Bias and Injustice

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Girl Writes Justice for Mike Brown in Chalk Ferguson Missouri
For Educators When there are national news stories that involve incidents of bias and injustice, young people want to be part of the conversation. Even at a young age, they hear adults talking about what’s happening, read about the story on social media or learn about it through television. Rather than protect children and youth from what’s going on in the world, there are age-appropriate and constructive ways to engage them in understanding the situation. Teachers…
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What is the CROWN Act?

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Table Talk: Family Conversations about Current EventsThe CROWN Act is a law that forbids discrimination based on hair texture and hair styles. CROWN stands for: “Create a Respectful and Open Workplace for Natural Hair.” Hair discrimination impacts Black people, especially Black women and girls in schools and workplaces who wear hair styles such as locs, braids, twists, Bantu knots, afros and natural hair. They are punished by discriminatory workplace and school dress codes and…
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Some 2022 Left-Wing Candidates Espouse Troubling Rhetoric on Israel

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Some 2022 Left-Wing Candidates Espouse Troubling Rhetoric on Israel
April 05, 2022 Introduction  In recent years, American public life has been increasingly marked by the rise of extremism and the erosion of democratic norms. A torrent of white supremacist activity and the growing prevalence of conspiracy theories have spurred some individuals and groups to commit acts of violence. American society has been further compromised by rampant misinformation, resulting in a deeply divided and polarized electorate. Concomitantly, antisemitism has been at a…
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2022 Israeli Apartheid Week: Overview

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Israeli Apartheid Week
April 04, 2022 Source: Boston University Students for Justice in Palestine The 16th annual Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW), a series of worldwide anti-Israel events, took place in the United States and Canada March 21-28, 2022. This year’s theme, announced on the BDS Movement’s website, was "the role of culture, and art in particular, in decolonizing our minds in our collective struggles against cultural appropriation and oppression." While some events reflected the week…
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National Arab American Heritage Month Resources

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Uses these resources to explore and commemorate the rich history and culture of people who are Arab American as well as analyze the bias and discrimination faced by them.
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Farrakhan’s Latest Antisemitic, Anti-vaccine Address Garners Over Half a Million Views on Facebook and YouTube

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Farrakhan’s latest antisemitic, anti-vaccine address garners over half a million views on Facebook and YouTube
March 14, 2022 Mainstream social media companies have allowed Nation of Islam (NOI) leader Louis Farrakhan’s antisemitism and anti-vaccine disinformation to once again find a home on their platforms. In the days since Farrakhan’s annual Saviours’ Day address was broadcast on February 27, 2022, videos of the hours-long speech have received over 500,000 views across dozens of YouTube channels and Facebook pages. The content of the address, which as ADL previously reported,…
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