This report examines extremist and antisemitic trends and incidents across New York state during the two-year time period from January 1, 2020 to December 31, 2021, and provides recommendations for combatting these threats.
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The May 2, 2022, leak of the draft opinion overturning the 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling has animated people on both sides of the abortion debate. And as pro-choice advocates are vowing to protest the potential loss of reproductive freedom, right-wing extremists advocating for -- and in some cases threatening -- violence against them.
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.
After news broke of the deadly white supremacist shooting in Buffalo on Saturday, May 14, 2022, extremists, politicians and ideologues offered their takes on the attack.
The ADL Center on Extremism has found remarkable parallels and overlap between online manifestos posted by accused Buffalo shooting perpetrator Payton Gendron and Christchurch shooter Brenton Tarrant. While Gendron’s language is notably more antisemitic than Tarrant’s, entire portions of the texts are identical.
Since its inception, the KKK has employed a variety of salute and hand signs both publically and privately. Learn about the most common KKK gesture.
The hood and robes of Ku Klux Klan members are the most visible Klan symbol of all. Read about the history and current meanings behind the Klan’s robes.
The "Mystic Insignia of a Klansman" (the Blood Drop Cross) is the primary symbol related to the Ku Klux Klan. Learn more about this iconic hate symbol.
One of the most potent hate symbols is the burning cross, popularized as a terror symbol by the Ku Klux Klan.
311 is a number used by Ku Klux Klan members to refer to the Klan. The elenth letter of the alphabet is the letter "K"; thus 3 times 11 equals "KKK," i.e., Ku Klux Klan.
The number 33 is used by Ku Klux Klan adherents to signify the Ku Klux Klan: since the 11th letter of the alphabet is K, three Ks signify "KKK" or the Ku Klux Klan. Klan members will frequently follow this with the number 6, to indicate the historical "era" of the Klan they think the Klan currently is in.
KIGY is Ku Klux Klan shorthand for "Klansman I Greet You."
AKIA is Ku Klux Klan shorthand for "A Klansman I Am."
AYAK is Ku Klux Klan shorthand for "Are You A Klansman?"
KLASP is a Ku Klux Klan acronym for "Klannish Loyalty, A Sacred Principle."
FGRN is a Ku Klux Klan acronym for "For God, Race and Nation," a common Klan slogan.
ITSUB is a Ku Klux Klan acronym for "In The Sacred Unfailing Being," a reference to God. It is one of many Klan acronyms created by the Second Ku Klux Klan that emerged in 1915.