Sweden’s Nordic Resistance Movement held 185 “combat training” sessions in 2020 and has served as inspiration for American white supremacists New York, NY, March 28, 2022 … A new report from ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) identifies the Nordic Resistance Movement of Sweden as the region’s most dangerous right wing extremist group, saying that the virulently antisemitic hate group poses “an ongoing and serious public security threat” and is exporting…

New York, NY, September 9, 2021 ... Educational reform in the Middle East is providing hope for continued progress in tackling extremism, according to a new report published today by the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change (TBI) and the Anti-Defamation League (ADL). The new report “Peace and Tolerance Education in the Arab World Two Decades after 9/11” authored by David Andrew Weinberg, ADL’s Washington Director for International Affairs, is a pioneering joint…

New York, NY, March 12, 2019 … ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) today announced a partnership with the Network Contagion Research Institute to produce a series of reports that take an in-depth look into how extremism and hate spread on social media – and provide recommendations on how to combat both. The Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI) deploys machine learning tools to expose hate on digital social networks within a cross-platform, public-minded and…

Speakers include the mayors of five large cities; top administration officials, Gold Star parent Khizr Khan New York, NY, November 14, 2018 … ADL and a diverse group of partners, will convene the Fall Summit for “Communities Overcoming Extremism: The After Charlottesville Project,” on November 28-30, 2018.  This national capacity-building project is focused on empowering communities with tools to combat the dramatic rise in extremism, intolerance, and political violence…

Part of ongoing efforts to understand the spread of hate across social media Washington, D.C., October 15, 2018 … The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and New America today unveiled a new interactive dashboard that provides the first real-time visualization of extremist content on Twitter targeting Jews, Muslims, the LGBTQ community, and other minority groups. The tool is part of a joint initiative to increase the understanding of how extremists are using social media and adapting their…

New York, NY, October 5, 2018 …ADL welcomed the administration’s new National Strategy for Counterterrorism’s recognition of the broad spectrum of extremist threats faced by the United States and other countries. The strategy document, released yesterday, comes as ADL issued a comprehensive new report on the white supremacist threat in the U.S., taking stock of the ideology and tactics of modern white supremacy and offering legislative and policy recommendations for…

New York, NY, September 7, 2018 …The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today welcomed House passage of S. 994, the “Protecting Religiously Affiliated Institutions Act of 2018.” The Senate had approved this measure, an amendment to the 1988 Church Arson Prevention Act, earlier this week.  ADL CEO and National Director Jonathan A. Greenblatt  issued the following statement:  We welcome enactment of this important legislation and applaud the strong and…

Atlanta, GA, August 28, 2018 … ADL today condemned a savage, brutal murder likely motivated by racism and white supremacist ideology.  The suspect, John Carothers, has apparent ties to the white supremacist movement. Last March, he allegedly burned to death an African-American man, Robert Miller, at a VA assisted living facility.   Law enforcement recently uncovered a jailhouse letter penned by Carothers to a white supremacist group, in which he admits to the murder…

New York, NY, August 20, 2018 ... Anti-Defamation League (ADL) released the following statement today concerning recently departed White House speechwriter Darren Beattie: We are glad that Darren Beattie, who spoke at a recent conference of the racist, far-right H. L. Mencken Club and participated in a panel discussion with white nationalist Peter Brimelow, creator of the racist website V-Dare, is no longer employed at the White House. Since it is not abundantly clear, we would like…

Orange County, CA, August 2, 2018 … The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today welcomed the decision to bring a hate crime charge against Samuel Woodward, the man previously charged with the killing of his former high school classmate, Blaze Bernstein. Woodward also faces felony murder charges in connection with the death of Bernstein, whose body was found in a shallow grave in Orange County in January with more than 20 stab wounds. According to the Orange County District Attorney…

New York, NY, July 24, 2018 … For the first time, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) is investigating misogyny as a dangerous and underestimated component of extremism. In a new report released today “When Women are the Enemy: The Intersection of Misogyny and White Supremacy,” ADL finds a powerful connection between the “men’s rights” arena and white supremacist ideologies. The report marks a new prioritization of misogyny as a part of the organization&rsquo…