Anti-immigrant fervor, once relegated to more extreme quarters, has been increasingly mainstreamed over the last ten years. Over the last two years, with the advent of a new administration focused on much stricter immigration policies and complementary executive actions, anti-immigrant and anti-refugee sentiment has made life substantially more difficult for all immigrants. Read ADL’s latest report.
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Each year, ADL’s Center on Extremism tracks murders perpetrated by all types of extremists. In 2018, every single extremist killing — from Pittsburgh to Parkland — had a link to right-wing extremism. This report provides key insights into the crimes, including motivations behind these violent attacks.
White supremacists around the world are meeting online and in person at conferences, capitalizing on the digitalization of information, which has in turn accelerated the international exchange of ideas.
In 2019, domestic extremists killed at least 42 people in the United States in 17 separate incidents.
In 2020, domestic extremists killed at least 17 people in the United States in 15 separate incidents, representing the lowest yearly total in ADL statistics since 2004.
This report is part of the ADL Belfer Fellowship series. The authors study the role of YouTube in recommending and promoting harmful videos on its platform using a comprehensive collection of behavioral data.
ADL’sCenter on Extremism (COE)tracked a near-doubling of white supremacist propaganda efforts in 2020, which included the distribution of racist, antisemitic and anti-LGBTQ fliers, stickers, banners and posters.
White supremacist propaganda, which allows extremist groups to disseminate hateful messages and gain attention with little risk of public exposure, has been on the rise for several years. In 2021, the overall numbers were down slightly, but paired with a 27 percent increase in antisemitic content and messaging.
The Nordic Resistance Movement, a major, violent, international neo-Nazi group harasses Jewish communities across Scandinavia and has links to US white supremacists. Learn more about its actions, ideology and how ADL recommends to counter it.
It is well documented that some extremists – and their beliefs– have made their way into the ranks of law enforcement and the corrections sector nationwide.
ADL's third annual survey on hate and harassment in online games, including a first-of-its-kind survey of teen online gaming experiences
The Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association (CSPOA) is an anti-government extremist group whose primary purpose is to recruit sheriffs into the anti-government “patriot” movement. Led by Richard Mack, the CSPOA increasingly seeks out law enforcement audiences, billing his extremist events as “trainings.” In a disturbing development, in 2021, Mack was able to win official state approval for his “trainings” in Montana and Texas, which allows attendees to receive continuing education credit for attending Mack’s events.
If there is a single thread that links QAnon’s origins, its current state, and where the conspiracy theory is likely to go in the short-to medium-term, it’s antisemitism. QAnon’s antisemitism has been most visible at two points: its beginnings – when it emerged from4chan – and the present, when the most popular QAnon influencer, GhostEzra, is an open Nazi who praises Hitler, admires the Third Reich, and decries the supposedly treacherous nature of Jews.
In the days following 9/11, antisemitic conspiracy theorists dismissed the widely accepted version of events, instead crafting alternative narratives directly implicated Jewish people and Israel in the attacks, peddling antisemitic tropes about Jews supposedly manipulating word events for their own benefit and at the expense of others. Twenty years later, these antisemitic 9/11 conspiracy theories continue to thrive.
According to a recent study, 39 of the 357 people who were arrested for storming the U.S. Capitol on January 6 were veterans. These findings underscore already-existing concerns about extremists in the military and raise questions about America’s veterans’ potential vulnerability to extremist recruitment. However, a lack of reliable information means many questions remain unanswered.
ADL launched a nationally representative survey of more than 1,100 U.S. adults in an effort to understand how Americans viewed the events on January 6 and extremist threats faced by the country as a whole.
ADL's nationally representative survey looking at the experience of hate, harassment and positive social experiences in online multiplayer games in 2020.
This report provides an evaluation of anti-Black and antisemitic content on Facebook and Telegram in the run up to the 2020 U.S. election.
A survey of hate, harassment and positive social experiences in online multiplayer games.