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New Defendants Added to Lawsuit Seeking to Hold January 6th Insurrectionists Accountable for Damage To DC, Our Democracy & Local Law Enforcement

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Oath Keepers Leader Stewart Rhodes Among Newly Added Defendants Washington, DC, April 1, 2022 ... Today, ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) joined D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine, the States United Democracy Center, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP and Dechert LLP in announcing the addition of more defendants, including Oath Keepers leader Stewart Rhodes, to a federal lawsuit filed by the Office of the Attorney General (OAG) seeking to hold two violent groups and certain of…

April 01, 2022

ADL Report Says Leading European Neo-Nazi Group Exports Antisemitism Across Scandinavia and Beyond

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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…

March 28, 2022

ADL Calls on Twitter and Other Platforms to Remove Taliban and Taliban-Affiliated Accounts

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New York, NY, August 19, 2021 … ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) today called on Twitter, and other major social media platforms, to take immediate action to remove accounts affiliated with the Taliban given the organization’s long history of terrorist activity, violence and discrimination toward girls and women, assassinating journalists, and persecuting religious and ethnic minorities, in Afghanistan. The Taliban recently seized the capital of Afghanistan, Kabul, and have gained…

August 19, 2021

Analysis of Hezbollah Textbooks Shows Lengths Group Will Go to Indoctrinate Hate Against Jews

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ADL calls for new sanctions in response to terrorist indoctrination and ‘shocking’ antisemitic content in schools New York, NY, June 18, 2020 … School textbooks used in Lebanon by the terrorist group Hezbollah to teach history and other core subjects to children are filled with systematic and egregious incitement to antisemitism and support for terrorism, according to a new report from ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) issued today. The report, “Teaching…

June 17, 2020

ADL Welcomes Argentina’s Efforts to Combat Terrorism and Freeze Hezbollah Assets

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New York, NY, July 18, 2019 … ADL (Anti-Defamation League) today welcomed Argentina’s move to freeze the assets of the terrorist group Hezbollah using the newly decreed lists for designated terrorist entities. The move comes as the world marks the 25th anniversary of the terror attack on the AMIA Jewish Community Center on July 18, 1994, in which 85 people were killed and hundreds more injured. “This step is long overdue given Hezbollah’s direct responsibility in…

July 18, 2019

ADL Welcomes UK Designating All of Hezbollah as a Terrorist Group

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New York, NY, February 25, 2019 … ADL (Anti-Defamation League) today welcomed the United Kingdom's important decision to ban Lebanese Hezbollah in its entirety as a terrorist group. Until now, Britain had merely proscribed Hezbollah's "military wing," a policy that is still pursued by the European Union even though Hezbollah itself admits that such a distinction is inaccurate and arbitrary. “Hezbollah threatens the security of not just Israel, but also the entire Middle…

February 25, 2019

U.S. Citizens Responsible for Vast Majority of Islamist Extremist Terror Plots in the U.S. Since 2002, Annual ADL Report Finds

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Analysis of 16-year period shows more than half of plots were carried out by U.S. citizens New York, NY, May 1, 2018 … The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today released new data and analysis of 98 Islamist extremist plots and attacks in the United States over the past 16 years. Among the key findings: the vast majority — a full 90 percent — of the plots and attacks were carried out by U.S. citizens or individuals living in the country with lawful permanent or temporary status…

May 01, 2018