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White Supremacists Praise Rep. Steve King’s Racist Tweet

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March 15, 2017 On Sunday morning, U.S. Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) took to Twitter to express some feelings about immigration, finding common cause with a well-known anti-immigration activist from Europe. “Wilders understands that culture and demographics are our destiny,” the Congressman wrote. “We can’t restore our civilization with somebody else’s babies.” King was referring to Dutch politician Geert Wilders, an anti-Muslim crusader who is…

March 15, 2017

Hate Symbols (In English and en Español)

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Table Talk: Family Conversations About Current Events For Parents, Families, and Caregivers | 13 and upTopic Summary We see symbols every day in all aspects of our lives. Symbols are used to convey ideas, qualities, emotions, material objects/products, opinions and beliefs. Unfortunately, symbols are also used to convey hate and bias. Lately, we have seen a lot of hate symbol graffiti in public spaces and specifically the swastika, which in most circumstances is understood as an expression…

March 13, 2017

Fourth arrest connected to Washington-based Hakenkreuz Skinheads

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March 07, 2017 On March 2, Olympia police arrested racist skinhead Frank Glen Cole, Jr., 32, for an alleged armed robbery that occurred on December 29, 2016. He also faces weapon charges. Cole, who has an extensive and felonious criminal history, is a member of the Hakenkreuz Skinheads (HSH), and the latest of several persons associated with the gang to be arrested in recent months. Another HSH associate, Daniel Brett Rowe, 32, of Richland, was arrested in August 2016 for allegedly…

March 07, 2017

White Supremacists on Campus: Unprecedented Recruitment Efforts Underway

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March 06, 2017 Updated: June 09, 2017 White supremacists are engaged in unprecedented outreach efforts on American college campuses – another sign that these hate groups feel emboldened by the current political climate. Throughout the 2016-17 school year, students, faculty and staff on 110 American college campuses were confronted by 159 incidents of racist fliers and stickers, as well as numerous on-campus appearances by white supremacists and…

March 06, 2017

Distribution of Religious Materials and Proselytizing by Outside Groups and Individuals

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For Educators Individuals, including parents, and groups who have no formal relationship to a school (Third Parties) may distribute religious materials, including Bibles, to students outside of school premises. They may also discuss religious matters with students. Third-party materials or publications of a religious viewpoint may be distributed on- campus to the same extent distribution of third-party secular materials is permitted. However, courts have applied different rules to…

March 05, 2017

Release Time Programs

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For Educators Release time in the public schools refers to programs in which students are released from school early to attend religious classes off school premises. Participating students must have permission from their parents. Nonparticipating students remain in school. Such programs may be constitutional if the religious classes take place off school grounds, if no public school funds are expended, and if school officials or teachers do not promote program attendance through coercion or…

March 04, 2017

Arrest Made In Connection With Threats to Jewish Institutions

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March 03, 2017 Federal and New York authorities announced on Friday that Juan Thompson of Missouri had been charged in connection with threats made to a number of Jewish Community Centers (JCCs) across the country. Thompson has been charged with making the threats as part of a campaign of stalking “a former romantic interest.” William F. Sweeney, Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI’s New York Field Division, said that Thompson’s harassment campaign…

March 03, 2017

Google Deletes White Supremacist App From Play Store

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February 21, 2017 Label 56, a white supremacist e-commerce app, was removed from Google’s play store this week after ADL notified the platform of the app’s connections to a racist skinhead website. The app acts as a sales platform for the Label 56 website, a leading white power music label. The website, which sells books, clothing, flags, jewelry and stickers, also distributes racist podcasts. The e-commerce website behind the app started operations in…

February 21, 2017

Anti-Semites Celebrate When Jews Are Targeted

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February 21, 2017 In light of bomb threats aimed at Jewish institutions, anti-Semitic fliers posted at campuses, the desecration of a Jewish cemetery in St. Louis, and the lashing out at a Jewish reporter by President Trump, anti-Semites are having a field day. Each time a Jewish person or institution is targeted, anti-Semites believe they are winning the battle against what they allege is Jewish domination of the country. Most recently, anti-Semites alleged that Jews themselves are…

February 21, 2017

Convicted Terrorist to Address Jewish Voice for Peace Conference in Chicago

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February 21, 2017 Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) has confirmed Rasmea Odeh as a keynote speaker at their national conference in Chicago, March 31st – April 2nd. Rasmea Odeh, a convicted terrorist, is the Associate Director at the Arab American Action Network in Chicago (AAAN). Odeh was a member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), which is designated as a terrorist organization by the U.S. State Department. Founded by George Habash in 1967, PFLP became…

February 21, 2017

Anti-Defamation League Reveals Extremist Background of Alleged Plotter

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February 16, 2017 On February 15, FBI agents arrested Benjamin Thomas Samuel McDowell, 29, of Conway, South Carolina, alleging he purchased a gun from an undercover agent from the FBI posing as someone connected with a faction of the neo-Nazi group Aryan Nations. McDowell, a convicted felon not allowed to own guns, was charged with illegal possession of a firearm. According to authorities, McDowell also indicated to the agent that he was interested in committing a “Dylann…

February 16, 2017

Alt Right Moving From Online to Real-World Activity

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February 13, 2017 For a number of years, the alt right was mostly an online movement, with the exception of a few annual conferences held by American Renaissance and the National Policy Institute, two white supremacist organizations. Now its adherents are trying to meet, network, and plan actions in cities and on campuses around the county. Alt right groups have been plastering universities with fliers, meeting at forums and events in different parts of the country, organizing…

February 13, 2017

White Supremacists launch racist poster campaign

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January 31, 2017 White supremacists Jared Taylor and Richard Spencer have both recently claimed President Donald Trump as part of the so-called “alt-right” – evidenced, they argue, by his “pro-white” executive orders on immigration and refugees. Trump’s election has certainly inspired a feeling of empowerment and pride among white supremacists, including Spencer and Taylor. And while Spencer spent the week following Trump’s inauguration…

January 31, 2017

What the Women’s March Teaches Us about Intersectionality

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January 24, 2017 On Saturday, January 21, 2017, the day after the inauguration of President Donald Trump, 500,000 people gathered in Washington, DC for the Women’s March–to express their unity for women’s issues and to speak out against the demonizing and hateful rhetoric that pervaded the past election cycle. An additional 400,000 marched in New York City , 250,000 in Chicago and according to Women’s March organizers, there were 673 “sister marches&rdquo…

January 24, 2017

Group of Klan Members Charged with Robbery

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January 24, 2017 Five members and associates of the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan of America were arrested last week on robbery charges in Union County, Mississippi. Three of the suspects in the January 16 crime are convicted felons, further evidence that Klan groups tend to attract people with criminal histories or proclivities. The Union County Sheriff’s Department received a 911 call from the intended victim on January 16, and the responding deputies were able to…

January 24, 2017

10 Ways Youth Can Engage in Activism

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For Educators Our country has a long history of youth-led movements that brought about significant social change. Young people have advocated for child labor laws, voting rights, civil rights, school desegregation, immigration reform and LGBTQ+ rights. Through their actions, the world has changed. Because young people often have the desire, energy and idealism to do something about the injustice they see in the world, they are powerful agents for change. Our work in education helps…

January 17, 2017

Can We Talk? Tips for Respectful Conversations in Schools, Workplaces and Communities

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Being able to have respectful and constructive conversations is the bedrock of any relationship—whether those connections take place at home, school, work or in communities. However, when controversy or conflict arises, the discussions can quickly become polarized, heated and personal, making it very difficult to have a conversation where different points of view are aired and discussed. These conversations can be about something controversial like politics, current events, moral…

January 01, 2017

Extremists Exploit Unintentional Swastikas

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January 13, 2017 On January 9, a Reddit-user discovered a horrific image on his way to work, under his own feet. When the man bought a pair of Polar Fox boots, he did not realize that the rubber treads on the bottom would leave swastika shaped footprints. “There was an angle I didn’t get to see when ordering my new work boots,” ‘FRSHFSHFCKR’ wrote alongside the images of the boot soles and the track marks they left. The next day, the white…

January 13, 2017

White Supremacists Demonstrate in Front of the Menorah at Chicago’s Daley Plaza

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January 11, 2017 For more than a year, white supremacists from a variety of hate groups have organized events and activities under the banner of “white lives matter.” What started as a transparent white supremacist slogan designed to respond to the Black Lives Matter movement is now used to protest a range of topics including the removal of confederate symbols from public spaces, immigration, the Anti-Defamation League, and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored…

January 11, 2017

Palestinian Newspapers and Textbooks Continue to Delegitimize Jewish State of Israel

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January 10, 2017 Last month, international action put the onus on Israel for the absence of peace with the Palestinians, with the December 22 UN Security Council resolution, followed by Secretary of State John Kerry’s speech on December 28, both focusing on Israel’s settlement policy. In response to Secretary Kerry, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu charged: “For more than an hour, Kerry obsessed over the issue of settlements and hardly touched on…

January 10, 2017