The Terrorgram Collective: International Terrorists Promoting Violence and White Supremacy
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On January 13, 2025, the United States Department of State designated the Terrorgram Collective and three of its foreign leaders as Specially Designated Global Terrorists (SDGTs), formally including Terrorgram among other international terrorist groups. Terrorgram is a decentralized network of white supremacist, neo-Nazi and accelerationist groups and individuals connected primarily through the encrypted social networking app Telegram, with the collective goal of promoting stochastic…
Los Angeles Wildfires Trigger Conspiracy Theories and Hate
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As devastating wildfires continue to decimate sections of Los Angeles, California, extremists and conspiracy theorists are spreading familiar falsehoods, blaming the blaze on common scapegoats such as diversity initiatives, Jews and nefarious government “false flags.” Fires that began in the Pacific Palisades area on January 7, 2025, are now part of a broader set of blazes across the city. Officials believe the fires were caused primarily by drought conditions, high winds and the…
Deadly New Orleans Attack Fuels Conspiracy Theories About Immigrants, Israel
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The deadly New Year’s attack in New Orleans, Louisiana, left a city reeling and social media awash in hateful lies and conspiracy theories about immigrants, Israel and a government cover-up. In the early morning of January 1, 2025, 42-year-old Houston, Texas resident Shamsud-Din Jabbar, drove his car into a crowd of revelers on Bourbon Street, killing at least fourteen people and injuring dozens more before he was shot and killed by police. While law enforcement is still…
From One Voice to Many: Countering Antisemitism in a Pennsylvania Community
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When signs of antisemitism began to emerge in her community, a mother reached out to ADL, having learned the power of community activism and ADL’s impact from her father. On his first day of tennis practice, a freshman Jewish student at a high school in the suburbs of Philadelphia heard antisemitic “jokes” from the court next to him. He told his teammate, also Jewish, to knock it off, and that his words were antisemitic. Dorothy Potash, mom of the freshman and a…
Unity of Fields (UoF), formerly Palestine Action U.S., is a radical far-left, anti-Zionist “direct action network” that engages in calls for violence against those it considers supportive of Israel or Zionism, or “complicit” in Israel’s alleged actions, and promotes aggressive, targeted protests and the defacement of property belonging to Jewish and non-Jewish organizations and individuals. In May 2025, Unity of Fields appeared to justify the…
Hayat Tahrir Al-Sham: Extremist Record and Regional Ambitions of Syria’s New Rulers
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On November 27, 2024, Syrian rebel groups launched a major offensive against the regime of Bashar Al-Assad. Within days, forces led by Hayat Tahrir Al-Sham (HTS), and supported by the Turkey-backed Syrian National Army and a range of anti-Assad militias, had taken Aleppo and Hama. On December 8, 2024, the rebel forces took Damascus, forcing Assad to flee the country. The HTS leadership quickly assumed control of government institutions, appointed an interim prime minister, and declared itself…
Islamist Terror Incidents Targeting U.S. Increase in 2024
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January 2, 2025, Update: In the month since this article was originally published, at least two more Islamist-related terror incidents have occurred in the United States, including the deadly vehicular attack in New Orleans, Louisiana, on New Year’s Day 2025, which killed 14 people and wounded dozens more. The New Orleans incident was the deadliest Islamist terror attack in the United States since the 2016 shooting at Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida, which killed 49 people. Islamist…
Letter Urging Campus Administration to Reject Israel-Related Boycotts
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Dear President [Last Name], I am reaching out to address a pressing concern: the increasing prevalence of shadow boycotts targeting Israeli, Jewish and openly Zionist academics at [University Name] and institutions nationwide. This harmful trend, which has grown in response to the Israel-Hamas war, undermines the values of academic freedom and diversity that form the cornerstone of higher education. Shadow boycotts entail the subtle yet systematic exclusion of Israeli, Jewish or openly Zionist…
Welcome to extremely™, a weekly newsletter from the ADL Center on Extremism and your go-to resource for emerging trends and developments in extremism and hate. In This Week's NewsletterThe Fringe Left and Right Unite Around an Age-Old Conspiracy Theory “I can prove to you that Israel controls our country,” The Young Turks co-creator Cenk Uygur proclaimed earlier this month on X. The following week, the left-wing commentator praised Tucker Carlson and…
ADL, in partnership with Gratz College, has developed a short, validated campus climate survey instrument aimed at helping campus stakeholders assess the experiences of Jewish students on their college and university campus. This initiative was born out of the need for colleges and universities to utilize tried-and-tested survey questions, developed by academics, researchers and experts in antisemitism studies to accurately capture experienced antisemitism. This survey instrument was created…
PFLP 'Charity' Arm Samidoun Has Long Played a Role in Anti-Israel Movement on U.S. Campuses
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Anti-Zionist group Samidoun, sanctioned by the U.S. in October 2024 for its role as a “sham charity” operating as an international fundraising arm of the U.S. government-designated terror organization the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), has long played a role in the anti-Israel movement on U.S. campuses. The group, which the U.S. considers to be a front for the PFLP in countries where it is declared a terrorist organization, has been featured as a “pro…
Recognizing Universities for Their Efforts in Combating Antisemitism on Campus
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IntroductionFollowing the Hamas attacks on Israel on October 7, 2023, antisemitism on college campuses has surged, with over 1,400 antisemitic incidents recorded during the 2023/24 academic year. As the influx of incidents continue this fall semester, ADL identified six disturbing trends within the anti-Israel protest movement, including the escalation of violence on campus and the targeting of Jewish institutions. In response to the campus antisemitism crisis, ADL outlined Six Asks to…
The ADL Debunk: False Narratives Around the 2024 Presidential Election
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False and misleading narratives about the upcoming 2024 U.S. presidential election are spreading widely among extremists and purveyors of hate and conspiracy theories. While some of the most common mis- and disinformation narratives circulating today were also prominent during the 2020 election and the 2022 midterms, others are newer — inspired by current events in America and around the world. These narratives are also being deployed using a range of strategies and tactics…
Francesca Albanese, appointed in May 2022 as the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories, has long coopted antisemitic tropes and legitimized support of terrorism in her critiques of Israel, using her platform to spread intense anti-Israel rhetoric. She is the first Special Rapporteur to be condemned by both Germany and France for antisemitism and was condemned by then U.S. Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism Deborah Lipstadt, then U.S. Ambassador to the UN…
Anti-Israel Activists Pay Tribute To 10/7 Architect Yahya Sinwar, Reflecting Pattern of Glorifying “Martyred” Terror Chiefs
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After Israeli military forces killed Hamas leader and October 7 architect Yahya Sinwar in Gaza on October 16, 2024, U.S. anti-Israel activists quickly responded with praise and veneration for the terrorist who masterminded the deaths of approximately 1,200 Israelis and foreign nationals and the abduction of some 250 people just over one year ago. Student groups, including numerous chapters of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), were among the loudest voices memorializing Sinwar with…