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The Nordic Resistance Movement

Report

Sweden’s leading right-wing extremist group: Violence, Antisemitism and International Connections. Acknowledgements: Contributing authors to this report were Jonathan Leman and Morgan Finnsiö of Expo Foundation, Stockholm, a valued ADL partner in the fight against extremism. The fanatically antisemitic Nordic Resistance Movement (NRM) is the Nordic region’s leading and most dangerous right-wing extremist group. Over the quarter-century of its existence, the NRM has…

March 21, 2022

Global Anti-Semitism: Select Incidents in 2019

Report

December Argentina San Juan: Escuela Modelo de San Juan students reportedly made a Nazi-themed school project parodying Aqua’s “Barbie Girl” song. The school dismissed the teacher and had students study anti-Semitism in response Canada Montreal: A Jewish student at McGill University faced pressure to resign from her student government position for accepting Hillel Montreal’s invitation to travel to Israel and the West…

March 18, 2019

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

Press Release

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

Egypt’s State-Run Book Fair Still Features the Antisemitic “Protocols” and other Hateful Titles

Article

[Screenshot from Facebook page of the Egyptian Prime Minister, June 30, 2021]

July 09, 2021 By David Andrew Weinberg On June 30th, Egypt’s government launched the region’s largest book fair, under the patronage of President Abdel Fattah El Sisi and inaugurated by Egypt’s prime minister with seven of his cabinet ministers in attendance. Despite the issue being flagged in the past, it is disappointing that a broad array of antisemitic books continue to be exhibited among the materials hosted at Egypt’s state-run book fair this year, including…

July 09, 2021

Impactante aumento de estrellas amarillas que banalizan el Holocausto en toda Europa

Article

June 07, 2021 En toda Europa, las protestas contra las restricciones del COVID-19 y las campañas públicas que promocionan las vacunas contra el virus han incluido símbolos e imágenes del Holocausto, entre ellas la estrella amarilla. La utilización de este tipo de imaginería del Holocausto compara erróneamente el régimen nazi antisemita, racista, misógino, xenófobo y homófobo, y sus actos genocidas, con las…

June 07, 2021

Shocking rise of Holocaust Trivializing Yellow Stars Across Europe

Article

June 02, 2021 Across Europe, protests against COVID-19 restrictions and public campaigns promoting vaccines against the virus have included Holocaust symbols and imagery, such as the yellow star. The utilization of this type of Holocaust imagery wrongly compares the antisemitic, racist, misogynist, xenophobic and homophobic Nazi-regime and its genocidal acts to current government measures to contain the pandemic. Comparing the two is not only an act of moral outrage, but also represents an…

June 02, 2021

Antisemitism on Facebook, Instagram and TikTok in Response to Middle East Violence

Article

May 19, 2021 As the deadly military confrontation between Israel and Hamas enters its second week, an ADL assessment finds a disturbing array of antisemitic posts related to the conflict on Facebook, Instagram and TikTok. While much of this content appears to have been posted by individuals who have reached for antisemitic stereotypes in a misplaced response to their anger over Palestinian suffering, it is possible that some true antisemites are taking advantage of current events by…

May 19, 2021

Young European Jews face Antisemitism and Hate Related to the Conflict in Israel

Article

May 14, 2021 Young Jews in Europe are experiencing a spike in antisemitism and hate and threats as the crisis in Israel and the region escalates. Antisemitic incidents at demonstrations, the burning of Israeli flags in front of synagogues and Jewish community centers, violent threats and vandalism of Jewish institutions are causing them to question their safety as Jews. Bini Guttmann, President of the European Union of Jewish Students (EUJS), the umbrella organization…

May 14, 2021

Antisemitic Incidents at Anti-Israel Events and Actions Around the World

Fact Sheet

Antisemitic Graffiti on a Synagogue Door in Norwich, UK

Updated: June 1, 2021 Since the start of the May conflict between Israel and Hamas, there have been numerous antisemitic incidents around the world related to the conflict. The perpetrators of these attacks deliberately targeted Jewish institutions in order to express their anger towards Israel. Whenever anti-Israel actions target synagogues, Jewish community centers, kosher restaurants, Jewish owned businesses, or individual Jews – in other words, holding Jews…

May 13, 2021

ADL’s Global 100 Survey: What Does it Actually Say about Muslim Attitudes toward Jews?

Article

September 09, 2020 By David Andrew Weinberg ADL’s Global 100 survey is one our greatest tools for measuring, assessing and fighting antisemitism. First launched in 2014, this unique study documented levels of public acceptance of antisemitic beliefs in 100 countries around the world, and we have since updated it with follow-up surveys in many of these countries in 2015, 2017, and, most recently, in 2019. One outcome from the survey that has received particular attention was…

September 09, 2020

Intolerant Responses to the UAE Peace Deal

Article

August 20, 2020 By David Andrew Weinberg Israel and the United Arab Emirates announced a historic agreement on August 13th to move toward full normalization of relations, the first such accord between the State of Israel and an Arab state since 1994. However, peace always has its opponents, and this agreement is no exception. Whenever Israel and Arab governments take important steps to engage and reconcile with each other, extremists throughout the region routinely demonize both…

August 20, 2020

Antisemitism Around the World: Global 100

Lesson Plan

Help high school students learn about antisemitic attitudes and stereotypes by people around the world, and ways to address and challenge antisemitism.

December 10, 2019

Feuerkrieg Division (FKD)

Backgrounder

Feuerkrieg Division (FKD) Key Points A small international neo-Nazi group that advocates for a race war and holds some of the white supremacist movement’s most extreme views. Feuerkrieg Division, or FKD, calls for violence against their perceived enemies and destruction of “the system,” or society at large, which they believe is controlled by the Jews. Established in late 2018, FKD is an international organization with about 30 members. FKD has European…

October 07, 2019

Atomwaffen Division (AWD)/ National Socialist Order (NSO)

Backgrounder

Update: On January 11, 2022, Kaleb Cole was sentenced to 7 years in prison after being found guilty of intimidation in September of 2021. Cole and three other individuals delivered threatening messages to residents of Western Washington, including members of the Jewish community and employees of the Anti-Defamation League. The trial itself lasted 2 days with the Jury needing only 90 minutes to convict Cole of 5 counts including conspiracy, mailing threatening communications and…

April 29, 2020

Abbas Hamideh

Backgrounder

Abbas Hamideh is a Cleveland, OH-based activist for issues related to Palestinians who has a record of praising terrorist groups including Hamas and Hezbollah, equating Zionists with Nazis, and denying Israel’s right to exist. Hamideh was born and raised in Puerto Rico. Hamideh’s brand of anti-Zionist activism includes opposing solidarity with American Jews who identify as Zionists. This apparently applies even in the aftermath of tragedy; following the Pittsburgh synagogue…

January 17, 2019

Remembering Kristallnacht

Backgrounder

What was Kristallnacht (kris'·tahl·nockt)? Kristallnacht, the "Night of Broken Glass," was a wave of violent pogroms against Jews throughout Germany and Austria that took place on November 9-10, 1938. On the night of November 9th, the Gestapo (Nazi State Police) informed local police by telegram about the actions against Jews and their synagogues that would be taking place throughout Germany, instructing them not to interfere with what was happening. During these two nights,…

October 29, 2013