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From Dearborn to NYC, Quds Day Protesters Praise Terrorists, Denounce the U.S. and Call for the Destruction of Israel

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From Dearborn to NYC, Quds Day Protesters Praise Terrorists, Denounce the U.S. and Call for the Destruction of Israel
Over the weekend of April 5, 2024, anti-Israel activists in the US and around the world marked Al Quds Day (“Jerusalem Day”) with protests and other events against Zionism and the state of Israel. This annual event, originally conceived by the leader of the 1979 Iranian Revolution, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, serves as a platform for support for terrorism and other violence against Israel and regularly includes virulent antisemitic and anti-Zionist…
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COE Investigation Reveals Key Perpetrators of 10/7 Sexual Assault Denial on X

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COE Investigation Reveals Key Perpetrators of 10/7 Sexual Assault Denial on X
CW: This piece contains reference to rape and sexual assault In the wake of the October 7 terror attack in Israel, horrific details began to emerge of Hamas assailants brutalizing Israeli women and girls, parading their broken bodies through the streets, and concertgoers being raped and murdered in front of their friends. By November, videos and eyewitness testimony were widely available to the public, showing and describing Hamas terrorists using rape as a weapon of war.    …
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Daniel Haqiqatjou: What You Need to Know

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Daniel Haqiqatjou: What You Need to Know
Daniel Haqiqatjou is an antisemite and conspiracy theorist who also spreads anti-LGBTQ+ and misogynistic rhetoric. He is the founder, editor-in-chief and contributor at the Muslim Skeptic, an online magazine that frequently elevates antisemitic tropes and antisemitic conspiracy theories under the guise of legitimate criticism of Israel or Jewish law.     Haqiqatjou has praised Hamas and its October 7, 2023, terror attack on Israel across his social media profiles and shared age…
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“Israel is ISIS” and other lies about the Crocus City Hall terror attack

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“Israel is ISIS” and other lies about the Crocus City Hall terror attack
Conspiracy theories and antisemitic narratives have flooded social media in the wake of an Islamic State-claimed terror attack at a music venue outside Moscow.  On March 22, 2024, four gunmen attacked concertgoers at Crocus City Hall, shooting into the crowd and using explosives to set the building on fire, killing at least 130 people and injuring at least 140 others.  Hours after the attack, the Amaq News Agency, a propaganda arm of the Islamic State (IS or ISIS), claimed…
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45th Anniversary of Israel-Egypt Peace Marks Critical Juncture for Israel-Arab Normalization

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The post-Oct. 7 Israel-Hamas war placed Arab normalization with Israel at a critical juncture like never before, risking past achievements, recent progress and future prospects. First, the Oct. 7 massacre perpetrated by Hamas wasn’t just an outburst of antisemitic hate by an Islamist terror organization seeking to exterminate Jews. It also served as a warning sign of the lengths to which the Islamic Republic of Iran and its proxies would go in order to thwart the prospects of Israeli…
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ADL Guidance for Public Officials on Ceasefire Resolutions

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Since the horrific Hamas attack on Israel on October 7 and the ensuing war in Gaza with a large humanitarian toll, there are intensifying calls for an immediate ceasefire. We are supportive of ongoing diplomatic efforts, led by the U.S. and regional leaders, to negotiate a mutually agreed-to pause in fighting that would include the release of all the hostages, humanitarian assistance for the civilians of Gaza, and the end to the threat posed by Hamas to the people of Israel and Gaza.  All…
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Men Going Their Own Way (MGTOW): What You Need to Know

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What You Need To Know: "Men Going Their Own Way"
Part of the ADL Center on Extremism’s coverage of the misogynist manosphere and its subcultures, each of which impacts women’s experiences of safety and equity – online and offline.     Men Going Their Own Way (MGTOW) is a distinct faction of the “manosphere,” the broad set of male supremacist, anti-feminist, misogynist and sometimes violent extremist movements that exist largely online. The MGTOW movement began online in the early 2000s when…
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TikTok Ban Feared, Antisemitic Conspiracy Theories Follow

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TikTok Ban Feared, Antisemitic Conspiracy Theories Follow
On March 13, 2024, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill that could potentially lead to a nationwide ban of the popular social media platform TikTok. According to the bill, the issue stems from TikTok being owned by a “foreign adversary,” which poses a national security threat. TikTok’s China-owned parent company ByteDance would be required to find another buyer within six months to avoid the app being pulled from app stores in the US. While the bill has not yet…
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Anti-Israel Protesters Use International Women’s Day to Praise Female Terrorists

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Anti-Israel Protesters Use International Women’s Day to Praise Female Terrorists
Friday, March 8, 2024, marked the annual commemoration of International Women’s Day. Over the weekend of March 8–10, anti-Israel activists nationwide used the occasion to celebrate female Palestinian terrorists, including glorifying individuals affiliated with recognized terrorist organizations and whose acts of anti-Israel violence have included bombings, plane hijackings and more.   As previously noted by ADL, in the months since Hamas’s October 7, 2023 attack on…
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Global Antisemitic Incidents In the Wake of Hamas' War on Israel

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Since the October 7 Hamas massacre of over 1,200 people in Israel, Hamas supporters and other antisemitic actors have threatened and targeted Jewish and Israeli individuals and institutions worldwide. Below is a select list of antisemitic incidents outside of Israel with an apparent connection to the events in Israel, as well as several country-specific statistics. You can also find a map of select incidents and data here. Country Statistics Since Oct. 7: Argentina: In January 2024, there&nbsp…
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Hizb Ut Tahrir U.S. Conference Features Antisemitism, Calls for Violent Destruction of Israel

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Hizb Ut Tahrir U.S. Conference Features Antisemitism, Calls for Violent Destruction of Israel
The U.S. wing of Hizb Ut Tahrir, an international Islamist organization that seeks to establish an Islamic theocracy, held their annual conference on March 2, 2024, in Villa Park, Illinois.   The group, which is banned in the United Kingdom, Germany and several other countries, featured speakers who called for an army to invade and destroy Israel, justified the October 7 Hamas terror attack, suggested men should travel to Gaza to fight Israel, implored followers to “resist…
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White Supremacist, Tracked by COE, Arrested on Vandalism Charges in Missouri

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White Supremacist, Tracked by COE, Arrested on Vandalism Charges in Missouri
On March 9, 2024, authorities arrested Frankie Rizzello Jr., a 20-year-old resident of Chesterfield, Missouri, on two felony charges related to property damage motivated by discrimination, one grounded in religion and the other in race. According to charging documents from the University City Police Department, Rizzello faces these charges for allegedly spray-painting a church and an Asian restaurant with graffiti in 2023.   In October 2023, after an extensive examination of user…
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Untangling False Claims About Ashkenazi Jews, Khazars and Israel 

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Untangling False Claims About Ashkenazi Jews, Khazars and Israel 
Research from ADL has documented in detail the rise in antisemitism and anti-Zionism in the weeks and months following Hamas’s brutal assault on Israel on October 7, 2023. One of the most insidious claims used to discredit both Jews and Israel is that Ashkenazi Jews (i.e., Jews who trace their ancestry to Northern and Eastern Europe) have no historical or genetic relationship to Jewish antiquity in the land of Israel—making Jews “colonizers” with no legitimate claim to…
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Anti-Israel activists, Terrorist Organizations Hail Aaron Bushnell as a “Martyr” After Self-Immolation Outside Israeli Embassy

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Anti-Israel activists, Terrorist Organizations Hail Aaron Bushnell as a “Martyr” After Self-Immolation Outside Israeli Embassy
On February 25, 2024, Aaron Bushnell, an active-duty member of the U.S. Air Force, approached the Israeli Embassy in Washington, D.C., and set himself on fire to protest the ongoing Israel-Hamas war, saying he would “no longer be complicit in genocide.” His act of protest has garnered praise from anti-Israel groups and foreign terrorist organizations (FTOs).  Bushnell is the second person to self-immolate in front of a U.S.-based Israeli government building in protest of the…
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Anti-Israel Protesters Glorify Terror Groups, Violence

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Anti-Israel Protesters Glorify Terror Groups, Violence
UPDATE: April 26, 2024 Explicit support for recognized terror groups and the glorification of prominent individuals affiliated with those groups continues to feature prominently at anti-Israel protests across the country. As documented by ADL, notable recent examples of this support for terror have surfaced at “Popular University for Gaza” campus encampments and Quds Day protests in April 2024 and at International Women’s Day protests in March 2024. There have been numerous…
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Farrakhan Responds to Israel-Hamas War with Antisemitic Conspiracy Theories in Saviours’ Day Speech

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arrakhan Responds to Israel-Hamas War with Antisemitic Conspiracy Theories in Saviours’ Day Speech
The Nation of Islam (NOI) held its annual Saviours’ Day conference at the Huntington Place convention center in Detroit, Michigan, on February 22–25. As in years past, the event featured significant antisemitism, including from longtime NOI leader and keynote speaker Louis Farrakhan.  Farrakhan’s keynote address concluding the conference on Sunday, titled “What Does Allah, the Great Mahdi and the Great Messiah Have to Say About the War in the Middle East,”…
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Lakewood Megachurch Shooter Expressed Antisemitism, Support for Islamist Terrorist Groups

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Lakewood primary
Preliminary research by the ADL Center on Extremism (COE) shows Genesse Moreno, who opened fire at Joel Osteen’s Lakewood Church in Houston, Texas, on February 11, 2024, before being killed by off-duty officers, expressed support for a range of antisemitic, anti-Zionist and extremist beliefs and praised U.S.-designated terrorist groups, including Hamas and Hezbollah. Moreno’s mother reportedly attended the church, but it is unclear why Moreno targeted Lakewood in the attack that…
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Blood Libel on Wheels: Anti-Israel Activists Using Digital Billboard Trucks to Share Antisemitic Messages

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In recent years, activists have harnessed the marketing power of digital billboard trucks to promote their messages. Since the October 7, 2023, Hamas terrorist attack on Israel, anti-Israel activists have increasingly used these vehicles, adorned with propaganda, to spread anti-Zionist and antisemitic themes, including a modern form of the blood libel: that Israelis harvest Palestinian organs. These trucks, bearing a variety of anti-Israel and antisemitic messages, are sponsored by U.S…
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Posters on X Attack FCAS Super Bowl Ad Urging People to Stand Up to Antisemitism

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Posters on X Attack FCAS Super Bowl Ad Urging People to Stand Up to Antisemitism
The Foundation to Combat Antisemitism (FCAS), a non-profit organization founded by Robert Kraft, aired multiple advertisements during the Super Bowl on February 11, 2024, urging people to #StandUpToJewishHate. Notably, a new ad premiered during the game, featuring Dr. Clarence B. Jones, former advisor to and speech writer for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.  Although online reactions to the campaign were largely positive, many users on X (formerly Twitter) were quick to criticize the…
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