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Fast Forward More Than 3,000 Incidents Of Extremism In 2018, Seen In ADL’s Interactive Map
Nearly a year after the violent “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, the Anti-Defamation League launched an interactive map that details extremist and anti-Semitic incidents in the U.S., the organization announced Thursday. Hovering above the ADL H.E.A.T. (Hate, Extremism, Anti-Semitism, Terrorism) Map, which is black and features color-code dots over a white-outlined map of the…
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Fast Forward ADL’s New Interactive Map Highlights Anti-Semitic Data and Trends
The Anti-Defamation League launched an interactive map that details extremist and anti-Semitic incidents in the United States, the organization announced Thursday. The ADL H.E.A.T. Map was developed by ADL experts in its Center on Extremism. The map allows users to see the tactics extremists use, read details on specific incidents, compare activity by type or…
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Opinion The Alt-Right Isn’t Going Away
Many were shocked by the sudden rise in white supremacy following Donald Trump’s surprise electoral win in 2016. But they needn’t have been. America has been here before, as recently as the late 1990s. Extremist surges typically last at least five years. The surge of white supremacy that started in the 1980s with the recession…
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Opinion For A Century, White Supremacists Have Smeared the ADL. Now, The Left Has Picked Up The Habit
The Anti-Defamation League is the world’s leading institution fighting anti-Semitism. But in 2018, it has fielded staunch criticism from the left as well as the right. The situation on the left came to a head in April, after two black men were arrested in a Philadelphia Starbucks for no reason other than being black. Starbucks…
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Fast Forward Hidden Children Of Holocaust Open Up About ‘Unconscionable’ Family Separation
The Anti-Defamation League has issued a statement on behalf of a group of hidden children of the Holocaust, who felt compelled to respond to the Trump Administration’s policy of separating children from their parents. In a video, Rachelle Goldstein, co-director of the Hidden Child Foundation, a New York-based organization which represents Jewish Holocaust survivors hidden…
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Fast Forward 26 Jewish Groups Decry ‘Unconscionable’ Policy Separating Children From Parents
(JTA) — Twenty-six Jewish groups signed a letter to U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen opposing the government policy of separating children from their migrant parents. The letter, which was organized by the Anti-Defamation League, calls the policy “unconscionable.” Signers include three major Jewish religious movements — Conservative, Reform…
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Fast Forward These Jewish Groups Are Fighting Behind The Scenes — And Maybe Even Physically
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Last year, the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations updated its secret rules to ban “insults, ad hominem attacks, and name-calling” among member organizations and instituted a special committee to consider complaints in strictest confidence. On May 2, the committee met, in strictest confidence, to hear three complaints. The session,…
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Fast Forward Starbucks Denies Demoting ADL From Anti-Bias Training
NEW YORK (JTA) — Starbucks denied that it demoted the Anti-Defamation League from a lead role in its anti-bias training, saying it continues to view the Jewish group as a valuable partner in future training. Reggie Borges, a spokesman for the coffee giant, spoke to JTA on Wednesday following speculation that left-wing criticism of the…
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