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Fast Forward White Nationalists Ramp Up Campus Outreach As Students Return
The white nationalist group Identity Evropa may be ramping up its college campus outreach ahead of the school year. The group, led by “alt-right” figure Nathan Damigo, targeted dozens of universities last year with pamphlets promoting their cause. Now, according to the Anti-Defamation League, Identity Evropa is gearing to target campuses “just as students arrive…
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News ADL Suggests Cops Infiltrate, Film Antifa Protests — Then Takes It Back
The Anti-Defamation League has retracted recommendations that police infiltrate and film antifa protests, saying they had been “posted in error.” The group deleted the advice from a primer for law enforcement on antifa, the anti-fascist protest movement that has grown in profile since the white supremacist riot in Charlottesville in mid-August. ADL has received millions…
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News ADL Tells Cops To Infiltrate Antifa — And Film Protests
The Anti-Defamation League is advising cops to plant undercover agents among antifa activists, and to film protests where the group may clash with neo-Nazis and white supremacists. The recommendation comes at the end of an ADL “primer for law enforcement” on antifa, the radical anti-fascist protest movement that has gained attention in the weeks since…
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Fast Forward ADL Hires Arab-American Former Homeland Security Official
NEW YORK (JTA) — The Anti-Defamation League has hired George Selim, an Arab-American former official at the Department of Homeland Security who worked on countering violent extremism. Selim, who served under Presidents George W. Bush, Barack Obama and Donald Trump, resigned last month from his role as director of the Office of Community Partnerships at…
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Breaking News American Muslims Turn To Jews For Help Keeping Religious Institutions Safe
NEW YORK (JTA) — With Islamophobic hate crimes on the rise, Muslim leaders are working harder to secure their mosques and institutions. Some are turning to Jewish experts for assistance. A few Jewish organizations have partnered with local and national Muslim groups to advise them on best security practices and advocate jointly for stronger hate…
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Fast Forward ADL Takes Soft Line On Removing Confederate Statues
Donations poured into the Anti-Defamation League last week after neo-Nazis and white supremacists rioted against an effort to remove a monument of a Confederate general in Charlottesville, Virginia. Yet the ADL has broken from other civil rights groups in refusing to call for the removal of Confederate monuments nationwide — the very issue that sparked…
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Fast Forward ADL: Online Donations Up 1000% After Charlottesville
NEW YORK (JTA) — The Anti-Defamation League received 10 times as much money as usual from online donations in response to the white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. The group, which combats anti-Semitism and bigotry, reported a 1000 percent increase in online donations during the week beginning Aug. 13, one day after the Charlottesville rally….
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Fast Forward Casino Giant Will Match Employee Donations To Rights Groups Like ADL
(JTA) — MGM Resorts International denounced “hate speech and hate-based actions” in a letter to employees that offered to match their donations to civil rights groups, including the Anti-Defamation League. “The events in Charlotttesville and Barcelona can easily cause us to feel overcome by hatred and gutted by violence, leaving open questions about our future…
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