By the middle of the frenetic summer of 2016, the alt-right had become a term on everyone’s lips. The Forward published a list of must-know terms and symbols used by the alt-right for its cultural warfare on liberal ideals and racial diversity. At the bottom of that list: Pepe the Frog, an uncannily part-human-part-frog cartoon…
George Selim knows more about fighting domestic terrorism than almost anyone – and four days after a white nationalist gunman killed 22 people in an El Paso Walmart, he said the United States is doing it wrong. These days, Selim is a senior vice president at the Anti-Defamation League in charge of their education and…
(JTA) — White supremacists have committed at least 73 murders since the far-right rally two summers ago in Charlottesville, Virginia. That comes from a report released Thursday by the Anti-Defamation League that says 39 of the killings were “clearly motivated by hateful, racist ideology.” The violence of the Unite the Right rally has led to…
The State Department has put on leave an official who has reportedly been a local leader in the white supremacist movement over the last several years, Politico reported Thursday. Matthew Q. Gebert, who was hired in 2013 and works as a foreign affairs officer in the department’s Bureau of Energy Resources in Washington, hosted white…
A State Department official has been leading a secret online life as a white nationalist leader and writer, the Southern Poverty Law Center claimed in an investigation. Matthew Q. Gebert works as a foreign affairs officer in the department’s Bureau of Energy Resources in Washington. But over the past few years, according to the SPLC,…
Days after a man posted a white supremacist screed to the internet before going to kill 22 people and injure 24 others in an El Paso Walmart frequented primarily by Latinx people and Hispanic Americans, Tucker Carlson said on his Fox News show that white supremacy is a “hoax,” the Washington Post first reported. In…
In the wake of a mass shooting in El Paso, international news outlets are pointing to white supremacist terrorism as the cause. Australia, for example: “US in the midst of a white nationalist terrorism crisis.” In 2018, the Anti-Defamation League found that “39 of the 50 killings committed by political extremists were carried out by…
The government needs to invest more in combating the threat of violent domestic extremism, the acting Secretary of Homeland Security told CBS News on Tuesday. Acting Secretary Kevin McAleenan was asked on CBS This Morning about a Los Angeles Times report that found that a new Homeland Security office tasked with countering “racially motivated violence”…
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