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A weekly wrap of ADL’s reports, updates and analysis on antisemitism around the world.
This Week’s Topline
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Dangerous ‘Swatting’ Incidents Target Dozens of Synagogues and other Organizations
As reported in yesterday’s New York Times...
“The Anti-Defamation League has tracked 26 calls threatening violence at synagogues from New York to California over the last month.
The hoax calls to police departments or suicide hotlines around the country say that a man is considering killing himself and others or that a bomb has been placed in a building.
The address given on the phone belongs to a synagogue that is livestreaming its services. In some cases, the callers watch in real time as police interrupt frightened worshipers. Later, clips of the incidents are posted online.”
ADL is working with law enforcement and community partners to mitigate the disruption by a group of online trolls who swat and call in fake bomb threats. Swatting is deliberately reporting a false crime or emergency with the goal of evoking an aggressive response (often a SWAT team) from law enforcement to a target’s residence or place of work to harass and intimidate them.
These trolls, who employ highly antisemitic language during their calls, have targeted over two dozen synagogues and two ADL offices. They also appear to have expanded their targets to include several Black churches and a news organization.
The swatting calls posed a different type of threat than graffiti, slurs and other common antisemitic acts, noted Oren Segal, VP of the ADL Center on Extremism.
“It’s the people that are anonymous, that are watching, that are getting excited by what they’re seeing and that may be animated to take it to the next level. This is so dangerous because we don’t know who else is watching and what they might do based on what they’re seeing.”
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Synagogues in 12 States Targeted in Hoax Calls to Police (NY Times)
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ADL Statement on the Series of Antisemitic Swatting Incidents
- If you ever need to report an antisemitic incident to ADL,
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please use this incident reporting form.
TAKE ACTION
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Tell Congress to Address Swatting and Protect Houses of Worship
What’s News
EXTREMIST ARRESTED: Federal authorities
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arrested white supremacist Hardy Lloyd; the arrest follows years of Lloyd’s incendiary and threatening online posts, but the charges are tied to his activities surrounding the trial of Robert Bowers, the white supremacist who murdered 11 people at the Tree of Life Synagogue. Lloyd is charged with obstruction of the due administration of justice, transmitting threats in interstate and foreign commerce and witness tampering. ADL has been tracking Lloyd and his activities since at least 2003.
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→ READ MORE ABOUT LLOYD.
ALLIANCE IN LA LA LAND: Facing a historical rise in antisemitic incidents, the two organizations principally responsible for Jewish communal security in the LA area announced the
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Southern California Jewish Security Alliance. ADL and the Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles are combining their expertise to better prevent and respond to antisemitism. The Community Security Service has signed on as the first partner organization. Recent threats to the Jewish community — from this month’s spate of “swattings” of local synagogues to the Pico-Robertson shootings in February, to the recent arrest of a dangerous white supremacist in Reseda — have demonstrated a growing need to enhance security through intelligence sharing and partnership.
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WHAT EDUCATORS NEED TO KNOW ABOUT ANTISEMITISM: ADL’s Education team provides a
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mini-lesson to support K-12 educators, school and district leaders and student support staff in beginning or continuing their learning journey on antisemitism. Adults will emerge from this experience with increased confidence to recognize, discuss and learn more about antisemitism.
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ALARMING ATTITUDES:Twenty percent of Americans believe six or more antisemitic tropes, which is significantly more than the 11 percent that ADL found in 2019 and is the highest level measured in decades. An alarming finding from the recent study of
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antisemitic attitudes in America, which surveyed thousands of individuals and found a number of trends that are a cause for concern. This rise in antisemitic attitudes is just one reason why the comprehensive
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U.S. National Strategy to Counter Antisemitism, for which ADL contributed more than 30 recommendations, is so vital.
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A GROWING THREAT: ADL SVP for International Affairs, Marina Rosenberg, a former Israeli ambassador, co-writes a
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JPost column warning that... From narratives of a powerful Jewish lobby, supposedly in control of governments and media to support Israel, to calls to “globalize the Intifada” — antisemitism in segments of the political Left is an alarming and growing trend in Europe. While the far-right continues to pose a more violent threat to Jews worldwide, antisemitism stemming from certain left-leaning groups is more pervasive in a day-to-day sense and poses a different kind of threat, especially in Europe.
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Take Action Today
We are tracking an average of ten antisemitic incidents a day. The need to join together to find solutions is urgent. So, we are expanding Never Is Now, the largest annual summit on antisemitism and hate to feature four days of powerful programming to Fight Hate for Good, running from March 4-7, 2024 in NYC at the Javits Center. As a member of the ADL community, be one of the first to take advantage of
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our best deal on tickets. You can save up to 25% on registration for a limited time. March 4-5 will be special programming by invitation only; general programming runs from March 6-7. Please show up, speak out and show strength together at this vital moment.
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REGISTER AND GET MORE INFO.
@ ADL’s Incident Tracker
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@ADL_tracker feed of news and developments in antisemitism activities.
This past week a man in Lexington, Kentucky was arrested for allegedly making threats against Lexington Chabad Rabbi Shlomo Litvin and the Chabad Jewish Student Center, near the University of Kentucky campus.
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— August 15, 2023
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VIEW full Tracker post
ADL has been following the rise of Active Clubs, white supremacist fight clubs that bring extremists together through fitness training. This piece uncovers that there are many current and former military members in Clockwork Crew, a CA-based Active Club:
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— August 14, 2023
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A bar in Fairfield, CA was vandalized this week with swastikas and racial slurs. Video footage of the perpetrator has been released:
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— August 10, 2023
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Social Spotlights
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@ADL
A Turkish lawyer's refashioning of the #antisemitic blood libel myth by inventing a Jewish rite of passage involving the sacrifice of girls is a vile slander that endangers the Turkish Jewish community. Lawyers should fight hate crimes, not incite them.
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Empowering students with the tools to recognize & combat antisemitism is essential these days. That’s why we’re excited to partner with AEPi to make campuses a safer place for Jewish students to practice their faith. More on our initiative w/
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@AEPi :
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READ the full post.
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@JGreenblattADL
These three panels would include conversations that help provide a greater understanding of how technology impacts the spread of antisemitism and hate -- and the tools and resources that can help us combat it. VOTE for them to appear on the agenda at next year's #SXSW.
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READ the full post, then vote!
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