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| Subject | Anti-Israel Violence on Campus Continues |
| Date | May 10, 2024 11:49 AM |
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The Extremism Roundup
=====================
**Promoting Civil Discourse and Marginalizing the Extremes**
A weekly compilation of the most important developments in the struggle against radical ideologies
Islamist Extremism
------------------
*Pro-Palestinian demonstrators stand beneath a projection of President Joe Biden's face on a American flag at George Washington University on May 7, 2024 in Washington, DC - Kent Nishimura/Getty Images*
**Anti-Israel Violence on Campus Continues**
-
A “mob descended” on journalist Ami Horowitz when he brought an American flag into the anti-Israel encampment at the City University of New York. The police detained him and ordered him not to return to the protest. **[Read More]([link removed] 202405-09&utm_medium=email)**
-
Students Supporting Israel founder Ilan Sinelnikov was repeatedly punched in the head at an anti-Israel encampment protest at the University of California, Berkeley. Sinelnikov has visited multiple university campuses and recently documented activists at the University of Minnesota waving a flag for the terrorist group, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). **[Read More]([link removed] 202405-09&utm_medium=email)**
-
Violence breaks out at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) between pro-Israel and anti-Israel campus protestors. More than 100 arrests were made. **[Read More]([link removed] 202405-09&utm_medium=email)**
-
A professional activist was identified as delivering orders to student anti-Israel activists at Columbia University. Lisa Fithian, who NYPD describes as a “professional agitator,” was seen delivering instructions to help the protestors barricade a door. **[Read More]([link removed] 202405-09&utm_medium=email)**
**CAIR Director Calls for Jewish Anti-Israel Protesters to Convert to Islam**
- Dawud Walid, the Executive Director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) Michigan chapter, said in an April 26, 2024 Friday sermon at the Medina Activity Center in Detroit that the top priority should be da'wa (Islamic outreach) to anti-Israel Jewish protesters.
- He visited the encampment at the University of Michigan Ann Arbor and said that a group of Jewish protesters joined the Moslem evening prayers. He said that calling Americans to Islam may be a "big conquest for Islam in America," and he cited a Quranic verse stating that "multitudes" will convert to Islam when Allah's victory and conquest has come. **[Read More]([link removed] 202405-09&utm_medium=email)**
Militant-Right & Militant-Left Extremism
----------------------------------------
*Counter-protesters pepper spray Donald Trump supporters during the "Patriot March" in San Diego - Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images*
**Antifa Members Found Guilty for Anti-MAGA Violence In San Diego**
-
A San Diego jury found two men with Antifa ties guilty of conspiracy to riot at a Pacific Beach “Patriots March” in January 2021.
-
Brian Cortez Lightfoot, 27, and Jeremy Jonathan White, 41, are members of a group of self-described anti-fascists from the Los Angeles area.
-
MAGA backers had pre-scheduled their 'Patriot March' in Pacific Beach, but were met by counter-protesters, some adorned in 'Antifa' T-shirts. **[Read More]([link removed] 202405-09&utm_medium=email)**
**Masked Neo-Nazis Demonstrate In Connecticut**
- Masked members of the neo-Nazi group NSC-131 demonstrated outside the Greenwich, Ct., Town Hall chanting “Sig Heil” and doing nazi salutes.
- The group carried signs reading “New England is ours the rest must go” and “Anti-whites FAFO” — with the acronym standing for “F–k around and find out.” **[Read More]([link removed] 202405-09&utm_medium=email)**
**Nick Fuentes Allowed Back On X**
- White supremacist influencer Nick Fuentes has been allowed back onto Twitter/X 3 years after his account was suspended for a barrage of anti-Jewish posts.
- Fuentes has advocated for the genocide of “perfidious Jews” and said in 2023, "they need to be given the death penalty, straight up."
- Fuentes was first banned from Twitter in 2021 for “repeated violations”of the platform’s policies on hateful content. He was briefly returned to the platform in January 2023, but was suspended within a day after a flood of antisemitic posts on his feed.
- X owner Elon Musk said Fuentes’s account “will be reinstated, provided he does not violate the law, and let him be crushed by the comments and Community Notes.” **[Read More]([link removed] 202405-09&utm_medium=email)**
Hate Crime
------------
*Transgender woman murder victim Dime Doe - via WIS 10 screenshot*
**South Carolina Man Sentenced for Obstructing Hate Crime Investigation**
-
Xavier Pinckney, 24, of South Carolina was sentenced for obstructing an investigation into the December 2019 murder of a transgender individual. **[Read More]([link removed] 202405-09&utm_medium=email)******
**North Carolina Man Sentenced for Hate Crimes Against Black and Hispanic Men**
- Marian Hudak, 52, of North Carolina was sentenced to 41 months in prison and three years of supervised release for committing hate crimes against a Black man and a Hispanic man.
- Hudak willfully intimidated the victims and interfered with their enjoyment of federally protected activities using force or a threat of force because of their race and color.
- Witnesses testified that Hudak had a collection of nazi and Ku Klux Klan paraphernalia at his home. **[Read More]([link removed] 202405-09&utm_medium=email)**
****
School Threats
----------------
*Captain Shreve High School, Shreveport, La. - via KSLA News 12 screenshot*
**11-Year-Old Arrested for Threat to School**
-
An 11-year-old student is charged with terrorizing after making threats against a Shreveport high school in Shreveport, La. **[Read More]([link removed] 202405-09&utm_medium=email)**
**Texas Teen Arrested for Threat**
-
A 17-year-old was arrested for a “credible threat” made on social media to Royse City High School in Texas.
-
Police obtained an arrest warrant for the student, who was taken into custody without incident. **[Read More]([link removed] 202405-09&utm_medium=email)**
Hostile Foreign Influence Operations
------------------------------------
*Vehicles driving past Iranian flags in eastern Tehran, Iran - Morteza Nikoubazl/NurPhoto via Getty Images*
**
**Iranian Hackers Impersonate Journalists**
- According to research by Mandiant and Google Cloud, a hacking group linked to the intelligence wing of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps impersonated journalists and human rights activists as part of a social engineering campaign.
- The Iranian hackers spoofed these organizations to send phishing lures to targets meant to harvest their credentials. Mandiant’s researchers assess that the campaign was carried out by the hacking crew known as APT42.
- The news organizations impersonated in the operation include The Washington Post, The Economist, and The Jerusalem Post. The group also spoofed prominent Washington think tanks. **[Read More]([link removed] 202405-09&utm_medium=email)**
**New York Man Pleads Guilty to Unlawfully Exporting Drone Technology to Russia**
-
Nikolay Grigorev, 36, of Brooklyn, pleaded guilty to conspiring to defraud the United States for his role in an illicit export control scheme to ship electronic components from the United States to companies affiliated with the Russian military.
-
Grigorev admitted he conspired to smuggle over $250,000 worth of sensitive American drone technology to Russian companies fueling Putin’s unlawful war against Ukraine.
-
Grigorev faces a maximum penalty of five years in prison. Co-defendants Nikita Arkhipov and Artem Oloviannikov remain at large. **[Read More]([link removed] 202405-09&utm_medium=email)**
**Texas Politician and Wife Indicted**
-
The Justice Department released an indictment against longtime Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Texas, and his wife, Imelda, charging the pair with bribery and money laundering related to their ties with a bank in Mexico and an oil and gas company controlled by Azerbaijan.
-
According to the indictment, from 2014 to 2021 the Cuellars allegedly accepted roughly $600,000 in bribes from the two foreign entities in exchange for the congressman's efforts to influence U.S. policy for Azerbaijan. **[Read More]([link removed] 202405-09&utm_medium=email)**
Research and Trends in Extremism
--------------------------------
**New Report on National Students for Justice in Palestine**
-
The Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP), which explores financial support behind antisemitism globally, released a report examining Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) and its umbrella organization National Students For Justice In Palestine (NSJP).
-
The report exposed the antisemitic roots of SJP and its direct connection to the ideology of the Muslim Brotherhood and examines SJP’s connections to organizations that support or previously supported violence and terror. **[Read More]([link removed] 202405-09&utm_medium=email)**
**Anti-Israel Protests Backed By Biden Donors**
-
Some of the most outspoken groups against Biden and Israel get funding from foundations attached to some of the biggest names in Democratic circles.
-
According to a Politico analysis, some of the biggest donors to the anti-Israel protests include some of the biggest names in Democratic circles: Soros, Rockefeller, and Pritzker. **[Read More]([link removed] 202405-09&utm_medium=email)**
QUOTABLE
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“Freedom of conscience, of education, of speech, of assembly are among the very fundamentals of democracy and all of them would be nullified should freedom of the press ever be successfully challenged.”
*- Franklin D. Roosevelt*
NOTE TO OUR READERS: We have pulled out the salient points of the articles in this newsletter to keep you informed and focused on the most relevant, important and timely news in national security and extremism. While our national security experts stand behind the summary bullets and deem them trustworthy, Clarion Project does not endorse all the views expressed in the articles linked.
**SUPPORT CLARION PROJECT’S VITAL WORK**
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The Extremism Roundup
=====================
**Promoting Civil Discourse and Marginalizing the Extremes**
A weekly compilation of the most important developments in the struggle against radical ideologies
Islamist Extremism
------------------
*Pro-Palestinian demonstrators stand beneath a projection of President Joe Biden's face on a American flag at George Washington University on May 7, 2024 in Washington, DC - Kent Nishimura/Getty Images*
**Anti-Israel Violence on Campus Continues**
-
A “mob descended” on journalist Ami Horowitz when he brought an American flag into the anti-Israel encampment at the City University of New York. The police detained him and ordered him not to return to the protest. **[Read More]([link removed] 202405-09&utm_medium=email)**
-
Students Supporting Israel founder Ilan Sinelnikov was repeatedly punched in the head at an anti-Israel encampment protest at the University of California, Berkeley. Sinelnikov has visited multiple university campuses and recently documented activists at the University of Minnesota waving a flag for the terrorist group, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). **[Read More]([link removed] 202405-09&utm_medium=email)**
-
Violence breaks out at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) between pro-Israel and anti-Israel campus protestors. More than 100 arrests were made. **[Read More]([link removed] 202405-09&utm_medium=email)**
-
A professional activist was identified as delivering orders to student anti-Israel activists at Columbia University. Lisa Fithian, who NYPD describes as a “professional agitator,” was seen delivering instructions to help the protestors barricade a door. **[Read More]([link removed] 202405-09&utm_medium=email)**
**CAIR Director Calls for Jewish Anti-Israel Protesters to Convert to Islam**
- Dawud Walid, the Executive Director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) Michigan chapter, said in an April 26, 2024 Friday sermon at the Medina Activity Center in Detroit that the top priority should be da'wa (Islamic outreach) to anti-Israel Jewish protesters.
- He visited the encampment at the University of Michigan Ann Arbor and said that a group of Jewish protesters joined the Moslem evening prayers. He said that calling Americans to Islam may be a "big conquest for Islam in America," and he cited a Quranic verse stating that "multitudes" will convert to Islam when Allah's victory and conquest has come. **[Read More]([link removed] 202405-09&utm_medium=email)**
Militant-Right & Militant-Left Extremism
----------------------------------------
*Counter-protesters pepper spray Donald Trump supporters during the "Patriot March" in San Diego - Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images*
**Antifa Members Found Guilty for Anti-MAGA Violence In San Diego**
-
A San Diego jury found two men with Antifa ties guilty of conspiracy to riot at a Pacific Beach “Patriots March” in January 2021.
-
Brian Cortez Lightfoot, 27, and Jeremy Jonathan White, 41, are members of a group of self-described anti-fascists from the Los Angeles area.
-
MAGA backers had pre-scheduled their 'Patriot March' in Pacific Beach, but were met by counter-protesters, some adorned in 'Antifa' T-shirts. **[Read More]([link removed] 202405-09&utm_medium=email)**
**Masked Neo-Nazis Demonstrate In Connecticut**
- Masked members of the neo-Nazi group NSC-131 demonstrated outside the Greenwich, Ct., Town Hall chanting “Sig Heil” and doing nazi salutes.
- The group carried signs reading “New England is ours the rest must go” and “Anti-whites FAFO” — with the acronym standing for “F–k around and find out.” **[Read More]([link removed] 202405-09&utm_medium=email)**
**Nick Fuentes Allowed Back On X**
- White supremacist influencer Nick Fuentes has been allowed back onto Twitter/X 3 years after his account was suspended for a barrage of anti-Jewish posts.
- Fuentes has advocated for the genocide of “perfidious Jews” and said in 2023, "they need to be given the death penalty, straight up."
- Fuentes was first banned from Twitter in 2021 for “repeated violations”of the platform’s policies on hateful content. He was briefly returned to the platform in January 2023, but was suspended within a day after a flood of antisemitic posts on his feed.
- X owner Elon Musk said Fuentes’s account “will be reinstated, provided he does not violate the law, and let him be crushed by the comments and Community Notes.” **[Read More]([link removed] 202405-09&utm_medium=email)**
Hate Crime
------------
*Transgender woman murder victim Dime Doe - via WIS 10 screenshot*
**South Carolina Man Sentenced for Obstructing Hate Crime Investigation**
-
Xavier Pinckney, 24, of South Carolina was sentenced for obstructing an investigation into the December 2019 murder of a transgender individual. **[Read More]([link removed] 202405-09&utm_medium=email)******
**North Carolina Man Sentenced for Hate Crimes Against Black and Hispanic Men**
- Marian Hudak, 52, of North Carolina was sentenced to 41 months in prison and three years of supervised release for committing hate crimes against a Black man and a Hispanic man.
- Hudak willfully intimidated the victims and interfered with their enjoyment of federally protected activities using force or a threat of force because of their race and color.
- Witnesses testified that Hudak had a collection of nazi and Ku Klux Klan paraphernalia at his home. **[Read More]([link removed] 202405-09&utm_medium=email)**
****
School Threats
----------------
*Captain Shreve High School, Shreveport, La. - via KSLA News 12 screenshot*
**11-Year-Old Arrested for Threat to School**
-
An 11-year-old student is charged with terrorizing after making threats against a Shreveport high school in Shreveport, La. **[Read More]([link removed] 202405-09&utm_medium=email)**
**Texas Teen Arrested for Threat**
-
A 17-year-old was arrested for a “credible threat” made on social media to Royse City High School in Texas.
-
Police obtained an arrest warrant for the student, who was taken into custody without incident. **[Read More]([link removed] 202405-09&utm_medium=email)**
Hostile Foreign Influence Operations
------------------------------------
*Vehicles driving past Iranian flags in eastern Tehran, Iran - Morteza Nikoubazl/NurPhoto via Getty Images*
**
**Iranian Hackers Impersonate Journalists**
- According to research by Mandiant and Google Cloud, a hacking group linked to the intelligence wing of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps impersonated journalists and human rights activists as part of a social engineering campaign.
- The Iranian hackers spoofed these organizations to send phishing lures to targets meant to harvest their credentials. Mandiant’s researchers assess that the campaign was carried out by the hacking crew known as APT42.
- The news organizations impersonated in the operation include The Washington Post, The Economist, and The Jerusalem Post. The group also spoofed prominent Washington think tanks. **[Read More]([link removed] 202405-09&utm_medium=email)**
**New York Man Pleads Guilty to Unlawfully Exporting Drone Technology to Russia**
-
Nikolay Grigorev, 36, of Brooklyn, pleaded guilty to conspiring to defraud the United States for his role in an illicit export control scheme to ship electronic components from the United States to companies affiliated with the Russian military.
-
Grigorev admitted he conspired to smuggle over $250,000 worth of sensitive American drone technology to Russian companies fueling Putin’s unlawful war against Ukraine.
-
Grigorev faces a maximum penalty of five years in prison. Co-defendants Nikita Arkhipov and Artem Oloviannikov remain at large. **[Read More]([link removed] 202405-09&utm_medium=email)**
**Texas Politician and Wife Indicted**
-
The Justice Department released an indictment against longtime Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Texas, and his wife, Imelda, charging the pair with bribery and money laundering related to their ties with a bank in Mexico and an oil and gas company controlled by Azerbaijan.
-
According to the indictment, from 2014 to 2021 the Cuellars allegedly accepted roughly $600,000 in bribes from the two foreign entities in exchange for the congressman's efforts to influence U.S. policy for Azerbaijan. **[Read More]([link removed] 202405-09&utm_medium=email)**
Research and Trends in Extremism
--------------------------------
**New Report on National Students for Justice in Palestine**
-
The Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP), which explores financial support behind antisemitism globally, released a report examining Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) and its umbrella organization National Students For Justice In Palestine (NSJP).
-
The report exposed the antisemitic roots of SJP and its direct connection to the ideology of the Muslim Brotherhood and examines SJP’s connections to organizations that support or previously supported violence and terror. **[Read More]([link removed] 202405-09&utm_medium=email)**
**Anti-Israel Protests Backed By Biden Donors**
-
Some of the most outspoken groups against Biden and Israel get funding from foundations attached to some of the biggest names in Democratic circles.
-
According to a Politico analysis, some of the biggest donors to the anti-Israel protests include some of the biggest names in Democratic circles: Soros, Rockefeller, and Pritzker. **[Read More]([link removed] 202405-09&utm_medium=email)**
QUOTABLE
=
“Freedom of conscience, of education, of speech, of assembly are among the very fundamentals of democracy and all of them would be nullified should freedom of the press ever be successfully challenged.”
*- Franklin D. Roosevelt*
NOTE TO OUR READERS: We have pulled out the salient points of the articles in this newsletter to keep you informed and focused on the most relevant, important and timely news in national security and extremism. While our national security experts stand behind the summary bullets and deem them trustworthy, Clarion Project does not endorse all the views expressed in the articles linked.
**SUPPORT CLARION PROJECT’S VITAL WORK**
----------------------------------------
Help us create a world unafraid. Make a donation to help us expose extremists who threaten our safety and security. The Clarion Project is a registered 501(c)(3), donations are tax deductible.
[DONATE NOW]([link removed] 202405-09&utm_medium=email)
**RECEIVED THIS EMAIL FROM A FRIEND?**
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