Nearly 100 candidates for political office and politicians across the country are increasingly embracing extremist talking points, endorsing hateful campaigns and promoting conspiracy theories, according to a new report from ADL. A Tennessee school board voted to remove "Maus," a Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel about the Holocaust, from the district's curriculum after officials objected to instances of profanity and an image of a nude woman. A white supremacist group is alleged to have been behind hundreds of antisemitic fliers -- falsely claiming the public health response to Covid-19 is “orchestrated” by Jewish people -- distributed in neighborhoods in at
least six states.
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