admin | May 18, 2021
Yitzhak Arad, who as an orphaned teenage partisan fought the Germans and their collaborators during World War II, then went on to become an esteemed scholar of the Holocaust and the longtime chairman of the Yad Vashem remembrance and research center in Israel, died on May 6 in a hospital in Tel Aviv. He was 94
admin | May 18, 2021
On May 11, Attorney General Merrick B. Garland and Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas gave testimony before the Senate Appropriations Committee pointing out that the greatest domestic threat facing the United States emanates from, as Garland stated, violent extremists, specifically those who advocate for the superiority of the white race.[i] This followed March 2021 testimony of FBI Director Christopher Wray before the Senate Judiciary Committee in which Wray warned of a rapidly growing threat of homegrown violent extremism that law enforcement is scrambling to contain through thousands of investigations. Echoing previous FBI warnings on the threat of white supremacist groups, he added that the domestic terrorism threat has been metastasizing across the country for a long time now and is unlikely to disappear anytime soon.
admin | May 18, 2021
This story is a part of Hearst Television's series "Hate in the Homeland." Our National Investigative Unit is uncovering the battle against hateful acts in America.
admin | May 14, 2021
To the Editor: Re Trumps Facebook Ban Upheld, Reviving Debate on Free Speech (front page, May 6): The Facebook Oversight Boards decision upholding the ban on former President Donald Trump has laid bare a fundamental problem with the social media network: It has utterly failed at reining in hate, extremism and disinformation.
admin | May 14, 2021
Pete Simi is an associate professor of sociology at Chapman University. Peter Levi is a rabbi and regional director for the Anti-Defamation League. Kim Carr is the mayor of Huntington Beach.
admin | May 14, 2021
The recent arrest of a Portland neo-Nazi on child pornography charges provided a stark reminder that New England is not immune to the expansion of white nationalist extremist groups in the United States. An expert on the National Socialist Club, or NSC-131, said the extremist group that recently established a presence in Maine represents a tiny offshoot in the wider world of white supremacist groups and might count only about two dozen members in New England.
admin | May 14, 2021
This story is a part of Hearst Television's series "Hate in the Homeland." Our National Investigative Unit is uncovering the battle against hateful acts in America. Stay with this station for more stories on the fight against Hate in the Homeland.The vast majority of law enforcement agencies are not reporting hate crimes to a key federal database, hampering efforts to contain a rise in hate incidents and leaving communities nationwide in the dark about the prevalence of hate in the homeland, a Hearst Television National Investigative Unit series has found
admin | May 14, 2021
SAN FRANCISCO, May 10, 2021 /PRNewswire/ --Leading Asian Americans to Unite for Change (LAAUNCH) today announced the findings of its inaugural STAATUS Index (Social Tracking of Asian Americans in the U.S.), a comprehensive assessment of Americans' attitudes toward Asian Americans, and one of the first such studies in 20 years. The survey reveals 8 out of 10 Asian Americans say they are discriminated against in the U.S. and 77% do not feel respected.
admin | May 14, 2021
Image:Leonardo Cendamo/Getty Attempts to cast Said as the consummate New York intellectual miss the point that his milieu was one of global, and specifically Palestinian, anticolonial struggle. Places of Mind: A Life of Edward Said Timothy Brennan On February 2, 1977, Palestinian poet Rashid Hussein died in his New York apartment. Hussein had been born forty-one years earlier in Musmus, a town not far from Nazareth.
admin | March 10, 2021
ADL SAYS CANDIDATE BARRANCO WRONG TO EQUATE DEMOCRATIC POLICIES TO THOSE OF THE NAZIS New York, NY, March 9, 2021 ADL (Anti-Defamation League) today condemned remarks made by Republican New Jersey state legislature candidate Christian Barranco equating recent policies of the Democratic Party to those of the Nazis during World War II. As we have said many times before, the use of Nazi symbolism or analogies used to attack political parties or ones opponents is offensive and inappropriate, said Scott Richman, ADL New York/New Jersey Regional Director
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