admin | April 15, 2020
Mindy* listened to the rabbi preside over her uncles funeral on Zoom. The virtual event has become commonplace during the COVID-19 pandemic, but it still felt surreal to her. Her father and uncle Ralph had been unusually close their dad died when they were young, and Ralph helped raise his little brother
admin | April 15, 2020
He called himself Commander online. He was a leader of an international neo-Nazi group linked to plots to attack a Las Vegas synagogue and detonate a car bomb at a major U.S. news network.
admin | April 15, 2020
WASHINGTON (CNS) As the coronavirus pandemic continues to cause a severe economic slowdown and, among some people, distrust of the media and government, white supremacists across the nation are attempting to capitalize on the crisis to take advantage of the scared and confused in hopes of recruiting new followers. One white nationalist in particular, Tom Kawczynski, 39, currently hosts a podcast called "Coronavirus Central" on multiple sites, including Apple Podcasts, that is among the most popular podcasts under the health and fitness category
admin | April 14, 2020
On April 6, the federal government took an important step toward confronting the threat of far-right extremist violence in the United States by designating the Russian Imperial Movement (RIM) and three of its leaders as Specially Designated Global Terrorists (SDGTs). It should take the next step and designate RIM, as well as other violent foreign white supremacist groups, as Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs)
admin | April 14, 2020
On March 24, Timothy Wilson, 36, was shot and killed by the FBI as he prepared to attack a hospital in the Kansas City area where patients with the coronavirus were being treated. The FBI had previously identified Wilson as a potentially violent extremist who had considered attacking a mosque, a synagogue, and a school with a large number of black students before settling on the hospital
admin | April 14, 2020
He called himself "Commander" online. He was a leader of an international neo-Nazi group linked to plots to attack a Las Vegas synagogue and detonate a car bomb at a major U.S. news network
admin | April 14, 2020
(April 14, 2020 / JNS) In reciting The Four Questions this Passover, it felt like we should have asked one more: Why is this Passover different from all other Passovers? As my wife and I conducted our own seder for two and video-chatted with family and friends during the collective COVID-19 quarantine, there was a heaviness and strangeness to this years holiday. In an instant, the virus had paused everyones lives and had forced us all to spend Passover apart
admin | April 14, 2020
The ADL (Anti-Defamation League) has done untold damage for freedom of expression online. The ADL provided input when YouTube was crafting itshate speech rules which were brought forward in 2019 and pushed YouTube to make even more changes after they were introduced. The fallout from these strict rules are still being realized
admin | April 14, 2020
An online forum hosted by PEN Americas Campus Free Speech Program NEW YORKThis week, PEN Americas Campus Free Speech Program launched a webinar series, Free Speech and the Virtual Campus, with an inaugural session devoted to What Professors Need to Know about Online Hate and Harassment. Hundreds of participants viewed the session from seven countries, as panelists discussed online attacks and abuse that faculty can prepare for, defend against, and combat
admin | April 14, 2020
An arrest warrant has been issued for a man suspected of drawing anti-Semitic graffiti on the property of a Jewish institution in Brookline, authorities announced Wednesday. The Brookline Police Department alerted the public Monday that a person had graffitied the Chabad Center on Harvard Street over the weekend.
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