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White supremacist propaganda nearly doubled in 2020 to most in a decade, ADL says | JTA

Last year, the United States saw the most white supremacist propaganda in a decade, with thousands of flyers, bumper stickers, banners and other propaganda reported across the country, according to the Anti-Defamation League.

The ADL’s report, published Wednesday, counted 5,125 pieces of propaganda distributed by 30 white supremacist groups across 49 states in 2020. That’s almost double the number recorded in 2019.

The vast majority of the propaganda the group tracked came from one Texas-based group that uses traditional American patriotic language and imagery in its materials — including the phrase “America First,” used by Donald Trump and his supporters.

The rise in propaganda may be attributable to the presidential campaign and election, according to the ADL, a leading anti-Semitism and extremism watchdog. In the months leading up to the vote, government officials and groups including the ADL warned repeatedly of extremist activity surrounding the vote.

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→ 17 February 2021
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Our Truth, Tā Mātou Pono: The 1977 hate speech attack on Jews in Auckland’s Remuera | Stuff

Dr Paul Spoonley

Leaflets likening Jews to the devil resulted in New Zealand’s only prosecution for hate speech – but it’s a story most are unaware of. Torika Tokalau reports.

Expensive homes and quiet tree-lined streets – Auckland’s Remuera is a picture-perfect slice of suburbia, but it was also the location of New Zealand’s first and only prosecuted incident of hate speech.

In the late 1970s, members of the Jewish community were targeted in a leaflet drop, condemning their faith and likening them to the devil.

Sociologist and professor, Dr Paul Spoonley, who researches racism in New Zealand, believes it was the moment Kiwis first realised neo-Nazi groups existed in this country.

Holocaust survivor Bob Narev, 84, remembers it quite clearly.

In 1977, 30 years after he moved to New Zealand from Switzerland, Narev was living on the fringes of Remuera with his wife, Freida, also a Holocaust survivor.

Bob Narev, a German-born Holocaust survivor, was living on the edge of Remuera in 1977 when the pamphlets were distributed.

The National Socialist White People’s Party of New Zealand, founded by Durward Colin King-Ansell, printed and distributed 9000 pamphlets to Remuera postboxes, some time in the first four months of the year.

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→ 16 April 2019
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The consequences of online hate | AIJAC

In November 2000, AIJAC, together with the Australian National University’s Freilich Foundation, co-sponsored the first conference in Australia on the potential danger of the nascent internet fuelling hate speech and empowering terrorist groups. What was then a potential concern has long since become a deadly reality. 

In Christchurch, we have now seen yet another example of how hateful online extremism can foster horrific violence against innocent people. The world was rightly appalled by the white supremacist terrorist attack on March 15 against innocent Muslim worshippers in two different mosques during Friday prayers, resulting in 50 fatalities, with scores more seriously injured. 

While most people and organisations swiftly and unequivocally condemned the atrocity and pledged sympathy and solidarity with its victims, their families, and the broader Muslim community, some, like independent Senator Fraser Anning, outrageously rationalised the attack with anti-Islam and anti-immigration rhetoric, while others politicised the moment to besmirch partisan opponents.

This heinous massacre and its aftermath recall many other terrorist attacks including the murder of 11 Jews at the Tree of Life Synagogue by a white supremacist in Pittsburgh last October.

The motivations in both these attacks revolved around the same conspiracy of “white genocide” or, as the Christchurch attacker dubbed his manifesto, “The Great Replacement,” in which immigrants, and especially Muslim immigrants, are viewed as an existential threat to some imagined “white collective.” 

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