Antisemitism: A Dark History and a Growing Threat: A Growing Threat
According to the Antidefamation League's 2022 Antisemitic Audit, antisemitic events have risen by 38% over the previous year. This is the highest number of antisemitic incidents recorded since the ADL began to collect data in 1979. For each of the past three years, the number of antisemitic events has outnumbered the previous year.
Over the last two years, Massachusetts was second only to Texas in incidents of extremist propaganda. In 2022, according to the ADL, antisemitic events rose 41% over 2021. This includes extremists and white supremacist events, and two deaths linked to violent antisemitism in Massachusetts.
Read more in the ADL's Hate in the Bay State.
American Zealots by Call Number: HV6432 P4725 2020Publication Date: 2020In an unsettling time in American history, the outbreak of right-wing violence is among the most disturbing developments. In recent years, attacks originating from the far right of American politics have targeted religious and ethnic minorities, with a series of antigovernment militants, religious extremists, and lone-wolf mass shooters inspired by right-wing ideologies.
Dark Ideas by Call Number: HN 90 R3 M67 2017Publication Date: 2016Dark Ideas is the first book of its kind to show how ideas have transformed violent extremism over the past six decades. Certain violent jihadi and neo-Nazi innovations have now become accepted practices by groups and individuals, yet they are rarely examined from this perspective. This book comparatively examines some of these strategic and tactical ideas in context.
