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GLOSSARY OF EXTREMISM AND HATE

Kevin Kjonaas

Kevin Kjonaas served as spokesperson for the radical animal rights group, Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty (SHAC) in the early 2000s. Prior to that, Kjonaas also briefly served in a similar role for the ecoterrorist group Animal Liberation... Read more

People Left-wing

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Minuteman Project

The Minuteman Project was an anti-immigrant border vigilante group founded in August 2004 by Jim Gilchrist and Chris Simcox. Its members took it upon themselves to monitor the U.S.-Mexico border for illegal immigrants, including conducting armed "patrols."... Read more

Groups / Movements Right-wing

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Anchor Baby

Anchor baby is a derogatory term for a child born in the United States to an undocumented immigrant. Since these children automatically qualify as American citizens, they can later act as a sponsor for other family members.

Slogans / Code words Single-issue

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Sharia/Shariah/Shari…

Sharia is the term for Islamic religious law based on the Quran and hadiths. The term has become a catch-all phrase used by anti-Muslim bigots to stoke fear about the so-called Islamization of America, claiming that Sharia... Read more

Key Concepts / Definitions Single-issue

GLOSSARY OF EXTREMISM AND HATE

Sharia/Shariah/Shari…

Key Concepts / Definitions Single-issue

GLOSSARY OF EXTREMISM AND HATE

Sami Al-Arian

Sami Al-Arian is a prominent academic and radical anti-Israel activist who pled guilty to conspiring with the Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorist group and was deported from the U.S. in 2015. He currently resides in Turkey, where he... Read more

People Left-wing

GLOSSARY OF EXTREMISM AND HATE

Leila Khaled 

Leila Khaled, currently based in Jordan, is a member of the U.S. State Department-designated terrorist organization Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). She is well-known for her role in the hijacking of two civilian airliners... Read more

People Left-wing

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Rasmea Odeh 

Rasmea Odeh, an anti-Israel activist based in Jordan, was convicted in an Israeli court in 1970 for her alleged involvement in a 1969 supermarket bombing that killed Israeli college students Leon Kanner and Eddie Joffe. Odeh gained... Read more

People Left-wing

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Alison Weir 

Alison Weir is a U.S.-based anti-Israel activist, antisemite, president of the Council for the National Interest and founder of the organization If Americans Knew. On social media and in articles, she frequently deploys antisemitic tropes, including the idea... Read more

People Antisemitism

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Disinformation

Disinformation is purposely created false/misleading information that is meant to manipulate or harm people, places and institutions. It is created with malice or greed, typically in pursuit of political, social or financial agendas. One example is government-run... Read more

Key Concepts / Definitions Right-wing