GLOSSARY OF EXTREMISM AND HATE

H8

White supremacists use the letter/number combination H8 to mean "hate." Usage dates back at least to the 1990s and may originally derive from punk subculture. It has become more common in recent years with the spread of... Read more

Numbers / Symbols White supremacist

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Hammerskin (hand sig…

The hand sign of the Hammerskins, a racist skinhead group, consists of two crossed forearms emulating the "crossed hammers" of the Hammerskins logo.

Numbers / Symbols White supremacist

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Happy Merchant

The Happy Merchant is an antisemitic image that depicts a heavily stereotyped Jewish man greedily rubbing his hands together. The Happy Merchant meme is one of the most common antisemitic images on the internet.

Numbers / Symbols Antisemitism

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Hitler salute

Also known as the Nazi salute, it is a raised, outstretched right arm with the palm facing down. It emerged in the 1930s as an homage to Adolf Hitler, and is still used by neo-Nazi and white... Read more

Numbers / Symbols White supremacist

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Holocaust Denial

Holocaust denial is an antisemitic conspiracy theory which argues that Jews around the world knowingly fabricated evidence of their own genocide during World War II in order to extract financial reparations from Germany, gain world sympathy and... Read more

Conspiracy Theories Antisemitism

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Identitarian Lambda …

The Identitarian lambda is a symbol used by people who identify with Identitarianism, a racist and anti-immigrant European far right movement loosely analogous to the alt right in the United States.

Numbers / Symbols White supremacist

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Imperial German Flag…

The Imperial German flag is sometimes used by German neo-Nazis because Germany has banned use of the swastika and other Nazi imagery. Nazis elsewhere, such as in the United States, sometimes do the same.

Numbers / Symbols White supremacist

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Iron Cross

A famous German military medal dating back to the 19th century. Nazis used the traditional medal with a swastika superimposed, and it was later adopted as a hate symbol by neo-Nazis and other white supremacists. Non-racist iterations... Read more

Numbers / Symbols White supremacist

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Jera Rune (symbol)

The Jera rune is an ancient European runic symbol and part of the runic alphabet. It is one of a number of runic symbols that white supremacists have appropriated but is also commonly used by non-racist modern... Read more

Numbers / Symbols White supremacist

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Kalergi Plan

The Kalergi Plan is an antisemitic conspiracy theory about ostensible white genocide originated by Austrian neo-Nazi Gerd Honsik. "Kalergi" refers to Richard Nikolaus Graf von Coudenhove-Kalergi, an Austrian philosopher and politician of mixed European and Japanese background... Read more

Conspiracy Theories Antisemitism