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GLOSSARY OF EXTREMISM AND HATE

Jerry Vlasak

Jerry Vlasak is a former trauma surgeon who co-founded the North American Animal Liberation Press Office, which shares information and statements from extremist cells that commit criminal activity. Vlasak serves as one of the primary spokespeople for... Read more

People Left-wing

GLOSSARY OF EXTREMISM AND HATE

Black Bloc Tactics

Black bloc tactics are often employed by militant antifa adherents at protests. Participants dressed in all black will operate as a unified force. Tactics include arming themselves with riot shields and positioning themselves at the front while... Read more

Tactics Left-wing

GLOSSARY OF EXTREMISM AND HATE

Rodney Coronado

Rodney Coronado is a longtime spokesperson for the extremist environmental and animal rights movements in the United States. Coronado was involved in the firebombing of an animal research laboratory at Michigan State University (MSU) in 1992 and... Read more

People Single-issue

GLOSSARY OF EXTREMISM AND HATE

Craig Rosebraugh

Craig Rosebraugh shaped the ideological direction of the eco-terrorist group, Earth Liberation Front (ELF) from the late 1990s through the early 2000s. More than any other activist, Rosebraugh was able to infuse the eco-terror movement with a... Read more

People Left-wing

GLOSSARY OF EXTREMISM AND HATE

Dave Foreman

Dave Foreman is a former lobbyist for the Wilderness Society and one of the founders of "Earth First!" - an ardent environmentalist group. In his 1985 book "Ecodefense: A Field Guide to Monkeywrenching," Foreman provided detailed instructions... Read more

People Left-wing

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

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

GLOSSARY OF EXTREMISM AND HATE

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

GLOSSARY OF EXTREMISM AND HATE

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