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GLOSSARY OF EXTREMISM AND HATE

Stop Zionist Hate

Stop Zionist Hate (SZH) is an online network that uses its influence, particularly on X (formerly Twitter), to promote extreme anti-Israel and anti-Zionist views. Frequently, the network elevates hateful tropes about Jews and Zionists, including posts that... Read more

Groups / Movements Antisemitism

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Cultural Marxism

“Cultural Marxism” is a term used typically by right-wing ideologues to attack an array of ideas and concepts they oppose, including multiculturalism, globalism, feminism and LGBTQ+ rights, among others. The term often functions as an antisemitic dog... Read more

Slogans / Code words Right-wing

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Mujahid/Mujahideen

Mujahid is the Arabic term for someone undertaking jihad. Many Islamist extremists will refer to themselves as the mujahideen (the plural of mujahid) to evoke religious meaning to their violence. In particular, this term is used to... Read more

Key Concepts / Definitions Islamist

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Operation Homeland

Operation Homeland was an organization formed in December 2017 by Elliot Kline and Richard Spencer, who described it as a core "professional" group of alt right leaders and activists poised to lead the movement as a whole... Read more

Groups / Movements White supremacist

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Optics debate

The optics debate refers to a debate among white supremacists about whether it is better to promote their white supremacist ideology via overtly National Socialist symbolism (swastikas, for example), or with less overtly racist imagery (including American... Read more

Key Concepts / Definitions White supremacist

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Patriot Prayer

Patriot Prayer is a putatively religious far-right group claiming to promote free speech while primarily agitating against left-wing/progressive activists. Members are often involved in confrontations with left-wing protesters. The group was founded by Joey Gibson and is... Read more

Groups / Movements Right-wing

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Aryan Circle

The second largest white supremacist prison gang in Texas (just behind Aryan Brotherhood of Texas), the Aryan Circle are also one of the largest prison gangs in the country. Members, active both in prisons and on the... Read more

Groups / Movements White supremacist

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Wolverine Watchmen

The Wolverine Watchment militia is an anti-government extremist group. Many members were arrested in October 2020 on either federal or state charges for their roles in an alleged plot to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer.

Groups / Movements Anti-government

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Traditionalist Worke…

The Traditionalist Worker Party (TWP) was a neo-Nazi group founded in 2015 as the "political arm" of the white supremacist group, Traditionalist Youth Network, whose goal was to build a national socialist ethnostate for white people. Led... Read more

Groups / Movements White supremacist

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Traditionalist Youth…

The Traditionalist Youth Network, founded in 2013 by Matt Heimbach and Matt Parrott, was a small white supremacist group that attempted to recruit high school and college students and carry out white supremacist activities on college campuses... Read more

Groups / Movements White supremacist