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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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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

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Misinformation

Misinformation is false/misleading information that is spread by those who genuinely believe it to be true, without malice or coordination. One example is average social media users sharing anti-vax conspiracy theories they believe are factual and correct.

Key Concepts / Definitions Right-wing

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Malinformation

Malinformation is real information that is spread deliberately and with malice, such as doxing or revealing personal, private information without consent.

Key Concepts / Definitions Right-wing

GLOSSARY OF EXTREMISM AND HATE

Adam Yahiye Gadahn

Adam Yahiye Gadahn was born Adam Pearlman in Oregon in 1978; his father changed their last name to Gadahn after converting to Christianity. Adam later converted to Islam and quickly radicalized— he was arrested in 1997 for... Read more

People Islamist

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Islamic Revolutionar…

The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) is part of Iran’s armed forces, separate from the traditional military but complementary to it. The group is tasked with defending Iran’s revolutionary regime, which took power in 1979, and answers... Read more

Groups / Movements Islamist

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Kata’ib Hezbollah

Kata’ib Hezbollah (also Kata’ib Hizballah) is an Iraqi Shia militant group that seeks to institute an Iran-aligned government in Iraq, remove U.S. and coalition forces from the country and further Iranian interests in the region. KH has... Read more

Groups / Movements Islamist

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Palestinian Islamic …

Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), also known as Palestine Islamic Jihad, is a radical Islamist extremist organization inspired by the Iranian revolution of 1979. It was established by Palestinian students in Egypt who were admirers of the... Read more

Groups / Movements Islamist