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Thursday, November 19, 2020

Mapping American Anti-Semitism


The Anti-Defamation League, a Jewish non-profit organization, has released an interactive map documenting over 3,000 incidents of extremism or anti-Semitism in the U.S. of A. inward 2017 in addition to 2018. Their novel H.E.A.T. Map shows the locations of incidents of extremism, anti-Semitism in addition to terrorism across the whole country.

Incidents on the map are color-coded yesteryear the type of incident. If you lot hover over a marking on the map a pop-up window reveals the give away in addition to types of incident reported at that location. If you lot click on a marking the details of all the course incidents are shown nether the map.

The ADL says that the information on the map comes from a large give away of dissimilar sources. These include "news in addition to media reports, authorities documents (including police pull reports), victim reports, extremist-related sources, Center on Extremism investigations in addition to more".


According to the Southern Poverty Law Center the overall ascension of abhor groups is a straight lawsuit of the 'incendiary rhetoric' used yesteryear Donald Trump. Last year, inward its annual census of extremist groups the SPLC said that "Trump’s run for purpose electrified the radical right, which saw inward him a champion of the stance that America is fundamentally a white man’s country".

The SPLC's interactive Hate Map tracks the growing give away of abhor groups operating inward the United States. The map uses colored markers to betoken the category of each abhor grouping shown on the map. If you lot pick out a marking on the map you lot tin click-through to larn to a greater extent than virtually what this type of abhor grouping believes in addition to how they operate.