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ADL Senior Associate Director Jeremy Shaver speaks to CO Springs Gazette about white supremacist activity

ADL Senior Associate Director Jeremy Shaver was interviewed for a story in the Colorado Springs Gazette about white supremacist and neo-Nazi propaganda in the Pikes Peak region. Items including flyers,  stickers and graffiti have been spotted over recent months, mirroring a statewide increase in extremist and anti-Semitic incidents in public spaces. Since the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Va.,

Anti-Semitic imagery should play no part in criticism of Facebook

The Denver Post recently ran a letter to the editor written by Anti-Defamation League Mountain States Regional Director Scott L. Levin, responding to a March 29 cartoon published by the Post depicting Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg with horns on his head. The letter in its entirety appears below. The Denver Post’s March 29 editorial cartoon depicted Mark Zuckerberg, founder of

Incidents of anti-Semitism on the rise in New Mexico

A television story  featured yesterday on KOB, Albuquerque Channel 4, focused on the rise in anti-Semitic incidents in New Mexico. The story featured Marc Yellin, whose website and blog, ABQ Jew, was attacked last year with horrific threats and hate speech.  ADL’s report through September on anti-Semitic incidents was also prominently mentioned in the story.