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The 'National Day of Hate' - Anatomy of a Propaganda Hoax
The Dissident-Right Telegramsphere was bemused last month to hear alarmed media reports of a "National Day of Hate" allegedly planned for February 25th. Despite the fact that nobody had heard anything from anyone about such a plan, the story seemed to grow and grow. The episode is recounted in this article, 'National Day of Hate' was ADL hoax. Within the DR sphere it was of course immediately recognized as such. It seems the ADL was the first to spread the claim, and at least one research group also pointed the finger at the ADL. On February 9th:
The ADL continued to push the story, with Greenblatt tweeting on Feb. 23:
And with this, the ADL was able to mobilize law enforcement and national security action across the country.
The allegation trended on Twitter and within the Jewish community. The Israeli ambassador to the US made a tweet that went viral:
The story made the rounds among various blue checkmarks:
And an interesting reply from another blue checkmark to that tweet provides an interesting tidbit of information:
Related to my bolded emphasis above, on February 23rd the ADL tweeted:
The call for action:
Following the money, the Nonprofit Security Grant Program appeared to begin in 2016 with a total funding of $20 million. This allocation has grown enormously year over year to a 2023 allocation of $305 million.
Last year I took note of the Biden administration promising Jewish groups more federal funding for security at the White House Menorah lighting. On February 17th, about a week before the 'National Day of Hate', the Biden Administration declared it had followed through on that promise:
In its call to action, the ADL is lobbying for the "fully funded" $360 million proposed by the Biden administration. A quick search through Google News of the "Nonprofit Security Grant Program" shows that this lobbying effort extends to over a hundred Jewish organizations:
Both the Biden administration and ADL talk about places of worship and religion in a general sense as being the recipients of these funds, but I would like to see exactly how these funds are allocated. This is an enormous growth in funding- with one observer calling "nonprofits" the "big winners" of FY2023 Homeland Security Grants.
Looking at the FEMA datasets, they only record bulk allocations to state institutions who then allocate the funds to grantees. I would like to do more digging to see if I can find data on one or more states to analyze which nonprofits are receiving these grants. If anyone has experience data sleuthing grant allocations and can point me in the right direction that would be helpful.
While digging through the Google News surrounding the Nonprofit Security Grant Program when writing this post, I came across this article published yesterday in Jewish Currents, which to its credit, independently reaches the same conclusions I have here.
Ben Lorber writes a somewhat odd and revealing subtitle to his article:
Lorber tries to say that this hoax somehow works to the benefit of "white supremacists", but how? Lorber writes that it "plays into white supremacists' strategy", but this entire affair has been the strategy of the Jewish lobby, which worked to spectacular effect. The ADL isn't playing into their strategy, it's playing its own strategy and in doing so showing that the 'white supremacists' are right, which are not the same thing.
But that's only something that actually matters if non-Jews are willing to criticize this behavior. As long as this public criticism is restricted by right to "in-house" criticism in Jewish publications, there's no check to this sort of behavior.
If I'm able to find a dataset on which non-profits are receiving these grants, I'll follow-up with additional analysis on the NSGP.
Awesome post. I had done some research but was too lazy to make a detailed post. Can you edit yours to include some of this information?
Between 75% and 97% of NSGP funding goes to Jewish groups. source 1 source 2 source 3
The group who “found” the extremism threat is Thomas Kaplan’s Counter Extremism Project. Kaplan is a big funder in getting us into war with Iran, funds the most prominent Jewish org 92nd street Y, and he funds (quite racist) ultra orthodox groups.
The threat originally came from Crew 319’s Telegram channel. Here Crew 319 talks about how he is just one person (2:30 in?) and has 20 subscribers on telegram.
Kaplan’s UANI lobbies to prevent medical goods from going to Iran through a name and shame strategy. Salon says he “is betting on war with Iran”
Kaplan has used his power to get academics fired for criticizing Israel’s war crimes in Palestine
“Kaplan, 47, regularly hobnobs with some of the most powerful Jewish philanthropists in New York. He and his wife, Daphna Recanati, a member of one of Israel’s wealthiest and best-known families, also support major scholarship programs for arts education at the Y and have given millions to other charitable causes in Israel and the United States. Separately, Kaplan—who wrote a 788-page Oxford dissertation on Malaysia’s geopolitical positioning during the Cold War before, in 1994, opening a firm that prospected silver mines with financial backing from George and Paul Soros”
The earliest chatter on the day of hate, after the ADL, was Lakewood-aligned orthodox groups and rabbis
In Florida, shortly before the day of hate, a man named Barry Nockowitz walked to a bus station and grabbed a four-year-old child and threw them against a wall. When the police came, he said he was “tired of the anti-semitism” and that he was looking for another child to attack. Barry was actually born Baruch Nockowitz, and he’s a Chabad-aligned Orthodox Jew. Baruch has a YouTube page still up, and on that page he posted a video of a black community leader speaking to a rabbi and talking how Jews and blacks ought to come together to fight a common enemy. Baruch almost certainly heard about the Day of Hate, and it’s likely his assault on the child was motivated by anti-gentile stochastic terrorism.
Some more info: we can be sure Kaplan is the primary funder of CEP because the advisor of his fund sits as the head, as well as a few other employees, and he is the only publicly-known funder. Ultra orthodox groups in NJ are no strangers to massive hoaxes and fraud. A few years ago they were caught doing welfare fraud in the millions and received no jail time, and the famous “cars for kids” commercial fraud is from Lakewood NJ.
very late edit for posterity and neuroticism: The CEP had a huge write up on this which, in addition to the news talking about “telegram channels investigated by the CEP”, make me 100% certain they were chiefly involved. However, I only saved passages from their article, because why would I have to save an archive if I can just google the passage? Welp, the original page that I read was deleted. The original article contained: “The event has been promoted in online channels by the Goyim Defense League (GDL), National Socialist Movement (NSM), Crew 319, and Clockwork Crew […] Crew 319 and Clockwork Crew are known to operate in Iowa (Des Moines) and Southern California, respectively.” This now brings up zero results from the CEP, which sucks because their original article was all about how they were the ones who started the investigation. In fact, it was linked to by the ADL.
I am not sure why you are using the present tense when your citations are a decade old.
Regardless, this states that, from 1994-2020, "[i]n 14 of the 21 years between 1994 and 2019 in which fatal terrorist attacks occurred, the majority of deaths resulted from right-wing attacks. In eight of these years, right-wing attackers caused all of the fatalities, and in three more—including 2018 and 2019—they were responsible for more than 90 percent of annual fatalities.11 Moreover, "All of the religious attacks and plots in the CSIS data set were committed by terrorists who ascribed to a Salafi-jihadist ideology." Similar trends are in the data here. It is fair to expect that Jewish organizations are vastly overrepresented in those targeted by people like that, so, since the grants are meant for "nonprofit organizations that are at high risk of terrorist attack," perhaps the grant numbers are not inappropriate.
The NSGP is designed to do what its lobbyists have lobbied for. The lobbyists are overwhelmingly Jewish groups. A sane analysis would not warrant 200mil a year for security enhancement grants when there is <1 terrorist attack at a synagogue per year. Since 2019 there have been three attacks which could conceivably be prevented at a synagogue. Many of the security upgrades are inessential and would have been purchased anyway, like security cameras and gates.
Synagogues are not more likely to face a crime, when looking at newspaper analysis and NIBRS reporting 1 2.
Since $200 million is a pittance, whether a sane analysis would warrant that spending depends entirely upon the dollar value of the benefits derived from the program, which you do not provide.
They were both inessential yet nevertheless would have been purchased anyway? That seems unlikely. Surely it is essential things that are purchased anyway.
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