Chicago police are urging Jewish and other religious communities to be extra vigilant this weekend when a neo-Nazi group has declared a “day of hate.”
are urging Jewish and other religious communities to be extra vigilant this weekend when a neo-Nazi group has declared a "day of hate."
"Our network of analysts at ADL centered around extremism are carefully monitoring online platforms, chat rooms and a whole bunch of other things, and we’ll alert appropriate authorities if we see anything that we think needs to be elevated," Goldenberg said. The online messages by hate groups prompted the police department’s 24th District Place of Worship Safety Advisory Team to issue a community alert this week.
"When they collect this type of footage, they use it for recruitment purposes, they use it to create this sort of inflated sense of participation to suggest there’s a wider acceptance of anti-Semitism and white supremacy when in reality, actual participation in these types of events is incredibly small," Goldenberg said.
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