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struggle4progress

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Wed Feb 28, 2018, 01:59 AM Feb 2018

Hate group and anti-Semitic incidents rose during Trumps first year

By Meghan E. Irons
GLOBE STAFF FEBRUARY 27, 2018

The number of hate groups and anti-Semitic incidents in the United States increased during .. Trump’s first year in office, according to .. watchdog groups ...

... the Southern Poverty Law Center said the number of hate groups grew from 917 in 2016 to 954 last year. The center largely attributed the rise to Trump’s campaign and his administration, saying the new president catapulted “angry Internet warriors” to become protesters at white nationalist rallies ...

... the national Anti-Defamation League .. released an audit that said anti-Semitic incidents went up nearly 60 percent in 2017 over the prior year — an increase, the group said, due in part to episodes in schools and on college campuses ...

https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2018/02/27/anti-semitic-incidents-spiked-last-year-mass-adl-says/oTDjIZCimm4XE63UXNCPAJ/story.html

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Hate group and anti-Semitic incidents rose during Trumps first year (Original Post) struggle4progress Feb 2018 OP
Nazis are key element of trump's base Gothmog Feb 2018 #1
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