n>During the past few decades there has been a resurgence of both white and black extremism in the United States. The white supremacy march in Charlottesville, featuring neo-Nazis, Klansmen, and other far-right groups, coincided with the rise of anti-Semitism in both Europe and the United States, as well as with a revival of black nationalism. Spearheaded by its leader, Louis Farrakhan, the Nation of Islam (NOI) represents the most powerful link between the anti-Semitism of the black power movement of the 1960s and its 21st-century heirs and imitators. Beyond NOI, a web of white supremacists and black nationalists are linked together by online social networks that propagate anti-Semitic imagery, wild conspiracy theories about the effort of Jews to control America, and other forms of propaganda designed to foster hatred of Jews.
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