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White Supremacist Groups are Recruiting College Students

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The Anti-Defamation League, a leading monitor of white supremacy in the United States, says in a new report that white supremacist groups are increasing and intensifying their efforts to recruit on college campuses, especially since January 2017.

The Anti-Defamation League described “an unprecedented outreach effort to attract and recruit students on American college campuses.”

The Washington Post reports that the ADL, which fights anti-Semitism and other forms of bigotry, has tracked some 104 incidents since the beginning of the school year in September — more than half of the reported incidents occurring since January.

“White supremacists have consciously made the decision to focus their recruitment efforts on students and have in some cases openly boasted of efforts to establish a physical presence on campus,” ADL Chief Executive Jonathan Greenblatt said in a statement. “While there have been recruitment efforts in the past, never have we seen anti-Semites and white supremacists so focused on outreach to students on campus.”

The University of Wisconsin was the target of at least one such effort, as a student who set fire to two African American churches in 2005 attempted to start a local chapter of the American Freedom Party, which has been classified as a hate group.