Most Read on the Web Each month, the JN will let you know the stories that were read most often online. If you missed any, you can go to thejewishnews.com and search for them by title. Here’ s what was most popular in October. TOP 10 ON THE WEB 1. Michigan State Hillel Sukkah Destroyed 2. Swastikas Found in West Bloomfield Linear Park 3. Three Cats Restaurant Premieres in Clawson 4. Siggy Flicker of Real Housewives Speaks Out 5. Val’ s Delicatessen Coming Soon 6. Diverse Group of Rabbis Call Huntington Woods Home 7. Those On the Front Lines of Cancer to Air on PBS 8. Remembering Stephanie Kroot Steinberg 9. The Blum Legacy 10. Best Break Fast Recipes TOPS ON FACEBOOK 1. Michigan State Hillel Sukkah Vandalized 2. Bubbie’ s Kitchen Episode 2: Making Mandelbread with DeDe 3. Two Anti-Semitic Flyers at Temple Jacob 4. Val’ s Delicatessen Coming Soon 5. Meet the Experts at Star Laser TOP INSTAGRAM POSTS 1. Grace and Frankie Giveaway 2. Grodman Brothers 3. Val’ s Delicatessen 4. Louie Kemp’ s “Dylan & Me” 5. Jewish Federation’ s Scott Kaufman T he year since the syn- agogue shooting in Pittsburgh has been a time of reflection, grief and increased anxiety within the American Jewish commu- nity. It has also been an incred- ibly demanding time at the Anti- Defamation League, and the Center on Extremism in particular, where our team of researchers investigates and responds to extremism, anti-Semitism and all forms of hate in real time — sometimes thwarting violence before it happens. While the shooting in Pittsburgh — the deadli- est anti-Semitic attack in American history — was shocking, it did not surprise those of us who spend most of our waking hours tracking hate because we know hate, online and off, can move extremists to violence. In the years prior to the shooting in Pittsburgh, the team of researchers I lead witnessed and documented a resurgence of white suprem- acy. This was evident in the record number of propaganda distributions nationwide and in countless online spaces, where violence is glorified and hate is half-masked in “ironic” memes. Even as we saw the evidence building, we hoped the worst was behind us. Americans are no strangers to white supremacist carnage — the vicious attacks in Oak Creek and Charleston speak to its long history in this country. But the shooting in Pittsburgh spoke to a different type of violence: one that was cele- brated in plain sight on online platforms and forums, but was, paradoxically, more difficult to detect and root out. In the year since then, a pattern has emerged, garnering increased attention to certain hateful online repositories: white men, radicalized by rac- ism, anti-Semitism and xeno- phobia, act violently on their beliefs, which they amplify via a final post to their toxic online communities, often including urgent calls to action and blue- prints for deadly violence. There is some solace in knowing that we are not help- less in the face of such overt, pervasive hatred and violence. For every Pittsburgh or Poway, several murderous plots have been foiled by law enforce- ment. Our ultimate goal, of course, is to stop violence before it happens. This isn’ t always pos- sible, but sometimes it is: Three times in the last year, our anal- ysis and actionable intelligence has led directly to arrests and criminal charges. In March 2019, ADL ’ s Center on Extremism iden- tified a white supremacist espousing anti-Semitism and racial violence on the social media platform Minds.com. His screen name was “King Shekels. ” We shared the infor- mation with federal and local law enforcement, highlighting his radical ideology, calls for violence, weapon possession, criminal activity and evidence of his location. He has since been charged by federal prose- cutors with posting online hate messages and threats, includ- ing interstate transmission of threats to injure the person of another, based in part on a dig- ital image that appears to show himself pointing an AR-15 rifle at a congregation of Jewish men. On Aug. 8, the FBI arrested Conor Climo, a Las Vegas- based security guard, on weapons charges for possession of an unregistered firearm. He was allegedly plotting to attack LGBTQ and Jewish community targets, including a synagogue and a regional ADL office. Months earlier, in June 2019, my colleagues provided law enforcement officials with warnings about Climo’ s threats against synagogues and online links to white supremacists and threats against synagogues. These were just two of at least 12 white supremacists who have been arrested for their alleged roles in terrorist plots, attacks or threats against American Jews since the Oren Segal JTA 6 | NOVEMBER 14 • 2019 Views Violent White Supremacy Is on the Rise. Here’s How We Stop It. commentary continued on page 10