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Sacha Baron Cohen slammed Facebook and other large social media platforms as “the greatest propaganda machine in history” in a searing speech Thursday night. Addressing the Anti-Defamation League’s Never Is Now summit, the actor — who is known for using his satirical personas such as Borat, Bruno and Ali G to highlight bigotry around the world — tore into technology...

Garden Grove Unified School District officials Monday condemned a video that made the rounds on social media showing members of the Pacifica High School boys’ water polo team making a Nazi salute and singing a propaganda song.

Fox News host Tucker Carlson is under fire for his comments declaring white supremacy a hoax.

The massacre that left at least 22 people dead and two dozen wounded Saturday in a city that hugs the U.S.-Mexico border will be treated as a domestic terrorism case, but many acts of white nationalism-fueled violence are not classified as such, stoking concerns that the government is not doing all it could to address an increasingly dangerous national security...

During Holocaust Remembrance Day, leaders of various religions are looking to increase security at places of worship. Ted Chen reports for the NBC4 News at 6 p.m. on Thursday, May 2, 2019.

A $5,000 reward was announced Friday for information that leads to the arrest and conviction of a vandal who spraypainted anti-Semitic vandalism on an Irvine synagogue, just days after the massacre of 11 people at a Pittsburgh synagogue.

Anti-Semitic fliers were found recently at synagogues in the East Bay, sparking an outcry from the Anti-Defamation League and the Jewish community as it observes the high holy days.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is clarifying his stance pertaining to Holocaust deniers after getting some blowback on social media.

San Diego are police looking into a threatening tag scrawled on a sign announcing the future site of the UC San Diego Hillel Jewish Student Center.

The cartoonist who created Pepe the Frog has resolved a copyright infringement lawsuit that accused a Missouri woman of misusing the character to sell hate-promoting oil paintings. The settlement is the latest milestone in California-based cartoonist Matt Furie’s legal campaign to reclaim his creation from far-right extremists who hijacked Pepe.

Jewish people might not have been killed in the Holocaust if they had weapons, a Republican congressman from Alaska implied during an event in Juneau last week, NBC News reported. Rep. Don Young, the longest-serving member of the House, had been asked about guns in the wake of the high school shooting in Parkland, Florida, and his response was caught...

Larry David is facing criticism from the Anti-Defamation League and others for joking about dating in concentration camps during his monologue while hosting “Saturday Night Live” over the weekend. David, who is Jewish, noted that disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein, who is at the center of the sexual harassment firestorm gripping Hollywood, is also Jewish before going into jokes about...

On college campuses, white supremacists and other far-right extremist groups see fertile ground to spread their messages and recruit followers. But for many colleges, last weekend’s deadly attack at a rally near the University of Virginia exposed a new threat. The rally in Charlottesville left universities across the U.S. bracing for more clashes between extremists and the protesters who oppose...

In a recent sermon, Imam Mahmoud Harmoush accused Jews of plotting to take over Palestinian territory, the Muslim holy cities of Mecca and Medina in Saudi Arabia, and “most of the Middle East.”

Students said they were shocked and disturbed to learn of the incident.

A popular Italian restaurant in Washington has issued an apology, saying it unintentionally hosted a white nationalist group that performed a Nazi salute while eating there.

A man in the Sacramento area won’t take down the swastika displays outside of his house. According to NBC affiliate KCRA, this man’s neighbors are up in arms, they say the swastikas need to be taken down immediately.

The Anti-Defamation League has offered a $2,500 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person who spray-painted swastikas on a University of California, Davis off-campus Jewish fraternity house.

When they woke up on the Jewish Sabbath, students at a UC Davis-affiliated Jewish fraternity found two red swastikas spray painted on their house and on the ground behind a door nearby.