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Speaking Out Against Hate: SPLC Intelligence Project Director tells congressional panel that white supremacy threatens communities, education and democracy

SPLC Intelligence Project Director Susan Corke testified yesterday before the House Committee on Homeland Security’s “Countering Violent Extremism, Terrorism, and Antisemitic Threats in New Jersey” field hearing. Corke delivered the following oral remarks. Her complete written testimony was submitted for the subcommittee hearing record.

I am Susan Corke, director of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Intelligence Project. Thank you for the opportunity to testify today for this important hearing, which comes at a precarious time for American democracy.

There has been a disturbing rise in antisemitic incidents in New Jersey and elsewhere in the country. This uptick in hate-fueled activity is part of a larger hard-right movement that stokes the fires of antisemitism, promoting racism, fear and extremist violence. Antisemitism, in addition to being a toxic form of prejudice, is also an animating feature of white nationalist ideology and often a leading indicator that a society is more broadly infected and divided by racism.

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White supremacy has gone mainstream, which increasingly threatens people of color, our communities, our education system and democracy itself. The “great replacement” narrative has become mainstream on the political right over the past few years. This racist conspiracy, which says there is a systematic, global effort to replace white, European people with nonwhite, foreign populations, provides the central framework, rooted in antisemitic ideology, for the white supremacist movement. The theory has normalized and fostered greater acceptance of political violence in America and has motivated many deadly, terror attacks.

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