47 Hate Groups Are Active In New York

NEW YORK, NY – New York state is home to 47 radical groups that spew hate – one less than last year but almost double the number based in the state just 10 years ago.

Among them are Neo-Nazis, black and white nationalists and groups whose members are anti-LGBT, anti-Muslim or which exist to deny the Holocaust.

The list has been drawn up by the Southern Poverty Law Center which located the groups on an interactive map.

Across the country, 1,020 hate groups were active last year, a record high and a 30 percent increase over the past four years. The group estimates 40 people were killed in North America in radical-right terrorist attacks last year and there were more than 1,200 incidents of hate groups passing out flyers.

The groups located in New York are:

• 211 BOOTBOYS, GENERAL HATE, NEW YORK
• ACT FOR AMERICA. ANTI-MUSLIM, HAUPPAUGE
• AMBASSADORS OF CHRIST, BLACK NATIONALIST, BROOKLYN
• AMERICAN FREEDOM DEFENSE INITIATIVE, ANTI-MUSLIM, NEW YORK
• AMERICAN FREEDOM PARTY, WHITE NATIONALIST, STATEWIDE
• ARKTOS MEDIA, WHITE NATIONALIST, NEW YORK
• ATLAH WORLD MISSIONARY CHURCH (ALL THE LAND ANOINTED HOLY), ANTI-LGBT, NEW YORK
• ATOMWAFFEN DIVISION, NEO-NAZI, STATEWIDEBLACK RIDERS LIBERATION PARTY, BLACK NATIONALIST, NEW YORK
• BLOOD AND HONOUR SOCIAL CLUB. RACIST SKINHEAD, STATEWIDE
• CATHOLIC FAMILY NEWS/CATHOLIC FAMILY MINISTRIES, INC., RADICAL TRADITIONAL CATHOLICISM, NIAGARA FALLS
• CENTER FOR FAMILY AND HUMAN RIGHTS (C-FAM), ANTI-LGBT, NEW YORK
• CULTURAL STUDIES PRESS, GENERAL HATE, NEW YORK
• DEIR YASSIN REMEMBERED, HOLOCAUST DENIAL, GENEVA
• FATIMA CRUSADER, THE/INTERNATIONAL FATIMA ROSARY CRUSADE, RADICAL TRADITIONAL CATHOLICISM, CONSTABLE
• FIRM 22, RACIST SKINHEAD, STATEWIDE
• FOUNDATION FOR ADVOCATING CHRISTIAN TRUTH, ANTI-MUSLIM, BRONX
• GREAT MILLSTONE, BLACK NATIONALIST, NEW YORK
• HOUSE OF DAVID, BLACK NATIONALIST, BROOKLYN
• HOUSE OF ISRAEL, BLACK NATIONALIST, NEW YORK
• IDENTITY EVROPA, WHITE NATIONALIST, STATEWIDE
• INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF INDIGENOUS SOVEREIGNS, BLACK NATIONALIST, NEW YORK
• ISRAEL UNITED IN CHRIST, 2 chapters, BLACK NATIONALIST, MOUNT VERNON, ROCHESTER
• ISRAELITE CHURCH OF GOD IN JESUS CHRIST, BLACK NATIONALIST, NEW YORK
• ISRAELITE SCHOOL OF UNIVERSAL PRACTICAL KNOWLEDGE, 2 chapters, BLACK NATIONALIST, NEW YORK, SYRACUSE
• JEWISH DEFENSE LEAGUE, GENERAL HATE, BROOKLYN
• JEWISH TASK FORCE, GENERAL HATE, FRESH MEADOWS
• LIONS OF ISRAEL, BLACK NATIONALIST, MOUNT VERNON
• LOYAL WHITE KNIGHTS OF THE KU KLUX KLAN, KU KLUX KLAN, STATEWIDE
• NATION OF ISLAM, 4 chapters, BLACK NATIONALIST, BROOKLYN, BUFFALO, NEW YORK, ROCHESTER
• NATIONAL SOCIALIST LIBERATION FRONT, NEO-NAZI, STATEWIDE
• PATRIOT FRONT, WHITE NATIONALIST, STATEWIDE
• PROUD BOYS, GENERAL HATE, NEW YORK
• RACIAL NATIONALIST PARTY OF AMERICA, WHITE NATIONALIST, LOCKPORT
• RADIO JIHAD/GLOBAL PATRIOT RADIO, ANTI-MUSLIM, STATEWIDE
• THE RIGHT STUFF, 2 chapters, WHITE NATIONALIST, HOPEWELL JUNCTION, NEW YORK
• THE UNITED NUWAUPIANS WORLDWIDE/ALL EYES ON EGIPT, BLACK NATIONALIST, BROOKLYN
• TONY ALAMO CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES, GENERAL HATE, NEW YORK
• UNITED RIOT RECORDS, HATE MUSIC, NEW YORK
• WOLF TYR PRODUCTIONS, HATE MUSIC, HOLBROOK

Though the Southern Poverty Law Center only named 40 groups, it counts 47 because some have multiple chapters in the state. In 2008, there were 24.

Heidi Beirich, director of the Southern Poverty Law Center's Intelligence Project, which publishes the Hatewatch blog, said it’s become “critically important” that people understand what she called “the landscape of hate.”

“We hope the new, interactive map helps people recognize and better understand the extremist activity occurring in their communities and how it’s part of a larger movement,” said Beirich.

The map allows users to filter by ideologies tracked by the organization. Some of the categories include anti-immigrant, anti-LGBT, anti-muslim, holocaust denial, Ku Klux Klan, male supremacy, Neo-Nazi, racist skinhead and white nationalist.

It shows that states with the most hate groups per capita tend to be concentrated in the Southeast, northern Rocky Mountain regions and western Great Plains. This includes Tennessee, Alabama and Arkansas, as well as Idaho and Montana.

Meanwhile, several states in the Midwest saw the least number of hate groups per capita. Among these states were Kansas, Iowa and Wyoming.

In a video accompanying the report, the group says there were roughly 375 hate groups nationwide in 1999. That number has ballooned over the years to more than 1,000 this year. Beirich called the rise “disturbing” and said it’s no coincidence the rise coincides with Trump’s election.

“The trend is unmistakable,” she said in the video. “Trump has energized the radical right by fanning the flames of racial resentment over immigration and the country’s changing demographics.”

Patch national staffer Dan Hampton contributed to this report