People chant anti-Israel slogans while waving Palestinian flags during a rally celebrating the attacks that the militant Hamas group carried out against Israel, in Istanbul, Turkey, Saturday, Oct. 7, 2023.
SPLC left off its list Students for Justice in Palestine, which both the Anti-Defamation League and the Brandeis Center for Human Rights accuse of “celebrating terrorism,” as well as Jewish Voice for Peace, a Jewish anti-Zionist group that blamed Israel for the Oct. 7 attack and justified it as the “Palestinians’ right to resist.”
Escalate Network organizers recently sent a message to their 6,000 followers soliciting acts of violence on the New York Times editorial board, which it declared, “is going to hell and it is up to all free people to send them there.” The Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy reported in May that Jewish Voice for Peace is a Hamas-linked funder of some of the anti-Israel student protest groups, including Students for Justice in Palestine, who occupied many elite college campuses to protest against Israel.
The SPLC began producing its hate lists in 1990. According to its website, the SPLC uses several methods to determine which organizations should be included, including “reviewing extremist group publications and materials, and reports by the public, law enforcement, field sources and the news media.”