On January 21, 2025, @libsoftiktok reposted a video in which transgender TikToker @scarletblossum said, “If you are a Republican on TikTok and you want to interact with me, you deserve to die. You deserve to be shot. You deserve whatever suffering could possibly come to you,” and concluded, “This is not a joke.” In previous videos, Blossum told Trump supporters to “go off yourself” and reiterated that they “deserve to be shot.”
On January 26, 2025, transgender Ryan Michael “Riley Jane” English traveled from his home in Massachusetts to the nation’s capital with the intent of murdering leaders in the conservative movement. He turned himself in to Capitol Police before he could inflict any harm. According to court documents, English had the intention to kill “‘Nazi’ Secretary of Defense, Peter Hegseth, and/or the Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, and/or burn down the Heritage Foundation” in order to “send a message.” English later turned his focus to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent. “Originally, English’s thoughts were to use the small bottles of vodka to start fires and later to wrap them in rags soaked in alcohol, light them and throw them at Bessent’s feet,” a court affidavit stated, and that “in the event English was able to get close enough to Bessent, English would have stabbed him with the knife that English brought from home.”
In January 2025, Tajiran was apprehended after issuing threats to a Jewish funeral home, claiming he wanted to “behead” and “bury” Jews. He was arrested on charges of terrorist activity.
A professor at Columbia University, where he teaches a course on Zionism. Massad has a history of making inflammatory remarks about Israel, including praising the October 7, 2023, Hamas terrorist attacks as “stunning” and “awesome.”
An activist organization based in New York City, in January 2025 the Palestine Solidarity Working Group, along with Columbia University Apartheid Divest (CUAD) and NYC Resist with Gaza, claimed responsibility for vandalizing Columbia University’s Henry R. Kravis Hall. Activists spraypainted pro-Hamas slogans and cemented the building’s sewage system, protesting the university’s expansion projects in Harlem and its association with the Apartheid Global Center in Tel Aviv.
Columbia University Apartheid Divest (CUAD) is a student-led organization at Columbia University advocating for the institution to divest from companies associated with Israel. According to their Instagram account, CUAD is a “Coalition of 100+ Columbia University student groups who see Palestine as the vanguard for collective liberation” and claims to be a “continuation of the Vietnam anti-war movement and the movement to divest from apartheid South Africa.” On September 16, 2024, CUAD shared a post by the Unity of Fields Instagram account calling for the mass evasion of public transportation fares and labeling police, “Zionists,” and “surveillance infrastructure” as targets for violence. The post stated: “Fares are free. Don’t pay. Join us in mass fare evasion. Take our city back from the pigs. Let repression breed more resistance. All zionist, police & surveillance infrastructure are legitimate targets.” This post and CUAD’s promotion of it contributed to a large anti-police riot in New York City demanding taxpayer-funded public transportation. The Unity of Fields account that posted the original call for violence was later disabled by Meta, as confirmed by a post from an alt-account on September 25, 2024. In January 2025, CUAD, alongside the Palestine Solidarity Working Group and NYC Resists with Gaza, vandalized Henry R. Kravis Hall. Activists spraypainted pro-Hamas slogans and cemented the building’s sewage system, protesting the university’s expansion projects in Harlem and its association with the Apartheid Global Center in Tel Aviv. On February 27, 2025, Barnard College dean Leslie Grinage was held captive by pro-Hamas members of CUAD and Columbia’s Students for Justice in Palestine chapter. Reports claim that two university employees were physically assaulted, the campus was vandalized, and classes were canceled. Protesters were calling for the reinstatement of two pro-Hamas classmates who were expelled for interrupting a History of Modern Israel class with antisemitic propaganda. Grinage was eventually released and the protest moved from the university to the streets of New York City.
A New York-based activist group supporting Palestinian causes, in January 2025, NYC Resist with Gaza collaborated with the Palestine Solidarity Working Group and Columbia University Apartheid Divest (CUAD) to vandalize Columbia University’s Henry R. Kravis Hall. Activists spraypainted pro-Hamas slogans and cemented the building’s sewage system, protesting the university’s expansion projects in Harlem and its association with the Apartheid Global Center in Tel Aviv. On January 28, 2025, the group celebrated the vandalism of Jewish-owned restaurant Miriam’s in Brooklyn, New York in an Instagram post that stated, “Not only was this act condemned by pig mayor Erikkk Adams and Zionist senator Chuckkk Schumer, but ‘pro-Palestine’ mayoral hopeful Zohran Kwame Mamdani decided to join in on the disavowal. Zohran was infamously arrested outside of Schumer’s house at a protest, but here it looks like they agree that fighting genocide supporters outside of ‘permitted’ protests is too far.”
The New Tolerance Campaign was featured in a Daily Caller article highlighting NTC President Gregory Angelo’s criticism of CAIR for labeling the Gaza conflict as “genocide,” which he argued exposes their bias. Read the full article here.
Organizations known for promoting political violence will be taking part in Inauguration Day protests nationwide The New Tolerance Campaign (NTC), a watchdog organization tracking far-left extremism and political violence via its HateMap.com project, is flagging law enforcement and warning the general public to stay away from “We Fight Back” Presidential Inauguration protests scheduled across the country. Several of the event’s endorsers have been found by NTC to have promoted, inspired, or directly engaged in physical violence against those with whom they disagree. Groups that appear on HateMap.com helping to coordinate the Monday demonstrations: ANSWER Coalition Dream Defenders Party for Socialism & Liberation Palestinian Feminist Collective Palestinian Youth Movement People’s Forum “We Fight Back” has dozens of demonstrations planned throughout the United States beginning on Saturday, January 18 and continuing through January 25. Note: While it has been announced that the presidential inauguration ceremony on January 20 has been moved indoors, “We Fight Back” has not issued any statements calling off their planned public actions. The NTC HateMap.com project is a comprehensive resource documenting instances of political violence perpetrated by leftist organizations across the United States. The interactive Map aims to fill the gaps left by traditional civil rights organizations, such as the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), which have largely overlooked or ignored such acts. HateMap.com is designed to be a vital tool for journalists, researchers, and news organizations seeking to understand and report on the full spectrum of political violence in the country.
The New Tolerance Campaign was mentioned in a Fox News article regarding our grassroots action campaign urging Daughters of the American Revolution President General Pamela Edwards Rouse Wright and DAR senior leadership to end its calamitous policy. Read the story here.
The 2017 inauguration of Donald Trump was far from a peaceful transfer of power. Will history repeat itself in 2025? The left in America is fond of casting themselves as the standard-bearers for democracy and conservators of “the peaceful transfer of power,” particularly following the Capitol riots of January 6, 2021. As the nation approaches the second inauguration of President Donald Trump, it’s worth remembering the political violence that transpired on January 20, 2017. It’s a sobering reminder that the left doesn’t always practice what they preach. The bedlam began in the day’s early hours. Coordinated attacks by aggressive activist organizations such as ANTIFA and the ANSWER Coalition organized under the umbrella group DisruptJ20 took place in multiple parts of the city. Black Lives Matter supporters chained themselves to entry points at the Inauguration. Raging demonstrators burned MAGA hats in the street, vandalized cars, and set garbage bins ablaze. Limousine driver Luis Villarroel sustained lacerations after escaping the mob that set his car on fire. Shocking footage shows swarming protesters smashing the windows of a Starbucks and Bank of America in downtown D.C. Six police officers were injured during vicious clashes with demonstrators, and over 200 people were arrested in what was one of the most violent inaugurations in modern American history. Transgressions weren’t limited to property damage and spanned several days: protesters hurled bricks and rocks at law enforcement officers tasked with maintaining order. At the Women’s March in the nation’s capital the day after the 2017 inauguration, pop star Madonna infamously declared before the assembled crowd that she had “thought an awful lot about blowing up the White House.” For some, Inauguration Day interference didn’t go far enough. In lamenting “what might have been,” an anonymous observer remarked that “a concerted effort could have been made to break through the checkpoints and storm the inauguration en masse. It is possible that in the afternoon, the bloc [ANTIFA] could have led thousands of folks out into D.C. and paralyzed the city (and still smashed shit).” As the 2025 presidential inauguration approaches, vigilance for violence should be observed. The left’s muted pushback following the 2024 election should assuage some, but it also wouldn’t be a surprise if similar chaos much like 2017 unfolds. The People’s Forum — a coalition representing groups known for engaging in violent disruption at Trump’s last inauguration — has planned a “national day of action” on January 20 titled “We Fight Back.” [Photo credit: Trump Inauguration Washington DC, CC-BY-NC-ND 2.0, via Flickr (cropped)]
Libraries can and should be a resource for engaging with controversial ideas and beliefs, but not for pushing programming that indoctrinates kids with violent and divisive messages. He called the slaughter of more than 1,200 innocent people a “miracle” — and he’s teaching at Kent State University. “In Al Aqsa Flood, we have seen miracle, after miracle, after miracle,” Professor and Imam Nadar Taha said during a December sermon, invoking the term Hamas terrorists use to describe the October 7, 2023 massacre in Israel. Kent State responded: “The remarks were not made on a Kent State campus, nor as part of any official event or program.” Apparently, for Kent State President Todd Diacon, glorifying violence doesn’t matter as long as it doesn’t happen on school grounds. Tell Kent State University President Todd Diacon and the Board of Trustees to say NO to Nadar Taha teaching at the school!
NTC President joins the John Reid Show to discuss the 2024 “Worst of the Woke” Awards. Click the link here to listen to the interview.
An imam and professor at Kent State University, Taha delivered a sermon at the Islamic Society of Akron and Kent (ISAK) on December 13, 2024, in which he made inflammatory and antisemitic statements about Israel and Jewish people. In his sermon, Imam Taha referred to the October 7, 2023 Hamas terrorist attack that killed over 1,200 Israelis as the “Al-Aqsa Flood.” Taha praised the attack, calling it both a “miracle” and a victory.
