Hate Groups In New Jersey: Map Shows Active Racist Organizations, Group Says

The hate from the violent white nationalist gathering that resulted in the death of an anti-racism protester in Charlottesville, Virginia, can be found anywhere, the Southern Poverty Law Center says.

The organization identified nearly 1,000 organizations that meet its criteria for being designated a hate group are currently active nationwide. And in New Jersey, 15 hate groups — from white supremacists to anti-Muslim and black separatist organizations — are active.

Hate groups are defined by the SPLC as having beliefs or practices "that attack or malign an entire class of people, typically for their immutable characteristics."

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The SLPC website has an interactive map showing the location of what it considers hate groups state by state.

Here's where the groups are active in New Jersey:

• Confederate White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, Toms River: Ku Klux Klan
• National Socialist Movement (statewide): Neo-Nazi
• Aryan Strikeforce, Phillipsburg: Racist Skinhead
• Militant Knights of the Ku Klux Klan (statewide): Ku Klux Klan
• AC Skins, Atlantic City: Racist Skinhead
• Micetrap Distribution, Maple Shade: Hate Music
• Forza Nuova (statewide): White Nationalist
• New Black Panther Party, Newark: Black Separatist, New Black Panther Party
• Israel United In Christ, Newark: Black Separatist
• Israelite Church of God in Jesus Christ, Jersey City: Black Separatist
• Nation of Islam, Plainfield: Black Separatist
• Nation of Islam, New Brunswick: Black Separatist
• Nation of Islam, Willingboro: Black Separatist
• Nation of Islam, Camden: Black Separatist
• Nation of Islam, Newark: Black Separatist

The SPLC's Hate Map is searchable by hate group and state.

The group listed the Nation of Islam, it says, for these reasons:

"Since its founding in 1930, the Nation of Islam (NOI) has grown into one of the wealthiest and best-known organizations in black America, offering numerous programs and events designed to uplift African Americans. Nonetheless, its bizarre theology of innate black superiority over whites — a belief system vehemently and consistently rejected by mainstream Muslims — and the deeply racist, anti-Semitic and anti-gay rhetoric of its leaders, including top minister Louis Farrakhan, have earned the NOI a prominent position in the ranks of organized hate."

New Jersey is no stranger to hateful acts. State police identified 367 bias incident offenses for 2015, a 2 percent decrease from the previous year, according to Gannett New Jersey.

Crimes targeting Muslims and Jews, however, have spiked upward, according to the report. There were 13 bias crimes reported against Muslim New Jerseyans in 2011, nine in 2012, three in 2013, four in 2014 and 14 in 2015. Jewish New Jersey residents reported the most religiously motivated bias crimes at 113, Islamic residents reported 14 and other religions reported a total of six.

Black New Jerseyans were the most frequent targets of racially motivated bias crimes with 141 reported incidents in 2015, according to report. White residents were a distant second, with 14 reported incidents, down from 15 in 2015.

Main image: In this April 23, 2016 photo, members of the Ku Klux Klan participate in cross and swastika burnings after a "white pride" rally in Georgia. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)

Shannon Antinori contributed to this report