Extremist Crimes Observatory

A dedicated unit that monitors and documents extremist crimes and violations with a scientific and legal method, and shares its findings with researchers and the relevant bodies.

The observatory follows extremist crimes and violations against civilians: it monitors reports and news, verifies them and documents them in a single database. Its aim is for every crime to have a documented account that can be referred to, free of both exaggeration and understatement.

What does the observatory monitor?

  • Attacks on civilians, places of worship, markets and public facilities.
  • Abductions, enforced disappearances and forced displacement.
  • Hate speech and incitement to violence in public and online spaces.
  • Mass graves and the sites that come to light.

Methodology

  1. Monitoring: Gathering reports from field, media and official sources and from survivors' testimonies.
  2. Verification: Checking every report against at least two independent sources before accepting it.
  3. Classification: Sorting crimes by type, place, time and the accused party.
  4. Publishing: Making the findings available in periodic reports while protecting the identities of witnesses and victims.

Observatory publications

The observatory's periodic reports and analyses are published in the Reports section of the Pain Memory library, and its data is used in Numbers that document the truth.