June 16, 2009 In the wake of President Obama's nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the United States Supreme Court, white supremacists and anti-Semites responded by claiming that alleged Jewish power was responsible for her nomination and previous career success. They also employed anti-Semitic stereotypes to argue that Sotomayor is herself Jewish, or as one person suggested, a "cryptojew." Extremists constantly exploit current events, like Sotomayor's nomination, to demonize non-whites…

June 15, 2009 Detectives in Pima County, Arizona, arrested anti-immigration border vigilante Shawna Forde for the shocking murder of a man and his nine-year-old daughter, and the shooting of the child's mother. Forde, 41, along with Jason Eugene Bush, 34, and Albert Robert Gaxiola, 42, have been charged with two counts of first-degree murder, one count of first-degree burglary, and one count of aggravated assault each. Detectives arrested Bush on June 11, 2009, and Forde and Gaxiola…

June 01, 2009 Kansas law enforcement officers arrested a suspect in the May 31, 2009, slaying of a Wichita physician who performed abortions. Sheriff's deputies from Johnson County apprehended Scott Philip Roeder, 51, of Merriam, Kansas, on an interstate highway 150 miles north of Wichita. He was returned to Wichita to be charged with murder and aggravated assault. The slaying is the most recent of a series of violent incidents and plots involving right-wing extremists over the past eight…

June 04, 2009   Police officers arrested New Jersey white supremacist radio host Hal Turner for inciting injury to three government officials in Connecticut. Officers with the Connecticut State Capitol Police, with the assistance of the North Bergen, New Jersey, Police Department, arrested Turner on June 3, 2009, at his North Bergen home. Turner, 47, who has long used the Internet to promote his violent rhetoric and influence others who share his views, is charged with…

June 04, 2009   A jury in Bennington District Court found Vermont white supremacist Michael Myers, 34, guilty of reckless endangerment, unlawful trespass, leaving the scene of a crash, driving while under the influence, resisting arrest and two counts of aggravated assault on a police officer.  The jury handed down the conviction on May 14, after nearly five days of deliberations.  Myers was first arrested in December 2007, after attacking a man who refused to work on…

May 26, 2009 As many anti-immigrant groups blur the line between discussions of immigration policy and outright bigotry towards non-white immigrants, white supremacists and anti-Semites have become increasingly supportive of those groups whose rhetoric matches their own anti-immigrant sentiment. Extremists exploit the legitimacy of these anti-immigrant groups to advance their own hateful ideology and possibly expand recruitment. Specifically, extremists have voiced support for&nbsp…

April 08, 2009 Richard Poplawski was a white supremacist arrested in Pittsburgh on April 4, 2009, for the murder of three Pittsburgh police officers responding to a domestic violence call. Poplawski believed that the federal government, the media, and the banking system are all largely or completely controlled by Jews.  He thought African-Americans were "vile" and non-white races inferior to whites. He also believed that a conspiracy led by "evil Zionists" and "greedy…

April 01, 2009 Three months after the Bernard Madoff financial scandal broke in December 2008, the public fury directed at him persists. In the days immediately before and after Madoff's March 12, 2009, guilty plea for his actions in the reported $65 billion Ponzi scheme, articles on popular mainstream Web sites continued to elicit anti-Semitic comments but they represented a small percentage of the overall response from readers. Those who made anti-Semitic remarks blame Madoff's actions not…

March 21, 2009 On March 21, 2009, the New Jersey-based League of American Patriots (LOAP), a white supremacist group, attempted to host an organizational meeting at a Clifton, New Jersey public library, in part to commemorate the its one-year anniversary. Shortly after the approximately 15 attendees arrived, about five anti-racist protestors disrupted the meeting by entering the room with a rolling camera. A reported "brawl" then ensued, and police were called to the scene. The LOAP members…

March 20, 2009 The Society of St. Pius X (SSPX) is an international traditionalist Catholic organization which defines its mission as opposing innovation and modernity within the Catholic Church.  Although its main focus has always been the preservation of the Latin Mass as a viable form of worship, SSPX has promoted theological and conspiratorial anti-Semitism among its adherents.  In sermons, writings, Web sites and publications, SSPX representatives have charged…

by: Rabbi Gary Bretton-Granatoor | April 02, 2004 ADL The passion about "The Passion" has not abated. Mel Gibson's opus clearly inspires countless of faithful Christians. Whether in the pre-release screening for 5,000 Evangelicals that I attended , or in the New York City movie theatre on opening day, it is impossible not to be moved by the people who are inspired by the film. For many, the two hour movie brings them closer than ever before to one of the central moments of their Christian…

March 19, 2009 A much circulated rumor claims that the United Kingdom has "removed the Holocaust from its school curriculum because it 'offended' the Moslem population." This false information, which began circulating via e-mail in April 2007, recently resurfaced in an e-mail slide show on the importance of remembering the Holocaust. In fact, Holocaust education is mandatory in British schools and continues to be part of the national curriculum.

March 17, 2009 Jeff Rense is an Ashland, Oregon-based Internet and satellite radio host who maintains a virulently anti-Semitic Web site, Rense.com. His radio show promotes a wide variety of conspiracy theories, often focusing on extraterrestrial aliens but including a great deal of anti-Semitism expressed both by Rense's guests and Rense himself. Rense.com, which claims to receive over ten million hits a month, contains thousands of regularly updated links to articles and posts on the…

by: Abraham H. Foxman, National Director of the Anti-Defamation League | January 25, 2004 The Palm Beach Post Stunned silence followed last week's screening of Mel Gibson's The Passion of The Christ for a gathering of Christian leaders at the Calvary Assembly in Orlando. As the lights came up, the silence was etched with stifled sobs and tears. The 3,000 Christian pastors, leaders, students and others who attended the preview of the film's graphic portrayal of the events leading up to the…

February 16, 2009 Remarks of Christopher Wolf Chair, ADL Internet Task Force and Chair International Network Against Cyber-Hate (INACH) To the London Conference on Combating Anti-Semitism Houses of Parliament, London   Thank you for the opportunity to participate in this important conference. It is an honor to be here. In Washington, DC, where I live, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum has just opened an exhibit on the power of Nazi propaganda. The exhibit…

February 13, 2009 A group of racist academics, conservative pundits and anti-immigrant activists held their debut conference, dubbed "Preserving Western Civilization," (PWC) outside of Baltimore, Maryland, from February 6 – 8, 2009. Around 70 people attended the event, at which presenters railed at the alleged threat that multiculturalism poses to the United States and other Western countries. The stated aim of the conference was to defend "America's Judeo-Christian heritage and…

February 04, 2009 A group of racists and anti-immigrant figures plans to convene a conference in Baltimore, Maryland, from February 6-8, 2009, to address third-world immigration to the West, the alleged corollary between race and intelligence, and the "Islamic threat." Sponsored by a new group called "Preserving Western Civilization" (PWC), the conference's speakers include academics, grass roots activists, mainstream and conservative journalists, and a member of a far-right political party in…

January 22, 2009 Police officers in Brockton, Massachusetts, arrested a white supremacist after he allegedly killed two people and raped and attempted to kill a third.  The arrest pre-empted what authorities believe was a planned racially motivated killing spree directed at Jews and non-whites that would have continued later that evening. On January 21, 2009, Keith Luke, 22, allegedly forcibly entered the home of his former neighbors, armed with a gun. According to police, after…

January 21, 2009 Domestic extremists are suspected or known to have been involved in the killings of at least 11 people in the United States in 2008, according to an investigation by the Anti-Defamation League's Center on Extremism. This figure represents a minimum number of deaths, as it often takes years for connections between killings and extremism to be revealed.  Sometimes, especially in the case of murders behind prison walls, news of the killing never makes it to the public at all…

December 19, 2008 The financial scandal surrounding allegations that Bernard Madoff ran a $50 billion dollar Ponzi scheme has given anti-Semites fodder for their bigoted views. There has been a dramatic upsurge in anti-Semitic comments on a wide range of Web sites since the Madoff story broke in the news. Anti-Semitic reaction to the Madoff scandal was prevalent on some of the most popular newspaper sites, blogs and message boards on the Internet. Most of the anti-Semitic comments tended…