September 29, 2006   Two known members of the Texas Aryan Brotherhood, a racist prison gang, were charged on September 21, 2006, with capital murder in the death of a young Mansfield, Texas, woman.  The victim was the girlfriend of the group's Dallas area leader, Jason "Trooper" Hankins, and was allegedly killed for saying bad things about the Aryan Brotherhood.  Both of the men accused of the crime have criminal records.  Dale "Tiger" Clayton…

September 07, 2006 Five years after the devastating September 11 terrorist attacks in the United States, conspiracy theories about Jews' involvement in the events of that day continue to be promulgated through the Internet, publications, books and videos. Soon after the attacks, a number of conspiracy theorists on the far right and far left, as well as in the Muslim and Arab world, blamed the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad or the Israeli government for the attacks. Today, those theories…

August 18, 2006   Two white supremacist brothers pleaded guilty in federal court in mid-August to throwing swastika-etched rocks at Temple Beth Israel in Eugene, Oregon, during a religious service in 2002.  Both defendants are self-avowed white supremacists who admitted they sought to commit acts of violence against Jews, African-Americans, and members of other ethnic and racial groups. Jacob Laskey, 25, and Gabriel Laskey, 21, face a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison…

August 02, 2006 Four leaders of the Aryan Brotherhood prison gang were convicted of racketeering, murder and conspiracy charges on July 28, 2006. After two weeks of jury deliberations, Barry “The Baron” Mills and Tyler “The Hulk” Bingham, were found guilty of ordering attacks against Black inmates from their maximum security cells. Two lower level leaders, Christopher Overton Gibson and Edgar “Snail” Hevle, were convicted of conspiring to murder Black…

July 31, 2006   One woman was killed and 5 others wounded in a shooting at the Jewish Federation building in downtown Seattle on July 28, 2006. Naveed Afzal Haq, a 30-year-old U.S. citizen of Pakistani descent, surrendered to authorities in the building about 12 minutes after the shooting began.  The Federation's assistant director was killed and five other women injured.  One of the injured women was five months pregnant. Haq, who allegedly forced his way through a…

July 27, 2006   A San Diego jury recommended a death sentence for an Orange County racist skinhead convicted of murdering two parking lot attendants in 1999. Jeffrey Scott Young, 32, was earlier convicted of murdering a man and a woman seven years ago at the Five Star Park Shuttle & Fly parking lot. The bodies of booth operator Teresa Perez, 31, and manager Jack Reynolds, 44, were found on the floor of a business trailer in July 1999 after an apparent botched robbery. …

June 19, 2006   An admitted racist since the age of 12, Matt Hale became one of the most effective and best-known leaders of the far right after he became head of the World Church of the Creator (as it was then known) in 1996. Under Hale's PR-savvy guidance the group regularly gained publicity for its activities and for the violent incidents associated with its members. A 1999 decision by the State of Illinois to reject Hale's application for a law license, due to his past "conduct,"…

May 23, 2006 This report exposes the growing rage of white supremacists, neo-Nazis and other racists toward immigrants, particularly Hispanics. A number of extremist groups have held anti-immigrant events and protests and racheted up their hateful rhetoric toward immigrants. In addition, racists have targeted Hispanics in a number of violent incidents. Read the full report, Extremists Declare 'Open Season' on Immigrants (PDF). OVERVIEW As the public debate…

May 08, 2006 An e-mail rumor long circulated on the Internet suggests that the maker of Vans skateboarding shoes is anti-Jewish because some of their shoes come with a pattern resembling a Star of David on a portion of their outsole (bottom).  Some of the more conspiracy-minded e-mails suggest that this pattern was created by the company to put Jews down ("step on Jews") or that the company was "founded by neo-Nazis." ADL has concluded that there is no truth to any of these…

April 21, 2006 A member of the Aryan Brotherhood has been sentenced to life in prison for his role in the shooting death of a sheriff’s deputy in Oklahoma four years ago. A Tulsa jury sentenced James Craig Taylor, 39, in March 2006 in connection with the October 2001 death of Pawnee County Sheriff’s Deputy Dwight Woodrell, Jr. The jury also found Taylor guilty of a firearm violation  Taylor and his co-defendant, Justin…

March 24, 2006 The article by John J. Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago and Stephen M. Walt of the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, entitled "The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy" would not be taken seriously if not for the reputations and associations of the authors. They have each written respected scholarly works on government and international relations and occupy important positions at their universities. The article itself, which was first posted in full on the…

March 13, 2006 A series of trials against the Aryan Brotherhood prison gang is scheduled to begin in three federal courtrooms in Los Angeles and Santa Ana, California, in the coming weeks. The capital case, the largest filed in U.S. history, spans three decades and involves 32 murders and attempted murders in prisons around the country. A six year federal investigation led to a 140-page indictment alleging that leaders of the Aryan Brotherhood conspired to murder fellow inmates who cheated…

March 09, 2006   A white supremacist fugitive wanted in Michigan for allegedly raping his ex-girlfriend has been captured in Florida.  Joel Dufresne, wanted in Michigan on 21 counts of sexual assault, was hiding in Orange Park, Florida, before surrendering to U.S. Marshals on February 27, 2006, according to authorities.  “Reverend” Dufresne, a prominent member of the white supremacist Creativity Movement, allegedly raped his girlfriend multiple times before…

November 11, 2005 Lamb and Lynx Gaede, adolescent twin girls who make up the band Prussian Blue, have gained recognition in white supremacist circles while preteens by singing about preserving the white race and Nazi heroes. Prussian Blue is the name of the blue residue left over by the use of Zyklon B, the poison the Nazis employed to kill millions of Jews and others in concentration camps during World War II.  The two girls learned their white supremacist ideology from their mother…

September 27, 2005 A Tulsa, Oklahoma, jury convicted a father and son of first-degree murder and attempted armed robbery for a deadly bank robbery carried out to finance violent acts against the government. Wade Lay, 44, and Christopher Lay, 20, were convicted on September 26, 2005, for attempting to rob the Mid-First bank in Tulsa on May 24, 2004, and killing a security guard during the attempt.  During the trial, both defendants admitted to the robbery, which was caught on videotape…

September 26, 2005 A member of the Jewish Defense League (JDL) has been sentenced to 20 years in prison two years after pleading guilty to his role in Los Angeles-area bomb plot. Earl Krugel, 62, the JDL’s former West Coast Coordinator, pleaded guilty to conspiracy and weapons violations stemming from a 2001 plot to bomb the San Clemente office of Rep. Darrell Issa, Lebanese-American Republican congressman, and the King Fahd Mosque in Culver City. Krugel’s co-defendant, JDL…

September 15, 2005 An Ohio woman has pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Cleveland to buying weapons for the Aryan Brotherhood prison gang. Lori Goodrich, 30, of Eastlake, purchased weapons, including a .38-caliber revolver and a .45-caliber pistol, on behalf of James R. Blomquist, an alleged member of the Aryan Brotherhood, according to the federal indictment. Blomquist was apparently unable to buy the guns for himself because of prior criminal convictions. U.S. Attorney Nancy…

September 09, 2005 White supremacists continue to use the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina to spread anti-Semitic conspiracy theories and to promote their racist agenda and hateful worldview.  Within days of the destruction, white supremacists communicating to each other on the Internet had incorporated Hurricane Katrina into their standard racist and anti-Semitic conspiracy theory that Jews are controlling and manipulating the government to use African-Americans to destroy the white race. …

September 02, 2005 Three racist skinheads have been charged for their role in attacking Temple Beth Israel in Eugene, Oregon, three years ago; one of the defendants is also charged with solicitation to kill potential witnesses.  Jacob Albert Laskey, 25, his brother Gabriel Doyle Laskey, 20, and Gerald Anthony Poundstone, 27, are all charged with conspiracy to violate civil rights for shattering windows at the temple, which at the time was conducting religious services for 80 people,…

August 10, 2005 An anti-government extremist was executed in Alabama’s Holman prison for the brutal shooting death of Opelika, Alabama, police sergeant Roger Motley. George Sibley, Jr., 62, and his common-law wife, Lynda Lyon Block, shot Motley to death in a Wal-Mart parking lot in Opelika in 1993.  Both were active members of extreme right-wing tax protest and sovereign citizen movements in central Florida, which was a hotbed of such activity at the time. The shooting…