January 12, 2007 Many scholars and experts on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict have strongly criticized Jimmy Carter's book, Palestine Peace Not Apartheid, for its distortions, misrepresentations, and one-sided arguments that blame Israel for the conflict while giving the Palestinians a pass. Yet the book is being celebrated in online white supremacist forums for its anti-Israel, conspiratorial and anti-Semitic propaganda value.  Some white supremacists in the United States have embraced…

January 12, 2007 The former leader of the Sharpsburg, Maryland-based World Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, who disbanded his group in November 2006 to join the neo-Nazi National Socialist Movement (NSM), is accused of forcing a child to perform oral sex on him. Gordon Creal Young, 40, of Sharpsburg, Maryland, was arrested on January 10, 2007, on seven criminal counts, including two counts each of second-degree assault and sex abuse of a minor, second-degree sex offense, and one count of…

January 11, 2007   Two high ranking members of the racist prison gang Aryan Brotherhood were convicted in Los Angeles, California, of federal racketeering charges stemming from six murders and three attempted assassinations. Robert Lee "Blinky" Griffin, 59, and John William “Youngster” Stinson, 52, were convicted on January 9 of conspiracy to commit racketeering, and committing violent acts in aid of racketeering.  Both men face life sentences without the…

October 16, 2006   Matthew C. Courtney, 34, a "major" in the white supremacist prison gang Aryan Brotherhood of Texas, was sentenced on October 6 to nearly 15 years in prison for his part in the 2005 theft of 26 guns. Courtney, of Midland, Texas, was convicted in federal court in July of conspiracy to possess and dispose of stolen firearms, being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm and possession of a stolen firearm.   He was accused of stealing the guns from a…

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…