November 24, 2010 Occupation 101: Voices of the Silenced Majority is an anti-Israel propaganda film that provides a distorted historical overview of the Israeli-Arab conflict in order to portray Israel as the perennial aggressor and Palestinians as the eternal victim.
The film combines historical archival clips and interviews with prominent anti-Israel activists and pundits, including Paul Findley, the founder of the Council for the National Interest (CNI); Neta Golan, a co-founder of the…
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November 10, 2010 In 2010, a number of extremists ran for office, including white supremacists, anti-Semites and Holocaust deniers. Some of the white supremacists running had hopes of influencing their communities by advocating a racist and anti-Semitic agenda. Most did not think they could actually be elected, but sought the free publicity that comes with being a candidate. Often they did not take the time and expense to get on the ballot, but ran merely as write-in candidates.
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March 29, 2007
Police in Grants Pass, Oregon, arrested Kenneth George Snow Jr., 42, in connection with a stabbing incident involving two victims. Snow was charged with two counts of attempted murder. State and local police arrested Snow on March 21, 2007.
Snow, who also uses the aliases Dirk, Derrick Henderson, and Benito Juan Casados, has a variety of tattoos, some of them white supremacist, including the words "Weiss Macht," German for "white power," …
August 10, 2010
A series of nationwide arrests and indictments announced on the same day illustrate the efforts of a Somali terrorist group to recruit Americans and other English-speakers.
On August 5, 2010, federal authorities unsealed four separate indictments charging a total of 14 U.S. residents with providing material support to terrorists for their various connections to Al Shabaab, an Al Qaeda-linked terrorist organization based in Somalia. Two American women…
July 15, 2010
In its latest effort to reach Western audiences, Al Qaeda has released its first-ever English-language magazine that provides detailed bomb making instructions and calls on followers to "destroy" America.
The media wing of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), Al Qaeda's affiliate in Yemen and Saudi Arabia, released the inaugural issue of Inspire via the internet on July 11, 2010. While Al Qaeda has previously released English-language videos and statements,…
June 16, 2010 Racist and anti-Semitic lawyer Edgar J. Steele, best known for unsuccessfully defending the neo-Nazi group Aryan Nations in a lawsuit, pleaded not guilty after authorities arrested him for allegedly plotting to kill his wife and mother-in-law. Steele, 64, was charged on June 11 with hiring a hit man to kill the two women. According to the man, who informed the FBI about the plot, he was to kill the women in a car crash that would be made to look like an accident. The informant…
June 07, 2010 Two Americans who allegedly planned to kill American soldiers overseas are the latest in a wave of Americans traveling to Somalia to fight with an Al Qaeda-linked terrorist group.
A criminal complaint unsealed in a New Jersey federal court on June 6, 2010, charged Mohamed Mahmood Alessa, 20, and Carlos Eduardo Almonte, 24, with conspiring to kill, maim, and kidnap persons outside the United States. The men, who planned to travel to Somalia to fight with Al Shabaab, an Al…
by: Abraham H. Foxman | July 11, 2007 Jewish Telegraphic Agency NEW YORK (JTA) – With anti-Semitism resurgent in the world, one of the encouraging elements for the Jewish people, particularly if one is to compare things today to the 1930s and 1940s, is the remarkable change in the Catholic Church's attitudes toward Jews. In the past four decades, a conceptual revolution has taken place in the church's relationship with the Jewish people. The first step came with Vatican II and its…
May 21, 2010 The FBI has arrested Ron Edwards, leader of the Kentucky-based Imperial Klans of America (IKA), and his girlfriend, Christine Gillette, for possession and distribution of controlled substances, including hydrocodone and methamphetamine. Authorities also arrested a third person, Jeremy Katro, for marijuana possession.
Strong ties to racist skinheads
Edwards, who ran the IKA from a private compound in Powderly, Kentucky, is known for his outreach to racist skinheads via an…
May 09, 2013 On September 15, 2006, a federal judge in California sentenced two convicted leaders of the Aryan Brotherhood prison gang to life without parole, after jurors failed to reach a verdict on the proposed death penalty.
Chief Barry "The Baron" Mills, 57, and top lieutenant Tyler "The Hulk" Bingham, 59, were convicted in July of murder, racketeering and conspiracy. Mills was convicted of ordering the murders of a dozen people, six of which were carried out, and…
May 01, 2010
Background
Adam Gadahn (born Adam Pearlman) was born in 1978 in Oregon and grew up on a farm in Orange County, California. His parents reportedly changed their name to Gadahn in reference to Gideon, the Biblical warrior who defeated the enemies of Israel. Gadahn’s mother was raised Catholic. His father, born Jewish, grew up atheist and later converted to Christianity.
Gadahn and his three younger siblings were home-schooled and joined several Christian home…
April 09, 2010 Poker Face, an anti-government, anti-immigrant "Patriot" rock band based in Allentown, Pennsylvania, posted a press release to their Web site, questioning the government's motives in arresting members of the Hutaree Militia, an anti-government extremist group. The Hutaree Militia allegedly planned to carry out violent acts against law enforcement in order to spark a larger confrontation with the government. Hutaree had used one of Poker Face's songs in a training video on…
March 09, 2010 Racist William Johnson, a lawyer and the chairman of the recently created white supremacist party American Third Position (A3P), and Kevin MacDonald, an anti-Semitic professor of psychology and a director of A3P, have taken the helm of a group that was spearheaded by young racists.
These young racists initially formed a group called Freedom 14, whose members handed out fliers in Orange County and often posted to the white supremacist Internet forum Stormfront. On the forum,…
March 05, 2010 In early March 2010, a 36-year old man from California, John Patrick Bedell, drove east on a murderous mission. Reaching Washington D.C., by March 4, that evening he drove to the Pentagon, parked his car in a convenient parking garage, then walked to a heavily-used entrance guarded by a security checkpoint with two Pentagon police officers checking identification cards.
Bedell reached into his pocket, but instead of an ID card, he pulled out a 9mm semi-automatic pistol…
December 13, 2005 The neo-Nazi National Socialist Movement (NSM) held a rally in Toledo, Ohio, on December 10, 2005, in an effort to gain media attention and exploit racial tensions.
The hour-long rally at City Hall included 63 neo-Nazis, some in uniform. Bill White, a Virginia NSM member and owner of the anti-Semitic Overthrow.com Web site, said the rally included members of the Ku Klux Klan, Retaliator Skinhead Nation and the Creativity Movement.
Participants held placards, including…
February 04, 2010 Eustace Mullins, an anti-Semitic conspiracy theorist for over half a century, died on February 2, 2010, a month short of his 87th birthday. Throughout his life, Mullins produced numerous books, essays and articles and delivered scores of speeches and lectures with a common bigoted theme: that Jews are allegedly responsible for many of the problems and evils that have confronted the modern world. Ezra Pound, the well-known anti-Semitic poet, was reportedly Mullins's…
November 04, 2009 A much-forwarded e-mail message suggests the automaker Honda has produced video "advertisements" featuring the leader of Hezbollah and the President of Iran. The messages provide links to sites where the online videos may be downloaded and viewed.
In fact, the videos are not produced by Honda, and the company has assured ADL it had nothing to do with their creation or distribution. In response to inquiries about the ads,…
October 26, 2009 Jim Rizoli, an anti-immigrant activist and anti-Semite based in Framingham, Massachusetts, delivered a lengthy diatribe promoting Holocaust denial during the October 20, 2009 segment of his public access television show. Along with his twin brother Joe, Rizoli runs Concerned Citizens and Friends of Illegal Immigration Law Enforcement (CCFIILE), a group founded in 2003.
Mainly known for demonizing Brazilian immigrants in Framingham, Rizoli took more than ten minutes of his…
October 16, 2009 A jury in Orange County Superior Court in Santa Ana, California, convicted a member of a violent white supremacist gang of first-degree murder of a fellow gang member.
On September 14, 2009, the jury found Public Enemy Number One (PEN1) member Billy Joe Johnson, 46, guilty of conspiracy to commit murder and first-degree murder, the latter with the enhancements of murder by lying in wait and murder for the benefit of the gang, for the 2002 ambush slaying of a fellow PEN1…
by: Rabbi Gary Bretton-Granatoor | November 01, 2005 ADL In 1965, a committee of clerics composed a statement that triggered a revolutionary change in the bitter, blood-stained 2,000-year relationship between two peoples: Nostra Aetate, Latin for "In Our Time." Despite its brevity, the document has forever transformed the relationship between Roman Catholics and Jews. In several bold paragraphs, Nostra Aetate repudiates the ancient Christian charge against Jews as "Christ-killers" and…