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…

October 29, 2008 In 1965, it was determined that Israel’s infrastructure was strong enough to support relief programs for children and Israel switched from being a recipient of UNICEF aid to a donor to UNICEF assistance programs.  Indeed, when UNICEF received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1965, Zena Harman, who had been Israel’s representative to UNICEF and at the time was UNICEF’s chairperson, received the award on behalf of the organization. Since that time, UNICEF has…

October 24, 2008 Read the full report here: Financial Crisis Sparks Wave of Internet Anti-Semitism (PDF). As the financial crisis continues to affect markets around the world, anti-Semites are still using it to promote conspiracy theories about Jewish involvement in the crisis, and anti-Semitic statements and other anti-Jewish messages are appearing on a daily basis on financial Internet discussion groups and on websites and blogs both in the U.S. and abroad. The crisis has also given…

October 23, 2008   A federal jury in Waco, Texas, sentenced white supremacist Robert Allen Byrd, 34, of Keene, Texas, to life in prison without parole for the kidnapping and murder of a 39-year-old Kemp woman in 2006. The jury deliberated approximately 90 minutes before convicting Byrd of capital murder on October 15, 2008.  The jury found Byrd, a "captain" in the Aryan Circle racist prison gang, guilty of beating and stabbing the woman to death. …

September 05, 2008 The California Supreme Court unanimously upheld the first death sentence for a hate crime in the state. The Court's ruling against Gunner Jay Lindberg, 33, was handed down on August 28, 2008, 12 years after he brutally murdered a 24-year-old Vietnamese immigrant in Tustin, California. In 1997, an Orange County Superior Court jury convicted Lindberg of murder in the first degree with the special circumstances of both a hate-crime and attempted robbery; the judge…

August 18, 2008 Carl Knorr, a member of the Aryan Brotherhood racist prison gang, pleaded guilty to three charges at a federal court in Riverside, California, on July 25, 2008.  Knorr pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter, possession of a dangerous weapon in a federal facility, and possession of contraband alcohol in prison. In accordance with the plea arrangement, Knorr will receive 11 ½ years in federal prison at his sentencing in October.  The crimes were…

January 12, 2009 A much-forwarded e-mail rumor suggests that the popular video-sharing site YouTube is trying to remove videos posted to a page created by the Israel Defense Forces to show Israel's recent military operations against Hamas in Gaza. There is no truth to this rumor.

July 23, 2008   A jury in San Francisco convicted Eric Hunt, 24, of felony false imprisonment as a hate crime, misdemeanor battery, and misdemeanor elder abuse for his attack against noted author, Holocaust survivor, and Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel. The jury found Hunt, a resident of Sussex County, New Jersey, guilty on July 21, 2008, after hearing two weeks of testimony, including Wiesel's account of the attack and details regarding Hunt's mental health and Holocaust denial…

July 11, 2008 More than a year after a co-defendant pleaded guilty to double murder charges, a fellow racist skinhead followed suit at his hearing on May 23, 2008, in Florida. Charles Marovskis, 29, recently from West Pittston, Pennsylvania, but originally from Tampa, Florida, pleaded guilty to two federal charges of second-degree murder in connection with the 1998 beating death of two Florida homeless men. On March 7, 2007, co-defendant and fellow racist skinhead Kenneth Hoover, 34,…

July 10, 2008 A jury in Orange County sentenced Michael Lamb, 33, a member of the violent white supremacist gang Public Enemy Number One (PEN1) to death on June 11, 2008, for the murder of a fellow PEN1 member.  Lamb, and co-defendant and fellow PEN1 member Jacob Anthony Rump were convicted on July 10 of murdering Scott Miller, a founding member of the gang, after Miller appeared on a local television news program to speak about the group.  Lamb was eligible for the death…

June 21, 2013 Read the entire report, Alex Curtis: 'Lone Wolf' of Hate Prowls the Internet (PDF). The Revolutionary Type Although white supremacists struggle to achieve a racially homogeneous society in America, their methods may differ considerably: some are separatists, isolating themselves from people who are different, more or less happy as long as they can be left alone. Others try to work within the system, appropriating mainstream conservative anxieties over immigration,…

June 20, 2008 David Dees, a Louisville, Kentucky-based graphic artist, has found a large audience for his anti-Semitic and conspiratorial art. This artwork has been circulated on extremist email groups, published on the Websites of 9/11 conspiracy theorists and turned into videos posted on YouTube and other Websites. A biography of Dees posted to his Website claims that his images are "an attempt to wake others up about the onslaught of the elite's power hungry world government plan of…

June 17, 2008 Authorities in Phoenix, Arizona, have charged a white supremacist inmate with the murder of another inmate at the Fourth Avenue Jail in Maricopa County. Pete Van Winkle, 26, a member of the Aryan Brotherhood racist prison gang, allegedly beat to death fellow prisoner Robert Leroy Cotton, 28, on May 1, 2008. It has been reported that Cotton was also once an Aryan Brotherhood member, but had recently renounced his affiliation. The men were in housing for dangerous inmates,…

June 13, 2008   A Maricopa County, Arizona, judge has sentenced the last of four racist skinhead defendants for their role in the attempted murder of one of their own gang members in 2006.  Kelly Ann Harkins, 29, received an 18-year sentence on June 3, 2008, after pleading guilty to attempted first-degree murder. In January 2006, four members of the Arizona Northern America Skinheads/SS Guardians, a loosely organized racist skinhead group, took Amanda Crow, a 19-year-old…

June 13, 2008 A Philadelphia Common Pleas Court jury convicted a racist skinhead of conspiracy to commit murder and firearms violations in the 1989 slaying of an African-American man, but acquitted him on a more serious charge. The jury handed down the verdict against Thomas Gibison, 37, of Newark, Delaware, on June 3, 2008, after three days of deliberations. On April 16, 1989, a 33-year-old African-American man was found dead from a single gunshot to the head in North Philadelphia…