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,…
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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…
September 30, 2009 An e-mail rumor claims the Spanish fashion store chain Zara "has been openly anti-Semitic for a long time," and that "now they are selling bags with swastikas on them." The much-forwarded message includes a photo of a handbag with colorful flowers and a green swastika sewn on one corner.
The suggestion that Zara is "anti-Semitic" is false. And the "bags with swastikas" reference involves an isolated incident that Zara's parent company quickly remedied two…
August 13, 2009 Officers with the Norfolk Police Department arrested a white supremacist for vandalizing numerous Virginia synagogues in April 2009.
On August 9, 2009, officers arrested John Edward Grogan, 29, formerly of Florida, and more recently of Waynesboro, Virginia.
Grogan has numerous visible tattoos, including the white supremacist acronym ROA, which stands for "race over all" and is the slogan of Volksfront, a neo-Nazi group most prominent in the Pacific Northwest, but which…
July 30, 2009 Starting in the spring of 2009, a number of right-wing extremist groups and individuals have begun using Twitter, a popular new Internet messaging tool, to broadcast their racist and anti-Semitic views. Twitter users write short lines of text up to 140 characters in length, called "tweets" by the service's creators, which allow users to broadcast short messages quickly to a number of people at once.
The service began in 2006 and has become increasingly popular over the past…
July 14, 2009
Following a seven week trial, a federal jury in Las Vegas has convicted five members of the Aryan Warriors racist prison gang of drug and racketeering violations.
On July 6, 2009, the jury convicted James "Gargoyle" Wallis, 48, Robert Young, 31, Kenneth Russell "Yum Yum" Krum, 49, and Charles Gensemer, 45, of racketeering conspiracy charges, which included numerous acts of murder, attempted murder, extortion, operating an illegal gambling business, identity theft…
by: Abraham H. Foxman | January 23, 2005 The Palm Beach Post Now I understand. The recently discovered document in which the Vatican instructed its representatives in France after World War II to prevent baptized Jewish children from being returned to their families, finally makes clear to me what happened to me as a "Hidden Child" after the war. Like the many thousands of Jews who probably were saved because Catholic individuals, families and institutions chose to take in Jewish children…
June 25, 2009 A judge in Kern County, California, has sentenced two members of the Oildale Peckerwoods racist skinhead gang to state prison for their recent violent actions in a local park.
On May 30, officers with the Kern County Sheriff's Department arrested four alleged racist skinheads after an altercation at the Kern River in Bakersfield. The men were each charged with assault with a deadly weapon, a hate crime and gang participation. Three of the victims were hospitalized as a result…
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 …
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…