June 21, 2013 David Duke, perhaps America's most well-known racist and anti-Semite, promotes anti-Semitic and white supremacist views as the leader of the white supremacist European American Unity and Rights Organization, as a writer of anti-Semitic tracts, and, in recent years, as an international figure who has promoted his anti-Jewish ideology in Europe and the Middle East, devoting particular attention to Russia and the Ukraine. Duke has been active in the white supremacy movement for…

by: Abraham H. Foxman | May 04, 2015 The Jewish Week Following the devastating earthquake in Nepal, stories began to appear about the State of Israel sending a large medical team to the area. This is not an unusual story. Whenever natural disasters occur, Israeli experts are among the first and among the most competent on the scene. This is a product of several factors. First, a national Israeli ethic that does not draw enough attention of being a "light unto nations" — being a force…

by: Abraham H. Foxman | April 21, 2015 MSNBC.com FBI Director James Comey opened an old historical wound last week when he delivered a speech at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum referring to the “murderers and accomplices of Germany, and Poland, and Hungary, and so many, many other places” during World War II. The president of Poland, Bronislaw Komorowski, called Mr. Comey’s remarks “an insult to thousands of Poles who helped Jews.” The people of Poland, which…

April 06, 2015 On April 2, 2015, the P5+1 (the US, UK, China, Russia, France and Germany – with EU facilitation) announced a framework agreement, setting the parameters for a final Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) agreement with Iran over its nuclear program. The parameters, which emerged after an intense eight-day period of negotiations in Lausanne, Switzerland, and followed two years of talks between the world powers and Iran, create a basis for negotiations over a final…

March 27, 2015 Twenty years ago, on April 19, 1995, Timothy McVeigh detonated a massive truck bomb in front of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City.  This attack, which killed 168 men, women and children and injured hundreds more, remains the worst act of domestic (as opposed to international) terrorism in United States history.  The immediate impact of the bombing was obvious.  The attack not only caused death and destruction but created a storm of media coverage…

March 25, 2015 Read ADL's full report, Vigilante Justice: Militias and “Common Law Courts” Wage War Against the Government. (PDF) In recognition of the 20th anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing, the ADL is making available select reports from 1994-1997, the era when the Oklahoma City bombing occurred. This report describes circumstances in the mid-1990s, not the present day. In the 1997 report Vigilante Justice, ADL surveyed anti-government extremists in…

March 25, 2015 For the whole report:  April 19, 1995:  The History of the Oklahoma City Bombing (PDF). When the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, President Franklin Roosevelt declared it “a date that will live in infamy.”  Roosevelt was right; some dates do live on in infamy.  No one who has lived through the 9/11 terrorist attacks in 2001—attacks actually designated by their date—can deny that. April 19, 1995, was also such a…

by: Bloeme Evers-Emden, Ph.D. | January 02, 2013 Among the many terrible measures the Nazis took against the Jews, the worst consequence was the disintegration of the family, especially the separation of children from their parents. When the deportations of the Dutch Jews began in July 1942, most people went, trusting that they could survive. But when the Germans' methods became more and more brutal, it was understood that something terrible was going on. Starting in the autumn of 1942…

February 17, 2015 Read what ADL has discovered about homegrown Islamic extremism and the influence of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS or ISIL). This new report from ADL's Center on Extremism provides information on: Americans implicated in terror-related activity How terrorist groups such as ISIS and Al Qaeda leverage social media to recruit Americans The role of anti-Semitism in terrorist narratives Americans Implicated in Terror-Related Activity At least 17…

February 02, 2015 2015 began with heinous attacks in Paris by Islamic extremists directly targeting Jews and those perceived to be treating Islam inappropriately.  Two gunmen, brothers Chérif and Saïd Kouachi, attacked the offices of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo on January 9, killing 11 members of the staff and a policeman.  Two days later, on January 11, a friend of the Kouachis,   Amedy Coulibaly, went into a HyperCacher supermarket – at the…

by: Kenneth Jacobson | January 31, 2015 Santa Cruz Sentinel The latest strategy being used by those who make a career of assaulting the good name of the state of Israel is to link the issue of full equality for African-Americans, as symbolized by the word “Ferguson,” with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The most recent egregious example of this took place in Santa Cruz at an event on Jan. 28 commemorating Martin Luther King Jr. sponsored by UC Santa Cruz. The announced speaker…

by: Kenneth Jacobson | January 20, 2015 JTA The latest strategy being used by those who make a career of assaulting the good name of the State of Israel is to link the issue of full equality for African-Americans, as symbolized by the word “Ferguson,” with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. There is a long history of using legitimate American social justice issues to undermine the Jewish state. We saw it during the Vietnam War, where small contingents linked opposition to the war to…

November 20, 2014 I am honored to be in Sofia today, together with the Anti-Defamation League’s top leadership, at the invitation of President Plevneliev, who was our guest in Washington last year, as a headline speaker at our major event to celebrate ADL’s 100th anniversary.    ADL plays an active role in international affairs and we meet with many presidents, prime ministers, and foreign ministers.  We could have invited the German Chancellor, the French…

November 18, 2014 Read the full report here: Khalid Muhammad In His Own Words (PDF). Khalid Muhammad died on February 17, 2001 from the effects of a brain aneurysm. Prior to his death, his words and deeds had been the focus of increasing public attention. A former national spokesman for the Nation of Islam (NOI), Muhammad was exceedingly confrontational in his rhetoric. His supporters viewed his hateful diatribes as expressions of rage that traditional Black leaders were unable or…

November 10, 2014 A few days before Halloween, many residents of Prattville, Alabama, woke to find their front doors and yards festooned with racist fliers in plastic bags weighted down with rocks, courtesy of the Missouri-based Traditionalist American Knights of the Ku Klux Klan (TAK).   “The TAK of the KKK is a pro-White, Christian organization,” the fliers began. “We are dedicated to preserving our race, our heritage and our American way of life.” …

November 10, 2014 List current as of November 10, 2014 2014 October 28, 2014. Prattville, Alabama. Fliering by the Traditionalist American Knights of the Ku Klux Klan (TAK). October 24, 2014. Bentonville, Arkansas. Fliering by the TAK. October 16, 2014. Van Zandt County, Texas. Fliering by the Texas Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. October 12, 2014. Hamilton, Ohio. Fliering by the TAK. October 10, 2014. St. Louis and Jefferson Counties, Missouri. Fliering by the TAK. October 8,…

October 24, 2014 For a print-friendly version of the report, please see: Anti-Israel Activity on Campus After Operation Protective Edge (PDF) Student groups seeking to isolate and delegitimize Israel, to stifle dialogue and control the message about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict have organized activities on college and university campuses for several years. These efforts polarize campuses, inflame existing tensions and intimidate students. In light of the previous academic year…