by: Christopher Wolf | September 17, 2010 Haaretz Personal information in the wrong hands can cause serious harm. The founders of the European Union looked to the history of the Holocaust and saw what happened when data on Jews and other minorities were exploited in order to perpetrate genocide. With that history in mind, they drafted a comprehensive directive that every EU member state is required to implement, providing for a broad set of restrictions on the use of personal data by…

by: Michael Lieberman | July 08, 2010 Dissent Magazine Jesse Larner sounds a shrill alarm in his broadside against hate crime laws ("Hate Crime/Thought Crime," Spring 2010), raising a variety of seemingly dire libertarian, First Amendment, and slippery-slope arguments. Yet, despite the fact that federal and state hate crime laws have been on the books for forty years, he fails to illustrate his parade of horribles with a single actual case to demonstrate the kind of "policing of mind and…

August 30, 2011 Ten years after  9/11, antisemitic conspiracy theories surrounding the attacks are "alive and well" and fueled by an entrenched propaganda industry, according to the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), which today issued a new report showing how these theories have grown and evolved over the last decade. In "Decade of Deceit: Antisemitic 9/11 Conspiracy Theories 10 Years Later," ADL looks at the individuals who continue to circulate distorted conspiracy theories about 9/11,…

Compliance and Confrontation by: Victoria J. Barnett | January 01, 1998 Dimensions, Vol 12, No 2 Churches throughout Europe were mostly silent while Jews were persecuted, deported and murdered by the Nazis.  Churches, especially those  in Nazi Germany, sought to act, as institutions tend to do, in their own best interests -- narrowly defined, short-sighted interests. The list of "bystanders" -- those who declined to challenge the Third Reich in any way -- that emerges from any study…

July 19, 2011 A 21-year-old Pennsylvania man has been indicted on terror-related charges for allegedly using the Internet to encourage violence against Americans. Emerson Winfield Begolly, of New Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, was charged on July 14, 2011, with soliciting crimes of violence, including acts of terrorism, and with posting bomb-making materials online. Begolly had been arrested on January 4, 2011, and charged the next day with assaulting FBI agents and possessing a firearm…

June 16, 2011   A former Minnesota resident has been arrested in Ohio for providing material support to an Al Qaeda-linked militant group in Somalia. Ahmed Hussein Mahamud, a 26-year-old American of Somali descent, was arrested on June 10, 2011, in Columbus, Ohio, after being charged in Minneapolis, Minnesota, with supporting Al Shabaab, an Al Qaeda affiliated group seeking to establish an Islamic state in Somalia.  Mahamud, whose family moved to the U.S. when he was 15…

by: Jonathan Petropoulos | January 01, 1997 Dimensions, Vol 11, No 1 It is time for Switzerland, Sweden, Portugal and Spain to acknowledge that there were no truly neutral countries on the European continent during World War II. It is now time for those four nations to acknowledge that they were part of the Nazis' New Order and that they bear some responsibility for the tragic history of the Thirties and Forties. Neutrality, when practiced by nations, is not always neutral. It does not…

May 12, 2011   Two men suspected of plotting to attack a synagogue in New York City in the name of Jihad have been arrested in Manhattan. Ahmed Ferhani, 26, and Mohammad Mamdouh, 20, were arrested on May 11, 2011, after attempting to purchase weapons, including guns and a hand grenade, from an undercover officer during a sting operation. Both men were living in Queens. Ahmed Ferhani, a legal resident from Algeria, and Mohammad Mehdi Mamdouh, a naturalized U.S. citizen of…

May 02, 2011 Ismail Haniyeh, head of the Hamas administration in the Gaza Strip commenting on the killing of Osama Bin Laden, May 2, 2011 "We regard this as a continuation of the American policy based on oppression and the shedding of Muslim and Arab blood…We condemn the assassination and the killing of an Arab holy warrior. We ask God to offer him mercy with the true believers and the martyrs." Sermon delivered by 'Atallah Abu Al-Subh, former Hamas minister of culture, which…

by: Abraham H. Foxman | July 08, 2009 Fifteen years ago, the Jewish community of Argentina was heinously attacked when a car bomb exploded outside of the AMIA/DAIA building in Buenos Aires.  It was the single deadliest terrorist attack in the history of Argentina, the home to the largest Jewish community in Latin America. The horrific attack of July 18, 1994, which left 85 Argentinean citizens dead and hundreds more injured, sent shock waves around the world and through the global…

March 31, 2011   The American Front is a racist skinhead group that is active in several states around the country. The group espouses an anti-Semitic, white supremacist ideology and disseminates its message in public events that demonize Jews, immigrants, and other minorities. Although American Front is not particularly large, it is one of the oldest continuously active racist skinhead groups in the United States. However, few original members are still with the group; most of…

March 25, 2011 Operation Save America (OSA) is an organization with a three-pronged mission to demonize abortion, homosexuality and Islam, declaring that "all three have entered into a pact with death." The group, based in North Carolina and headed by Reverend Flip Benham, is characterized by its leaders as a non-denominational Christian organization. Since Spring 2010, OSA has exploited the controversy surrounding the proposed Islamic center near Ground Zero by renewing their efforts to…

February 11, 2011 A national speaking tour called "Never Again for Anyone," featuring two anti-Zionist Holocaust survivors and several other activists, is making stops in a dozen U.S. cities from January 24-February 19, 2011. In addition to scheduled stops at churches and other venues, the tour has already visited several universities on the East Coast and has planned appearances at several other campuses around the country. The agenda of the tour, which headlines Hajo Meyer, a Holocaust…

January 11, 2011 This document is an archived copy of an older ADL report and may not reflect the most current facts or developments related to its subject matter.   Jared Taylor founded The New Centrury Foundation, a self-styled white supremacist think tank known primarily for American Renaissance, its online journal. The journal promotes pseudo-scientific studies that attempt to demonstrate the intellectual and cultural superiority of whites and publishes articles on the…

January 10, 2011   Read ADL's comprehensive report, The Mindset of Jared Lee Loughner (PDF) In the wake of the horrific mass shooting in Tucson on January 8 that killed six people, including U.S. District Judge John M. Roll, and injured fourteen others, among them U.S. Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, speculation has understandably been intense over the possible motives of the suspected shooter, 22-year-old Jared Lee Loughner. Loughner's identified on-line writings and videos…

May 12, 2009 For the full version of the report, see Brenda Walker and Dan Amato: Anti-Immigrant Bloggers (PDF). As xenophobic groups and individuals continue to vilify undocumented immigrants, particularly Latinos, at rallies, in the media, and on their Web sites, some anti-immigrant figures are using blogs as a vehicle to showcase their bigotry towards immigrants. Some of these blogs are independent, while others are attached to well-established anti-immigrant Web sites. The bloggers'…

December 22, 2010 Hal Turner, a New Jersey-based white supremacist and former Internet radio host and blogger, received a 33-month prison sentence for making online threats against three federal judges in Illinois.  Turner's threats were a reaction to a 2009 ruling in the 7th U.S. Circuit of Appeals, in which the judges upheld handgun bans in Chicago and Oak Park. Authorities originally arrested Turner in June 2009, after he called the three Chicago judges "traitors" on his blog…

December 21, 2010 American Muslims for Palestine (AMP), which promotes extreme anti-Israel views and has at times provided a platform for anti-Semitism under the guise of educating Americans about "the just cause of Palestine and the rights of self-determination," is taking a more active role facilitating and coordinating anti-Israel activity on college campuses around the United States. For this effort, AMP has specifically identified Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), one of the…

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…

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. …