October 30, 2004 Aryan Nations/Church of Jesus Christ Christian was one of the country's best-known enclaves of anti-Semitism and white nationalism. While founded as a Christian Identity outpost, the organization also incorporated neo-Nazi themes; its founder and longtime leader, Richard Girnt Butler, openly adulated Hitler. Recent years have not been kind to Aryan Nations. Bankrupted by a lawsuit from a mother and son who were assaulted by Aryan Nations guards, the group lost its Idaho…

September 28, 2004 A self-proclaimed Neo-Nazi and leader of Aryan Nations in Reno, Nevada, was arrested and charged with mailing e-mail threats to Jews, government officials, law enforcement officers, media and others in Nevada and California. Steven Holten, 40, was arrested September 22, 2004, on a federal charge of transmitting a threat by interstate commerce. In his email, Holten allegedly threatened that Aryan Nations of Reno would take "terrorist actions" against people and groups on…

September 09, 2004 For nearly three decades, "Reverend" Richard Butler led Aryan Nations and the Church of Jesus Christ Christian -- the nation's most well-known bastion of neo-Nazism and Christian Identity. During the past few years, however, Butler's tenure was fraught with upheaval and uncertainty. In the fall of 2000, with membership already on the decline, both he and Aryan Nations were bankrupted by a lawsuit (stemming from an assault by the group's guards). Butler was forced to…

July 15, 2004 Sheriff's deputies from Riverside County, California, have captured a white supremacist fugitive from Utah, 24-year-old Curtis Michael Allgier.  Allgier was the Utah Department of Corrections' most wanted escaped parolee. According to authorities, Allgier is a white supremacist who has associated with members of various Utah-based racist prison gangs, including Soldiers of the Aryan Culture, Silent Aryan Warriors, and 4th Reich.  He also allegedly has connections to…

July 13, 2004 Three of the most active Christian Identity groups in the U.S. are planning three separate events in Montana and Idaho on the weekend of July 16-18, 2004.  Collectively, these events are expected to gather most of the major Christian Identity figures from around the country.  Christian Identity is a racist and anti-Semitic religious sect that figures prominently in right-wing extremist groups and movements in the U.S. America's Promise Ministries and Aryan Nations…

July 12, 2004 Right-wing extremist Stephen John Jordi has been sentenced to five years in federal prison after being convicted for plotting to blow up gay bars, abortion clinics and churches.  Authorities say Jordi had hoped to emulate alleged bomber Eric Rudolph after the latter's May 2003 arrest. The sentence was handed down on July 8, 2004, in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, by U.S. District Judge James Cohn.  Judge Cohn rejected prosecutors' request that Jordi be sentenced under a…

June 10, 2004   A white supremacist convicted for his role in the brutal killing of a homeless man in Tacoma, Washington, will serve a term of life in prison for the crime. Kurtis William Monschke, 20, an avowed white supremacist with admitted links to the white supremacist group Volksfront, was sentenced on June 4, 2004, in Pierce County Superior Court after a jury found him guilty of aggravated first-degree murder for his involvement in the murder of Randall Mark Townsend. …

April 28, 2004   The U.S. District Court in Macon, Georgia, sentenced Dwight "Malachi" York, the founder of the anti-government United Nuwaubian Nation of Moors, to 135 years in federal prison on child molestation and racketeering charges. The United Nuwaubian Nation of Moors (originally the Nubian Islamic Hebrews) is a predominantly African-American, pseudo-religious group with a history of promoting racist and anti-government beliefs. York, 58, was found guilty of 10 counts…

April 26, 2004 Sean Michael Gillespie, a reputed member of the neo-Nazi group Aryan Nations, was arrested in Russellville, Arkansas, on April 16, 2004, for allegedly trying to firebomb a synagogue in Oklahoma City two weeks earlier. Gillespie, 20, is accused of throwing a Molotov cocktail at Temple B'Nai Israel on April 1, 2004. The incendiary device caused only minor damage. He was arrested two weeks later at a fast food restaurant in Russellville, Arkansas, by FBI agents, Arkansas State…

February 18, 2004 On February 13, 2004, Stephen John Jordi, a thirty-five-year-old former Army Ranger from Coconut Creek, Florida, charged with planning a terrorist bombing campaign, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to one count of attempted firebombing. As part of the plea agreement, prosecutors dropped two other charges against Jordi, including distributing explosives information and possession of an unregistered silencer. Jordi was arrested in Miami Beach on November 11, 2003,…

February 13, 2004 On February 12, 2004, a solider with the U.S. National Guard, Ryan Gibson Anderson, was arrested at Fort Lewis in Washington for allegedly attempting to spy on behalf of Al Qaeda. According to military officials, Anderson is suspected of attempting to share information, through a chat room on the Internet, about U.S. military and weapons capabilities with people whom he thought were associated with Al Qaeda. However, the chat room was monitored by law enforcement…

February 03, 2004 An image purporting to be an advertisement for Nike shoes, which has been circulated widely by e-mail, shows the aftermath of an apparent suicide bombing in Israel. A bloody shoe lies in the foreground. The text, appearing next to Nike's trademark swoosh symbol, reads: "You may not survive the blast. But your shoes will." This ad is an obvious forgery. ADL has been in contact with Nike. The company has received a number of inquiries from members of the public questioning…

December 16, 2003 Rumors about the alleged Nazi "ties" of the late Prescott Bush, the grandfather of President George W. Bush, have circulated widely through the Internet in recent years. These charges are untenable and politically motivated. Despite some early financial dealings between Prescott Bush and a Nazi industrialist named Fritz Thyssen (who was arrested by the Nazi regime in 1938 and imprisoned during the war), Prescott Bush was neither a Nazi nor a Nazi sympathizer.

September 05, 2003 Marty Laine Foakes, aka Marty Donohue, allegedly a key figure in the Aryan Brotherhood (AB), a violent racist prison gang, was arrested near San Francisco on September 3, 2003, after her location was discovered during a drug investigation in the Bay Area. The Aryan Brotherhood, founded in 1964, is one of the most well-known prison gangs in the United States, heavily involved in running the illegal drug trade in many prisons. It combines the racism and anti-Semitism of…

January 01, 2003   Christian Identity is a religious ideology popular in extreme right-wing circles. Adherents believe that whites of European descent can be traced back to the "Lost Tribes of Israel." Many consider Jews to be the Satanic offspring of Eve and the Serpent, while non-whites are "mud peoples" created before Adam and Eve. Its virulent racist and anti-Semitic beliefs are usually accompanied by extreme anti-government sentiments. Despite its small size, Christian Identity…

December 13, 2002 Growing support for Iraq among far-right extremists in Germany and Austria is cause for increasing concern. The nexus of support for Iraq centers around Joerg Haider, the Austrian far-right politician and Freedom Party head, who has made three trips to Iraq thus far. Haider met with Saddam Hussein and the two reportedly discussed the "Zionist and US conspiracy" against Iraq. Along with other members of his Freedom Party, Haider is a member of the Austrian-Iraqi Society,…

October 03, 2002 A recent "news item" posted on several Web sites and circulated via e-mail alleges that basketball legend Michael Jordan was recently criticized by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and others for wearing a black armband to show solidarity with the Palestinians. The report reads as if it were a news story, yet has no validity or truth whatsoever. The quotes attributed to an ADL spokesperson are fabricated. One version of the e-mail, which has been posted on a Muslim…

August 05, 2002   Erich Gliebe succeeded William Pierce as Chairman of the neo-Nazi National Alliance (NA) following Pierce's death in July 2002. Prior to his ascendancy, Gliebe, 39, managed the white power music label Resistance Records, which is owned by the NA, and led the NA's largest regional unit, located in Cleveland.   Read the full report, Extremism in America: Erich Gliebe - “The Aryan Barbarian” (PDF).    

January 01, 2002   Dan Gayman, a former high school principal, leads the Schell City, Missouri-based Church of Israel, and is widely regarded as one of the theological leaders of the Christian Identity movement. He has popularized the “two seedline” theory -- widely accepted among Identity adherents -- which purports that Jews descend from a sexual union between Eve and Satan (only white Christians descend from Adam and Eve). He has been credited with inspiring such groups…

December 01, 2001   Willis Carto has been one of the most influential American anti-Semitic propagandists of the past 50 years. Since emerging as a right-wing organizer in San Francisco in the early 1950s, he has been associated with nearly every significant far-right movement in the country, from neo-Nazism to militias, segregationism to Holocaust denial. Known for his reclusiveness, he has founded and overseen from behind the scenes an intricate network of bigotry whose outlets have…