For Law Enforcement 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. The Creativity Movement was one of the most notorious hate groups in the 1990s, gaining publicity for its rapid growth and the violent incidents with which it was associated. Originally founded by Ben Klassen in 1973 as Church of the Creator, the organization fell into disarray in the mid-1990s following the criminal convictions…
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For Law Enforcement 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. Since their beginnings as a skinhead gang in the California Youth Authority, the Nazi Low Riders have developed into a racist, violently criminal organization active both on the streets and in prison. Much of the group's rise to power can be attributed to its alliance with another, older prison gang, the Aryan Brotherhood. This…
For Law Enforcement 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. In decline since the 2002 death of founder William Pierce, the National Alliance has been barely functioning since the spring of 2005 when the group underwent a split in its ranks. Constant infighting directed against the leadership of Erich Gliebe, who took over the Alliance after Pierce died, and Shaun Walker (who had been the…
For Law Enforcement 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. Recent years have not been kind to Aryan Nations, once the country's most well-known neo-Nazi outpost. Bankrupted by a lawsuit from a mother and son who were assaulted by Aryan Nations guards, the group lost its Idaho compound in 2001. Though he continued to serve as Aryan Nations’ leader, Richard Butler suffered the…
October 03, 2012 Abraham H. Foxman, National Director of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) since 1987, is world-renowned as a leader in the fight against anti-Semitism, bigotry and discrimination. He is the co-author of Viral Hate: Containing Its Spread on the Internet (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013) and author of Jews & Money: The Story of a Stereotype (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), The Deadliest Lies: The Israel Lobby and the Myth of Jewish Control (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007) and Never Again? The…
October 03, 2012 MARVIN D. NATHAN
National Chair
Marvin Nathan, elected National Chair of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) in October 2015, has been actively involved with ADL for more than three decades. An attorney and community leader in Houston, Mr. Nathan has held a series of national leadership positions with ADL, including service as Southwest Region Board Chair. Since 1999, he has been a member of ADL’s National Commission and National Executive Committee, the League&rsquo…
October 03, 2012 MARVIN D. NATHAN
National Chair
Marvin Nathan, elected National Chair of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) in October 2015, has been actively involved with ADL for more than three decades. An attorney and community leader in Houston, Mr. Nathan has held a series of national leadership positions with ADL, including service as Southwest Region Board Chair. Since 1999, he has been a member of ADL’s National Commission and National Executive Committee, the League&rsquo…
October 03, 2012 The Anti-Defamation League was founded in 1913 "to stop the defamation of the Jewish people and to secure justice and fair treatment to all." Now the nation's premier civil rights/human relations agency, ADL fights anti-Semitism and all forms of bigotry, defends democratic ideals and protects civil rights for all.
A leader in the development of materials, programs and services, ADL builds bridges of communication, understanding and respect among diverse groups, carrying…
October 03, 2012
The Anti-Defamation League was founded in 1913 "to stop the defamation of the Jewish people and to secure justice and fair treatment to all." Now the nation's premier civil rights/human relations agency, ADL fights anti-Semitism and all forms of bigotry, defends democratic ideals and protects civil rights for all.
A leader in the development of materials, programs and services, ADL builds bridges of communication, understanding and respect among diverse groups, carrying…
September 24, 2012 The growing interaction between Iranian and Latin American governments is a troubling development. The following resources shed light on those relations.
Press Center
¿Qué está en juego con Irán?
Iran’s Hispan TV Follows Press TV’s Footsteps With Live Stream On YouTube
Marking The Anniversary Of Hezbollah’s Bombing In Panama
On 19th Anniversary of Argentina Terror Attack, Iran Continues to Deny its Culpability …
September 10, 2012 Many school-based activities designed to promote leadership skills in youth fail to provide students with practical opportunities to develop and implement transferable skills in leadership. To be effective leaders, youth need opportunities to develop and practice these skills within a context that has personal meaning and relevance to them. As Peer Leaders, students learn about social justice issues through comprehensive training designed to address the specific…
September 10, 2012 ArgentinaJuly 21, 2010 – Junin -- Anti-Semitic graffiti was spray painted at the local offices of the political party Coalicion Civica Reencuentro, with swastikas and the words “Death to the Jew,” an apparent reference to the president of the party, who is Jewish. The incident followed a death threat received by the party president days earlier.
July 20, 2010 – Corrientes -- Swastikas were spray-painted on the door of the residence of a Jewish former…
September 08, 2012 November 15, 2014. St. Cloud, Minnesota. Sovereign Citizen Seminar. Seminar organized by David Wynn Miller, a sovereign citizen. December 5-7, 2014. Kansas City area, Missouri. Militia Training. Paramilitary training organized by the Missouri Militia 1st Battalion/3rd Brigade.
December 5-7, 2014. Bainbridge, Ohio. White Supremacist Gathering. Weekend gathering organized by an Aryan Nations faction.
December 5-7, 2014. Michigan. Militia Training. Paramilitary training…
September 07, 2012 Long a source of irritation for white supremacists, angry claims of an epidemic of black-on-white crime (often simply referred to as "black crime") have drifted closer to the mainstream since the controversial shooting in Florida of Trayvon Martin, a young African-American male, by George Zimmerman (who has been described in the media as a white Hispanic). Following the assertions, extremists have repeated their claims that a large number of white victims are being…
September 07, 2012 September 24, 2012
"They (Israel) have no roots there in history. They do not even enter the equation for Iran."
(Interview with U.S.-based journalists)
"The Zionists are very much, very adventuresome, very much seeking to fabricate things, and I think they see themselves at the end of the line and I do firmly believe that they seek to create new opportunities for themselves and their adventurous behaviors."
(Interview on CNN with Piers Morgan)
September 9…
by: Mark Pitcavage | August 27, 2012 The Idaho Statesman On Aug. 21, 1992, a team of U.S. marshals set out to arrest Randy Weaver, a reclusive white supremacist who the previous year had refused to appear in court to face a federal weapons charge. Instead, Weaver and his family had holed up in their cabin in a remote part of northern Idaho dubbed Ruby Ridge.
Alerted by barking dogs to the presence of the marshals, Weaver, his 14-year-old-son Sammy, and a family friend, Kevin Harris,…
September 04, 2012 In recent years, domestic extremists of various stripes have committed violent acts in the United States from murders to arsons to bombings.The perpetrators garnering the most attention, from both the media and the government, have been domestic Muslim extremists. Right-wing anti-government extremists and white supremacists have come in second. Attention has also been devoted to the violent acts of environmental and animal rights extremists.
The recent arrest in Green…
September 07, 2012 The white supremacist movement in the United States has a strong association with violence and criminal activity, ranging from traditional crimes such as drug dealing or domestic violence to ideologically-related crimes ranging from hate crimes to act of terrorism. Every week new criminal incidents emerge. Selected white supremacist-related criminal incidents from recent years are shown below:
2012
Oak Creek, Wisconsin, August 5, 2012: White supremacist Wade Michael Page…
by: Abraham H. Foxman | July 25, 2012 This Friday in London, the 2012 Summer Olympic Games will get underway with all the usual pageantry and grand references to the history of this most famous and ancient of athletic competitions. One chapter of Olympics history that the International Olympic Committee has ensured will not be mentioned during the opening ceremonies is the Munich Massacre – the brutal terrorist murder of 11 Israeli athletes and coaches at the 1972 Munich Summer Olympic…
by: Abraham H. Foxman | May 08, 2012 The Times of Israel The question of how to define what it means to be pro-Israel has risen to the surface with the emergence of a group like J Street, and a writer like Peter Beinart. J Street, the Washington, DC-based lobbying group that is strongly critical of the Netanyahu government's policies and of the positions taken by mainstream American Jewish organizations, refers to itself as a pro-Israel organization. And Beinart, who has written a book, "The…