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. …

March 29, 2007   Police in Grants Pass, Oregon, arrested Kenneth George Snow Jr., 42, in connection with a stabbing incident involving two victims.  Snow was charged with two counts of attempted murder.  State and local police arrested Snow on March 21, 2007. Snow, who also uses the aliases Dirk, Derrick Henderson, and Benito Juan Casados, has a variety of tattoos, some of them white supremacist, including the words "Weiss Macht," German for "white power,"&nbsp…

August 10, 2010   A series of nationwide arrests and indictments announced on the same day illustrate the efforts of a Somali terrorist group to recruit Americans and other English-speakers. On August 5, 2010, federal authorities unsealed four separate indictments charging a total of 14 U.S. residents with providing material support to terrorists for their various connections to Al Shabaab, an Al Qaeda-linked terrorist organization based in Somalia.  Two American women…

July 15, 2010   In its latest effort to reach Western audiences, Al Qaeda has released its first-ever English-language magazine that provides detailed bomb making instructions and calls on followers to "destroy" America. The media wing of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), Al Qaeda's affiliate in Yemen and Saudi Arabia, released the inaugural issue of Inspire via the internet on July 11, 2010. While Al Qaeda has previously released English-language videos and statements,…

June 16, 2010 Racist and anti-Semitic lawyer Edgar J. Steele, best known for unsuccessfully defending the neo-Nazi group Aryan Nations in a lawsuit, pleaded not guilty after authorities arrested him for allegedly plotting to kill his wife and mother-in-law. Steele, 64, was charged on June 11 with hiring a hit man to kill the two women. According to the man, who informed the FBI about the plot, he was to kill the women in a car crash that would be made to look like an accident. The informant…

June 07, 2010 Two Americans who allegedly planned to kill American soldiers overseas are the latest in a wave of Americans traveling to Somalia to fight with an Al Qaeda-linked terrorist group. A criminal complaint unsealed in a New Jersey federal court on June 6, 2010, charged Mohamed Mahmood Alessa, 20, and Carlos Eduardo Almonte, 24, with conspiring to kill, maim, and kidnap persons outside the United States. The men, who planned to travel to Somalia to fight with Al Shabaab, an Al…

by: Abraham H. Foxman | July 11, 2007 Jewish Telegraphic Agency NEW YORK (JTA) – With anti-Semitism resurgent in the world, one of the encouraging elements for the Jewish people, particularly if one is to compare things today to the 1930s and 1940s, is the remarkable change in the Catholic Church's attitudes toward Jews. In the past four decades, a conceptual revolution has taken place in the church's relationship with the Jewish people. The first step came with Vatican II and its…

May 21, 2010 The FBI has arrested Ron Edwards, leader of the Kentucky-based Imperial Klans of America (IKA), and his girlfriend, Christine Gillette, for possession and distribution of controlled substances, including hydrocodone and methamphetamine. Authorities also arrested a third person, Jeremy Katro, for marijuana possession. Strong ties to racist skinheads Edwards, who ran the IKA from a private compound in Powderly, Kentucky, is known for his outreach to racist skinheads via an…

May 09, 2013 On September 15, 2006, a federal judge in California sentenced two convicted leaders of the Aryan Brotherhood prison gang to life without parole, after jurors failed to reach a verdict on the proposed death penalty.   Chief Barry "The Baron" Mills, 57, and top lieutenant Tyler "The Hulk" Bingham, 59, were convicted in July of murder, racketeering and conspiracy.  Mills was convicted of ordering the murders of a dozen people, six of which were carried out, and…

May 01, 2010 Background Adam Gadahn (born Adam Pearlman) was born in 1978 in Oregon and grew up on a farm in Orange County, California. His parents reportedly changed their name to Gadahn in reference to Gideon, the Biblical warrior who defeated the enemies of Israel. Gadahn’s mother was raised Catholic. His father, born Jewish, grew up atheist and later converted to Christianity.  Gadahn and his three younger siblings were home-schooled and joined several Christian home…

April 09, 2010 Poker Face, an anti-government, anti-immigrant "Patriot" rock band based in Allentown, Pennsylvania, posted a press release to their Web site, questioning the government's motives in arresting members of the Hutaree Militia, an anti-government extremist group.  The Hutaree Militia allegedly planned to carry out violent acts against law enforcement in order to spark a larger confrontation with the government. Hutaree had used one of Poker Face's songs in a training video on…

March 09, 2010 Racist William Johnson, a lawyer and the chairman of the recently created white supremacist party American Third Position (A3P), and Kevin MacDonald, an anti-Semitic professor of psychology and a director of A3P, have taken the helm of a group that was spearheaded by young racists. These young racists initially formed a group called Freedom 14, whose members handed out fliers in Orange County and often posted to the white supremacist Internet forum Stormfront. On the forum,…