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…

May 25, 2012 All of us who yearn for peace between Israel and the Palestinians await the resumption of peace talks. The negotiating table remains the only suitable venue for reconciliation and a lasting agreement. Such reconciliation will require extensive dialogue, difficult concessions and compromise. If Israelis and Palestinians are expected to sit down and talk to each other in the pursuit of peace, their supporters should certainly be able to do the same. However, some pro-Palestinian…

November 18, 2011 Remarks of Christopher Wolf Founder and Chair, Anti-Defamation League Task Force on Internet Hate Partner, Hogan Lovells US LLP International Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists Berlin Conference on Holocaust Denial and Freedom of Speech in the Internet Era November 18, 2011The Limits of the Law to Remedy Online Holocaust Denial I very much appreciate being part of this important program. Thanks so much to Irit Kohn for inviting me and to all of you for making me feel…

February 28, 2012 A "One State Conference" featuring a variety of anti-Israel academics and activists, including Stephen Walt, Ali Abunimah and Ilan Pappe, took place at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, March 3-4, 2012.  The conference, which was promoted as an opportunity to explore the "possible contours of a one-state solution" to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, came on the heels of a Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) conference that took place at the University of…

September 09, 2011 A widely circulated e-mail charges that the web site of Nivea skincare products has "removed" Israel from its country list.  In fact, as of August 2011 Israel appears on Nivea's web site with a dedicated link under their country listings and an Israel-specific section. The company has indicated that logistics, not anti-Israel hostility, had caused the original omission. In addition, the company has said that it will soon be launching an Israeli site in Hebrew and in…

by: Simon Reich | January 01, 2000 Dimensions Vol. 13, No. 2. To what extent -- if any -- and in what ways, did Ford in Germany cooperate with the Nazi regime? And, if it did, what motivated such cooperation: racist ideology, or a concern for corporate profitability? In 1990 I published a book entitled The Fruits of Fascism (Cornell University Press), in which I attempted to offer a compelling and novel thesis. I argued that the different degrees of success enjoyed by the Ford Motor Company's…

Fifty Years of Forgetting and Remembering by: S. Jonathan Wiesen | January 01, 2000 Dimensions, Vol. 13, No. 2. The great majority of German businessmen behaved in a decidedly unheroic manner during the Nazi era. Most of them, especially leaders of larger companies, not only refrained from risking their lives to save Jews, but actually profited from the use of forced and slave labor, the "Aryanization" of Jewish property, and the plundering of companies in Nazi-occupied Europe. Six years ago,…

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…