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…

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…