Research & Analysis

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…

December 01, 2001   The St. Louis-based Council of Conservative Citizens traces its roots directly to the racist, anti-integrationist White Citizens' Councils of the 1950s and 1960s.   Its current leader, atorney Gordon Lee Baum, was an organizer for the WCC and built the Council of Conservative Citizens in part from the old group's mailing lists. Like its predecessor, the CCC inflames fears and resentments, particularly among Southern whites, with regard to black-on-white…

December 01, 2001   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 of several of its members, the suicide of Klassen in 1993 and a successful lawsuit brought by the family of a Gulf War veteran murdered in…

November 30, 2001 Two white supremacist brothers received hefty prison sentences for setting fire to three synagogues in Sacramento, California, and a building housing an abortion clinic. U.S. District Judge Garland E. Burrell Jr. sentenced Benjamin Matthew Williams to 30 years in prison for planning and organizing the June 1999 arson attacks. James Tyler Williams was sentenced to 21 and ¼ years in prison for his role in the attacks. In addition, the brothers were ordered to pay…

October 22, 2001 Following the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center, a rumor circulated on the Internet claimed that 4,000 Jews did not report to work, or "called in sick" that morning. It suggested that no Jews died because they somehow had foreknowledge of the attack. There are several variations of this rumor, including one suggesting that Israel was behind the attacks. Such rumors are absurd. Among those who died in the collapse of the Twin Towers were scores…

June 20, 2001   Read ADL's comprehensive report, Two with Ties to White Supremacy Suspected in Plot to Bomb Boston Sites Police in Boston have arrested two individuals with alleged ties to white supremacist groups. Leo V. Felton, 30, and Erica Chase, 21, were indicted June 20 on federal charges of plotting to blow up property perceived to have a Jewish or African-American association in order to incite a "racial holy war." Felton and Chase were arrested April 19, 2001 when the…

November 30, 1999   For more than three decades, Louis Beam has been on a crusade against a government he views as tyrannical and controlled by Jewish conspirators. Beam first became active on the far right as a paramilitary Klansman, later as a neo-Nazi with Identity ties. In each incarnation he has been a powerful voice of anti-government hatred and white supremacy, one of the most influential and incendiary figures on the far right. Generally considered the first important…

September 01, 1999 IntroductionFor the better part of this century, anti-Semites have alleged that American Jews have conspired with their co-religionists to "control" the motion picture industry in the United States. The assertion that Jews "control" Hollywood, the media, banking and finance, among other things, is an anti-Semitic canard which dates back more than 70 years to an anti-Jewish campaign waged in the 1920s by the Dearborn Independent, a long-defunct publication backed by the late…