SALON Daily Clicks: Newsreal
Timothy McVeigh may not have been an active member of an organized militia, but his anti-government beliefs closely echo their most cherished principles. According to his own writing, McVeigh was...
View ArticleOne, two, many Tim McVeighs
timothy McVeigh, according to his commander in the Gulf War, was a "soldier's soldier." Other ex-Army buddies testifying for the defense in the sentencing phase of his trial for the bombing of the...
View ArticleThe education of Alice
Is the Internet somehow to blame -- again? The murderous racist rampage by Benjamin Nathaniel Smith last weekend has reopened the question of the role of the Internet in promoting hate -- and even hate...
View ArticleLunatic fringe
When Buford Furrow surrendered Wednesday, he reportedly told police he had emptied an assault rifle on a Jewish day camp in Southern California as a "wake-up call to America to kill Jews." What Furrow...
View ArticleThe trouble with the Whitneys
In a way, the 1923 photograph in Sunday's href="http://208.248.87.252/03122000/26056.htm">New York Post told much of the story: heiress Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, great-granddaughter of 19th...
View ArticleA kinder, gentler militia?
It was a small, obscure militia called Project 7, and according to local investigators, its members were stockpiling weapons and plotting mass murder as part of a plan to make Flathead County, Mont.,...
View ArticleDivided over “The Passion”
Mel Gibson's "The Passion," the graphic film about the crucifixion of Jesus Christ, won't be released until next spring, but the controversy surrounding the film is already testing the resolve of one...
View ArticleGlenn Beck’s white nationalist fans
It's been a busy week for Glenn Beck watchers. On Monday, the Anti-Defamation League released a report warning of the paranoia and stridency that increasingly define the conservative grass roots. It...
View ArticleMosque episode should be Abe Foxman’s Waterloo
To many Americans, the decision of Abe Foxman, the head of the Anti-Defamation League, to oppose the so-called "ground zero mosque" seemed out of character. After all, Foxman is often treated by the...
View ArticleJewish activists support “ground zero mosque”
A group of Jewish activists and community leaders voiced their support for a planned mosque near ground zero and said opponents, including the nation's leading Jewish civil rights group, are...
View ArticleADL explains why Foxman lobbied against imams’ Auschwitz trip
(UPDATED)Earlier this month eight American imams and Muslim leaders took a trip to the Dachau and Auschwitz concentration camps accompanied by the Obama Administration's envoy to combat anti-Semitism,...
View ArticleObama’s anti-Semitism envoy vs. the ADL
Yesterday we reported on the Anti-Defamation League's unusual lobbying effort against a trip to concentration camp sites by a group of U.S. imams and a few Obama Administration officials.And now one of...
View ArticleAnti-Defamation League beclowns itself, again
Last time we checked in on the Anti-Defamation League, the group was arguing against the Islamic community center near ground zero and trying to stop Muslims from learning about the Holocaust.Now, the...
View ArticleADL goes after Beck for Holocaust comments
The Anti-Defamation League, which just last month honored News Corp. chief Rupert Murdoch with its International Leadership Award, has issued a statement criticizing Fox host Glenn Beck for his false...
View ArticleADL stands by Glenn Beck in the end
The Anti-Defamation League's Abe Foxman said in a statement sent to Salon today that he still believes Fox host Glenn Beck "is a strong supporter of Israel and the Jewish people," even in the wake of a...
View ArticleFox chief reached out to ADL over Beck criticism
Here's an interesting coda to the exchange between the Anti-Defamation League and Fox's Glenn Beck about Beck's attack on Holocaust survivor George Soros: Fox chief Roger Ailes reached out to the ADL's...
View ArticleHouse GOP fails to defund NPR “Nazis”
Phew! NPR will not have some minuscule fraction of its budget endangered by angry Republicans. For now. The vote to defund NPR -- which is not really funded by the federal government -- failed in the...
View ArticleADL changes its tune on mosques
The Anti-Defamation League took some heat last year (including from Salon) for abandoning its stated commitment to civil rights and publicly opposing Park51, the planned Islamic community center near...
View ArticleGeorge W. Bush to help group that converts Jews in effort to bring about...
According to a report from Sarah Posner in Mother Jones, George W. Bush is scheduled to give the keynote address at an upcoming fundraiser for the Messianic Jewish Bible Institute, an organization...
View ArticleSALON Daily Clicks: Newsreal
An expert with the Anti-Defamation League says the American militia groups have been hurt badly by the conviction of Timothy McVeigh.
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