All posts tagged "Anti Defamation League"

A white separatist group known as "Return to the Land" is looking to expand its members-only community promoting "European ancestry" and "traditional values."

Founder Eric Orwoll told Nexstar's KOLR that he's hoping to franchise his 160-acre Arkansas-based community that excludes minorities and Jewish people, first into Missouri, then to all 50 states.

Orwoll said the initial draw to northern Arkansas was its “affordable land, natural beauty, abundant water resources and a conservative, predominantly white population.”...

In an interview Thursday with Raw Story, a Missouri gubernatorial candidate with alleged ties to the Ku Klux Klan blasted the Missouri GOP for attempting to remove him from the ballot.

“The GOP knew exactly who I am,” Darrell Leon McClanahan III told Raw Story via text message after a brief phone interview. “They’re just mad my daughter drew number 22 making me number one on the ballot they’re a bunch of hypocrites.”

McClanahan’s lucky ballot position draw placed him at the top of the Republican candidate list for Missouri governor, prompting a state senator to urge the Missouri Republican Party to remove him from the ballot. ...

Two rabbis sat down for dinner at Chabad Jewish Center in Pensacola, Fla.

The air on this July evening was warm and tranquil. A sense of peace filled the kitchen where the men shared their meal.

Suddenly, something crashed through the window, sending glass flying. The rabbis rushed over to investigate. Scrawled on the brick that lay on their floor: a swastika and the words “No Jews.” ...

The Anti-Defamation League on Tuesday condemned a National Rifle Association board member for invoking the Holocaust to criticize a political opponent.

A bill by Florida state Sen. Alan Hays (R) that narrowly cleared a key Senate committee on Monday night, written with the intent of preventing U.S. courts from recognizing Islamic Sharia law, would mostly just cause serious problems for Jews trying to get courts to enforce divorce settlements.

Alabama Republican Governor Robert Bentley was sworn in Monday and wasted no time in offending his constituents.