Word: adl
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Anti-Semitic conspiracy theories are spreading across the U.S. despite an overall decrease in social discrimination in American society, the national director of the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith (ADL) said in a speech last night...
Acts of anti-Semitic violence are on the rise, according to Foxman. The ADL counted more than 2,000 anti-Semitic hate crimes in 1994, Foxman said, the highest in its 15 years of annual audits...
According to the New York-based Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, skinheads have taken 22 victims in the past three years; in 1992 they were responsible for seven deaths, almost a quarter of all bias-related murders in the U.S. The ADL concluded that the punks, who number about 3,500, are now a bigger racist threat than the Ku Klux Klan. The relatively small death toll, points out Portland, Oregon, police officer Loren Christensen, is misleading. "What makes them real dangerous," he says, "is that it doesn't take many to terrorize a community." Or even...
Despite the threat of tougher sentencing, hate crime is increasing. The Anti-Defamation League counted 1,730 anti-Semitic incidents in the U.S. last year, the second highest total in the 14-year history of the ADL's audit. The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force says attacks on homosexuals increased by 172% over the past five years. Klanwatch, a project of the Southern Poverty Law Center in Montgomery, Alabama, reports that 1992 was "the deadliest and most violent year" for bias-related events in more than 10 years. Thirty-one of these were murders...
...ADL has opposed awarding contracts by municipalities to a security firm formerly owned by the Nation of Islam. Why? Muhammad said Jews want to stifle Black economic empowerment. He did not mention that the firm disseminates anti-Semitic material--leaflets charging that the State of Israel has enslaved Ethiopian Jews, for example--in the housing projects it guards. (Porter had not heard of the issue but immediately condemned the ADL anyway...