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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...
...recent months the debate has grown even more intense, thanks in large part to two books, one published by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), a watchdog organization dedicated to blowing the whistle on anti-Semitism, and the other by Reverend Marion Gordon "Pat" Robertson, the former Republican presidential candidate and the founder and leader of the Christian Coalition...
...ADL study, called The Religious Right: The Assault on Tolerance and Pluralism in America makes its general thesis plain from its title. The book contends that the rise of the Christian Right does not bode well for American Jews since it carries with it the potential for a breakdown in the separation of church and state, the emergence of anti-Semitic extremism, and the promotion of the idea that ours is a monolithic `Christian America...
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...