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Anti-Defamation League

  • Columns

    April 19, 2012

    Why Do Mexicans Paint Murals on Lowriders?

    [¡Ask a Mexican!] And why do they love scratch-off Lotto tickets?

  • Blogs

    March 14, 2012

    OC LGBT Community's New Grand Poobah: Our Gays Are Better Looking!

    ​Kevin O'Grady is the new executive director of the Gay and Lesbian Community Services Center of Orange County. O'Grady comes to Santa Ana-based advocacy group after serving as the regional director of the Anti-Defamation League, Orange County/Long Beach region, where he oversaw programming, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 13, 2012

    OC Prosecutor Jim Mendelson Honored For Anti-Hate Crime Work

    ​The Orange County District Attorney's Office issued a press release late this afternoon noting a new honor for one of the agency's most publicity resistant but accomplished prosecutors: Jim Mendelson.I can image Mendelson's sincere reaction: Hell, no!It's not that this no-nonsense courtroom veter ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 20, 2012

    LGBT Advocacy Group Gets New Head

    ​An advocacy network for the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community in Orange County has announced a new executive director. Kevin O'Grady will assume the position at the Gay and Lesbian Community Services Center of Orange County starting March 5.

  • News

    December 29, 2011

    What We Learned

    The Year on Navel Gazing and Beyond!

  • Blogs

    August 18, 2011

    [UPDATED with Hate Crimes Down In OC, Or Are They?:]African-Americans Were Victims of One-Third of OC's 2010 Hate Crimes: Report

    ​UPDATED, AUGUST 18, 4:48 P.M.: Update by Marisa Gerber.Statistics show that hate crimes are down in OC, but nobody's overly convinced. There was a buzzword at this morning's event, where last year' hate crime report was released. What was the word? Underreporting. The report, which was ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 16, 2010

    Cops: OC White Power Gang "Disrupted" in Undercover Sting

    PEN1 boss Wayne Marshall​After calling members of Public Enemy Number One Death Squad (PEN1) "haters and cowards," federal agent John A. Torres bragged today that government authorities had successfully infiltrated and disrupted Orange County's most notorious white supremacist gang."Their reign of ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 3, 2010

    Abe Foxman, Head of Anti-Defamation League, to Speak Twice in OC This Sunday

    ​Few folks are more controversial on the Left that Abraham Foxman, head of the Anti-Defamation League. On one hand, his organization remains on the forefront of tracking white supremacists in the United States; on the other hand, their knee-jerk reaction to categorize nearly any criticism of Israe ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 13, 2010

    SJC Americans: OC's Latest Hate Group!

    Another set of OCers makes Henry W. Head proud...​I don't really pay much attention to San Juan Capistrano because that's more Spencer's terrain, but one facet of the town that previously drew my  interest was some group calling themselves the SJC Americans. Clockwork Coker previously wrote a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 1, 2010

    Five Orange County Venues Most Likely to Host a White-Power Concert

    ​So white-power music fans are planning to hold a concert this weekend in an undisclosed Orange County location because, hey: cockroaches* like to hide, you know? There'll be some big names  in the hatecore scene: Max Resist, Youngland, White Knuckle Driver, and other knuckleheads.I know wher ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 25, 2010

    OC's Adam "Goat Boy" Gadahn Still Alive, Now Hates Obama

    ​The last time we heard from Adam Yahihe Gadahn, the American voice of Al Qaeda, was four months ago, when he was reported to have been arrested in Karachi, Pakistan. Within a day, those reports had been retracted in keeping with previously discredited reports that Gadahn, better known in the Nave ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 17, 2010

    Crazy Imam Invited by UCI Muslim Student Union: Jews "The New Nazis"

    Good people who criticize Israel's policies toward Palestinians always strive to reassure Jews that they're not anti-Semitic. They'll claim they're anti-Israel, anti-Zionist, but don't hate all Jews--just those that oppress the Palestinians.That's been the claim of the UC Irvine Muslim Student Un ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 13, 2010

    Jew-Bashing, Gay-Trashing La Voz de Aztlan Harasses Long Beach State Chicanas

    May this image sear the homophobic minds of La Voz de Pendejos anew...​Ever since KPFK-FM 90.7 (where I host a radio show every Thursday at 3 p.m.) booted off an anti-Semitic radio show that had close ties to the notorious La Voz de Aztlán, Southern California's premier spewers of bile have had a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 17, 2010

    American Third Position Party Goons Exaggerated their Anti-Defamation League Protest!

    The American TP's brave "confrontation." Vaxmonsky is at far right, as are his politics...​Last Halloween, back when they still called themselves Freedom 14, members of the American Third Position Party excitedly posted a dispatch on Stormfront.org with the headline "Freedom 14 Confronts the ADL, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 17, 2010

    Welcome to The Hilarious Haters: MTV "The Real World" Edition

    ​Remember that kid who was arrested March 3 after bringing a fake bomb to Huntington Beach High School? The 16-year-old boy first tried to throw cops off by saying the device was a prop for a film he was shooting after school.But a search of the juvenile's bedroom produced a cardboard box labeled ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 23, 2010

    The "Irvine 11" Fights the Power

    ​As they fill out their AARP membership cards, '60s burnouts can rejoice that a group of campus agitators has at last come along to rival the infamous Chicago Seven.Mamas and papas, introducing the "Irvine 11"! Something's happening here, and what it is ain't exactly kosher. The Irvine 11 are the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 18, 2010

    ADL Opposes Jewish Boycott of UCI, Gently Admonishes Chancellor Drake

    ​Not all organizations fighting anti-Semitism are the same. Take the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), which announced opposition today to calls by "some in the Jewish community" to boycott UC Irvine over perceived anti-Israel activity on campus.Who would that "some" be? How about the Zionist Organiz ... More >>

  • Columns

    January 28, 2010

    Letters from OC Weekly Readers

    ​Not all organizations fighting anti-Semitism are the same. Take the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), which announced opposition today to calls by "some in the Jewish community" to boycott UC Irvine over perceived anti-Israel activity on campus.Who would that "some" be? How about the Zionist Organiz ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 12, 2010

    Is the American Third Position Party Just Another William D. Johnson Pyramid Scheme?

    Johnson: Maybe the "TP" in his party's name stands for "Think Ponzi"?​We spent quite a bit of digital ink last week on Long Beach State psychology professor Kevin MacDonald and his involvement in the white-power American Third Position Party, and not enough on the party's head: Los Angeles lawyer ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 12, 2009

    Counterprotesters Vastly Outnumber Neo-Nazis at Rallies

    Bad weekend for Adolf lovers.​Neo-Nazis rallying in Riverside--which was previously referred to here and here--were vastly outnumbered by counterprotesters Saturday.A morning counterprotest sponsored by 32 community organizations, including some with Orange County members, drew 200 people to River ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 9, 2009

    UPDATED: ACLU Announces Settlement of Suit Tied to Corona del Mar High's Production of "Rent"

    Photo by Matt Coker Karyl Ketchum and Mike Wiggins talk about the hell their 17-year-old daughter Hail endured at Corona del Mar High School last school year.​Three varsity football players at Corona del Mar High School posted a video on the school's Facebook page in January in which they describe ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 30, 2009

    Don't Be Stupid, Be a Smarty, Come and Join the Inland Empire Nazi Party!

      Orange County has its fair share of haters, racists and hater/racist skinheads thanks to the Hitler lovers of Anaheim, the Mexican bashers of Costa Mesa, the assorted white supremacists of Black Star Canyon, the Republican Central Committee of Orange County and haters and ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 2, 2009

    Top 5 Hate Crime Reports in June--and a [Non-]Bogus Bonus [THE RE-WRITE]

    Kevin O'Grady, regional director of the Anti-Defamation League's Orange County/Long Beach office, was kind enough to email over five hate-crime reports his office received this past June, in reverse chronological order. While that format may be helpful to give readers a sense of ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 19, 2009

    Tangled Web of Hate Weaved By Carto, Von Brunn & Co.

    Willis Carto speaks at a David Duke event about five years ago. It takes a lot to laugh, it takes a train to cry and it takes Irvine Valley College philosophy professor Ray Roy Bauer to connect the dots between National Holocaust Museum shooter James Wenneker von Brunn, some of our most notori ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 3, 2009

    ADL: Orange County/Long Beach Remain Hotbed For Hate

    He Knows NothingOrange County/Long Beach bigots painted Swastikas on a liquor store, middle and elementary schools, public park buildings and even a temple--signifying an increase in anti-Semitic activity last year, according to a report issued this morning by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL).  ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 27, 2009

    Los Alamitos Meeting Might Help Fight Racist Rep

    The Orange County Human Relations Commission and the Anti-Defamation League have arranged a meeting with Los Alamitos residents tonight, to figure out how to be safe in light of hate activity in the city. The meeting's at 6 p.m., 4000 Farquhar Ave. The incident spurring the meeting is the vandalizin ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 22, 2009

    I Wish the Orange County Register Used the Word "Fag"

    Longtime Orange County Register theater critic Paul Hodgins is a good guy, great critic, and someone whom was once on the same panel with me judging a dog show. Yesterday, he wrote a blog post about how Westboro Baptist Church (they of "God Hates Fags" infamy) plans to protest outside Corona del Mar ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 26, 2009

    A Fortuitously Timed Tax-Denying Conference Comes To Our Tax-Hating County

    Man met bril / Flickr / Creative CommonsSpotted on the commute to Weekly world headquarters today: a brown Dodge pickup whose back window read, in blue electricians-tape lettering, "TAX REVOLT!" Spotted on Red County and Orange Juice Blog: recall fever against all the Republicans who supported the s ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 10, 2008

    Because You're Ugly: Urban Outfitters Pulls Tees in Support of Gay Marriage

    Repeat offender Urban Outfitters has made headlines once again: the leading retailer has taken T-shirts supporting gay marriage off its California shelves this week. The printed Tees, a staple for the popular chain, simply read "I Support Same Sex Marriage." When questioned, a buyer for Urban Outf ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 5, 2007

    Local Extremist Supports Ron Paul

    Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul has some great ideas (anti-imperialism) and some stupid ones (deny amnesty and birthright citizenship to illegal immigrants), and it's this schizophrenic platform that has attracted sane folks (the editors of Reason magazine, Barry Manilow) and unrepentant ... More >>

  • Columns

    November 23, 2006

    !Ask a Mexican!

    Special one-question edicion

  • Film

    November 2, 2006

    On the Road

    Sacha Baron Cohens howlingly funny mockumentary goes looking for America

  • News

    July 20, 2006

    Hatesville, USA

    Welcome to Costa Mesa . . . if youre colored, please leave

  • News

    March 16, 2006

    Live Free Now

    Ask me how: Talking taxes and trilaterals in Irvine

  • Features

    December 30, 2004

    Diary of A Mad Year

    2004 regurgitated

  • Columns

    December 16, 2004

    !Ask a Mexican!

    2004 regurgitated

  • Columns

    June 24, 2004

    Diary of a Mad County

    2004 regurgitated

  • Film

    February 26, 2004

    The Backlash Passion

    A Messianic Meller for Our Time

  • News

    January 22, 2004

    From Nazis to Schuller to Arabs

    Former neo-Nazi leader Bill Baker now speaks on the Muslim circuit

  • Film

    November 13, 2003

    Mel Gibsons Christ Complex

    Is The Passion of Christ an autobiopic?

  • Film

    February 6, 2003

    Secrets and Lies

    The cleric who turned a blind eye

  • News

    May 23, 2002

    Das Boot!

    Crystal Cathedral evicts preacher with neo-Nazi ties

  • Features

    February 21, 2002

    Hour of White Power

    Reverend Robert H. Schuller relies on a man with ties to Neo-Nazis to build religious understanding

  • News

    December 6, 2001

    Islam-o-phobia

    Welcome to OC Muslims new world

  • Columns

    September 2, 1999

    Letters

    Welcome to OC Muslims new world

  • Columns

    January 28, 1999

    Letters to the Editor 1/22/99

    Welcome to OC Muslims new world

  • Columns

    December 31, 1998

    Let's Get Mikey

    Welcome to OC Muslims new world

  • Columns

    November 26, 1998

    Letters

    Welcome to OC Muslims new world

  • News

    November 12, 1998

    Hate Central

    OC's bad reputation grows

  • Columns

    October 29, 1998

    Show Stopper

    It's two, two, two weeks in one as Clockwork plays catch-up after the hiatus brought on by last week's boffo Best of OC issue.

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