Sure it does. ADL has no credibility. The 2017 report has a
complete list of 34 extremist murders, and the ADL blames “white supremacists” for 18 deaths and the “Alt Lite” for one more. Only one is clearly authentic, and one more is plausible, as follows:
- March 30, 2017 — James Harris Jackson murdered a black man to discourage interracial relationships. This was undoubtedly racial terrorism.
- August 12, 2017 — James Fields killed Heather Heyer at the Unite the Right rally. Many people who followed the trial found fault with both the prosecution and the defense, but Mr. Fields was convicted of a hate crime, so this can be called a “white nationalist” killing.
There was one ambiguous case:
- May 26, 2017 — Jeremy Christian is on trial for killing two men who allegedly interrupted his rant against a Muslim woman. The ADL said most of Mr. Christian’s influences “seem to have been right-wing in nature.” However, it also admits he was a Bernie Sanders supporter and said he is hard to characterize. In court, Mr. Christian trumpeted his support for Bernie Sanders, said he didn’t vote for Donald Trump, and denied being a white supremacist.
The remaining cases—11 out of 14—did not have a racial or ideological motive.
- December 22, 2017 – A teenager in Reston, Virginia, with supposedly far-right beliefs killed his ex-girlfriend’s parents, who had supposedly forced her to break up with him. The ADL called these murders “non-ideological.”
- August 16, 2017 — A member of a white supremacist gang killed his uncle in a murder-for-hire plot. The ADL says this was “apparently personal.”
- July 14, 2017 — Lane Maurice Davis killed his father after an argument. The ADL said Mr. Davis was part of the “Alt Lite,” but called the killing “non-ideological.”
- June 19, 2017 — Prisoner Robert Hunt, whom the ADL said has “white supremacist tattoos,” killed a black inmate. However, witnesses say this was simply a prison murder over stolen property, and that race was not a motive.
- December 14, 2017 – David Atchison of New Mexico killed two students before taking his own life. Though Atchison was reportedly a white supremacist, the ADL calls this case “non-ideological.”
- June 13, 2017 — Ricky Dubose and Donnie Russell Rowe, two members of a prison gang, killed two corrections officers; the ADL called these killings “non-ideological.”
- May 19, 2017 — Devon Arthurs killed his two roommates. They were allegedly part of the Atomwaffen Division and had mocked Mr. Arthurs for converting to Islam. Incredibly, the ADL called the killings “right-wing extremism” rather than Islamic extremism.
- March 3, 2017 — A member of the Aryan Circle killed a man who was supposedly sleeping with his ex-girlfriend. This was not a political crime.
- February 9, 2017 — Frank Ancona, a member of the Traditionalist American Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, was murdered by his wife. The prosecutor says it was a marital dispute, and the ADL admits “ideology or hate” had nothing to do with it.
- January 29, 2017 — Several people reportedly associated with the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas were charged with the murder of Martin Gonzalez. This appears to have been a robbery to collect a debt, not a race killing.
- January 16, 2017 — Wesley Andrew Hampton, a “self-declared white supremacist,” and “another defendant” robbed and murdered a man in a home invasion. The ADL failed to note that the other defendant was black. It was a drug crime.
Of these 19 murders in 14 cases,
only two are clearly—or at least judicially found to be—cases of “white supremacist” terrorism. The ADL is a fraud.