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A Distressing Trend

Since the beginning of the year, there have been a number of plots, con-
spiracies and attacks against Jews or Jewish institutions. This trend
reflects an overall increase in ideologically motivated violence in the
United States. Some of the more serious examples of these types of inci-
dents, anti-Jewish and other, include:

• June 2009

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Arkansas

Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad (also known as Carlos Bledsoe) an
American Muslim convert who shot two uniformed American soldiers
- one of whom was killed - at a military recruiting center in Little Rock,
Ark., reportedly searched for information about Jewish institutions on the
Internet. He used the Google Maps application to investigate Jewish insti-
tutions, as well as a Baptist church, a day-care center, a post office and
other military recruiting centers in several cities.

• June 2009

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Kansas

Scott Philip Roeder was charged in the shooting death of a provider of
abortion services. Not only is Roeder a radical anti-abortion extremist, but
he also was an active member of antigovernment extremist movements,
including the sovereign citizen and tax protest movements. The sovereign
citizen movement believes that virtually all government in the United
States is illegitimate and seeks to "restore" an idealized, minimalist gov-
ernment that never actually existed.

• May 2009

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New York

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Four Muslim converts, three American and one Haitian, were arrested for
an alleged plot to attack two synagogues in the Bronx and to shoot down
planes at a military base in Newburgh, N.Y. The men allegedly began sur-
veillance of several synagogues and a Jewish community center in the
Bronx in April 2009. "These were people who were eager to bring death to
Jews," Assistant U.S. Attorney Eric Snyder said at a court hearing the day
after the arrests.

• May 2009

Connecticut

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The suspect in a May 2009 shooting near Wesleyan University in
Middletown, Conn., expressed threats in his personal journal toward
Wesleyan and its Jewish students.

• April 2009

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Pennsylvania

Richard Poplawski, charged with killing three Pittsburgh police officers
during a standoff, held virulently anti-Semitic and racist beliefs that he
openly shared with others on white supremacist online discussion forums.
Poplawski's increasingly conspiracy-oriented online postings expressed his
belief that Jews controlled the U.S. government and his conviction that
some sort of collapse of the economic and social order of the U.S. was
inevitable.

• March 2009

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California

A car belonging to UCLA neuroscientist David Jentsch was blown up
outside his home by a homemade explosive. Responsibility for the act
was claimed in a communique by the Animal Liberation Brigade (ALB), a
moniker used by an apparent animal rights extremist cell that has targeted
UCLA in the past and claimed responsibility for setting off pipe bombs at
the offices of two companies tied to animal testing in 2003.

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Massachusetts

Police officers in Brockton, Mass., arrested a white supremacist after he
allegedly killed two people and raped and attempted to kill a third. The
arrest pre-empted what authorities believed was a planned, racially moti-
vated killing spree directed at Jews and non-whites that would have con-
tinued later that evening.

Source: Anti-Defamation League

