Hatewatch Tweets
Hatewatch is managed by the staff of the Intelligence Report, an investigative magazine published by the Alabama-based civil rights group Southern Poverty Law Center.
F-16s Scrambled To Intercept ‘American Border Patrol’ Pilot
A recent international airspace incident involved a critic of the government’s illegal-immigration policies and two F-16 fighter jets.
Anti-Semitic Prof Facing Colleagues’ Sanction
Psychology Professor Kevin MacDonald (below, right) is facing condemnation from his colleagues for his anti-Semitic research, according to the California State University, Long Beach (CSU-LB), student newspaper, The Daily 49er. This academic 
year, MacDonald was removed from certain undergraduate courses that had long been taught by him. University sources told Hatewatch in July that large numbers of complaints about MacDonald’s anti-Semitism and racism, which followed the April 2007 publication of the Intelligence Report’s exposé, “Promoting Hate,” spurred the change.
In December, MacDonald held a closed forum to defend his work before the psychology department’s faculty. He was pressed there to explain his research methodology, his ethics and his controversial theories alleging that Jews are genetically compelled to undermine Western societies (for more on MacDonald’s anti-Semitic research, see here and here). He was also asked to explain his many connections to white supremacists. Since the turn of the millennium, MacDonald has held leadership positions in several white supremacist groups, and in 2004 he was honored with a $10,000 prize for his work on the Jews by The Occidental Quarterly, a white supremacist publication where he currently serves on the editorial advisory board.
According to The Daily 49er, CSU-LB’s psychology department’s advisory committee will meet next week to discuss issuing a statement that would formally disassociate the department from MacDonald’s work. The committee has reportedly determined that the three statements already posted on the department website are inadequate for that purpose. Two of the statements reiterate the department’s commitment to diversity and denounce any use of psychological research as propaganda for racist groups. The third includes the expectation that faculty members whose work is controversial will “state that their views may not represent those of the department.”
Lou Dobbs: Once More, With Gusto
The wild man of CNN was unleashed again the other night, launching into a furious attack (here, here and here) on the president of the National Council of La Raza, who went on “Lou Dobbs Tonight” to discuss her organization’s new initiative against hate. The initiative — motto: “Take the hate out of the 
immigration debate” — is partly aimed at pundits, like Dobbs, who routinely invite racist leaders on their air and present false nativist propaganda as fact. We could go on about this, but our friend David Neiwert, over at the Orcinus blog, has already done a major exegesis on the show and Dobbs’ falsehoods, evasions and insults. One program note: A great deal of the material used by La Raza’s campaign, including a video describing various “suspect spokespeople” of nativist groups, came from the Southern Poverty Law Center, which has cooperated with La Raza in its efforts to end the defamation of immigrants. No surprise, then, that Dobbs took time out from his tussle with La Raza President Janet Murguia to falsely label the Anti-Defamation League and the Center, which publishes the Intelligence Report and Hatewatch, as advocacy groups working for “open borders and amnesty.”
Utah Minutemen Back In-State Tuition Repeal
With about 100 people waiting to hear the debate on a bill that would repeal in-state college tuition for undocumented students, the House Education Committee on Tuesday started its meeting 30 minutes late and then only allowed for 10 minutes of public comment on it.
Minutemen ‘Adopt-A-Highway’ Relocated After Protests
Caltrans has given the San Diego Minutemen a new stretch of road to clean up for the Adopt-A-Highway program, moving the group that fights illegal immigration from Interstate 5 near the U.S. Border Patrol checkpoint to a quieter, less visible state highway.
Anti-Immigration Group Leaflets Black Churches
Members of a watchdog group who claim undocumented workers are taking jobs away from black people did the church circuit Sunday down Dixwell Avenue.
Minuteman Civil Defense Corps Holds Regional Conference
Frances Semler received a hero’s welcome Friday night at the anti-illegal-immigration Minuteman Civil Defense Corps’ first regional conference.
Latino Group Fights Anti-Immigrant Hate Speech
A national Latino group said Thursday it is fighting back against what it considers to be “hate speech” that has emerged from the debate over immigration.