Dear John,

ADL works tirelessly to monitor, expose and disrupt antisemitism and extremism. This is at the heart of what you enable us to do every day.

Just last week, three headlines were a striking reminder of the threats that loom, and the important mission that drives you, me and everyone else in the ADL community to speak out and take action.

1. John T. Earnest was sentenced to life in prison without parole for his deadly 2019 attack on the Chabad of Poway synagogue in California. Authorities linked Earnest to a white supremacist manifesto full of antisemitic and Islamophobic content that was posted online before the attack, in which Earnest wrote that the Poway shooting was inspired by an assault on two mosques in New Zealand just weeks earlier. While nothing can bring back Lori Kaye, who was murdered during the Poway attack, or heal the scars inflicted by the attacker, this sentencing is another step in helping the community move forward, and a reminder that it is vital to ensure that hate does not inspire more hate.
2. Kaleb Cole of the white supremacist group Atomwaffen was found guilty of five federal counts related to threats against journalists and Miri Cypers, the Regional Director of ADL’s Pacific Northwest office. Cypers and her husband were both witnesses in the Cole case after getting a threatening poster saying ‘your actions have consequences’ at their house.
   
   “I think it really felt like an attempt by extremists to silence people that were fighting back against their ugly forces and their intention,” Cypers said in an interview after the guilty verdict for Cole. You can view a local news channel’s interview with Cypers and here husband here.
3. Paul Miller was sentenced to 41 months in federal prison on weapons charges. Miller, a white supremacist accelerationist who sometimes dressed as a comic book villain as he posted online about antisemitism and a race war, was initially identified by experts at ADL’s Center on Extremism. Concerned by his increasingly radical and violent rhetoric, as well as his online display of various weapons and extremist-related activities, ADL reported him to federal law enforcement authorities.

Our Center on Extremism experts communicate with law enforcement about potential dangers twice a day, on average, and we will continue to work around the clock to ensure that future potential extremist attacks are disrupted.

Thank you for supporting and standing with us.

Sincerely,

Jonathan Greenblatt

CEO and National Director

ADL