In 2006, there were a total of 77 incidents related to extremist group activity, compared to 112 in 2005 – a significant decline possibly related to factional in-fighting among certain groups. The national discussion over illegal immigration energized some Klan and neo-Nazi groups, causing them to refocus much of their energies on targeting Hispanics as immigration rallies and protests took center stage across the nation, according to the ADL Audit.

Harassment in the form of leafleting and distribution of hate propaganda around neighborhoods and in public areas, as well as at rallies and via the Internet (including the posting of videos and other materials) were the main source of  incidents by organized anti-Semitic groups reported in the Audit.

Hate groups actively contributed to the continued Internet circulation of anti-Jewish conspiracy charges related to 9/11, while maintaining their efforts to promote theories of Jewish control of government, finance and the media. Among the groups that showed disturbing growth in 2006 – in addition to the KKK -- were the National Socialist Movement (NSM), which has become the largest neo-Nazi group in the country, and racist Skinheads.

Examples of anti-Semitic hate group activity in 2006:

• Neo-Nazis distributed hate leaflets in three Montana cities (Kalispell, Whitefish, Butte) over one weekend (January).
• KKK and other hate group materials distributed on private-home driveways in Washington, CT (April).
• Swastikas and neo-Nazi group graffiti found painted on property of Evanston, IL synagogue (May).
• KKK group (World Knights) held a rally in Gettysburg (PA) National Park, expressing anti-Jewish and other bigotry as well as anti-immigrant rhetoric. (September)
• Members of neo-Nazi National Socialist Movement held a rally at the Texas state capitol building, spewing anti-Semitic epithets (November).
• Twelve members of the neo-Nazi National Socialist Movement demonstrated outside the Jewish community center campus near the building housing the St. Louis Holocaust Museum, carrying posters promoting Holocaust denial. (December).