• 2011 – Pennsylvania/Virginia 

Emerson Begolly, an American citizen who was indicted for soliciting acts of terrorism, exhibited rabid anti-Semitism in his extensive online activity. Many of his messages were explicitly anti-Semitic, calling for the death of all Jews and encouraging others to target synagogues, Jewish schools and day care centers. In response to the Israeli naval operation to stop a flotilla of ships en route to Gaza in May 2010, Begolly wrote and recorded a tribute to the "Activists Who were Martyred, Wounded, and Imprisoned at the Hands of the Zionist Pigs."  The song, which is entitled "When the Jew's blood reds my knife, then my life is free from strife," threatens to "throw them [the Jews] in the ovens" and to "shoot and kill Jews one by one."

• 2009 – Pennsylvania

Colleen LaRose, an American woman charged with recruiting potential terrorists online in March 2010, posted comments about Jews on several online forums. On a message board called Islamic Emirate Forum, LaRose criticized Adolf Hitler for not killing more Jews. "I mean look at the terrible things the jews (joos) have done to our Ummah… indeed they are a cancer to the world as a whole.so [sic] yes i [sic] wish Hitler would have finished the job," she said. In another post in response to an anti-Semitic comment made by a member of the Islamic Thinkers Society, a New York based group that justifies terrorist attacks and other forms of violence, LaRose wrote, "LOL@ bashing yahoods [Jews]...dont have ALL the fun akhi [brother], save some for others to terrorize....BAAHAAHAAHAA!" LaRose's MySpace profile reportedly included the message: "I support all the Mujahideen [Muslim warriors] I hate zionist & all that support them!"

• 2009 – Illinois

Michael Finton, an American Muslim convert who attempted to bomb the federal courthouse in Illinois, expressed anger at the United States for supporting Israel prior to his arrest. According to the affidavit filed in support of the criminal complaint, Finton told a law enforcement source of his desire to obtain military training and travel to Gaza to fight the Israelis on behalf of the Palestinians. Finton, who allegedly stated ambitions to join Palestinian terrorist organizations like Hamas or Islamic Jihad, projected that an attack on American soil would force the U.S. government to curtail its financial support of Israel, and the "big bully behind Israel (the United States) would not be there anymore."

• 2009 – New York

Zarein Ahmedzay, a naturalized U.S. citizen from Afghanistan, admitted in federal court that he and two other New Yorkers planned to detonate homemade explosives on New York City subway lines during the days following the eighth anniversary of the September 11 terror attacks.  While entering his guilty plea, Ahmedzay stated that "the real enemies of this country are the ones destroying this country from within" and condemned "a special group of Zionist Jews" who want to "establish a permanent shadow government in the United States of America." 

• 2009 – North Carolina

One U.S. permanent resident and six other Americans from North Carolina arrested for engaging in weapons training and conspiring to carry out "violent jihad" overseas may have been motivated by hatred of Israel. According to initial reports, the group raised money and trained for possible terrorist attacks in Tel Aviv, Israel. Several of the men returned to the U.S. from Tel Aviv in June 2007 after "having failed in their attempt to engage in violent jihad," according to the indictment. The Facebook profile of one of the suspects includes a quote that reads, "I am not going to give 1 inch of Palestine to the Jews."

• 2009 – Arkansas

Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad, an American Muslim convert who killed one uniformed American soldier and shot another at a military recruiting center in Arkansas, reportedly searched for information about Jewish institutions on the Internet.  According to court documents, Muhammad planned to target recruiting centers and Jewish organizations "because [of] what they're doing in Palestine or years of killing Muslims."  Muhammad also admitted to throwing a fire bomb at the house of an Orthodox Rabbi in Nashville, Tennessee. He also confessed to the FBI that he had fired shots at the home of Little Rock rabbi in the days before his attack on the recruiting center.

• 2009 – New York

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, New York. James Cromitie, the apparent leader of the group, and the other three men allegedly began surveillance 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.

• 2008 – New York

Bryant Neal Vinas, an American Muslim convert who provided information about New York transit systems to Al Qaeda for potential terrorist attacks, was reportedly angry with the U.S. government for its support of Israel.  Vinas was also involved with the Islamic Thinkers Society, a New York-based anti-Semitic extremist group that calls for the destruction of the state of Israel, and met with the former leader of Revolution Muslim, another New York-based anti-Semitic organization that justifies terrorist attacks and other forms of violence against non-Muslims.

• 2007 – New Jersey

One naturalized U.S. citizen and four other Muslim immigrants conspired to kill American soldiers at New Jersey's Fort Dix army base. According to court documents, "anti-Zionist hatred is one of the reasons, if not the primary reason why they planned to attack Ft. Dix." The Department of Justice has also further alleged that the men were motivated by "their desire to 'avenge' the supposed crimes of Zionism."  Mohamad Ibrahim Shnewer, the naturalized U.S. citizen who was born in Jordan, told an undercover informant that his first choice was to kill Jews in Israel: "I love to kill Jews. I tell you this, in all honesty, it is a dream of mine."

• 2007 – New York

Russell Defreitas, a naturalized U.S. citizen from Guyana, and three others plotted to attack John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK), in part because they wanted to take revenge on the U.S. for its diplomatic relationship with Israel. The men planned to plant explosives and blow up the airport's major jet-fuel supply tanks and pipeline. Defreitas, who previously worked as a cargo handler at JFK, was reportedly motivated to carry out the plot after seeing missiles loaded onto a plane he believed was headed for Israel.  Defreitas later told an informant that "Muslims also incur the wrath of the world while Jews get a pass," and that he "wanted to do something to get those bastards," according to court documents.  Defreitas also suggested targeting a nearby Jewish school or a predominately Jewish neighborhood. 

• 2006 – Illinois

Derrick Shareef, an American Muslim convert who planned to set off grenades in an Illinois shopping mall in 2006, also discussed attacking local government facilities and Jewish targets.  During secretly recorded conversations with an undercover informant, Shareef said he found synagogues on MapQuest and planned to grab Jews and "shank one or two of them" as they entered the synagogue on a Saturday morning.  "I probably would have eventually ended up just stabbing the [expletive] outta some Jews or something," Shareef told the informant.  Shareef also said that he became interested in attacking Jews during the 2006 Lebanon war, according to court documents.  

• 2006 – Washington

American citizen Naveed Afzal Haq shot and killed one woman and wounded five others at the Jewish Federation building in Seattle in July 2006.  Haq, who allegedly forced his way through a security door by holding a gun to a 13-year-old girl's head, told Federation staff members that he was "a Muslim-American" who was "angry at Israel."  During the assault, Haq said, "these are Jews and I'm tired of getting pushed around and our people getting pushed around by the situation in the Middle East," according to court records.  Haq chose his target after searching on the Internet for Jewish organizations, according to Seattle police. 

• 2005 – California

Three American citizens and one U.S. permanent resident from Pakistan planned attacks against Jewish institutions and U.S. military locations in Los Angeles during Yom Kippor in retaliation for the U.S. and Israeli governments' policies towards Muslims. The group planned to attack several synagogues, the Israeli consulate, the National Guard and U.S. military bases and recruiting offices.  The men also gathered information via the Internet on El Al and planned to target the airline's ticket counter at Los Angeles International Airport. The leader of the group, Kevin James, converted to Islam in prison and urged other inmates to target the Jews and the U.S. and Israeli governments. 

• 2005 – California

American citizen Hamid Hayat, who attended terrorist training camps in Pakistan between 2000 and 2004, was recorded praising the murdered of Daniel Pearl, a Wall Street Journal reporter who was kidnapped and murdered by Muslims extremists in 2002. "They killed him. So I'm pleased about that," Hayat said.  "They cut him into pieces and sent him back. That was a good job they did. Now they can't send one Jewish person to Pakistan."

• 2004 – New York

American citizen James Elshafay and Shahawar Matin Siraj, a Pakistani who was in the U.S. illegally, plotted to bomb New York's Herald Square subway station in 2004. In conversations secretly recorded by an undercover informant, Elshafay talked about his hatred of "Zionists" and his solidarity with the Palestinians, according to court documents. The men also watched terrorist videos at the bookstore where Siraj worked, and Siraj gave Elshafay books that claimed the Jews were conspiring to take over the world's economy. 

• 2004 – Virginia

Ali al-Timimi, an American Muslim cleric who frequently gave anti-Semitic, anti-Israel and anti-Western lectures at the Dar al-Arqam mosque in Falls Church, Virginia, inspired a group of men dubbed the "Virginia Jihad Network" to attend terrorist training camps in Pakistan.  In one such sermon, al-Timimi declared that the 2003 explosion of the Columbia space shuttle foreshadowed the ultimate destruction of the West and Israel, according to the indictment.  American Muslim convert Randall Todd Royer, who was influenced by al-Timimi, set up an Internet newsletter for the Pakistani-based terrorist group Lashkar-e-Taiba while attending one of the training camps in Pakistan.  Royer's newsletter contained several anti-Semitic sections, including an article entitled "Who is Ruling the USA Today" and a section on the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. 

• 2003 – Virginia

American citizen Ahmed Omar Abu Ali was extradited from Saudi Arabia to the United States after he told Saudi authorities that his "hatred of the United States for support of Israel against the Palestinian people" caused him to join Al Qaeda.  While attending college in Saudi Arabia, Ali met with former Al Qaeda leader Zubayr Al Rimi between September 2002 and June 2003 to discuss plans to assassinate President George W. Bush.  Ali also planned to hijack and destroy civilian airliners and researched nuclear power facilities in the U.S. at the behest of an Al Qaeda operative, according to the Department of Justice.  After his arrest, U.S. authorities found audio tapes in Arabic at Ali's home in Virginia that promoted the killing of the Jews and a Muslim battle against Christians and Jews.

• 2002 – Florida

Shueyb Mossa Jokhan, a naturalized U.S. citizen from Trinidad, and Imran Mandhai, a Pakistani national, plotted to bomb several targets in Southern Florida in 2002, including Jewish-owned businesses in Weston, the Israeli Consulate in Miami, Jewish community centers in Aventura and Broward County, electrical power stations in Broward and Miami-Dade counties, the National Guard Armory in Hollywood and Mount Rushmore.  The men planned to set off a series of explosives that would cause massive power blackouts in Broward and Miami-Dade counties, which they hoped would result in lootings and chaos in Southern Florida.  Jokhan and Mandhai also planned to demand the U.S. to stop sending aid to Israel, free Muslims from U.S. jails and change U.S. policy on the Middle East. 

• 2002 – Los Angeles

Hesham Mohamed Hadayet, a U.S. permanent resident from Egypt, killed two Israelis and injured four others at an El Al ticket counter at the Los Angeles International Airport on July 4, 2002.  Hadayet, who was fatally shot by an airline security officer, intended to "advance the Palestinian cause in the Israel-Palestine conflict through the killing of civilians and the targeting of an airline owned by the Government of Israel," according to the FBI.

• 2002 – Washington

Earnest James Ujaama, an American Muslim convert who tried to establish a terrorist training camp in Bly, Oregon, made anti-Semitic speeches labeling the Jews as "the enemy."  In the mid-1990s, Ujaama moved to London and attended Finsbury Park mosque, which was headed by radical Muslim cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri and frequented by Richard Reid, the so-called "shoe bomber," and Zacarias Moussaui.  While giving a speech with al-Masri at the Finsbury Park mosque, Ujaama said: "There are many Muslims who have forgotten that the Jews and Christians are our enemies….today the crusade is against Islam and they [sic] are led by the Jews because they are misguided…and so they are used in Israel's long awaited campaign to destroy Islam and to dominate the world."

• 2002 – New York

American citizen Sahim Alwan and five other Americans from Lackawanna, New York, attended an Al Qaeda training camp in Afghanistan. After Alwan's arrest, authorities reportedly found several cassette tapes at Alwan's home that called for fighting against the "West" and referred to Presidents Clinton and Bush as "donkeys for the Jews to ride." Another member of the group, Mukhtar al-Bakri, had in his residence a cassette tape asking "Allah to give Jews and their enablers [U.S.] a black day," according to investigators.

• 2001 – Oregon

One naturalized U.S. citizen, a U.S. permanent resident, and five other Americans – dubbed the "Portland Seven" – were charged with trying to aid the Taliban and other crimes. One member of the group, Patrice Lumumba Ford, came to the attention of authorities after he sent a series of anti-Semitic emails to the mayor's office in Portland. Another member, Jeffrey Leon Battle, was recorded saying that he considered killing Jews at a synagogue or a Jewish school in Portland. According to court documents, Battle "discussed having considered, but ultimately rejected, committing terrorist acts in the U.S.-specifically, mass murder at a Jewish synagogue or school." Ahmed Ibrahim Bilal, a third member of the "Portland Seven", referred to Jews as "lampshades," a Holocaust reference, in recorded conversations.

Foreign nationals motivated by a similar hatred have also planned attacks against Americans, both Jews and non-Jews alike. In September 2009, for example, Jordanian national Hosam Maher Husein Smadi attempted to detonate explosives at the 60-story Fountain Place building in Dallas, Texas.  In previous conversations with an undercover agent allegedly expressed his desire to attack the U.S., in part for its incursions in Iraq and Afghanistan.  Smadi has also espoused a hatred of Israel and Jews, calling for the "destruction of the Jews" and seeking to kill the Jews as retribution for Israel's activities in Gaza.