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LGBTQ+ Pride Month and Education Resources

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Commemorated each year in the month of June, LGBTQ+ Pride Month honors the 1969 Stonewall uprising in New York City. In June of 1969, patrons and supporters of the Stonewall Inn staged an uprising to resist the police harassment and persecution to which LGBTQ+ Americans were commonly subjected. This uprising marked the beginning of a movement to outlaw discriminatory laws and practices against LGBTQ+ Americans. Today, LGBTQ+ Pride Month celebrations include pride parades, picnics, parties,…

May 31, 2023

9 Ideas for Teaching Jewish American Heritage Month

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Collage featuring three different images of Jewish Americans

Use these activities to bring the history, culture and experience of the Jewish people and community to your classroom.

April 20, 2023

New Poll: French Have Mostly Positive Views of Jews, Troubling Sentiment Towards Muslims

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A recent poll of French attitudes, on a variety of subjects of interest to ADL, revealed some surprising and unsurprising results. On the social acceptance of Jews in France, there was relatively good news, but the same unfortunately cannot be said about French attitudes towards Muslims. The Le Monde – Fondation Jean Jaures survey analyzes attitudes about societal issues and political affiliation. Over 12,000 people were polled from September 16-20 and the results were…

October 20, 2022

Moroccan Textbooks Teach Appreciation of Jewish Life and Tolerance in the Kingdom

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By Carole Nuriel and Aykan Erdemir An examination of textbooks used in the fourth, fifth, and sixth grades of Moroccan state schools during the 2021-2022 school year indicate that tolerance and diversity are core to the curriculum promoted across Moroccan society. The excerpts on Judaism and Jews that Morocco’s Ministry of National Education and Vocational Training provided to ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) show that the country’s elementary school textbooks depict Jews as an…

September 29, 2022

Middle Eastern Media Needs to Stop Blaming Jews for the 1969 Al-Aqsa Arson

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August 21 marks the 53rd anniversary of a terrible attack against an Islamic holy site, when a Protestant extremist from Australia named Denis Michael Rohan set fire to the al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem, destroying large parts of the site and irreplaceable artifacts. Rohan’s crime should rightly be widely condemned and the loss commemorated even five-plus decades later. It is important to note that Rohan, who believed his actions would prompt the Second Coming of Jesus, was…

August 19, 2022

Letter to Twitter regarding Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s chronic violations of Twitter’s terms

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Jonathan Greenblatt CEO and National Director July 27, 2022 Dear Mr. Agrawal, I am once again reaching out regarding Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s chronic violations of Twitter’s terms of service on his accounts of Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. We ask that you de-platform him for his continued use of Twitter to promote antisemitism, hate, violence and Holocaust denial. As I wrote in January 2021 to then Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, Khamenei…

July 28, 2022

Letter from ADL Regarding Antisemitism in Art Exhibition

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The Honorable Claudia Roth Dienstsitz der Kulturstaatsministerin Bundeskanzleramt Willy-Brandt-Str. 1 10557 Berlin Dear Madam Minister: Since its founding 109 years ago, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), has been a global leader in combating antisemitism and extremism. We have followed with great concern the story of blatant antisemitic images featured in the documenta 15 art exhibition. We write to convey that concerns about this scandal are felt well beyond Germany,…

June 28, 2022

Most U.S. Teens Experienced Harassment When Gaming Online, ADL Survey Finds

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60 percent of children ages 13-17, and 83 percent of adults 18-45, were harassed while participating in online multiplayer games New York, NY, September 15, 2021 … Sixty percent of children ages 13-17 have experienced harassment while playing games online, according to a first-of-its-kind survey of online gaming experiences released today by the ADL (Anti-Defamation League) Center for Technology and Society. Despite the significant percentage of young adults who reported…

September 15, 2021

ADL: Supreme Court Ruling in Fulton v. Philadelphia Underscores Importance of Anti-Discrimination Law

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New York, NY, June 17, 2021 … ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) expressed disappointment in response to today’s Supreme Court ruling in favor of Catholic Social Services, which rejected the city of Philadelphia’s argument that it should not have to renew a foster care certification contract with an agency that refuses to serve same-sex couples. However, the decision was narrow, and it is important to note that the Court focused on the details of the city’s contract…

June 17, 2021

Meyers Leonard fined and suspended for antisemitic slur; Israeli society increasingly divided; LGBTQ protections stripped from hate crimes bill

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March 12, 2021 THE WEEK’S BIG 3 Miami Heat center Meyers Leonard was fined $50,000, suspended from the team's facilities and banned from team activities after he uttered an antisemitic slur while playing video games. Israeli society is increasingly divided, with 81 percent of Israelis stating that they believe that their society is increasingly divided, a 12 percent increase since 2017, according to a new ADL. survey. A panel of South Carolina lawmakers stripped explicit protections…

March 12, 2021

The Supreme Court and the Right to Marry

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John Lewis and Stuart Gaffney during a Marriage Equality Rally stand in front of the U.S. Supreme Court

Civics Lesson GRADE LEVEL: High School What Were the Multiple Perspectives of the Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court Based on During the Repeal of DOMA? According to the Supreme Court Decision, Who Has the Right to Marry? What Assurances Do We Have that the Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court are Able to Be Non-partisan and Avoid Bias When Deciding a Case? The Judicial branch of the U.S. government is headed by the Supreme Court. This court analyzes and judges cases…

May 04, 2020

ADL Urges Supreme Court to Prevent Taxpayer-Funded Foster Care Agency From Discriminating Against Same-Sex Couples

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New York, NY, August 20, 2020 ... ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) today filed an amicus brief with the U.S. Supreme Court urging it to reject a taxpayer-funded foster care agency’s claim that its religious beliefs entitle the agency to violate a local anti-discrimination law barring discrimination based on sexual orientation, religion, and other protected characteristics. The brief in the case, Fulton v. City of Philadelphia, was joined by a diverse coalition of religious, civil…

August 20, 2020

Antisemitism and Anti-LGBTQ Rhetoric Mar Poland’s Presidential Election

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July 20, 2020 Incumbent President Andrzej Duda defeated Warsaw Mayor Rafal Trzaskowski, 51%-49%, for a second five-year term. While the presidency is supposed to be non-partisan, the contest clearly pitted the nationalist populist Law and Justice party, which supported Duda, against the pro-European liberal supporters of Trzaskowski. Duda was the early favorite, but the race tightened as election day neared. In response, Duda’s campaign turned negative, including the…

July 17, 2020

Civil Rights Campaign Targets Facebook Ads; SCOTUS Upholds Federal Law Protecting LGBTQ Workers; Hezbollah School Textbooks Promote Antisemitism and Terrorism

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June 19, 2020 THE WEEK’S BIG 3 ADL convened a coalition of civil rights groups encouraging corporate advertisers to pull spending from Facebook during the month of July to protest the company’s failure to make its platform a less-hostile place. The Supreme Court ruled that federal civil rights law protects gay, lesbian and transgender workers from discrimination. School textbooks used in institutions controlled by the terror group Hezbollah are teaching children “egregious…

June 19, 2020

Historical Antisemitism

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Nazi Propaganda and Ideology Taught to Students

Echoes & Reflections GRADE LEVEL: Middle School, High School COMMON CORE STANDARDS: Reading, Writing, Speaking and Listening In this unit, students learn about the origins of antisemitism and how this hatred was exploited by the Nazis during the 1920s and 1930s as part of their racist ideology. Students define the terms antisemitism and stereotype, review text and video sources, and create a timeline reflecting examples of antisemitism throughout history. Students will…

January 27, 2020

Antisemitism After the Holocaust

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A poster that reads "Well done Israel, Hitler would be proud

Echoes & Reflections: Teaching the HolocaustGRADE LEVEL: Middle School, High School COMMON CORE STANDARDS: Reading, Writing, Speaking and Listening, Language The lessons in this unit increase students’ understanding of Jewish people and awareness that antisemitism did not end after the Holocaust, and provide them with opportunities to learn about the persistence of antisemitism in its contemporary forms. Students investigate the ways in which old ideas about Jews and Judaism have…

October 23, 2019

Jewish Resistance during the Holocaust

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Echoes & Reflections is dedicated to reshaping the way that teachers and students understand, process, and navigate the world through the events of the Holocaust. We partner with educators to help them introduce students to the complex themes of the Holocaust and to understand its lasting effect on the world. GRADE LEVEL: Middle School, High School COMMON CORE STANDARDS: Reading, Writing, Speaking and Listening This unit provides an opportunity for students to explore Jewish…

June 15, 2018

ADL Urges Supreme Court to Uphold Key Anti-Discrimination Protections for the LGBTQ Community

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New York, NY, July 3, 2019 … ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) today joined a broad coalition of 59 civil rights organizations in urging the U.S. Supreme Court to clarify that a key provision of the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964 (CRA), Title VII protects LGBTQ individuals from discrimination in the workplace. The amicus brief, led by the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights and the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under the Law, highlights that LGBTQ…

July 03, 2019

ADL Hails Fourth Circuit Court Decision Upholding Constitutionality of Hate Crimes Prevention Act

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New York, NY, June 13, 2019… ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) today welcomed the decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit upholding the constitutionality of the landmark federal hate crime legislation, the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crime Prevention Act (HCPA), as applied in the case of an Amazon worker who was targeted because of his perceived sexual orientation. "Today represents an important victory in the ongoing fight against bias and hate…

June 13, 2019

Small Group of Neo-Nazis Protest Michigan Pride Festival with Homophobic, Anti-Semitic Slurs

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June 11, 2019 On Saturday, June 8, ten neo-Nazis associated with the National Socialist Movement protested Detroit’s Motor City Pride Festival, carrying guns and shouting homophobic and anti-Semitic slurs. NSM leader Burt Colucci and Aric Lemieux, NSM’s South Michigan chapter leader, headed up the protest, which included participants from Florida, Tennessee, Kentucky, Massachusetts and Michigan. Lemieux expressed his intention to protest the festival months ago, and other group…

June 11, 2019