July 12, 2019 Dear Chairman Cummings and Ranking Member Jordan:
We write to provide the views of ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) in advance of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing on the “Trump Administration’s Child Separation Policy: Substantiated Allegations of Mistreatment.” Since our founding in 1913, ADL’s mission has been to stop the defamation of the Jewish people and to secure justice and fair treatment to all. We represent a…
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We're co-opting the online platforms that embolden extremists who fan the flames of bigotry and violent fantasies to stop them before they act. by: Jonathan Greenblatt | July 01, 2019 The Times of Israel From hateful speech on Stormfront and Gab to the harassment of rabbis walking down the street in Germany to recent deadly violence at houses of worship in Pittsburgh, Christchurch, and Poway, it is painfully clear how online radicalization truly endangers communities. There’s a bright…
June 28, 2019 Edition: June 27, 2019
THE WEEK’S BIG 3
White supremacists increased college campus recruiting efforts with more propaganda distributions for the third straight year. ADL and partners are teaming up in an initiative to help redirect those seeking extremist content on the internet to material that exposes the falsehoods of these hateful movements. In a victory for immigration advocates, the Supreme Court ruled the Trump Administration cannot, for now, include the…
New York, NY, June 27, 2019 … ADL (Anti-Defamation League) today welcomed the introduction of bipartisan legislation designed to improve hate crime data collection. The measure would authorize grants to promote hate crime training, prevention, best practices, and data collection initiatives – and to develop state hate crime reporting hotlines to refer individuals to local law enforcement and support services.
“Especially in a time of rising hate crimes, we must…
New York, NY, June 27, 2019 … ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) today welcomed the Supreme Court’s decision to block the Commerce Department’s attempt to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census for the time being. The Court labeled the Commerce Department’s rationale for adding the question – voting rights enforcement – as “contrived,” and sent the case back for further deliberations.
ADL CEO and National Director Jonathan…
ADL found spring 2019 was the worst semester on record New York, NY, June 27, 2019 … White supremacist propaganda distribution on college campuses increased for the third straight year, according to data released today by ADL (Anti-Defamation League). From Sept. 1, 2018 to May 31, 2019, ADL’s Center on Extremism documented 313 cases of white supremacist propaganda on college campuses – including fliers, stickers and posters – compared to 292 during the 2017-2018…
June 21, 2019
Recent incidents of white supremacist terrorist activity have prompted the public, researchers, and cyber hate and harassment experts to focus on smaller online message boards and forums like Gab and 8chan. These platforms rose to prominence by permitting any content to be posted, no matter how extreme, without consequence. In fact, they boast about being unhindered by content moderation niceties. A particularly worrying trend is the increasing reach and influence of these…
New York, NY, June 18, 2019 ... ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) today issued the following statement in response to actor John Cusack's retweeting an anti-Semitic meme, which he subsequently deleted.
ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt said:
"John Cusack’s retweet of an anti-Semitic meme, which has been widely used online by anti-Semites from across the ideological spectrum, shows how easy it is for hatred to go viral in seconds. Whether or not you blame it on bots,…
June 14, 2019 THE WEEK’S BIG 3
Organizers of the “DC Dyke March” attempted to implement a ban on Jewish Pride flags, claiming they too closely resemble the flag of Israel. In Detroit, a small group of neo-Nazis carrying weapons disrupted an LGBTQ Pride march by spewing homophobic, racist and anti-Semitic slurs at participants and pretending to defile an Israeli flag. A gay man in Atlanta was shot and killed in what police are classifying as a hate crime.
Read on for…
June 13, 2019 Key Highlights
In 2018, 13 individuals were arrested for domestic criminal activity motivated by Islamist extremism. Four of the 13 arrests were linked to terror plots, one of which resulted in the murder of a high school student.
All 13 individuals arrested for domestic Islamist extremist activity in 2018 were lawfully in the United States at the time of their arrest. Eleven of these individuals were U.S. citizens, one was a lawful permanent resident originally from…
June 11, 2019 On Sunday, May 19th, Deir Yassin Remembered (DYR) led a protest outside a “Breakfast for Israel” fundraiser for Magen David Adom, the Israeli version of the Red Cross, at Congregation Beth Sholom in Teaneck, New Jersey.
About a dozen protestors from DYR – an organization whose leaders have called for the elimination of Israel, described Zionism as a “cancer” and claimed that Israel is a hub for pedophilia and organ trafficking – were joined…
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 07, 2019 ADL volunteer leaders from across the country came together to lobby and advocate around countering hate. They learned from and were inspired by subject matter experts, Members of Congress, civil rights activists, journalists and authors during the keynote plenary speeches and panels.
Everyone sitting in the Independence Ballroom at the Grand Hyatt in Washington, D.C. on June 2nd received a sobering reminder of the power of partnership when it comes to healing after…
New York, NY, June 5, 2019…ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) hailed the U.S. House of Representatives’ historic passage of legislation that would provide more than 2 million undocumented immigrants a pathway to permanent protections and citizenship, including young Dreamers and recipients of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) and Deferred Enforced Departure (DED).
The Dream and Promise Act, H.R. 6, passed yesterday in the House by a vote of 237-187 and is the first…
Washington DC, June 5, 2019 … ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) and the Mexican Foreign Ministry on Tuesday launched a new social media campaign, “#DenunciaElOdio” (“Denounce Hate”) to raise awareness among the Mexican immigrant community in the U.S. of the value and importance of identifying, reporting and exposing hate crimes. At a time of increased hate and discriminatory language being directed at immigrant populations, ADL and the Mexican Foreign Ministry are…
June 02, 2019 Remarks by Jonathan Greenblatt
CEO and National Director, Anti-Defamation League
To the ADL National Leadership Summit
June 2, 2019, Washington, D.C.
(As prepared for delivery)
Thank you, Esta, for that kind introduction, and welcome to our 2019 National Leadership Summit.
I am so glad to be here.
Its been an exhausting year and a hard year, and to that end I want to ask you to pause for a moment of silence to honor the 12 people who were killed in…
May 29, 2019 President John F. Kennedy was born 102 years ago today. His dedication to upholding the American ideal of a “nation of immigrants” catalyzed the passage of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, which eliminated the national origin quota system.
ADL and Harper Perennial released the 60th Anniversary edition of President Kennedy’s book, A Nation of Immigrants, last year. His words are evergreen and remind us how a diversity of faiths, nationalities and…
Mexico City, Mexico, May 29, 2019 …ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) and the Mexican Foreign Ministry today signed an agreement to work collaboratively to assist people of Mexican heritage living in the United States who are victims of discrimination, bigotry, bullying and hate crimes.
The Memorandum of Understanding between ADL and Mexico commences the second phase of a two-year partnership working to fight back against the rising tide of hate crimes and discrimination facing…
May 23, 2019 UPDATE: A large law enforcement contingent kept the peace as only nine HSK members and associates participated in Saturday’s rally. Yards away, separated by a fence and a wall of police, hundreds of counter-protesters drowned out the barely visible Klan group with a united and peaceful message against hate.
The Honorable Sacred Knights of the Ku Klux Klan (HSK), a small Madison, Indiana-based Klan group led by Derek Dean Eaglin and Kate Nicole Eaglin, has scheduled…
May 17, 2019 THE WEEK’S BIG 3
Six days after being kicked off Facebook, notorious anti-Semite and leader of the Nation of Islam Louis Farrakhan was invited to speak at a church in Chicago, where he delivered his typical brand of bigotry and anti-Jewish hatred. The Harvard Lampoon, a satirical magazine on campus, was forced to apologize after publishing an inappropriate and doctored photograph of Anne Frank in swimwear. On Capitol Hill, ADL and others call on Congress and the…