Statement by ADL's Task Force on Middle East Minorities on the Nationwide Protests in Iran New York, NY, January 13, 2026 ... The Anti-Defamation League's (ADL) Task Force on Middle East Minorities issued the following statement regarding the nationwide protests in Iran: In light of the nationwide protests across Iran, ADL’s Task Force on Middle East Minorities condemns the Islamic Republic's violent crackdown and calls on the international community to make clear to the…
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Edan Alexander is free at last. Shortly after Hamas began its attack on October 7, 2023, Edan Alexander, an American-Israeli from Tenafly, New Jersey, was able to speak to his mother and tell her he was alright. Just half an hour later, she couldn’t reach him. Edan's family heard nothing from him for over a year and a half, except for the cruel propaganda videos released by the terrorists holding Edan hostage. After 584 days of agony, torture, and darkness – Edan has finally…
Nueva York, Nueva York, 2 de marzo de 2025 ... La Liga Antidifamación (ADL) honró hoy al juez argentino Carlos A. Mahiques con el Premio de la Fundación Leon y Marilyn Klinghoffer en la Cumbre Nacional de Liderazgo 2025. El juez Mahiques recibió este honor por ser el autor de la opinión mayoritaria en el fallo histórico de la Cámara Federal de Casación Penal argentina del 11 de marzo de 2024. Esta decisión puso en evidencia el…
ADL Honors Judge Carlos Mahiques for Bold Ruling on Iran's Role in AMIA Bombings
New York, NY, October 17, 2024 … ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) today welcomed the death of Hamas arch-terrorist Yahya Sinwar at the hands of an Israel Defense Forces patrol in Gaza. Jonathan A. Greenblatt, ADL CEO and National Director, issued the following statement: The reported death of arch-terrorist Yahya Sinwar at the hands of an ordinary IDF patrol truly is justice served. As we have seen with the killing of Bin Laden, Baghdadi, Nasrallah, and other evil terrorist masterminds,…
New York, NY, October 15, 2024 … ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) today welcomed the decision by the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control, in a joint action with Canada, officially designating the Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, or “Samidoun,” as a sham charity that serves as an international fundraiser for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a U.S.-designated foreign terrorist organization. Jonathan A…
New York, NY, July 14, 2024 ... ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) today issued a statement in response to the attempted assassination of former President Donald J. Trump at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania. Jonathan Greenblatt, ADL CEO, issued the following statement: The shooting of former President Trump at a campaign rally is a chilling moment that reminds us of our fragility. Unfortunately, it is almost unsurprising in a public context of escalating tension, intensifying rhetoric, and…
30 Years After AMIA Bombing, Iranian HispanTV Promotes Antisemitism to Hispanic Audiences
Se trata del mayor caso de este tipo, con más de 125 demandantes, y el primero presentado por una organización judía para responsabilizar a los Estados patrocinadores del terrorismo por el atentado terrorista del 7 de octubre en Israel Nueva York, NY, 1 de julio de 2024 ... La Liga Antidifamación (ADL) y Crowell & Moring LLP han presentado hoy una demanda federal alegando que Irán, Siria y Corea del Norte proporcionaron apoyo material a Hamás que…
New York, NY, July 1, 2024 … ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) and Crowell & Moring LLP today filed a federal lawsuit alleging Iran, Syria and North Korea provided material support to Hamas that enabled it to commit atrocities in Israel on October 7, 2023, that killed, injured, and terrorized scores of U.S. citizens and their families, and seeking financial compensation under applicable federal and local laws. The suit names over 125 plaintiffs, including U.S. citizens who were…
Sweden’s Nordic Resistance Movement held 185 “combat training” sessions in 2020 and has served as inspiration for American white supremacists New York, NY, March 28, 2022 … A new report from ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) identifies the Nordic Resistance Movement of Sweden as the region’s most dangerous right wing extremist group, saying that the virulently antisemitic hate group poses “an ongoing and serious public security threat” and is exporting…
New York, NY, November 29, 2021… Members of ADL’s (the Anti-Defamation League’s) Task Force on Middle East Minorities issued a letter today calling on United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken to broaden the criteria for Priority-2 refugee admissions status to include Afghan nationals from ethnic and religious minority groups that have a well-founded fear of persecution under Taliban rule.
Vulnerable ethnic and religious groups are now in much greater peril since…
New York, NY, August 19, 2021 … ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) today called on Twitter, and other major social media platforms, to take immediate action to remove accounts affiliated with the Taliban given the organization’s long history of terrorist activity, violence and discrimination toward girls and women, assassinating journalists, and persecuting religious and ethnic minorities, in Afghanistan. The Taliban recently seized the capital of Afghanistan, Kabul, and have gained…
New York, NY, March 17, 2021 ... In response to historic increases in anti-Chinese and anti-Asian American and Pacific Islander incidents and assaults, ADL (the Anti-Defamation League), the world’s leading anti-hate organization and Committee of 100, a non-profit U.S. leadership organization of prominent Chinese Americans, issued the following joint statement:
“We are united with all of our Asian American brothers and sisters in standing up against hate, xenophobia and violence…
New York, NY, December 7, 2020 … ADL’s (the Anti-Defamation League) Task Force on Middle East Minorities today welcomed the bipartisan passage of two important House Resolutions that the Task Force had endorsed earlier this year as part of its work supporting the rights of vulnerable groups. The Task Force consists of scholars, experts, and activists who serve as an advisory body to augment ADL’s work in protecting vulnerable…
New York, NY, September 29, 2020 … ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) today expressed deep concern about the nomination of Chad Wolf to serve as Secretary of Homeland Security. In advance of the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs vote on his nomination, scheduled for Sept. 30, Jonathan Greenblatt, ADL CEO and National Director, issued the following statement:
As an organization founded to stop the defamation of the Jewish people and committed to…
New York, NY, August 13, 2020 ... ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) has voiced deep concern over problematic remarks reportedly made by Col. Douglas Macgregor (ret.), who was recently nominated to be the next U.S. Ambassador to Germany.
In a letter to Chairman Jim Risch (R-ID) and Ranking Member Bob Menendez (D-NJ) of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, ADL raised concerns regarding reports of Col. Macgregor's highly troubling past remarks downplaying the importance of…
ADL calls for new sanctions in response to terrorist indoctrination and ‘shocking’ antisemitic content in schools New York, NY, June 18, 2020 … School textbooks used in Lebanon by the terrorist group Hezbollah to teach history and other core subjects to children are filled with systematic and egregious incitement to antisemitism and support for terrorism, according to a new report from ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) issued today.
The report, “Teaching…
Washington, DC, October 7, 2019 … A coalition of civil rights and social justice organizations led by the national Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law and including the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, filed an amicus brief before the Supreme Court urging that the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) rescission of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program is unlawful.
Since its inception in…
Partnership comes on heels of deadliest white supremacist attack in more than 50 years, which targeted the Latin American community New York, NY, August 7, 2019 … In response to the recent white supremacist attack in El Paso, Texas, ADL (the Anti-Defamation League), UnidosUS (formerly NCLR) and LULAC (League of United Latin American Citizens) announced a new partnership today, which will share best practices and techniques for documenting and responding to hate violence –…