New York, NY, April 23, 2018 … The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) welcomed the Icelandic government’s recommendation to the parliament for male circumcision to remain legal and its regulation to be consistent with the practice in other Nordic countries.
The government’s recommendation was included in a letter from the Ministry for Foreign Affairs to the parliament.
“Outlawing male circumcision is tantamount to outlawing Jewish communities,” ADL CEO Jonathan…
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April 20, 2018 In a letter to Iceland's Minister for Foreign Affairs Gudlaugur Thór Thórdarson, ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt expressed appreciation for the government’s recommendation to the Icelandic parliament that male circumcision remain legal and its regulation be consistent with the practice in other Nordic countries. April 19, 2018
His Excellency Gudlaugur Thór Thórdarson
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April 10, 2018 In preparation for the Qatari Emir’s visit today to Washington, the White House announced last week that President Trump thanked the monarch by phone for his country’s “continuing commitment” to countering extremism. However, in the last year Qatar’s government has actually continued to use its prominent platforms to promote strident anti-Semitic preachers, a practice President Trump and Congressional leaders should raise with the Qatari Emir Tamim…
by: Lorraine Array April 09, 2018
Holocaust Remembrance Day is commemorated each year a week after the end of the Passover holiday, a day when the world pauses to remember the Holocaust, the millions who died and those who lived on, many to tell their stories to a generation born more than half a century later. To the younger among us, the Holocaust can feel like ancient history. Why is it important that we remember? And why do we continue to utter the mandate of Never…
New York, NY, April 3, 2018 … The Anti-Defamation League (ADL), along with a number of Jewish civil rights organizations, last Friday filed an amicus brief with the U.S. Supreme Court urging the Court to uphold lower court rulings that have blocked President Trump’s third attempt to prohibit travel to the United States from six majority-Muslim nations. The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals largely affirmed the injunction put in place, which now protects foreign nationals with a…
New York, NY, March 23, 2018 … The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today strongly urged the parliament of Iceland to reject a bill that would ban male circumcision.
In a letter addressed to the parliamentary committee discussing the proposal, ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt said, “The proposal to ban male circumcision is contrary to basic principles of religious freedom and deeply offensive to Jews and Muslims. The commandment of brit milah, circumcision on the eighth day, is a…
By Sharon Nazarian | Senior Vice President for International Affairs March 18, 2018 The 6th Global Forum on Combating Anti-Semitism, convening this week in Jerusalem, could not come at a more critical moment for the global Jewish community. The conference, sponsored by the Israeli Foreign Ministry, brings leading international experts, including representatives from ADL, to participate in panel discussions and conversations on the current state of global anti-Semitism.
This year’s…
By Sharon Nazarian | Senior Vice President for International Affairs March 12, 2018 The Bulgarian people defied their Nazi-allied government during the Holocaust and saved Bulgaria’s Jewish community of almost 50,000 people. Their heroic actions 75 years ago show the power of standing up and standing together.
The collective rescue of Bulgaria’s Jews comprised many acts of heroism. Bulgarian Orthodox church leaders campaigned among the people and protested the government…
New York, NY, March 11, 2018 … The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today voiced deep concern at remarks by Russian President Vladimir Putin suggesting Jews and other minorities in the Russian Federation could be behind the meddling in the 2016 U.S. elections.
President Putin, asked in an interview with NBC News if the hacking was sponsored by the Russian government, stated: “Maybe they’re not even Russians. Maybe they’re Ukrainians, Tatars, Jews, just with…
February 28, 2018 The Iranian Javan (young) website published an article on February 13, 2018 which demonstrates the Islamic Republic’s consistent use of anti-Semitic tropes to promote the regime’s entrenched hostility towards Israel. The piece appears at a time of growing tensions between Iran and Israel and within Iranian society, and feeds into long utilized conspiracy theories propagated by the Islamic Republic about Israel and Jews, as well as their demonization of Western…
By Sharon Nazarian | Senior Vice President for International Affairs February 20, 2018 The Hill It’s been just over three years since an Islamic extremist walked into a kosher supermarket in Paris and murdered four Jews. We had hoped that the attack, coming on the heels of so many others targeting Jews in France, including the horrific 2012 murder of a rabbi and three children at a Jewish school in Toulouse, would be enough of a shock to the French Republic that it would mark a turning…
by: Jonathan Greenblatt | January 26, 2018 The Hill International Holocaust Remembrance Day commemorates the millions of victims of the Nazi Holocaust and marks the anniversary of the liberation of the concentration camps at Auschwitz, where more than 1 million innocents were murdered, including an estimated 960,000 Jews.
The liberation of Auschwitz led to the first real awareness of the true barbarity of the Nazi regime and the death industry it created in an attempt to rid Europe of Jews…
New York, NY, January 4, 2018 ... Facebook has removed a disgusting and highly controversial anti-Semitic page that has been on its platform for at least five years. The page peddled one of the worst anti-Jewish conspiracies from medieval times: Jewish ritual murder of non-Jews.
Said Jonathan Greenblatt, Anti-Defamation League CEO and National Director:
“We have been calling for the removal of this hateful, anti-Semitic Facebook page since 2014. It’s long overdue that…
December 19, 2017 President Trump’s December 6 declaration recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of the State of Israel and setting in motion the relocation of the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem engendered strong diplomatic protests, as well as some protests in the streets.
Moving beyond their initial outraged reaction, some Arabic-language media is continuing to focus on this issue, with editorial cartoons suggesting Jewish and Israeli domination of the United States.
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December 18, 2017 Cartoons published in Qatari media used anti-Semitic imagery in its criticism of a Bahraini non-governmental delegation to Israel as an act of betrayal of Arab nationalism.
According to reports, an unofficial Bahraini delegation comprised of religious figures made a visit to Jerusalem this month in order to convey a message of tolerance. Bahrain has no formal ties with Israel and this is considered a first-of-its-kind visit; in response to criticism over the visit,…
December 11, 2017 President Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital was widely condemned by Arab governments. Arabic-language media followed suit, and some outlets even used the historic declaration to propagate anti-Semitic cartoons relating to Jews, Jerusalem, and/or U.S.-Israel relations. In some instances, these cartoons suggest that Israel controls or dominates U.S. foreign policy, for example depicting U.S. President Donald Trump as a puppet operated by Israeli…
by: Ken Jacobson | December 06, 2017 It has often been noted that remembering past events usually leads to an unfounded nostalgia for a so-called golden past. When undergoing close examination, the past usually was not so rosy as imagined and not much better than today.
On so many levels this is not true as we look back this week at the 30th anniversary of the historic rally on behalf of Soviet Jewry in Washington, D.C. The rally, which had 250,000 participants, including Jews and others…
November 30, 2017 November 24 witnessed the deadliest terror attack in Egypt’s history when gunmen detonated explosives at a Sufi mosque in the Sinai Peninsula and then sprayed the worshippers with bullets, killing more than 300 people and wounding more than 100. While no organization claimed responsibility for the attack, it is thought to have been carried out by local militants affiliated with the Islamic State.
Sufism, a branch of Islam, is a minority regarded by the Islamic…
by: Jonathan Greenblatt | November 28, 2017 The Forward At the Anti-Defamation League, we have spent more than 100 years fighting anti-Semitism, often referred to as the world’s oldest hatred. And we have labored to distinguish between a more modern phenomenon –- when criticism of Israel can be considered legitimate political conversation and when it crosses the line into insidious anti-Semitism.
We feel obligated to revisit the subject in light of a new book, “On…
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Nueva York, 16 de noviembre de 2017... La Liga Antidifamación (ADL) manifestó hoy su preocupación por los comentarios antisemitas expresados contra el periodista argentino Alfredo Leuco y el diputado Waldo Wolff. El periodista Alfredo Leuco fue públicamente llamado un judío de m* durante una ceremonia de premiación y el diputado Waldo Wolff fue referido como un agente del Mossad durante una…