U.S. President Joe Biden, who is currently visiting Israel, the Palestinian Authority, and Saudi Arabia, reiterated the strong friendship and strategic alliance between Israel and the United States, paid tribute to Holocaust survivors, and even self-identified as a Zionist, at a time when the term is being demonized by Israel’s detractors.
Outraged by this show of support for the Jewish State, individuals and groups in the anti-Israel movement in the United States assailed President…
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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,…
By Aykan Erdemir
Since Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution, the clerical regime has observed the last Friday of the month of Ramadan as International Quds (i.e. Jerusalem) Day, using it as an opportunity to spread antisemitic hate, incite violence against the Jewish people, and call for the destruction of the State of Israel.
Last year, for example, the main English-language Twitter account attributed to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei (@khamenei_ir)…
Thank you so much for inviting me to join this commemoration today.
On Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, we join with communities across the world to remember the attempted annihilation of the Jewish people.
I’m honored to be with you all at USAID because in many ways your work is about hope, the one true antidote to hate, and a force that should provide the inspiration to prevent future horrors as we saw in the Holocaust.
But this day is deeply personal to me.
My…
Center will sponsor fellowships and grants, while bolstering ADL’s own empirical research New York, NY, April 21, 2022 … Building on its more than a century of knowledge and research into core antisemitic beliefs and attitudes, ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) today announced the creation of a new research arm that will deepen understanding of the world’s oldest hatred through a combination of scholarly investigation and empirical research.
The ADL Center for…
The Task Force also calls for reinstatement of FTO designation for Iran-backed Houthis New York, NY, April 20, 2022 … The ADL (Anti-Defamation League) Task Force on Middle East Minorities stated today that it opposes any effort to remove the Islamic Republic of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) from the United States’ government’s Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) list. The Task Force also calls upon the Department of State to reinstate the FTO…
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, March 11, 2022 ... ADL (Anti-Defamation League) issued the following statement on the future of partnership with Chelsea FC and Foundation:
In light of recent events, all programming has been put on hold until the future of the Chelsea FC and Foundation becomes clear.
Our partnership with the club helped engage and educate on the impact of antisemitism, including through the “Say No to Anti-Semitism” campaign.
Meanwhile, we will continue our…
New York, NY, March 11, 2022 ... ADL (Anti-Defamation League) issued the following statement on the future of partnership with Chelsea FC and Foundation:
In light of recent events, all programming has been put on hold until the future of the Chelsea FC and Foundation becomes clear.
Our partnership with the club helped engage and educate on the impact of antisemitism, including through the “Say No to Anti-Semitism” campaign.
Meanwhile, we will continue our…
March 09, 2022 Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, extremists and antisemites across the ideological spectrum have used the war as fodder for promoting antisemitic conspiracy theories. Emanating from classic antisemites and white supremacists, as well as QAnon influencers and Proud Boys acolytes, classic tropes of Jewish power, financial control and “abuse” of the Holocaust narrative abound online. In just a few short weeks, tens of thousands of social…
One animation based on ADL’s Antisemitism Uncovered resource will be released weekly over the next seven weeks New York, NY, March 9, 2022 … ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) today released the first in a series of new videos conceived to explain and combat the seven most pernicious antisemitic tropes to a new generation of social media users.
The videos explore seven classic antisemitic tropes detailed in Antisemitism Uncovered: A Guide to Old Myths in a New Era, ADL’s…
March 04, 2022 “When Ukrainian nationalists and Jews look at those red and black flags, we see two different things.” – Prof. David Fishman
By Andrew Srulevitch, ADL Director of European Affairs
As the Russian assault on Ukraine has intensified, the Russian president and his government has escalated rhetoric falsely labeling the Ukrainian government and its leaders as “Nazis.” President Vladimir Putin has claimed that the military action is aimed at the …
March 03, 2022 In the week since Russian President Putin declared a “special military operation” in Ukraine, the Russian leader has become a pariah among much of the global community. Even white supremacist communities, once steadfast in their support for Putin’s Russia, are now questioning whether the invasion is worth the cost in “white” lives. They are also railing against non-white refugees resettling in “white” Europe and offering support for a…
Both Reddit and Twitter failed to remove over 70 percent of the antisemitic content ADL uncovered with first-ever independent artificial intelligence tool New York, NY, February 28, 2022 … The ADL (Anti-Defamation League) Center for Technology and Society today announced the launch of the first version of its Online Hate Index, a machine-learning system that detects hate targeting marginalized groups on online platforms. The Online Hate Index represents the first independent,…
February 03, 2022 THE WEEK’S BIG 3 Major U.S. Jewish groups, including ADL, blasted Amnesty International’s latest “effort to demonize Israel” – this time in the form of a report accusing Israel of being an apartheid state and engaging in ethnic cleansing. ABC News suspended The View host Whoopi Goldberg for two weeks after she drew significant criticism for falsely claiming that the Holocaust was "not about race." The FBI has identified people suspected of making…
New York, NY, January 30, 2022 … ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) issued the following statement concerning Amnesty International UK’s upcoming report on Israel:
“We have reviewed Amnesty International UK’s upcoming report on Israel and strongly condemn it as an effort to demonize Israel and undermine its legitimacy as a Jewish and democratic state. In an environment of rising anti-Jewish hate, this type of report is not only inaccurate but also irresponsible and…
January 27, 2022 THE WEEK’S BIG 3 Nearly 100 candidates for political office and politicians across the country are increasingly embracing extremist talking points, endorsing hateful campaigns and promoting conspiracy theories, according to a new report from ADL. A Tennessee school board voted to remove "Maus," a Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel about the Holocaust, from the district's curriculum after officials objected to instances of profanity and an image of a nude woman. A white…
January 20, 2022 1. Los judíos son la comunidad religiosa más atacada en Estados Unidos.
Según los datos anuales del FBI sobre delitos de odio, definidos como delitos criminales motivados por prejuicios, los delitos contra la comunidad judía constituyen más de la mitad de todos los delitos basados en la religión. El número de delitos de odio contra los judíos ha oscilado entre 600 y 1.200 al año desde que el FBI comenzó…
by: Kenneth Jacobson | January 20, 2022 It was 80 years ago to this day that the infamous Wannsee conference was held in Germany to lay out plans for implementation of the Final Solution for the Jews of Europe. As historians have pointed out, this was not a conference deciding on this plan. That had been decided upon months earlier by Adolf Hitler. Wannsee was the moment, however, where it became official policy of the Nazi regime and was operationalized in a machine like manner.
This…
January 17, 2022
1. Jews are consistently the most targeted religious community in the U.S.
According to the FBI’s annual data on hate crimes, defined as criminal offenses which are motivated by bias, crimes targeting the Jewish community consistently constitute over half of all religion-based crimes. The number of hate crimes against Jews has ranged between 600 and 1,200 each year since the FBI began collecting data in the 1990s. There were 683 hate crimes against Jews in…