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Who Helps Fight Anti-Semitism? Young Leaders Like Melanie

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Melanie Roloff
December 21, 2018 Can you remember being a fourth grader? It’s a vulnerable age, where you’re just starting to gain more confidence and independence, yet you’re still squarely in the “kid” zone. Now imagine being a child this age and hearing the slur “dirty Jew” ringing in your ear, uttered by multiple classmates. Melanie Roloff doesn’t have to imagine this nightmare—she lived it. In her fourth-grade class, instead of being able to…
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ADL's Issues in Latin America: The Year in Review

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December 21, 2018 With approximately 3 percent of the world’s Jewish population residing in Latin America, ADL works in partnership with the organized Jewish communal institutions to lend our voices when needed. Going into 2019, as challenges to Jewish community grow worldwide, ADL’s focus on strengthening relations with local Jewish communities across Latin America will continue to be paramount, particularly in areas of common interest.   Political shifts  …
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Attack on a Louisiana Synagogue: You Can’t Become Complacent About Anti-Semitism—and Here’s Why

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December 20, 2018 Imagine the terrified, demoralizing feeling of going to your place of worship, and seeing hateful graffiti spread across its walls—graffiti that directly targets and assaults not only your faith, but who you are as a person. That’s exactly what happened in Mandeville, Louisiana on September 5, 2018, at Northshore Jewish Congregation (NJC). Imagine being Rebecca Slifkin, who worked at NJC, whose concerned neighbors came by to tell her about being shocked and…
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ADL Responds to Alice Walker's 'Unqualified Endorsement' of Book by Notorious Anti-Semite

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New York, NY, December 17, 2018 ... The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today issued the following statement in response to an article in The New York Times Book Review, in which author Alice Walker offered an unqualified endorsement of a book by a British anti-Semitic conspiracy theorist. Statement by Jonathan A. Greenblatt, CEO and National Director: “We’re deeply disappointed that The New York Times Book Review would print author Alice Walker’s unqualified…
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Task Force on Middle Eastern Minorities Condemns the Arrest of Over 100 Christians in Iran

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New York, NY, December 14 ... ADL's Task Force on Middle East Minorities condemns the recent arrest of over 100 Christians in Iran. The timing of the arrests follows a pattern of harassment that Iran has used in the past toward its religious minorities, intimidating them just weeks before their religious holidays, in this example just weeks before Christmas. According to reports, the arrests targeted Christian converts of Muslim backgrounds. This wave of arrests is seen as part of a…
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ADL’s Task Force on Middle East Minorities Welcomes Passage of Iraq and Syria Genocide Relief and Accountability Act

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New York, NY, December 14 … ADL’s Task Force on Middle East Minorities welcomes Congress’s passage of the Iraq and Syria Genocide Relief and Accountability Act (H.R. 390) and President Trump signing this important bill into law. The Act, which passed both chambers of Congress with wide bipartisan support, ensures that U.S. humanitarian assistance in Syria and Iraq goes to ethnic and religious minority individuals and communities that are in greatest need,…
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Highlights from Never Is Now 2018

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December 06, 2018 A capacity crowd of over 1,200 people came together on Monday, Dec. 3 at Never Is Now 2018, ADL’s Summit on Anti-Semitism and Hate. We were thrilled to see so many business, community, academic and religious leaders mix with students to tackle the pressing and perplexing issues around anti-Semitism and hate. Check out a few highlights from the event! ADL's CEO and National Director, Jonathan Greenblatt, kicked off the summit by addressing the current state of anti…
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Saudi Textbooks Still Foment Hate: The Kingdom's Education Materials Are Rise with Anti-Semitism and Calls to Hurt Shiites, Gays, Women and More

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By David Weinberg | Washington Representative for International Affairs December 04, 2018 New York Daily News In the wake of the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, America is reassessing its interests in Saudi Arabia. As U.S. officials consider the complexities of this relationship, they must not forget the importance of motivating Riyadh to remove incitement from its government-published textbooks. Speaking to an audience at the Council on Foreign Relations this fall, Saudi Arabia’s foreign…
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Opening Remarks: The 2018 ADL 'Never Is Now!' Summit in New York

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Remarks by Jonathan A. Greenblatt, CEO of the Anti-Defamation League December 03, 2018 New York, NY, December 3, 2018 Thank you for that kind introduction, and welcome to our third annual Never is Now conference. You know, ever since I started as ADL’s CEO nearly three and a half years ago, the thing that has kept me up at night is the fear that I will wake up the next morning to the news that something horrible has happened to a Jewish community in some far-off place. I…
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Straight Talk on the Charge of Jewish Disloyalty

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November 27, 2018 UPDATE: In response to comments from President Trump regarding dual-loyalty concerns for American Jews, ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt spoke at length about the issue on CNN on 8/21/19. Please view the clip here. The charge of disloyalty has been used to harass, marginalize, and persecute the Jewish people for centuries. Sometimes referred to as the “dual loyalty” charge, it alleges that Jews should be suspected of being disloyal neighbors or citizens because…
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ADL Analysis Finds Saudi School Textbooks Still Teach Anti-Semitic Incitement and Hatred

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Despite government claims, books continue to teach hatred against Jews, Christians, women, homosexual men New York, NY, November 19, 2018 … A comprehensive Anti-Defamation League (ADL) analysis of Saudi government-published textbooks has found that, despite the kingdom’s claims to the contrary, school textbooks for the 2018-19 academic year promote incitement to hatred or violence against Jews, Christians, women, and homosexual men. “Teaching Hate and Violence:…
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ADL Welcomes House Passage of Anti-Semitism Envoy Bill

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New York, NY, September 13, 2018 … Following today’s overwhelming vote by the House of Representatives to pass the bipartisan Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism Act of 2018 (H.R. 1911), ADL CEO and National Director Jonathan A. Greenblatt stated: We welcome the House of Representatives’ overwhelming vote today to approve the Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism Act of 2018.  Advancing this bill has been a top priority for ADL, as has…
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How Conspiracy Theories Can Kill

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November 14, 2018 “HIAS [Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society] likes to bring invaders in that kill our people,” declared the post on the social media site Gab, “I can’t sit by and watch my people get slaughtered.  Screw your optics, I’m going in.”  Just minutes later, Robert Bowers, who is believed to be the author of that post, entered the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and opened fire on congregants, allegedly shouting &ldquo…
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ADL Launches Task Force to Protect Minority Communities of Middle East

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New York, NY, November 8, 2018 … ADL today announced the launch of a new task force focused on promoting the protection of minority communities in the Middle East. The ADL Task Force on Middle East Minorities will educate, advocate and elevate the issues challenging these important and all-too-often overlooked communities across the region, including religious, ethnic, sexual and gender minorities, and other groups who face governmental and societal repression and discrimination…
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ADL Welcomes House Passage of Anti-Semitism Envoy Bill

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New York, NY, January 11, 2019 … ADL welcomed today’s overwhelming vote in the U.S. House of Representatives approving the bipartisan Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism Act, which would upgrade the role of the State Department’s global anti-Semitism envoy to ambassador level and impose a legal limit on the time in which any administration can leave this critical position unfilled. H.R. 221 was passed by the House in a floor vote of 411 to 1. …
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Farrakhan Visits Iran to Rail Against Sanctions and Israel

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November 05, 2018 Louis Farrakhan spent Sunday in Iran, according to the English language version of MEHR, an Iranian news agency, spewing anti-American, anti-Israel rhetoric. The Nation of Islam leader, ostensibly in Iran to mark the 39th anniversary of the takeover of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, lashed out repeatedly at the U.S. and the Trump administration’s new sanctions against Iran. He reportedly called the U.S. a “big liar” and described the new sanctions as …
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A Prayer for Pittsburgh

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October 29, 2018 Dear Friends, Saturday’s horrific attack at the synagogue in Pittsburgh has shaken all of us. As religious leaders, at a time like this, we are called upon to teach, preach, explain and comfort. The nature of this atrocity can be overwhelming. ADL has prepared some resources to help you understand the reality of anti-Semitism and white supremacy in America today, and to speak and teach about these difficult subjects with young people. Finally, we have suggestions…
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Pyramid of Hate

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The Pyramid of Hate illustrates the prevalence of bias, hate and oppression in our society. It is organized in escalating levels of attitudes and behavior that grow in complexity from bottom to top. Like a pyramid, the upper levels are supported by the lower levels; unlike a pyramid, the levels are not built consecutively or to demonstrate a ranking of each level. Bias at each level reflects a system of oppression that negatively impacts individuals, institutions and society…
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The Antisemitism Lurking Behind George Soros Conspiracy Theories

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A caricature of George Soros as a tentacled monster has appeared on various right-wing and pro-Russian web sites since at least 2015.
October 11, 2018 Hungarian Jewish billionaire, philanthropist and Holocaust survivor George Soros is widely recognized for funding progressive political and social causes, usually through grants made by his Open Society Foundations. As a result, Soros has become a lightning rod for conservative and right-wing groups who object to his funding of liberal causes. In far-right circles worldwide, Soros’ philanthropy often is recast as fodder for outsized conspiracy theories, including…
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Remarks by Robert Trestan to OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights in Paris

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Ensuring Religious Freedom Remains Safe in France: Best Practices from America October 10, 2018 Introduction Anti-Semitism remains the world’s oldest forms of hatred. The targeting and scapegoating of Jews and Jewish communities dates back centuries. With the passing of each year, decade and century, the Anti-Semites have adapted, never giving up, always using the latest, most modern, most technologically advanced techniques to target, and intimidate us, and the one thing that has…
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