The UN World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance, held in Durban, South Africa from August 31 to September 7, 2001, brought together over 12,000 representatives from 194 states and organizations to forge a common agenda against discrimination. Over two decades later, the “Durban process” has come to symbolize the United Nation’s polarization over antisemitism and anti-Zionism, a form of antisemitism which opposes the…
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New York, NY, January 16, 2025, … Hate and harassment was recorded in almost half of online multiplayer game sessions tested with a range of religious, ethnic and national identity-based usernames, shows new research conducted by the ADL (Anti-Defamation League) Center for Technology and Society. Examples of hate and harassment included racial slurs, trash-talking or disrupted play. Identity-based harassment was present in one-third of play sessions across the four games …
On January 13, 2025, the United States Department of State designated the Terrorgram Collective and three of its foreign leaders as Specially Designated Global Terrorists (SDGTs), formally including Terrorgram among other international terrorist groups. Terrorgram is a decentralized network of white supremacist, neo-Nazi and accelerationist groups and individuals connected primarily through the encrypted social networking app Telegram, with the collective goal of promoting stochastic…
As devastating wildfires continue to decimate sections of Los Angeles, California, extremists and conspiracy theorists are spreading familiar falsehoods, blaming the blaze on common scapegoats such as diversity initiatives, Jews and nefarious government “false flags.” Fires that began in the Pacific Palisades area on January 7, 2025, are now part of a broader set of blazes across the city. Officials believe the fires were caused primarily by drought conditions, high winds and the…
La encuesta muestra que los sentimientos antijudíos están en su punto más alto a nivel mundial, revelando áreas donde los gobiernos deben tomar medidas para enfrentar el odio antisemita. Nueva York, NY, 14 de enero de 2025 ... Según la última encuesta Global 100 realizada por la Liga Antidifamación (ADL) y coordinada con Ipsos y otros socios de investigación, casi la mitad de las personas en todo el mundo tienen elevados niveles de…
46% of Adults Worldwide Hold Significant Antisemitic Beliefs, ADL Poll Finds
The deadly New Year’s attack in New Orleans, Louisiana, left a city reeling and social media awash in hateful lies and conspiracy theories about immigrants, Israel and a government cover-up. In the early morning of January 1, 2025, 42-year-old Houston, Texas resident Shamsud-Din Jabbar, drove his car into a crowd of revelers on Bourbon Street, killing at least fourteen people and injuring dozens more before he was shot and killed by police. While law enforcement is still…
The 2024 Year in Review from ADL: Challenging Times and Moments of Hope During the Past Year
El 86% de los padres apoya la educación sobre el antisemitismo; el 88% respalda la educación sobre el Holocausto y el 52% cree que debería ser obligatoria. Nueva York, NY, 23 de diciembre de 2024 ... Según una encuesta publicada hoy por el Centro de Investigación sobre Antisemitismo (CAR) de la Liga Antidifamación (ADL), el 71% de los padres judíos y el 37% de los padres no judíos encuestados informaron que sus hijos fueron testigos…
New York, NY, December 23, 2024 … Seventy-one percent of Jewish parents and 37 percent of non-Jewish parents surveyed reported that their child witnessed or experienced antisemitism in K-12 classrooms or through course materials, according to a survey released today by the ADL (Anti-Defamation League) Center for Antisemitism Research (CAR). This represents more than a third of all parents. These findings are part of a new ADL survey on attitudes of US adults and parents…
When signs of antisemitism began to emerge in her community, a mother reached out to ADL, having learned the power of community activism and ADL’s impact from her father. On his first day of tennis practice, a freshman Jewish student at a high school in the suburbs of Philadelphia heard antisemitic “jokes” from the court next to him. He told his teammate, also Jewish, to knock it off, and that his words were antisemitic. Dorothy Potash, mom of the freshman and a…
New York, NY, December 19, 2024 … ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) today welcomed the House Republican leadership’s report concluding their investigation into the alarming surge of antisemitism since Hamas’s terrorist attack on October 7, 2023. The committee’s investigation found that several universities failed to stop antisemitism on their campuses, likely violating Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Additionally, the report found that several American…
New York, NY, December 18, 2024 … JGO: The Jewish Graduate Organization, the leading organization on college and university campuses in America servicing Jewish graduate students, and ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) today announced a new partnership to combat antisemitism and support Jewish graduate students on campus. Through the partnership, ADL will provide JGO with resources, specialized training for staff and interns, educational opportunities, enhanced antisemitism reporting…
On November 27, 2024, Syrian rebel groups launched a major offensive against the regime of Bashar Al-Assad. Within days, forces led by Hayat Tahrir Al-Sham (HTS), and supported by the Turkey-backed Syrian National Army and a range of anti-Assad militias, had taken Aleppo and Hama. On December 8, 2024, the rebel forces took Damascus, forcing Assad to flee the country. The HTS leadership quickly assumed control of government institutions, appointed an interim prime minister, and declared itself…
Speakers at People of Color Conference accused Israel of genocide and downplayed Hamas New York, NY, December 11, 2024 …ADL (the Anti-Defamation League), American Jewish Committee (AJC), Jewish Federations of North America (JFNA) and Prizmah: Center for Jewish Day Schools today expressed “deep concern” about remarks at a recent conference of the National Association of Independent Schools where several speakers used their time to accuse Israel of genocide and used…
ADL Statement on the Situation in Syria
By Jonathan A. Greenblatt Applying for a job is hard. Whether you’re already employed or not, whether it’s your first job out of school or you’ve been in the workforce for decades, it takes time, it takes energy, and it takes courage. Candidates will pore over their resumés, practice for interviews, ask trusted friends and mentors how to put their best self forward. Discrimination against Jewish job applicants: But it turns out the name atop that resumé sadly…
Los judíos estadounidenses enfrentan un 24% más de dificultad al solicitar empleo y los israelíes estadounidenses un 39% más Nueva York, NY, 4 de diciembre de 2024 ... Los candidatos judíoestadounidenses tuvieron que enviar un 24% más de solicitudes para recibir el mismo número de primeras respuestas positivas de los posibles empleadores que los estadounidenses de origen europeo occidental al solicitar el mismo empleo, según un…
New York, NY, December 4, 2024 … Jewish American job candidates needed to send 24 percent more applications to receive the same number of positive first responses from prospective employers as Americans with Western European backgrounds when applying to the same role, according to a study published today by the ADL (Anti-Defamation League) Center for Antisemitism Research. Further, Israeli Americans needed to send 39 percent more applications, indicating substantial discrimination. For…
January 2, 2025, Update: In the month since this article was originally published, at least two more Islamist-related terror incidents have occurred in the United States, including the deadly vehicular attack in New Orleans, Louisiana, on New Year’s Day 2025, which killed 14 people and wounded dozens more. The New Orleans incident was the deadliest Islamist terror attack in the United States since the 2016 shooting at Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida, which killed 49 people. Islamist…