March 15, 2022 In a letter to Amnesty International, ADL expressed serious concern about the hostility displayed by Amnesty International and its employees towards Israel and its supporters. March 15, 2022 Dr. Agnès Callamard Secretary General Amnesty International 1 Easton Street London, WC1X 0DW, UK Dear Madam Secretary General, I am reaching out to express serious concern about the recent hostility displayed by Amnesty International and its employees towards…

March 14, 2022 In a letter to the Sierra Club, ADL expressed deep disappointment with the organization's decision to cancel trips to Israel. March 14, 2022 Mr. Dan Chu Acting Executive Director The Sierra Club 2101 Webster St. Suite 1300 Oakland, CA 94612  Dear Mr. Chu:  We are writing regarding the Sierra Club’s announcement that it has cancelled upcoming trips Israel due to pressure from activists who seek to shut down any form of engagement or…

October 04, 2021 In a letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken, ADL urged the U.S. to send as senior a delegation as possible to the Malmö International Forum on Holocaust Remembrance and Combating Antisemitism. September 24, 2021 The Honorable Antony J. Blinken Secretary of State U.S. Department of State 2201 C Street NW Washington, D.C. 20520 Dear Mr. Secretary, As you and your advisors plan your schedules for the coming weeks, I urge you to ensure…

January 22, 2019 In a letter to the president of the International Paralympic Committee, ADL urged the body to move its upcoming international para swimming competition out of Malaysia after its government banned Israeli athletes from participating. January 22, 2019 Mr. Andrew Parsons President International Paralympic Committee Adenauerallee 212-214 53113 Bonn Germany Dear Mr. Parsons: The ADL is a 105-year-old American anti-hate organization with a mission to …

November 21, 2018 In a letter to Airbnb, ADL raises questions about the company's recent decision to not list rentals in Israeli settlements in the West Bank.  Brian Chesky Chief Executive Officer Airbnb, Inc. 888 Brannan Street San Francisco, CA Dear Brian: For the past several years, the Boycott, Divest, and Sanction (BDS) movement has worked around the world to isolate and delegitimize the state of Israel. The predominant drive of the BDS campaign and its…

May 22, 2018 In a letter to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, ADL, along with Human Rights First, called on Pompeo to immediately identify and appoint someone to the position of U.S. Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism. May 23, 2018 The Honorable Michael Pompeo Secretary of State U.S. Department of State 2201 C Street NW Washington, DC 20520 Dear Mr. Secretary: Now that you have been confirmed as Secretary of State, we wish you every success in this essential…

May 07, 2018 In a letter to the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley, ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt expressed appreciation for Haley's stalwart efforts the past two months to ensure that the Jewish people and the Jewish state are treated fairly at the United Nations Security Council. May 7, 2018 The Honorable Nikki Haley U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations 799 United Nations Plaza New York, NY 10017 Dear Ambassador Haley: I am writing to…

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 Minister for Foreign Affairs Ministry for Foreign Affairs …

December 07, 2016 Letters to the Editor Huffington Post Arabic Dear Editors: On November 29, the Arabic version of The Huffington Post, HuffPost Arabi, published an anti-Semitic blog that promotes a preposterous claim of a Jewish responsibility for the death of Islam’s prophet, Mohammed which parallels the Jewish deicide. We decried the article from our @ADLArabi Twitter account as poisoned with religious bigotry. The article, “‘Arsenic’ The…

September 23, 2016 Benjamin Netanyahu Office of the Prime Minister Jerusalem, Israel   Dear Mr. Prime Minister: We are writing to congratulate you on your stirring and effective address to the United Nations General Assembly. Your call to President Mahmoud Abbas to meet you in person and to address the Knesset, your condemnation of the heinous terrorist attack in Duma and your words of empathy for the Dawabsha family, along with your expression of hope for peace,…

December 02, 2014 His Excellency Luis Leonardo Almagro Minister of Foreign Affairs Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Oriental Republic of Uruguay Palacio Santos: 18 de Julio 1205 Edificio: Colonia 1206 Montevideo, Uruguay Dear Mr. Foreign Minister: We write to express our sincere appreciation regarding the statement issued on November 18, 2014, in which Uruguay strongly condemned the brutal terrorist attack inside a synagogue in the Har Nof neighborhood in Jerusalem, killing four Jews at…

July 18, 2014 Her Excellency Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner President of the Argentine Republic Balcarce 50, CP 1064 Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires Argentina   Dear Madam President: On the twentieth anniversary of the July 18, 1994 terrorist bombing of the AMIA-DAIA building in Buenos Aires, we once again recall the 85 innocent Argentinian victims who died tragically and the hundreds who were wounded on that day. Madam President, we appreciate your…

July 18, 2014 Mr. Leonardo Jmelnitzky President Asociación Mutual Israelita Argentina (AMIA) Pasteur 633 (C1028 AMM) Buenos Aires Argentina Dear Mr. Jmelnitzky: As the twentieth anniversary of the terrorist attack on the Jewish community's AMIA-DAIA building in Buenos Aires, Argentina approaches, we once again express our solidarity with the Argentinean Jewish community and remember the eighty-five innocent victims who lost their lives and the hundreds of others…