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Identity-Based Bullying

Lesson Plan

GRADE LEVEL: Elementary School, Middle School COMMON CORE STANDARDS: Writing, Speaking & Listening SEL STANDARDS*: Self Awareness, Self-Management, Social Awareness, Relationship Skills, Responsible Decision-Making Bullying is a major problem in our schools. When it targets aspects of a person’s identity, it is called identity-based bullying, and may include bias about appearance, race, culture, gender and gender expression, language, religion, socioeconomic status,…

June 09, 2014

National Bullying Prevention Month

Tools and Strategies

Pupils Friends Teasing a Pupil Standing Alone

October is National Bullying Prevention Month National Bullying Prevention Month is an opportunity to reflect on the classroom and school culture and assess the extent to which bullying is part of that culture. It is a time to examine best practices when it comes to creating respectful school environments that foster inclusion and respect. The large body of research on effective responses to name-calling and bullying concurs that schools and other educational institutions can best…

September 18, 2014

Global Anti-Semitism: Selected Incidents Around the World in 2014

News

December 31, 2014 Argentina December 17, 2014 - Buenos Aires - Swastikas were found etched in the doors of the Avodá Jewish community center. December 7, 2014 - Santiago del Estero - A Jewish cemetery was desecrated. Tombstones were destroyed, monuments were uprooted and photos were displaced. November 11, 2014 - Buenos Aires – “Do good to the country, kill a Jew” was found spray painted in the Once neighborhood, an area that has a large population…

December 31, 2014

Embracing Technology, Challenging Cyberbullying

Article

by: Oren Segal July 29, 2014 If you have been reviewing any number of parenting or education blogs lately, you’ll see headlines proclaiming the menace and dangers of technology. Technology, and more specifically, social media and mobile apps are often treated like “monsters” to guard against and the creators of all matter of social ills. Even if technology is scary and daunting to some adults, for youth it is a necessary and positive part of life. In…

July 29, 2014

Letter to Her Excellency, President of Argentina Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner

Letter

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

President of the AMIA Mr. Leonardo Jmelnitzky

Letter

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…

July 18, 2014

ADL Poll of Over 100 Countries Finds More Than One-Quarter of Those Surveyed Infected With Anti-Semitic Attitudes

Press Release

Only 54 Percent of Respondents Have Heard of the Holocaust New York, NY, May 13, 2014 … The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today released the results of an unprecedented worldwide survey of anti-Semitic attitudes. The ADL Global 100: An Index of Anti-Semitism surveyed 53,100 adults in 102 countries and territories in an effort to establish, for the first time, a comprehensive data-based research survey of the level and intensity of anti-Jewish sentiment across the world. The survey found…

May 13, 2014

Teachers Teasing Youth is No Joke, It’s Bullying

Article

by: Mark Onofrio March 17, 2014 A teacher raises his hand in A World of Difference® Institute training and says, "I like to kid around with my students." He says, "I like to have fun in my class so they are more likely to come to me when they need help." He calls one student his “favorite Mexican,” another student “Dopey” and the only African-American student “MLK” (short for Martin Luther King Jr.) This well-intentioned…

March 17, 2014

Establishing a Safe Learning Environment

Tools and Strategies

For Educators In many of ADL’s lesson plans and activities, students are challenged to explore and articulate their personal feelings about sensitive topics including segregation, discrimination, and the value of diverse school communities. Talking about themes related to diversity requires that students demonstrate maturity and compassion for others. In conjunction with social justice curricula, it is therefore recommended that teachers use service learning, conflict resolution,…

February 14, 2014

‘That’s So Gay’: Language That Hurts, and How to Stop It

Article

January 21, 2014 The phrase "that’s so gay" has persisted as a way for students to describe things they do not like, find annoying or generally want to put down, while it is promising that fewer students are hearing homophobic slurs than in previous years. The phrase is used so commonly that many students no longer recognize it as homophobic because it is “what everyone says.” When educators and other adults intervene, common student responses include “I was just…

January 21, 2014

Just Ask the Kids About Bullying

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by: Mark Onofrio January 07, 2014 Youth are the real experts on what is happening in bullying on school campuses, and yet their voices, perspectives and leadership are rarely integrated into bullying prevention programs. “Just ask the kids” is the tagline for a new book highlighting research from the Youth Voice Project, the first large-scale research project on bullying and peer mistreatment that did exactly that—ask the kids (more than 13,000 teens in 31 schools). …

January 07, 2014

Lorella Praeli: United We Dream Network

News

November 18, 2013 CHANGING HEARTS AND MINDS A dynamic young leader in the immigration reform movement, Lorella Praeli first met ADL after she was bullied in school. My first exposure to ADL was just after graduating from middle school in Connecticut. I’d gone through a really ugly experience with cyberbullying at a time when no one knew what to do about it, plus I had my own self-doubts about being a Latina with a disability. The training for ADL’s Names Can Really Hurt Us program…

November 18, 2013

Pope Francis and the Argentine Rabbi

News

by: By Abraham H. Foxman | April 18, 2013 The Huffington Post One of the first things Argentinian native Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio did after being elected pope on March 13 was to send a message of friendship to Rome's chief rabbi, Riccardo Di Segni -- and, by extension, the Jewish people. "I sincerely hope to be able to contribute to the progress that relations between Jews and Catholics have enjoyed since the Second Vatican Council," wrote Cardinal Bergoglio, who took the name Pope Francis…

April 18, 2013

Bringing Holocaust Education to Alaska

Article

by: Mark Onofrio April 17, 2013 Echoes and Reflections staff traveled to a remote area of Alaska to deliver the program’s first professional development program in the state. The Echoes and Reflections program has now offered professional development in 47 US states and District of Columbia. The program has provided educational resources on the Holocaust to over 18,000 educators and community members. Deborah Batiste, Project Director for Echoes and Reflections, traveled from…

April 17, 2013

Iran's Leadership In Their Own Words

News

The repeated anti-Semitic and anti-Israel views of Iran's leadership place the Iranian regime among the foremost threats to Jews and the state of Israel. Iran's leaders repeatedly demonize the state of Israel and openly call for its destruction at every opportunity. Most notoriously, they describe Israel as a "fake regime" that "must be wiped off the map." Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has termed Zionists "the most detested people in all humanity" and called the extermination…

February 12, 2013

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei In His Own Words

Backgrounder

The Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has been one of the biggest propagators of anti-Zionist, antisemitic and anti-US rhetoric in recent decades. Following the brutal Hamas attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, Khamenei’s inflammatory rhetoric further escalated - reaching new and dangerous heights in both tone and volume. The following examples are from Khamenei’s official English X account (select Hebrew language posts have also been included)…

July 02, 2025

Hezbollah

Profile

Read the full report here: Hezbollah (PDF). Since its emergence in 1982, Hezbollah has waged an anti-Israel campaign and guerrilla war against Israeli forces. The Lebanese-based U.S.-designated terrorist organization, which seeks to establish a Shiite Islamic state that encompasses both Lebanon and Israel, has been implicated in numerous terrorist attacks against Israeli and Western targets. Most recently, members of Hezbollah were implicated by Bulgaria in the July 2012…

February 06, 2013

ADL Workshop Cultivates Ally Behavior Online

Article

by: Mark Onofrio January 18, 2013 Over the past few years the media has covered many stories about cyberbullying and its detrimental effects on youth. The research, and our own experiences, make it clear that cyberbullying hurts the youth targeted and creates a negative experience for those who witness the behavior. We also know that youth are often targeted online because of their identity, including their weight, real or perceived sexual orientation, gender expression,…

January 18, 2013

The Trouble With Make Me a “Stereotype”

Article

by: Mark Onofrio January 11, 2013 Applications for smartphones and tablets have become an emerging segment of the online and entertainment industry. As with videos, blogs and social networking platforms which came before, Apps are now being created that some consider funny, but which actually cross the line from humorous to offensive. Recent examples include two free apps on Google called “Make Me Asian” and “Make Me Indian,” that allow users to edit…

January 11, 2013

ADL and Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ"

News

January 02, 2013 Q. What is the basis for ADL's concerns about Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ"?A. We first learned about Mr. Gibson's plans to make a film based on the final hours of Jesus' life in a New York Times Magazine article that appeared in February 2003. An early version of the script was shared with us. In August 2003, an ADL representative saw a rough cut in Houston. On January 21, we saw a version of the film at a screening in Orlando, Florida. We had hoped to see the film…

January 02, 2013