by: Jonathan Greenblatt | December 04, 2019 JTA Here we go again: Just this week, two more cases of the abuse of Holocaust imagery have surfaced and created an international stir.  In November, Russian figure skater Anton Shulepov wore an Auschwitz-themed costume during his free skating performance at the Grand Prix of Figure Skating event. To compound the offense, the International Skating Union listed it on Sunday as a contender in the best costume category, which is open…

by: Jonathan Greenblatt | September 19, 2019 The Times of Israel Heading into the U.N. General Assembly next week, it is rumored that President Trump might sit down with his Iranian counterpart, Hassan Rouhani, when world leaders are gathered in New York City. This despite claims by U.S. officials that Iran was responsible for the drone attacks on Saudi oil fields, the defiant posture of President Trump toward the regime since he came to office, and the Iranian insistence…

Remarks by George Selim, Senior Vice President for Programs, ADL September 18, 2019 Washington, D.C., September 18, 2019 My name is George Selim, I serve as the Senior Vice President of Programs at ADL, the Anti-Defamation League.  For decades, ADL has fought against bigotry and anti-Semitism by exposing extremist groups and individuals who spread hate and incite violence. Today, ADL is the foremost nongovernmental authority on domestic terrorism, extremism, hate groups and hate…

Remarks by Sharon Nazarian, Senior Vice President for International Affairs, ADL September 18, 2019 Washington, D.C., September 18, 2019 Good afternoon Chairmen Deutch and Rose, Ranking Members Wilson and Walker, and members of the subcommittees. My name is Sharon Nazarian, I serve as Senior Vice President for International Affairs at the Anti-Defamation League. It is an honor to appear before you today. I am here today to speak to you about the internationalization and increasing…

July 15, 2019 JTA By Sharon Nazarian | ADL Senior Vice President of International Affairs In any crime against a community, certain things must happen to provide some measure of healing and redemption. But as we approach the 25th anniversary of the horrific bombing of the AMIA Jewish center in Buenos Aires, Argentina, these necessary steps have not taken place. Despite years of activity and rhetoric, justice has not been achieved for the victims, their families and Latin…

The endurance of the fraudulent text sheds light on just why anti-Semitism is surging from both the right and left by: Kenneth Jacobson | April 11, 2019 The Times of Israel At a time when anti-Semitism is resurging in the world and there is a lot of discussion about what anti-Semitism is, the relevance of the early 20th century fabrication, The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion, has never been greater. The Protocols, concocted by the Russian tsarist police in the early…

by: Jonathan Greenblatt | March 08, 2019 The Forward Can it happen here? It’s a question that Americans, and particularly Jewish-Americans, have asked over the decades when looking to Europe. We see the ocean that separates us as an impenetrable barrier that keeps the pathologies that may plague the old country far, far away from us. Yet, having spent some time last month meeting with Jewish communities across the continent, I saw in the rising anti-Semitism there glimmers of…

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…

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…

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…

by: Kenneth Jacobson | August 22, 2018 Algemeiner More than 70 years after the murder of six million Jews in the Shoah, we are witnessing a variety of efforts to legitimize antisemitism once again. The latest reminder of this came from the Prime Minister of Malaysia, Mahathir Mohammed, an open antisemite, who said recently: “Anti-Semitism is a term that is invented to prevent people from criticizing the Jews for doing wrong things.” Other manifestations of this appear…

By David Weinberg | Washington Representative for International Affairs and Susan Corke | Director of Countering Antisemitism and Extremism at Human Rights First August 15, 2018 The Hill In 2017, when the number of homophobic hate crimes increased in Norway, the Oslo police force marched in the Pride parade as a show of solidarity. When Canadian synagogues were threatened, authorities denounced the threats as antithetical to Canadian values, and police promised to proactively…

by: Jonathan Greenblatt | August 10, 2018 The Hill Qatar’s flagship media network Al Jazeera continues to be a major exporter of hateful content against the Jewish people, Israel, and the United States. For this reason, it is particularly urgent for U.S. officials to evaluate the separate legal question of whether or not Al Jazeera should be required to register with the Justice Department as a foreign agent over to its extensive ties to the Qatari regime. This would be an important…

By David Weinberg | Washington Representative for International Affairs July 20, 2018 FDD's Long War Journal The Islamic month of Ramadan is a venerated time in the Gulf.  Worshippers place a renewed emphasis on piety and community, while governments try to burnish their moral credentials by sponsoring major religious activities. Yet in so doing, America’s Gulf allies provided a platform this year to a wide range of hate preachers.  By hosting such extremists – even…

By Sharon Nazarian | Senior Vice President for International Affairs March 18, 2018 The 6th Global Forum on Combating Anti-Semitism, convening this week in Jerusalem, could not come at a more critical moment for the global Jewish community. The conference, sponsored by the Israeli Foreign Ministry, brings leading international experts, including representatives from ADL, to participate in panel discussions and conversations on the current state of global anti-Semitism. This year’s…

By Sharon Nazarian | Senior Vice President for International Affairs February 20, 2018 The Hill It’s been just over three years since an Islamic extremist walked into a kosher supermarket in Paris and murdered four Jews. We had hoped that the attack, coming on the heels of so many others targeting Jews in France, including the horrific 2012 murder of a rabbi and three children at a Jewish school in Toulouse, would be enough of a shock to the French Republic that it would mark a turning…