New York, NY, April 24, 2026 … ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) today welcomed the introduction of the federal Safeguarding Access to Congregations and Religious Establishments from Disruption (SACRED) Act, a bipartisan bill that protects safe access to houses of worship by establishing a 100-foot “safe access” zone around churches, synagogues, mosques and other religious locations. The SACRED Act would create federal penalties for targeted harassment and…
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New York, NY, March 11, 2026 – ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) today announced that Emmanuel Acho will receive the first-ever ADL Ally Award at the 2026 Never Is Now Summit. A New York Times bestselling author, Emmy Award winner and host, Acho has built a powerful platform by fostering honest dialogue, challenging hate and encouraging people to engage across differences with empathy and integrity. His work exemplifies a core theme of this year’s Never Is Now Summit:…
October 16, 2025… Washington D.C. — ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) and the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference (NHCLC), the largest Latino Christian organization and affiliated with over 42,000 churches in the U.S., today announced a historic new partnership aimed at combating antisemitism and anti-Zionism, and deepening Latino-Jewish solidarity across communities of faith. Through this new collaboration, the organizations will co-develop resources…
New York, NY, August 5, 2025 … Hate crimes data released today by the Federal Bureau of Investigation reveals that while reported hate crime incidents across the country decreased from 11,862 in 2023 to 11,679 in 2024, reported single-bias anti-Jewish hate crime incidents rose to 1,938 incidents, an increase of 5.8 percent from 2023, and the highest number ever recorded by the FBI since it began collecting data in 1991. These included 178 anti-Jewish assaults,…
“Unfortunately, this tragedy was inevitable” after a year of increasing antisemitic incitement and harassment New York, NY, May 22, 2025 … ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) today issued the following statement in response to last night’s heinous attack against two individuals attending an event at the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C. hosted by the American Jewish Committee. The suspect in the killings of Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim, both employees at the…
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…
Remarks as delivered June 27th, 2024 Thank you- I join you all here this morning on behalf of ADL, the oldest anti-hate organization in the United States, alongside my good friend Marc Morial, President of the National Urban League, and our partners - Assembly members Brian Cunningham, Nily Rozic, Grace Lee, Jennifer Rajkumar and Pastor Johnnie Green. In addition. We are very grateful to Dr. Hazel Dukes of the NY NAACP, an icon of the civil rights movement for lending her strong words of…
New York, NY, January 7, 2022 … ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) today welcomed the sentencing of the three men responsible for Ahmaud Arbery’s murder to life in prison, saying the judgment sends a message that there will be serious consequences for acts of hate-motivated violence.
Georgia Superior Court Judge Timothy Walmsley sentenced the three men found guilty in the death of Arbery to life in prison. Travis McMichael, who killed Mr. Arbery with two shotgun blasts was…
A jury found all three defendants guilty of murder in February 2020 shooting death of Ahmaud Arbery New York, NY, November 24, 2021 … ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt issued the following statement today after a jury found the three men charged in the death of Ahmaud Arbery were guilty of murder:
“The pain and loss resulting from Ahmaud Arbery’s murder can never be rectified, but this is a significant moment of accountability and justice. The men who murdered Mr. Arbery were…
2020 marked the highest level in 12 years and represents a 6% increase from 2019 New York, NY, August 30, 2021 … ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) today expressed deep alarm in response to the FBI’s annual Hate Crimes Statistics Act (HCSA) report, which revealed that 2020 saw a six percent increase in reported hate crimes from the previous year and represented the highest total in 12 years.
In 2020, the FBI reported 7,759 hate crime incidents, a six percent increase from 7,314…
Legislation would address rising hate crimes though increased funding and reporting mechanisms New York, NY, April 22, 2021... ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) praised the U.S. Senate’s bipartisan passage of the COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act as well as the Khalid Jabara and Heather Heyer National Opposition to Hate, Assault, and Threats to Equality Act (Jabara-Heyer NO HATE Act), both of which ADL has supported extensively.
The COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act would address the rise in hate…
New York, NY, March 17, 2021 ... In response to historic increases in anti-Chinese and anti-Asian American and Pacific Islander incidents and assaults, ADL (the Anti-Defamation League), the world’s leading anti-hate organization and Committee of 100, a non-profit U.S. leadership organization of prominent Chinese Americans, issued the following joint statement:
“We are united with all of our Asian American brothers and sisters in standing up against hate, xenophobia and violence…
Debra Messing hosted first virtual ADL In Concert Against Hate, which recognized a Holocaust survivor, educators and a 4th grade activist who are fighting injustice New York, December 7, 2020 … ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) recognized two individuals and one group for their extraordinary courage and compassion when confronted with injustice and extremism as part of the 26th annual ADL In Concert Against Hate.
This year’s event, which was held virtually on Dec. 6, was hosted…
New national data reveals deadliest year on record for hate crimes, even as fewer agencies reported data New York, NY, November 16, 2020 … ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) today called on Congress and law enforcement agencies across the U.S. to improve data collection and reporting of hate crimes in response to newly released FBI data for 2019. The data reveals a harrowing trend of increasing hate crimes being reported in the United States, even as fewer law enforcement agencies…
New York, NY, October 9, 2020 ... ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) today issued a new study showing a dramatic spike in anti-Asian sentiment and conspiracy theories about the spread of coronavirus in conversations on Twitter in the days immediately following the president’s first tweet about his positive diagnosis on October 2.
The new study of Twitter conversations and activity, conducted by ADL’s Center for Technology and Society, found that in the 12 hours after the…
Atlanta, GA, June 14, 2020 … ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) and the NAACP today called for the swift passage of HB 426, the Georgia Hate Crimes legislation, and committed to working for further actions to reform the state’s antiquated criminal justice system. Both organizations issued a joint statement in the wake of the police shooting of Rayshard Brooks, an African American man on Friday night in Atlanta.
“Ahmaud Arbery. George Floyd. Breonna Taylor. Rayshard…
El Paso shooting by white supremacist capped a bloody decade for the extreme right New York, NY, February 26, 2020 … Right-wing extremists were responsible for the vast majority of extremist-related murders in the United States in 2019, with the El Paso shooting capping off a bloody decade during which the far right was responsible for 76 percent of all extremist-related murders.
ADL (Anti-Defamation League)’s annual Murder and Extremism report found that of the 42 extremist…
Albany, NY, January 8, 2020 … ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) today praised New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo for his proposal to introduce a bill in 2020 that would for the first time classify mass violence motivated by hate as domestic terrorism and establish a task force to examine the issue. Under this initiative, announced at today’s State of the State speech in Albany, hate crimes committed with the intent to cause mass casualties would be considered “domestic acts of…
New York, NY, December 29, 2019 … ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) and the Secure Community Network (SCN), the official safety and security organization of The Jewish Federations of North America and the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, issued the following statement regarding Saturday night’s stabbing attack at a rabbi’s home in Monsey, NY:
We are horrified by the latest string of anti-Semitic attacks in New York, and the most recent…
New York, NY, December 29, 2019 … ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) CEO Jonathan Greenblatt issued the following statement regarding Saturday night’s stabbing attack at a rabbi’s home in Monsey, NY:
We are saddened, disturbed, and outraged by last night’s attack in Monsey, NY at a celebratory Hanukkah party. Again, here we are: mourning another act of senseless anti-Semitic violence committed against our community and praying for those who were the victims of this…