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Los Angeles Wildfires Trigger Conspiracy Theories and Hate

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A firefighter stands on top of a fire truck to battle the Palisades Fire while it burns homes on the Pacific Coast Highway amid a powerful windstorm on January 8, 2025 in Los Angeles, California. (Apu Gomes/Getty Images)
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…
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Deadly New Orleans Attack Fuels Conspiracy Theories About Immigrants, Israel

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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…
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Nuevo informe de la ADL: 71% de los padres judíos y 37% de los padres no judíos encuestados afirman que sus hijos encontraron antisemitismo en las aulas

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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…
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71% of Jewish Parents and 37% of Non-Jewish Parents Surveyed Say Their Child Encountered Antisemitism in the Classroom, New ADL Report Finds

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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…
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From One Voice to Many: Countering Antisemitism in a Pennsylvania Community

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From One Voice to Many: Countering Antisemitism in a Pennsylvania Community
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…
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ADL Commends Congress for Prioritizing Investigation into Antisemitism

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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…
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ADL and Jewish Grad Organization Partner to Fight Antisemitism

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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…
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Jewish Groups Urge National Association of Independent Schools to Reject Antisemitic Discrimination Following Extreme Anti-Israel Rhetoric at Conference

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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…
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Opinion: Here’s hard proof that employers are discriminating against Jews

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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…
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Estudio de la ADL revela discriminación significativa contra judíos e israelíes estadounidenses en el mercado laboral de Estados Unidos

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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…
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American Jews and Israeli Americans Experience Substantial Discrimination in the U.S. Job Market, ADL Study Finds

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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…
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Islamist Terror Incidents Targeting U.S. Increase in 2024

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An illustrative composite image of the ISIS (left) and Hamas (right) flags
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…
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ADL and the Brandeis Center Settle Title VI Complaint after Occidental College Agrees to Sweeping Reforms to Prevent Campus Antisemitism

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New York, NY, November 26, 2024 … Occidental College has agreed to take a series of steps to address and prevent antisemitism on campus as part of a sweeping settlement agreement reached in response to a federal Title VI complaint filed by ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) and the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law. Under the terms of the settlement announced today, the Los Angeles-based private liberal arts college has agreed to undertake a series of initiatives to…
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Letter Urging Campus Administration to Reject Israel-Related Boycotts

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Dear President [Last Name], I am reaching out to address a pressing concern: the increasing prevalence of shadow boycotts targeting Israeli, Jewish and openly Zionist academics at [University Name] and institutions nationwide. This harmful trend, which has grown in response to the Israel-Hamas war, undermines the values of academic freedom and diversity that form the cornerstone of higher education. Shadow boycotts entail the subtle yet systematic exclusion of Israeli, Jewish or openly Zionist…
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ADL-Gratz Model Campus Climate Survey

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ADL, in partnership with Gratz College, has developed a short, validated campus climate survey instrument aimed at helping campus stakeholders assess the experiences of Jewish students on their college and university campus. This initiative was born out of the need for colleges and universities to utilize tried-and-tested survey questions, developed by academics, researchers and experts in antisemitism studies to accurately capture experienced antisemitism. This survey instrument was created…
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PFLP 'Charity' Arm Samidoun Has Long Played a Role in Anti-Israel Movement on U.S. Campuses

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Images from rallies co-sponsored by Samidoun Seattle and SUPER UW
Anti-Zionist group Samidoun, sanctioned by the U.S. in October 2024 for its role as a “sham charity” operating as an international fundraising arm of the U.S. government-designated terror organization the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), has long played a role in the anti-Israel movement on U.S. campuses. The group, which the U.S. considers to be a front for the PFLP in countries where it is declared a terrorist organization, has been featured as a “pro…
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ADL Commends 10 Colleges and Universities for Efforts Made to Fight Campus Antisemitism

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ADL Recognizes Colleges and Universities That Made Positive Strides to Fight Campus Antisemitism Urges other institutions to follow suit as it reassesses Report Card grades New York, NY, October 30, 2024 … ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) today commended 10 colleges and universities for their recent efforts and policies to address campus antisemitism. Since the initial release of ADL’s Campus Antisemitism Report Card in April of 2024, and a subsequent update in June following…
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