New York, NY, May 19, 2026 … ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) today welcomed the introduction of the Jewish American Security Act, a comprehensive, bipartisan bill introduced by Senators Jacky Rosen (D-NV) and James Lankford (R-OK) to combat the alarming rise of antisemitism across the United States. The legislation takes decisive action to protect Jewish communities, students, and institutions by strengthening the federal government's ability to prevent and respond to…
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These suggested No Place for Hate® activities are differentiated for elementary, middle and high school students. The activities can be used as a follow-up to watching the webinar, “Connecting Stories and Legacies: A Conversation with Author Gordon Korman and Rachelle Goldstein” which aired on 2/11/25. To make this a NPFH activity towards designation, watch the video, engage students in a discussion using the discussion questions and do one of the additional activities included…
May 1, 2022
Thank you for that kind introduction. I am so glad to welcome you – leaders from coast to coast committed to the fight against antisemitism and hate.
I don’t need to tell you how important and pressing this work is. All of you know this from the work you do in your communities. You know when a synagogue or cemetery is desecrated. You know the families who have to comfort their children after a slur is hurled their way – online or in real life. You all know…
New York, NY, April 21, 2026, ... The Secure Community Network (SCN), the ADL (Anti-Defamation League) Center on Extremism (COE), the Jewish Federation of Greater Naples (JFGN), and the Collier County Sheriff’s Office recently convened a regional security briefing, bringing together community leaders, law enforcement, and security professionals to share updates and strengthen local preparedness efforts. Around 100 community members participated in a high-level discussion on…
They were ordinary people who lived extraordinary lives – or extraordinary people who put their lives on the line to protect the health and welfare of everyone.
In what has become an annual tradition, as the year comes to a close ADL pauses each December to take stock of the moments and people who shaped the last 12 months – for better, or for worse – with a Top 10 list.
For 2020, we compiled two Top 10 lists: One looking back on the moments of hurt and hate that…
For Law Enforcement
The recent tragic shooting spree in June 2015 that took nine lives at Emanuel AME Church, a predominantly African-American church in Charleston, South Carolina, starkly revealed the pain and suffering that someone motivated by hate can cause. The suspect in the shootings, Dylann Storm Roof, is a suspected white supremacist. The horrific incident—following earlier deadly shooting sprees by white supremacists in Kansas, Wisconsin, and elsewhere—makes…
For Law Enforcement Download the whole report: Bloodlust: Viral News and Calls for the Death of the President (PDF).
Even in the final months of the Obama presidency, an ADL investigation has uncovered, calls on social media for the assassination or execution of President Barack Obama are commonplace. On a regular basis, angry Americans post sentiments such as "If Obama is captured, I will gladly get the noose ready and pull the lever" to social media websites.
These calls for…
Read the full report here: Tattered Robes: The State of the Ku Klux Klan in the United States (PDF).
Despite a persistent ability to attract media attention, organized Ku Klux Klan groups are actually continuing a long-term trend of decline. They remain a collection of mostly small, disjointed groups that continually change in name and leadership. Down slightly from a year ago, there are currently just over thirty active Klan groups in the United States, most of them very small. However,…
The White Power Music Scene in the United States For Law Enforcement Read the full, comprehensive report, The Sounds of Hate: The White Power Music Scene in the United States in 2012 (PDF).
The recent tragic shooting spree at the Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, in which Wade Michael Page killed six people before killing himself after a shootout with police, has drawn attention to the shadowy world of white power music. Page, a committed white supremacist and member of the…
(As delivered) Over the past year, 20 Jews -- our brothers and sisters -- were murdered. For Jewish people in the diaspora, 2025 was one of the deadliest years in memory. The victims were children and grandparents. Observant and secular. They were from every corner of the globe: Manchester, England; Washington, DC; Boulder, Colorado; and Bondi Beach, Australia. And last week, a terrorist wanted to add West Bloomfield, Michigan to that list. He drove a car packed with…
New York, NY, December 4, 2025 ... The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and the Community Security Service (CSS) today announced an enhanced partnership to further strengthen the security and resilience of Jewish communities across the United States. The expanded collaboration builds on the long-standing relationship between the two organizations, combining ADL’s intelligence and analytic expertise with CSS’s extensive network of trained volunteer security teams. Through this…
La organización amplía significativamente sus capacidades de monitoreo y respuesta a incidentes relacionados con la Alcaldía para proteger a la comunidad judía más grande del mundo fuera de Israel NUEVA YORK, NY, 5 de noviembre de 2025 — Hoy, la la Liga Antidifamación (ADL) anunció el lanzamiento de una iniciativa integral para rastrear y supervisar las políticas y los nombramientos de personal de la próxima administraci…
Organization significantly expands City Hall tracking and incident response capabilities to protect the world’s largest Jewish community outside of Israel NEW YORK, NY, November 5, 2025 — Today, ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) announced the launch of a comprehensive initiative to track and monitor policies and personnel appointments of the incoming Mamdani Administration and protect Jewish residents across the five boroughs during a period of unprecedented antisemitism in…
New York, NY, November 4, 2025 Statement from Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO of ADL (the Anti-Defamation League): “In light of Mayor-Elect Mamdani's long, disturbing record on issues of deep concern to the Jewish community, we will approach the next four years with resolve. We expect the mayor of the city with the largest Jewish population in the world to stand unequivocally against antisemitism in all its varied forms and support all of its Jewish residents just as he would all other…
New York, NY, Sept. 2, 2025 ... ADL (the Anti-Defamation League), Community Security Initiative (CSI) NY, Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, Community Security Service (CSS), Jewish Federations of North America (JFNA) and the Secure Community Network (SCN) today released the following statement on the Nonprofit Security Grant Program (NSGP): As we approach the High Holidays and experience unprecedented threats to our communal security, the federal Nonprofit…
Jonathan Greenblatt
CEO and National Director
July 27, 2022
Dear Mr. Agrawal,
I am once again reaching out regarding Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s chronic violations of Twitter’s terms of service on his accounts of Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. We ask that you de-platform him for his continued use of Twitter to promote antisemitism, hate, violence and Holocaust denial.
As I wrote in January 2021 to then Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, Khamenei…
The author and publishers of a new book on Anne Frank's plight have turned one of the few at least partially upbeat stories of Jewish life and thought during the Holocaust into one of Jewish perfidy and treachery. The timing couldn’t be worse: antisemitism is flourishing once again, and Holocaust memory is diminishing.
Table Talk: Family Conversations about Current EventsThe CROWN Act is a law that forbids discrimination based on hair texture and hair styles. CROWN stands for: “Create a Respectful and Open Workplace for Natural Hair.” Hair discrimination impacts Black people, especially Black women and girls in schools and workplaces who wear hair styles such as locs, braids, twists, Bantu knots, afros and natural hair. They are punished by discriminatory workplace and school dress codes and…
New York, NY, February 25, 2022 … ADL (Anti-Defamation League) today issued a statement in response to the president’s nomination of federal appellate court Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Jonathan A. Greenblatt, ADL CEO and National Director, issued the following statement:
We congratulate Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson on her historic nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court. If confirmed, she will undoubtedly bring an important new perspective to…
January 27, 2022 Using children’s literature to teach about Black history and the Black experience is a great way to open the door to discussions about these experiences and milestones. These books include important insights into Black history, culture, accomplishments, notable people, historical and current day injustice and how that injustice was and continues to be confronted and overcome. Our recommended books include…