Antisemitic tropes and swastikas in class, Sieg Heil salutes -- and no meaningful response from administrators New York, NY, April 23, 2026 … ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) and the Akerman law firm have filed a joint complaint with the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights alleging a Jewish student was subjected to a sustained and continual pattern of antisemitic harassment while enrolled in the Bay County, Florida School District. The Title VI complaint alleges…
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New York, NY, April 20, 2026 — ADL (the Anti-Defamation League), the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law, and a pro bono team at the law firm Mayer Brown welcome the April 15 resolution agreement between the Concord-Carlisle Regional School District and the U.S. Department of Justice requiring the district to take steps to address antisemitism and protect Jewish students. The agreement follows a federal civil rights filing by attorneys from ADL, Brandeis Center, and…
Innovative educator tool uses AI to assist educators teaching about Holocaust, Jewish themes New York, NY, February 26, 2026 – Today, ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) launched ADL Ora: an AI Assistant to provide educators in K-12 schools with at-your-fingertips access to accurate and pedagogically sound information for teaching students about Jewish identity, antisemitism, and the Holocaust. A trusted source, this closed AI agent offers dynamic capabilities, providing…
Online toolkit empowers parents and educators to identify biased and inaccurate materials on antisemitism, the Holocaust, and Jewish history New York, NY, January 14, 2026 – Today, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) launched an online toolkit to help parents and educators evaluate whether content on antisemitism, the Holocaust, Jewish identity, and history is accurate and unbiased. In an age of evolving technology, educators are drawing from a variety of sources to create curricula…
New York, NY, September 10, 2025 … ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) today issued the following statement in response to two House Education and Workforce Committee hearings: “Unmasking Union Antisemitism” and “From Playground to Classroom: The Spread of Antisemitism in K-12 Schools.” “We appreciate the Committee’s focus on the growing crisis of antisemitism in education that undermines the safety and integrity of our schools. Since…
New York, NY, July 2, 2025 ... ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) today issued the following statement in response to the decision from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights regarding Harvard University: The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights issued a decision with detailed findings of fact and legal analysis that confirms what has been widely known for years: Harvard University violated Title VI of the Civil Rights Act by…
New York, NY, June 26, 2025 … ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) today called on all candidates for elected office, including those running in the New York City mayoral election, to disassociate themselves from and avoid using language that plays into antisemitic tropes and stereotypes. “At this time of record antisemitism, our country needs leaders at all levels who are unequivocal in condemning this oldest of hatreds,” said Jonathan Greenblatt, ADL CEO. “We call on all…
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…
School District of Philadelphia Agrees to Address Repeated Incidents of Antisemitism New York, NY, December 20, 2024 … The School District of Philadelphia (SDP) has entered into a resolution agreement to take a series of steps to address repeated incidents of antisemitic harassment, bullying and discrimination in response to a federal civil rights complaint filed by ADL (the Anti-Defamation League). Under the terms of the settlement announced yesterday, SDP will undertake a…
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…
Brandeis Center/ADL/StandWithUs Expand Helpline on Antisemitism in K-12 Schools to Massachusetts and New York Boston, MA, September 30, 2024 ... The Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law, ADL (the Anti-Defamation League), and StandWithUs, along with a coalition of leading law firms, today announced the launch of a helpline in K-12 schools to provide pro bono legal assistance to parents whose children are experiencing antisemitism in Massachusetts and New York. The helpline…
ADL Equips “Jewish Olympics” Athletes with Antisemitism Response Tools
Complaint: “Virulent wave of antisemitism” swept through Philadelphia schools after Oct. 7 New York, NY, July 23, 2024 … ADL (the Anti-Defamation League), represented pro bono by the law firm Mayer Brown LLP, today filed a federal civil rights complaint on behalf of Jewish parents whose children have been subjected to “severe and persistent harassment and discrimination” at the hands of fellow students and teachers in the School District of Philadelphia (SDP)…
ADL Launches First-Ever ‘Words to Action’ Antisemitism Training in Latin America
Washington, D.C., Feb. 28, 2024: The Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law and ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) today filed a complaint with the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights against the Berkeley Unified School District (BUSD) for failing to take action to end nonstop bullying and harassment of Jewish students by peers and teachers since Oct. 7. According to the complaint, Berkeley administrators have ignored parent reports and…
Sweden’s Nordic Resistance Movement held 185 “combat training” sessions in 2020 and has served as inspiration for American white supremacists New York, NY, March 28, 2022 … A new report from ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) identifies the Nordic Resistance Movement of Sweden as the region’s most dangerous right wing extremist group, saying that the virulently antisemitic hate group poses “an ongoing and serious public security threat” and is exporting…
Survivor Testimony Has Profound Impact on Students New York, NY, September 8, 2020 – A new national survey shows that Holocaust education in high school reflects gains not only in historical knowledge but also manifests in cultivating more empathetic, tolerant, and engaged students. The results also indicate that exposure to Holocaust survivor testimony is strongly associated with numerous positive outcomes in early adulthood including higher critical thinking skills and a greater sense…
Curriculum is available free to high schools across the U.S. New York, NY, August 19, 2020 ... Every generation can lay claim to the shared experience of a divided nation. Yet many young people, especially Gen Z, are learning about polarization in today’s society through a barrage of soundbites, headlines and social media posts. This means that, now more than ever there is a critical need, as evident in the latest NAEP Civics Assessment, for young people to learn how to participate…
New York, NY, July 15, 2019 … The ADL (Anti-Defamation League) today condemned President Trump’s racist tweets about four U.S. congresswomen, in which he said they should “go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came,” and his defense of these remarks by saying the congresswomen hate Israel and are anti-Semitic.
“As Jews, we are all too familiar with this kind of divisive prejudice,” said Jonathan…
New York, NY, October 17, 2018 … ADL today issued the following statement, expressing serious concern about reports indicating that four senior American military officials were scheduled to speak at a conference in Virginia co-hosted by Frank Gaffney and the Center for Security Policy:
We are deeply disturbed that four senior American military officials, representing the Air Force, the Army and the Marine Corps, are scheduled to speak at today's symposium on “asymmetric…