As encampment protests riled college campuses throughout the Spring 2024 semester, some universities agreed to formally consider protestors’ demands that their endowments divest from companies with business interests in Israel. It is the latest iteration of the years-long Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) campaign that seeks to isolate Israel economically. Brown University reached an agreement for student protestors to take down their encampment and refrain from…
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As students start returning to campuses with expected continuation of anti-Israel protests, JLens unpacks the demands and consequences of divestment campaigns.
JLens ran three successful proxy season campaigns with ADL that aimed to combat anti-Israel shareholder proposals and support efforts to protect kids online.
Riots across the United Kingdom involving far-right elements broke out after the murder of three young girls at a dance class in the Southport knife attack was falsely attributed to a recently arrived Muslim migrant. It is predictable but still problematic to see Israel scapegoated as the cause of the riots raging across the United Kingdom involving far-right elements. This is happening across social media. The claims have no basis and contribute to the increasing anxiety among the Jews in the…
Ismail Haniyeh, who was killed on July 31, 2024 in Tehran, led the so-called politburo of Hamas, a US-designated Islamist terror organization dedicated to the destruction of the State of Israel and the establishment of an Islamic state between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea. Hamas’ founding covenant issued in 1988, which echoes the notorious Protocols of the Elders of Zion charging Jews with an international conspiracy to gain control of the world, is…
ADL Equips “Jewish Olympics” Athletes with Antisemitism Response Tools
Teach students about what online hate and harassment is and its prevalence among adults and teenagers.
Engage in a family conversation about the online hate and harassment and what can be done about it.
Nueva York, NY, 15 de julio de 2024 ... Un nuevo informe de la ADL ha encontrado que HispanTV, un medio de comunicación en español fundado por la corporación de medios de comunicación controlada por el estado de la República Islámica de Irán y con un amplio alcance en América Latina, promueve las opiniones antisemitas del régimen iraní, el revisionismo del Holocausto, los prejuicios contra Israel y la incitación. …
ADL Launches First-Ever ‘Words to Action’ Antisemitism Training in Latin America
Engage in a family conversation about the role of election poll workers and discuss both the rewards and risks of being an election worker.
Since October 7, extremists and conspiracy theorists have promoted mis- and disinformation narratives about the reality of Hamas’s unprecedented, multi-pronged attack on Israel, attempting to deny or minimize the tragedy and shift the blame towards victims, a majority of whom were innocent civilians. These misleading or false claims — many of which have proliferated on mainstream social media platforms — manipulate and distort the facts of the mass assault, invalidate the…
A collection of picture and chapter books that explore the power of words.
This resource assists parents, families and other trusted adults in understanding and helping the young people in their lives who are facing antisemitism—in school, online, in communities.
Help students explore and think critically about films on the Jewish experience.
IntroductionAs university encampments and other forms of student protests against Israel capture attention across the United States, protest organizers have made it clear that, on the majority of campuses, their goals go far beyond urging their universities to call for a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war or to denounce Israeli government policies. The ADL Center on Extremism analyzed statements published by the organizers of more than 130 university encampments nationwide…
Teach students about strategies for responding to and challenging bias in school, in particular when they are the target.
New York, NY, May 9, 2024… ADL (Anti-Defamation League) applauds the decision by Institutional Shareholder Services (“ISS”), a leading independent proxy advisory firm, to recommend investors vote against an anti-Israel shareholder proposal in Amazon's 2024 proxy statement. Titled “Customer Due Diligence,” Shareholder Proposal 6 seeks to end the company's involvement in Project Nimbus—a $1.2 billion cloud computing agreement with the…
Use this collection of picture books to talk about holidays and observances.
The death of Saleh Al-Arouri, a leading Hamas financier and military leader on January 2, 2024, resulted in threats of retribution against Israel by Hamas, Hezbollah and other regional proxies of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Similar to the killing of Qassim Soleimani, the head of Quds Force, in 2020 in Baghdad, and the killing of Seyed Razi Mousavi, a senior adviser of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps – Quds Force (IRGC-QF), in 2022 in Syria, Al-Arouri's death led to vitriol and…