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.
Motion filed supports allegations that SAUSD intentionally violated the Brown Act, California’s open meetings laws, to develop and approve antisemitic curriculum “under the radar.” Santa Ana, Calif., August 26, 2024 … ADL (the Anti-Defamation League), The Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law, AJC (the American Jewish Committee), and Covington & Burling announced today that they filed a motion adding supporting evidence to the suit they…
JLens ran three successful proxy season campaigns with ADL that aimed to combat anti-Israel shareholder proposals and support efforts to protect kids online.
Read analysis of the top news stories ADL is monitoring and how we're countering antisemitism. Featured: At Amazon, RTX + Meta, fighting hate in shareholder meetings.
Hillel International, the premier Jewish on-campus organization that supports Jewish life at hundreds of colleges across the United States and abroad, has been one of the most frequent targets of anti-Israel activists and other antisemites in recent months, totaling more than a hundred incidents in the U.S. since Hamas’s October 7, 2023 attack on Israel. Jewish students and Hillel staff members have received threatening emails and phone calls; Hillel buildings have been vandalized and…
New York, NY, August 1, 2024 ... A new report released today by the ADL (Anti-Defamation League) Center for Technology and Society (CTS) reveals that a group of moderators of Jewish communities on Reddit faced with increased antisemitism on the social media platform reached out to ADL for support. Based on research into these moderators’ experiences, ADL engaged with Reddit, which led the platform to take several important steps to stem instances of antisemitism on the site and to…
This unified agenda provides recommendations to college and university administrators to address antisemitism on campus ahead of the new academic year.
Following the alarming rise in antisemitic incidents on campus, leading Jewish and educational groups call on college and university administrators to take action ahead of the new school year. July 31, 2024… ADL (the Anti-Defamation League), American Jewish Committee (AJC), the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations (CoP), Hillel International, and Jewish Federations of North America today announced a comprehensive set of recommendations aimed at combating…
Antisemites across the political spectrum gathered in Somerset, KY on June 30, 2024 for a “JP” (Jewish Problem) Conference that promoted anti-Jewish hate.
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.
New York, NY, July 11, 2024 … Belief in classic antisemitic tropes increased on four University of California (UC) campuses after Oct. 7, 2023, as did negative sentiments toward Israel, according to a survey of students sponsored by the ADL (Anti-Defamation League) Center for Antisemitism Research (CAR). Among students surveyed at the four UC campuses (UC Irvine, UC Los Angeles, UC Riverside, UC Merced), anti-Israel attitudes are much stronger than the general public. Belief…
Según una encuesta realizada en siete países con grandes comunidades judías, la mayoría de los encuestados apoyan la acusación antisemita de la "doble lealtad", aceptando que los judíos son más leales a Israel que a sus países de origen. En Estados Unidos, esta cifra asciende al 51%. Casi el 40% de los encuestados estuvieron de acuerdo con al menos 6 de los 12 tópicos antisemitas. Nueva York, NY, 27 de junio de 2024... Una…
According to a survey conducted across seven countries with large Jewish communities, a majority of respondents endorse the antisemitic “dual loyalty” allegation, agreeing that Jews are more loyal to Israel than their home countries. In the United States, this figure stands at 51%.
New York, NY, June 18, 2024 … ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) today announced that it has issued revised grades for some schools assessed in its Campus Antisemitism Report Card, an initiative that assesses campus climate and administrative policies related to countering antisemitism on college campuses. The tool, released in a beta version this past April, examined 85 institutions and assigned grades to provide campus leadership, parents, students, alumni and other key…
New York, NY, June 10, 2024 … More than half of all Americans - 56 percent - report experiencing online hate or harassment in their lifetimes, continuing an upward trend, according to ADL’s sixth annual Survey of Online Hate and Harassment – the highest rate since 2020. At a time when antisemitic incidents are at historic levels, 34 percent of Jewish adults who were harassed online reported being targeted because of their religion in the past 12 months. In addition, 63…
New York, NY, June 6, 2024 … Researchers at the ADL (Anti-Defamation League) Center for Technology and Society (CTS) found that some Facebook groups in local communities have become toxic sites of harassment, particularly identity-based harassment against Jews, women, LGBTQ+ advocates, immigrants, and people of color. Through interviews with community members, targets of the harassment and other stakeholders, combined with online observation, content analysis, and data scraping,…
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.
As the “People’s Conference for Palestine” got underway in Detroit, MI on May 24, the packed audience cheered as Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM) organizer and conference MC Mohammed Nabulsi opened by offering “salutations to our people in Palestine and to our noble, steadfast Resistance.” Nabulsi garnered further enthusiastic applause when he urged “eternal glory to our martyrs” and called to “liberate every inch of Palestine, from the Jordan…