New York, NY, March 8, 2018.....The Anti-Defamation League today reacted to the White House meeting with members of Congress, top executives from the gaming industry, and various parent groups to discuss violence in video games.
“Based on what we know about the meeting, the conversation failed to include any discussion of how video games and emerging technologies can be used to actively fight bias and hate. The violence we’ve seen across the country comes in part…
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Initiative Will Collect Fresh Ideas to Combat Evolving Technology Challenges New York, NY, March 8, 2018 … The Anti-Defamation League (ADL)’s Center for Technology and Society (CTS) is expanding its work with a new fellowship program that will amplify the work of cutting-edge researchers and practitioners at the intersection of tech and civil rights.
The new Belfer Fellowship program is the newest initiative from CTS, which ADL opened last year to bring a new focus to ensuring…
March 05, 2018 White supremacists are attempting to exploit the tragic mass shooting in Parkland, Florida, and the ensuing debate over gun control to push an anti-Semitic agenda.
Some are seizing the moment as an opportunity to demonize Jews, while others are claiming gun rights as a "white identity" issue. Many are publicly framing the battle over gun control as a struggle between beleaguered whites who want to preserve their traditions in the face of a Jewish onslaught.
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by: Jonathan Greenblatt | March 01, 2018 Medium In recent times, there has been one constant in anti-Semitism in America: Louis Farrakhan. His lacerating speeches over more than three decades and more from his pulpit and perch at the Nation of Islam have repeatedly placed Jews at the center of conspiracy theories blaming them for everything from controlling the banks and media to engineering the slave trade.
The longtime leader of the Nation of Islam, Farrakhan’s name has become…
New York, NY, February 27, 2018 … Following is a statement from Anti-Defamation League (ADL) CEO Jonathan Greenblatt in response to news that YouTube would not take down anti-Semitic videos from the neo-Nazi group Atomwaffen Division that call for gassing Jews and a “race war”:
Just today we released a report showing a 60% increase in anti-Semitic incidents over the past year, and we know this type of material only contributes to that. These videos are not only…
New York, NY, February 27, 2018 … The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) said in a new report today that the number of anti-Semitic incidents was nearly 60 percent higher in 2017 than 2016, the largest single-year increase on record and the second highest number reported since ADL started tracking incident data in the 1970s.
The sharp rise, reported in ADL’s Audit of Anti-Semitic Incidents, was in part due to a significant increase in incidents in schools and on college campuses,…
February 26, 2018 On February 25th, Nation of Islam’s longtime leader Louis Farrakhan spoke at the Wintrust Arena in Chicago. As in previous Saviours’ Day speeches, Farrakhan used the opportunity to rail against the Jews, Israel and the U.S. government.
Before Farrakhan’s keynote address, fellow Nation of Islam principals Ava Muhammad, Nuri Muhammad and Ishmael Muhammad shared remarks. In a short speech, Ava Muhammad warned the crowd that the end of days…
February 01, 2018 In a letter to Florida Rep. Matthew Gaetz, ADL urged the Congressman to discontinue any association with extremist Charles Johnson and publicly repudiate his views immediately. February 1, 2018
The Honorable Matthew Gaetz
United States House of Representatives
Washington, DC 20515
Dear Representative Gaetz,
On behalf of the Anti-Defamation League, I am writing to express deep concern about news reports that you invited Charles C. Johnson as your guest to…
New data show incidents more than tripled in 2017 New York, NY, February 1, 2018 … New data released today by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) shows an alarming increase in white supremacist propaganda on U.S. college campuses during the 2017 fall semester.
Since September 1, 2016, ADL’s Center on Extremism has recorded 346 incidents where white supremacists have used fliers, stickers, banners, and posters to spread their message. These incidents targeted 216 college campuses …
by: Jonathan Greenblatt | January 26, 2018 The Hill International Holocaust Remembrance Day commemorates the millions of victims of the Nazi Holocaust and marks the anniversary of the liberation of the concentration camps at Auschwitz, where more than 1 million innocents were murdered, including an estimated 960,000 Jews.
The liberation of Auschwitz led to the first real awareness of the true barbarity of the Nazi regime and the death industry it created in an attempt to rid Europe of Jews…
January 10, 2018 By Brittan Heller | Director of the Center for Technology and Society & Aaron Sussman | Associate National Civil Rights Counsel
It was a hoax turned deadly. On the evening of December 28, a distressed-sounding man called the police in Wichita, Kansas, and confessed that he had shot his father in the head, was holding his mother and sibling hostage, and had poured gasoline in the house, threatening to set it on fire. He then gave the police his address.
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New York, NY, January 4, 2018 ... Facebook has removed a disgusting and highly controversial anti-Semitic page that has been on its platform for at least five years. The page peddled one of the worst anti-Jewish conspiracies from medieval times: Jewish ritual murder of non-Jews.
Said Jonathan Greenblatt, Anti-Defamation League CEO and National Director:
“We have been calling for the removal of this hateful, anti-Semitic Facebook page since 2014. It’s long overdue that…
December 19, 2017 Following Monday's implementation of new safety rules on Twitter, a number of users associated with white supremacy and other hateful ideologies found themselves no longer allowed on the platform.
"ADL commends Twitter for taking these significant steps to tackle hate on their platform. We long urged Twitter to push back against hateful and violent rhetoric, and these latest actions are encouraging," CEO and National Director Jonathan Greenblatt said in a statement. …
America’s deadly epidemic of school shootings continued last week, when William Atchison, a 21-year-old gas station attendant, disguised himself as a student and went to Aztec High School in northwestern New Mexico to conduct a shooting spree, something he had fantasized about for some time.
Atchison killed two students, Casey Jordan Marquez and Francisco Fernandez, and shot at a number of others before killing himself, a shocking and tragic turn of events for the people of Aztec…
New York, NY, December 12, 2017 … The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) hailed House passage of the “Protecting Religiously Affiliated Institutions Act of 2017.” The bill, HR 1730, would expand federal law to cover bomb threats and other credible threats of violence against community religious institutions and community centers by amending the Church Arson Prevention Act, legislation ADL originally helped to draft in 1988.
The new bill was introduced last March at the height…
December 08, 2017 All online platforms with user-generated content struggle with how best to moderate that content.The stakes are especially high when the platform is exclusively aimed at young children.
This is something YouTube, whose parent company Google is part of ADL’s Problem-Solving Lab, learned in a particularly disturbing way, as the young viewers of its popular YouTube Kids app were suddenly exposed to videos of their favorite characters suffering grisly deaths,…
New ADL report finds hate groups are still poorly funded, but look to crowdfunding, cryptocurrency, other tools New York, NY, December 5, 2017 … The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) is calling on credit card companies and online crowdfunding sites to more closely monitor white supremacists’ compliance with their terms of services and policies in light of a new report highlighting how racists exploit online platforms to raise money for their racist “cause.”
Funding Hate…
December 01, 2017 Thursday’s acquittal of undocumented immigrant Jose Ines Garcia Zarate in the 2015 murder of Kathryn (Kate) Steinle has sparked an outcry from white supremacists and other extremists.
Zarate claims he unintentionally killed Steinle when a stolen gun he was carrying went off accidentally. While a San Francisco jury agreed with this assessment, right-wing extremists are framing the acquittal as a symptom of multiculturalism, blaming Jews and non-whites for the…
by: Jonathan Greenblatt | November 28, 2017 The Forward At the Anti-Defamation League, we have spent more than 100 years fighting anti-Semitism, often referred to as the world’s oldest hatred. And we have labored to distinguish between a more modern phenomenon –- when criticism of Israel can be considered legitimate political conversation and when it crosses the line into insidious anti-Semitism.
We feel obligated to revisit the subject in light of a new book, “On…
November 27, 2017 By Mark Pitcavage, Senior Research Fellow for the Center on Extremism
Many subjects are difficult to report on, but extremist and fringe movements are particularly difficult landscapes for journalists to navigate, strewn with rough terrain and the occasional landmine. As someone who has monitored right-wing extremism for more than two decades, I’ve had the pleasure of reading many fine works of journalism on extremist-related subjects, but I’ve also seen…