By Jonathan Greenblatt ADL CEO and National Director As America approaches its 250th birthday, we will mark this event in many ways: Some will celebrate our democratic legacy, some our veterans and service members, and some will revel in the aspects of our nation that make it so unique. But one of the greatest parts of this country deserves our special respect: America has strived to protect its religious minorities like few places in the world. …
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The mayor stayed away from the Israel Day Parade. I went because Jewish pride, peoplehood and Israel ties are not up for negotiation. By Jonathan Greenblatt, ADL CEO When Mayor Mamdani announced that he would skip New York City’s annual Israel Day Parade, he broke with a tradition that every mayor has honored since the event began in 1965 – standing shoulder to shoulder with members of the New York Jewish community at a parade celebrating their cultural heritage. His absence wasn…
By Jonathan Greenblatt To the Class of 2026, my dear graduates, Mazel Tov. I know what you went through to get here. You arrived on campus in the Fall of 2022. There was the usual mix of nerves and excitement. New friends. Late nights. The rhythms of college life in a post-pandemic world. There was one year of relative normalcy. And then, in the first weeks of your sophomore year, on a Saturday morning in October 2023, Hamas launched the deadliest attack on the Jewish people since the…
Dear Members of the American Psychological Association Council of Representatives, We, a coalition of Jewish American Organizations, including the Anti-Defamation League (ADL); the American Jewish Medical Association (AJMA); American Jewish Committee (AJC); Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations; Hadassah, The Women’s Zionist Organization of America; Jewish Federations of North America; Jewish Council for Public Affairs; Jewish Labor Committee; StandWithUs;…
September 8, 2025 The Honorable Virginia Foxx Chairwoman House Committee on Rules Washington, DC 20515 The Honorable Jim McGovern Ranking Member House Committee on Rules Washington, D.C. 20515 Dear Chairwoman Foxx and Ranking Member McGovern, Since 1913, the mission of ADL (Anti-Defamation League) has been to “stop the defamation of the Jewish people and to secure justice and fair treatment to all.” ADL is dedicated to combating antisemitism,…
Dear President Pringle, We are writing to express our deep concerns about the growing level of antisemitic activity within teachers’ unions, particularly since the Hamas terrorist attacks in Israel on October 7, 2023. Passage of New Business Item (NBI) 39 at the National Education Association (NEA) Representative Assembly this past weekend, which shockingly calls for the boycott of the Anti-Defamation League, is just the latest example of open hostility toward Jewish educators,…
January 28, 2025 Dear Dr. Susan Kressly, Dr. Andrew Racine, CEO Mark Del Monte, Dr. Nathanial Jones, and other AAP Committee and Board Members, We, the undersigned organizations, write on behalf of medical and Jewish organizations to express our disappointment and grave concern about the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) leadership’s letter to former Secretary of State Antony Blinken related to the wellbeing of Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya. According to Israeli authorities and other sources,…
By Jonathan A. Greenblatt Applying for a job is hard. Whether you’re already employed or not, whether it’s your first job out of school or you’ve been in the workforce for decades, it takes time, it takes energy, and it takes courage. Candidates will pore over their resumés, practice for interviews, ask trusted friends and mentors how to put their best self forward. Discrimination against Jewish job applicants: But it turns out the name atop that resumé sadly…
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Dear University President: Enforce Codes of Conduct in the Wake of Flood of Antisemitic Harassment and Discrimination on Campus Since October 7.
Dear University Presidents:
As CEO of ADL (the Anti-Defamation League), I’m writing to express our shock and concern regarding an upcoming Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) event titled “National Day of Resistance,” scheduled to take place on campuses across the country this Thursday, October 12, 2023.
Based on the promotional materials we have seen, this planned “resistance” appears to include an endorsement of terrorism and violence (cloaked in…
November 21, 2022
Jeff Bezos,
Executive Chair
Andy Jassy,
President and CEO
David Zapolsky,
Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary
Dear Mr. Bezos, Mr. Jassy and Mr. Zapolsky,
We, the undersigned, lead organizations representing US Jewish communities. We come together today in one voice to express how disturbed we are that Amazon has not given any indication that it will remove the book and film, Hebrews to…
Jeffrey P. Bezos, Executive Chair
Andy Jassy, President and CEO
David A. Zapolsky, Senior VP, General Counsel and Secretary
Amazon
Dear Mr. Bezos, Mr. Jassy and Mr. Zapolsky:
More than a week ago I wrote you, along with the Brooklyn Nets, to express our concerns about a virulently antisemitic book and related video, “Hebrews to Negroes: Wake Up Black America” by Ronald Dalton Jr., being sold on Amazon. We asked that either Amazon remove the works from their shelves or…
Kasper Rorsted
Chief Executive Officer
Thomas Rabe
Chairman-Supervisory Board
Adidas
World of Sports
Adi-Dassler-Straße 1
91074 Herzogenaurach
Germany
Dear Mr. Rorsted and Mr. Rabe:
In light of Kanye West’s increasingly strident antisemitic remarks over the past few weeks, we were disturbed to learn that Adidas plans to continue to release new products from his Yeezy brand without any seeming acknowledgement of the controversy surrounding his most recent…
Good morning, everyone. I am so glad to be with you all here in Washington D.C. and to join the McCain Institute and Dr. Farkas for this event on one of the most important issues facing our country today. I would like to thank our guest speakers, especially Congressman Jamie Raskin for joining us today, as well as everyone here in person or tuning in virtually.
I can think of no better way to honor the legacy of Senator McCain, a man who dedicated his life to public service…
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…
July 13, 2022
In a letter to Iceland's Minister for Foreign Affairs, ADL urged the government to take immediate action against the antisemitic "Mapping Project," which is currently being hosted on the web by an Iceland-based provider. H.E. Thórdís Kolbrún Reykfjörd Gylfadóttir
Minister for Foreign Affairs
Ministry for Foreign Affairs
Rauðarárstíg 25
105 Reykjavík
Dear Minister Reykfjörd Gylfadóttir,
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June 18, 2022
In an email correspondence to "1984.is", a web hosting service based in Iceland, ADL urged the company to remove the antisemitic "Mapping Project" immediately. To whom it may concern,
I am writing on an urgent basis from the Anti-Defamation League, a US nongovernmental organization.
A website, https://mapliberation.org/, has apparently relocated to your hosting service after being removed from its previous hosts for doxing. Specifically, the site…
May 01, 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…
Thank you so much for inviting me to join this commemoration today.
On Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, we join with communities across the world to remember the attempted annihilation of the Jewish people.
I’m honored to be with you all at USAID because in many ways your work is about hope, the one true antidote to hate, and a force that should provide the inspiration to prevent future horrors as we saw in the Holocaust.
But this day is deeply personal to me.
My…