New York, NY, April 24, 2026 … ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) today welcomed the introduction of the federal Safeguarding Access to Congregations and Religious Establishments from Disruption (SACRED) Act, a bipartisan bill that protects safe access to houses of worship by establishing a 100-foot “safe access” zone around churches, synagogues, mosques and other religious locations.    The SACRED Act would create federal penalties for targeted harassment and…

New York, New York, April 7, 2026 … ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) and the Academic Engagement Network (AEN) expressed deep concern at developments during the recent Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers (AAG), held March 17-21. Multiple sessions organized by “Geographers for Justice in Palestine” promoted efforts to boycott Israeli academia and featured presentations that were overwhelmingly one-sided. Sessions such as “BDS and the AAG,” …

New York, NY, March 17, 2026 – ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) today honored renowned Israeli news presenter Lucy Aharish with the Abraham Award at this year’s Never Is Now summit. As a young girl, Aharish was the only Arab Muslim in her Israeli school. After graduating from the Hebrew University and the Koteret School, she became the first Arab to present news on prime-time television in Israel. Aharish, now one of the most prominent voices in Israeli media, has devoted…

New York, NY, March 11, 2026 – ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) today announced that Emmanuel Acho will receive the first-ever ADL Ally Award at the 2026 Never Is Now Summit. A New York Times bestselling author, Emmy Award winner and host, Acho has built a powerful platform by fostering honest dialogue, challenging hate and encouraging people to engage across differences with empathy and integrity. His work exemplifies a core theme of this year’s Never Is Now Summit:…

October 16, 2025… Washington D.C.  — ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) and the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference (NHCLC), the largest Latino Christian organization and affiliated with over 42,000 churches in the U.S., today announced a historic new partnership aimed at combating antisemitism and anti-Zionism, and deepening Latino-Jewish solidarity across communities of faith. Through this new collaboration, the organizations will co-develop resources…

ADL Statement on the Premature Recognition of a Palestinian State

ADL's Task Force on Middle East Minorities Statement on the Violence in Syria

J7 Task Force Statement on the Current Situation in the Middle East

“Unfortunately, this tragedy was inevitable” after a year of increasing antisemitic incitement and harassment New York, NY, May 22, 2025 … ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) today issued the following statement in response to last night’s heinous attack against two individuals attending an event at the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C. hosted by the American Jewish Committee. The suspect in the killings of Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim, both employees at the…

Edan Alexander is free at last.  Shortly after Hamas began its attack on October 7, 2023, Edan Alexander, an American-Israeli from Tenafly, New Jersey, was able to speak to his mother and tell her he was alright. Just half an hour later, she couldn’t reach him. Edan's family heard nothing from him for over a year and a half, except for the cruel propaganda videos released by the terrorists holding Edan hostage. After 584 days of agony, torture, and darkness – Edan has finally…

NEW YORK, NY, February 27, 2025 – The JLens 500 Jewish Advocacy U.S. ETF (NYSE:TOV), a groundbreaking exchange-traded fund that aims to empower investors to combat antisemitism, support Israel and embody Jewish values, is set to begin trading today on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol “TOV” – the Hebrew word for “good”. Created by JLens, an affiliate of ADL (the Anti-Defamation League), TOV offers investors a way to…

New York, NY, February 5, 2025 ... ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) issued a statement following yesterday's meeting at the White House between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Trump:   It was significant that in the White House yesterday, Prime Minister Netanyahu and President Trump discussed critical priorities including the release of all hostages, Israel's security needs and steps for regional engagement. U.S. involvement -- in coordination with Israel and…

ADL Statement on Announcement of Israel-Hamas Deal

New York, NY, December 19, 2024 … ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) today welcomed the House Republican leadership’s report concluding their investigation into the alarming surge of antisemitism since Hamas’s terrorist attack on October 7, 2023. The committee’s investigation found that several universities failed to stop antisemitism on their campuses, likely violating Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Additionally, the report found that several American…

ADL Statement on the Situation in Syria

New York, NY, October 17, 2024 … ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) today welcomed the death of Hamas arch-terrorist Yahya Sinwar at the hands of an Israel Defense Forces patrol in Gaza. Jonathan A. Greenblatt, ADL CEO and National Director, issued the following statement: The reported death of arch-terrorist Yahya Sinwar at the hands of an ordinary IDF patrol truly is justice served. As we have seen with the killing of Bin Laden, Baghdadi, Nasrallah, and other evil terrorist masterminds,…

 El mayor número de incidentes antisemitas jamás registrado por la ADL en solo un año Nueva York, NY, 6 de octubre de 2024 ... Según datos preliminares de Liga Antidifamación (ADL), en el año transcurrido desde el ataque terrorista de Hamas el 7 de octubre contra Israel ha habido más de 10.000 incidentes antisemitas en Estados Unidos. Este es el mayor número de incidentes jamás registrado en un período de un a…

New York, NY, October 6, 2024 … There have been more than 10,000 antisemitic incidents in the U.S. in the year since the Oct. 7 Hamas terrorist attack in Israel, according to ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) preliminary data. This is the highest number of incidents ever recorded in any single year period since ADL started tracking in 1979. These newly released figures, from Oct. 7, 2023 to Sept. 24, 2024, represent an over 200-percent increase compared to the incidents…

New York, NY, October 7, 2024 … On the anniversary of the October 7, 2023 Hamas attack on Israel, the J7 Large Communities’ Task Force Against Antisemitism issued the following statement:  We are leaders of seven of the largest Jewish communities outside of Israel. One year ago, our communities were shocked and devasted by the horrifying terror attack on Israel.  Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad and other terrorist groups massacred more than 1200 innocent people, young…

New York, NY, September 19, 2024 … Adopting an Israel divestment strategy aligned with the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement could lead to significant negative financial implications for university endowments, finds a report released today by JLens, the leading Jewish values-based investor network, part of the ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) family.  The report, the first of its kind to thoroughly quantify these risks, analyzed the historical…