Athletes, Team Owners, Sports Executives Join Social Change Initiative David Karp Tennis legend Billie Jean King, who spoke at an ADL event in 2013, is an inaugural member of ADL’s Sports Leadership Council. New York, NY, September 28, 2017 – The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today announced a new initiative to work in partnership with professional athletes and sports leaders to promote positive social change and combat hate, bullying, and discrimination in our society. ADL…
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September 27, 2017 During a September appearance at a mosque in Chicago, Nation of Islam student minister Wesley Muhammad claimed that Jews and the U.S. government are engaged in a “Pot Plot” to emasculate black men and turn them into homosexuals by distributing specially modified versions of marijuana. Muhammad has been dabbling in this conspiracy theory since 2016, and proposed a similar version in a June 2017 interview on Power 105.1’s The Breakfast Club, a nationwide…
New York, NY, September 26, 2017 -- The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today reacted to the decision by King Salman of Saudi Arabia to issue a royal decree authorizing women to start driving in June 2018, ending a longstanding ban on female drivers in the kingdom.
Sharon Nazarian, ADL Senior Vice President of International Affairs, issued the following statement:
We are encouraged by the news that King Salman of Saudi Arabia has issued a royal decree authorizing women to drive…
September 20, 2017 Article Highlights: • Older white supremacists are adopting the slang of the alt right in an attempt to sound edgy and attract younger members. • Some white supremacists have created websites designed specifically to attract alt right adherents. • For racist neo-Confederates, the alt right offers a significant potential source of members, provided they can be converted to white Southern nationalism instead of a more universal form of white supremacy. Like…
Files Amicus Brief Reiterating Concern Over “Sacrificing the Nation’s Core Values” New York, NY, September 18, 2017 … The Anti-Defamation League (ADL), joined by four other Jewish groups, has filed an amicus brief with the U.S. Supreme Court urging the Court to uphold lower court rulings that have blocked the President’s executive order on refugees.
ADL’s brief concludes that enforcing the Executive Order “risks once again sacrificing the nation…
September 18, 2017 By: Marvin D. Nathan, National Chair
Jonathan A. Greenblatt, CEO & National Director
Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, is both a celebratory holiday and a time for serious introspection.
It is a celebration of the creation of the Universe and of G-d's sovereignty over that Universe. And, it is a time to look into oneself to examine where one has been and where one is going.
In this spirit, we offer on behalf of ADL, the…
New York, NY, September 15, 2017... The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today reacted to remarks by President Donald Trump repeating that both sides were at fault for the deadly violence at a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville last month. The president reiterated his position on Charlottesville following a meeting with Sen. Tim Scott, the lone African-American in the U.S. Senate.
Jonathan A. Greenblatt, ADL CEO, issued the following statement:
"It is sad that the President seems…
New York, NY, September 14, 2017 ... The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) was shocked to learn about a practice on Facebook that enabled advertisers to direct their pitches to the news feeds of individuals who had expressed interest in anti-Semitic ad categories such as "Jew haters," "How to burn Jews," or "History of 'Why Jews ruin the world."
Facebook removed the categories this week and said it was exploring ways to fix the problem. The categories were generated by…
New York, NY, September 14, 2017 … In the post-Charlottesville environment and amid ongoing concerns about white supremacist activity and anti-Semitic acts in the U.S., the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) is providing expertise and resources to ensure Jewish institutions remain secure during the Jewish High Holidays. The holidays begin on the evening of Sept. 20 with Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, and continue with the observance of Yom Kippur on Sept. 30.
ADL’s Center on…
New York, NY, September 12, 2017 … The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) is troubled by the participation in a House Committee hearing of Stephen Halbrook, author of “Gun Control in the Third Reich,” who has frequently drawn parallels between gun laws in Nazi Germany and firearms legislation in the U.S. to build a case against gun violence prevention.
In a book and in a 2013 op-ed on Kristallnacht, Halbrook wrote: “Historians have documented…
New York, NY, September 11, 2017 … The white supremacist group whose slogan, “You will not replace us” reverberated across the University of Virginia campus in Charlottesville earlier this summer has outlined plans for a year-long effort targeting college campuses with racist fliers, posters and stickers.
Newly emboldened by the events and violence in Charlottesville and determined to recruit young followers, Identity Evropa, which advocates for the preservation of …
September 08, 2017 Identity Evropa's latest efforts at targeting college campuses include fliers that promote a range of racist books and propaganda tracts. The white supremacist group has been actively targeting colleges and universities across the United States.
In the first weeks of September, Identity Evropa fliers were found on campuses in California, Long Beach Community College and Santa Rosa Junior College, as well as the University of Illinois at Urbana…
Washington, DC, September 7, 2017 – Today, civil rights leaders met with Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) and other members of the Democratic caucus to discuss post-Charlottesville efforts to combat hate and protect civil rights. The groups participating in the meeting, convened at the request of Leader Schumer, included The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights; Anti-Defamation League; Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law; Human Rights Campaign;…
New York, NY, September 7, 2017 … As college students are returning to a new academic school year, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has released a new, multi-platform resource to equip them with essential information and tools to deal with anti-Semitism and anti-Israel bias on campus.
‘THINK. PLAN. ACT.’ is a comprehensive resource that prepares students for encounters with anti-Semitism and anti-Israel bias by defining what constitutes anti-Jewish animus,…
New York, NY, September 5, 2017 … The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today denounced President Trump’s executive action repealing Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA). The repeal means that nearly 800,000 undocumented immigrants who were brought to the United States as children will lose the legal protections and work authorization they had gained.
Jonathan A. Greenblatt, ADL CEO, issued the following statement:
We are a nation of immigrants. The lives of hundreds…
September 01, 2017
Islamic State is using Jihadi online forums to release a three-part English-language guide to conducting lone-wolf terror attacks. The first two articles frame the 1990 assassination of Meir Kahane as a model for future attacks, but also promote more unusual attack methods -- such as injecting poison into consumer products at shopping malls. The series strongly resembles other forms of propaganda, issued in a more informal format. It illustrates the repetitive,…
New York, NY, August 31, 2017 … The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today lauded a decision from a federal judge in Texas halting key provisions of SB 4, one of the worst anti-immigrant laws enacted anywhere in the country.
The law would have given local law enforcement the authority to ask about a person’s immigration status during routine interactions, such as a traffic stops, and local law enforcement officials could have been fined or removed from office if they did not…
August 30, 2017 The violent white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, which featured anti-Semitic chants and imagery on full display, has fueled concern about whether the kind of hatred and violence seen in Charlottesville could inspire copycat incidents or acts of hate against Jews or Jewish institutions in other parts of the country.
While it is impossible to directly link anti-Semitic incidents seen elsewhere to the horrific displays of hate witnessed in Charlottesville…
August 30, 2017 Sheikh Abdullah al-Faisal, also known as Trevor William Forrest, was indicted on Friday, August 25th and charged with recruiting would-be terrorists for the Islamic State. Al-Faisal was arrested in Kingston, Jamaica, and he will be extradited to New York following his court appearance.
Al-Faisal’s arrest comes after a year-long investigation by the NYPD Intelligence Bureau and Manhattan District Attorney’s Office’s Counter Terrorism Program in which an…
August 29, 2017 Adults and children alike are grappling to make sense of current events. Discussions of racism, anti-Semitism and social injustice have become increasingly contentious as images of white supremacists carrying torches and chanting hateful rhetoric in Charlottesville fill our social media feeds and television screens. Children are attuned to these conversations and disturbing images of violence, hate and incivility, and are seeking comfort and answers from teachers, family…