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,…
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New York, NY, June 3, 2024 … ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) today filed a formal complaint with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) charging Jewish Voice for Peace’s (JVP) political fundraising arm with numerous violations of the Federal Election Campaign Act and FEC regulations. Jewish Voice for Peace is a fringe anti-Israel group dedicated to the elimination of the state of Israel as a Jewish state despite nearly half of the world’s Jewish population residing in the…
New York, NY, May 28, 2024… ADL (Anti-Defamation League) and JLens filed a Notice of Exempt Solicitation with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, calling on shareholders to vote in favor of Proposal Eleven in Meta's 2024 proxy statement. The proposal would require Meta to transparently address critical issues of hate speech and cyberbullying as well as other issues related to protecting kids. According to a 2023 survey conducted by the ADL Center for…
New York, NY, May 28, 2024 … As the U.S. celebrates Jewish American Heritage Month, the American Jewish Historical Society (AJHS) and ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) today announced a new partnership to preserve the institutional archives that document ADL’s fight against antisemitism, hate and bigotry since its founding in 1913. The ADL Archives Project will catalog, stabilize and digitize ADL’s collections to preserve and provide public access to important archival…
New York, NY, May 24, 2024 ... ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) today condemned the U.N.'s top court, the International Court of Justice, for allowing external political pressure to dictate its biased ruling demanding Israel to halt its military operation in Rafah. ADL issued the following statement: ADL condemns the ICJ for allowing external political pressure to dictate its biased ruling today, and South Africa for essentially serving as Hamas’ representatives at the court…
Chicago, May 23, 2024 ... ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) today reiterated its call for Northwestern University President Michael Schill to resign following his troubling testimony before Congress that was “rife with hypocrisy and platitudes.” David Goldenberg, ADL Midwest Regional Director, issued the following statement: "President Schill’s testimony today clarified his leadership imperils Jewish students and that he has failed at virtually every turn to take…
New York, NY, May 15, 2024 ... ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) today issued the following statement in response to the commitments announced by Harvard University interim President Alan Garber following yesterday's disbandment of the anti-Israel protest encampment. Interim Harvard President Alan Garber repeatedly said that Harvard would not negotiate with anti-Israel protestors encamped on its campus. Yet, following the disbandment of the encampment yesterday, President Garber announced …
Washington, D.C., May 9, 2024: The Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law and ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) today announced they have filed complaints with the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights against two California colleges -- Occidental and Pomona -- for permitting severe discrimination and harassment of Jewish students in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Arnold & Porter joined the Brandeis Center…
Los Angeles, CA, May 8, 2024 – In honor of Jewish American Heritage Month, the ADL (Anti-Defamation League) Media & Entertainment Institute today announced the release of two curated film lists developed in partnership with Common Sense Media: "Movies That Illustrate and Celebrate the Jewish Experience" and "Movies About the Holocaust." The initiative aims to promote understanding, appreciation, and diversity through cinema that reflects the rich tapestry of Jewish life and the…
New York, NY, May 9, 2024… ADL (Anti-Defamation League) applauds the decision by Institutional Shareholder Services (“ISS”), a leading independent proxy advisory firm, to recommend investors vote against an anti-Israel shareholder proposal in Amazon's 2024 proxy statement. Titled “Customer Due Diligence,” Shareholder Proposal 6 seeks to end the company's involvement in Project Nimbus—a $1.2 billion cloud computing agreement with the…
Washington, D.C., May 7, 2024: The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced today it has opened a formal investigation into a complaint that the Berkeley Unified School District (BUSD) failed to address non-stop “severe and persistent” bullying and harassment of Jewish students in classrooms, hallways, schools yards, and walkouts since October 7, 2023. BUSD Superintendent Enikia Ford Morthel is also being called to testify tomorrow…
TikTok videos will share testimonials, educate against denial & raise awareness New York, NY, May 6, 2024 … ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) today launched a new social media campaign geared toward Gen Z consumers of social media. The campaign, with an emphasis on TikTok and other video platforms, will highlight and promote survivor testimonials and messages from several TikTok creators, with an aim to counter Holocaust denial and misinformation. The new…
Washington, D.C., May 6, 2024 ... The Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law and ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) today expanded their complaint against the Berkeley Unified School District (BUSD), sounding the alarm that the already-hostile environment for Jewish students is taking a frightening turn for the worse. In February, the two organizations filed a complaint with the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) against the…
"Concern for the Future of Jewish Life in the West" From Brazil to South Africa, from Italy to Australia, from Belgium to the United States: 2023 saw an increase of dozens of percentage points in the number of antisemitic incidents in Western countries in comparison to 2022.Most countries with large Jewish populations recorded increases in the number of incidents also in the first nine months of 2023, before the war started; "October 7 helped spread a fire that was already out of control…
New York, NY, May 3, 2024 ... The following is a joint statement issued today from ADL (the Anti-Defamation League), Orthodox Union, Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, Jewish Federations of North America, Hillel International, Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law, and NCJW: Our organizations met today with Secretary of Education Cardona, White House Domestic Policy Council Director Tanden, Deputy Secretary of Education Marten, and other senior…
By Ken Jacobson, ADL Deputy National Director This is a particularly hard Yom Hashoah commemoration because of the suffering in Israel from October 7, deemed the worst massacre of Jews since the Shoah, and because over 100 are still being held hostage by the terrorists. These events, together with the worldwide surge in antisemitism, remind us, while not comparing anything to the horror of the Shoah, that the world hasn’t learned a lot since that great tragedy. It is particularly…
Complaint claims school failed to protect students, including after violent antisemitic assault May 2, 2024 – ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) and the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law today announced that they submitted a formal complaint against the University of Massachusetts Amherst with the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) alleging that the university has failed to address the severe discrimination and harassment of Jewish and…
Massiver Anstieg nach dem 7. Oktober; Campus-Vorfälle verdreifachten sich; Bombendrohungen gegen jüdische Einrichtungen stiegen um das Zehnfache New York, NY, 16. April 2024 … Die jüdische Gemeinde in den USA erlebte im vergangenen Jahr einen beispiellosen Anstieg antisemitischer Vorfälle, der die Zahl aller antisemitischen Vorfälle in den letzten 45 Jahren bei weitem übertraf. Dies ist teilweise auf die massive Zunahme antisemitischer Reaktionen auf das…
Un pic massif a été enregistré après le 7 octobre ; les incidents sur les campus universitaires ont triplé ; il y a eu dix fois plus d’alertes à la bombe visant des institutions juives.New York, le 16 avril 2024 ... Affectée en grande partie par une hausse massive de réactions antisémites à la suite du massacre du 7 octobre en Israël et de la guerre en cours à Gaza, la communauté juive amé…
Se registró un aumento masivo después del 7 de octubre; los incidentes en los campus universitarios se triplicaron; las amenazas de bomba dirigidas contra instituciones judías se multiplicaron por 10 Nueva York, NY, 16 de abril de 2024 ... Inducido en parte por un pico masivo de reacciones antisemitas a la masacre del 7 de octubre en Israel y la guerra en curso en Gaza, la comunidad judía de Estados Unidos experimentó el año pasado un aumento sin…