New York, NY, July 6, 2015 … The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today expressed disappointment at the Israeli government’s decision to reject proposed legislation which would have positively reformed the Jewish conversion process in Israel. In November 2014, the Israeli government had approved a legislative proposal to remove the central rabbinical authority’s monopoly over the conversion process by allowing regional rabbis to establish local conversion courts, thereby easing…

New York, NY, July 2, 2015 … Catholic school educators from across the U.S. will come together to embark on an educational expedition to Israel. Middle and high school educators from 10 states will be participating in the Anti-Defamation League’s (ADL) nationally acclaimed Bearing Witness Advanced program, which aims to provide an advance course of study on anti-Semitism, the Holocaust and Catholic-Jewish relations. From June 30 to July 9, the participants will have the…

New York, NY, July 1, 2015 … The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today expressed concern to Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch about the spate of fires at African-American churches and commended the Department of Justice for continuing to work closely with state and local authorities investigating these incidents which have occurred only days after the tragic mass shooting at the Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina. ADL urged the Department of Justice to thoroughly investigate…

Jerusalem, July 1, 2015 … The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today strongly condemned the vandalism of the Hand-to-Hand bilingual Hebrew-Arabic school in Jerusalem, the third such “price tag” attack against the school in a year.  ADL called the repeated attacks “shameful” and appealed to Israeli law enforcement to do more to crack down on those responsible for carrying out and inspiring these and other price tag attacks. On Monday night, vandals spray painted…

Jerusalem, June 30, 2015 … In an expression of solidarity with a church on the Sea of Galilee that was desecrated in an arson attack two weeks ago, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today visited the Church of the Multiplication of the Loaves and Fishes in Tabgha in order to survey the damage and to meet with church leaders. Abraham H. Foxman, ADL National Director, who is currently in Israel, toured the church grounds where arsonists set fire to a monastery and the entrance to the…

Update of ADL Global 100 Poll Shows Anti-Semitism Markedly Higher Among Muslims in Six European Countries New York, NY, June 30, 2015 … In the aftermath of the shocking violence against Jews in Western Europe the past year, the level of anti-Semitic attitudes among the general population in France showed a dramatic decline, while Germany and Belgium registered significant reductions, according to a new poll from the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) released today. The ADL poll of adults in…

New York, NY, June 25, 2015 … The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today applauded the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs v. The Inclusive Communities Project, a case that sought to determine whether or not the Fair Housing Act allows a cause of action when the impact of a neutral policy is discriminatory. In a 5-4 decision, the Court held that the Act protects victims of discrimination, even where they cannot prove an intent to…

New York, NY, June 24, 2015 … The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today called on the President of the Greek Parliament to publicly condemn offensive anti-Jewish comments made by Dmitris Kamennos, a member of parliament from the Independent Greeks party. Mr. Kamennos posted an image of the gate to the Auschwitz death camp with the pro-Europe slogan, “We stay in Europe” replacing “Arbeit macht frei,” a German phrase used during the Holocaust which translates to …

New York, NY, June 22, 2015 … The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today condemned the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) Commission of Inquiry (COI) Report on Operation Protective Edge calling it “illegitimate in its conception and “inherently biased against Israel.” Operation Protective Edge was the name of the military campaign by Israel in July 2014 against the Gaza based terror group Hamas to stop the firing of rockets into Israeli cities. Abraham H. Foxman,…

New York, NY, June 18, 2015 … The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today expressed outrage at derogatory comments about Reform Jews made by Israel’s Religious Affairs Minister David Azoulay, and called on the Minister to swiftly and unequivocally apologize for his “deeply hurtful, spurious assault” on the Reform movement. ADL also pointed to the “outrageous” comments by Knesset Member Yisrael Eichler, who compared the Women of the Wall movement to the…

New York, NY, June 18, 2015 … The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today strongly condemned the suspected religiously motivated hate crime against the Church of the Multiplication of the Loaves and Fish at Tabgha on the Sea of Galilee in northern Israel. ADL called the attack an “affront to all religions and a serious blow to Israeli society,” and called on Israeli law enforcement to fully investigate the suspected hate crime and prosecute those responsible to the full extent of…

Suspect’s Facebook Profile Suggests White Supremacist Leanings New York, NY, June 18, 2015 … The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today expressed horror and profound sorrow at the tragic murder of nine parishioners during a prayer meeting at the historic Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina. According to ADL’s Center on Extremism, the suspect in the shootings, identified as 21-year-old Dylann Storm Roof, may have white supremacist leanings.  A photo of Roof…

New York, NY, June 18, 2015 … The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today urged the French Ministry of Culture and Communication to undertake an independent investigation to assess the facts surrounding purported anti-Israel discrimination by the Louvre and Sainte-Chapelle chapel. According to reports, a group from Tel Aviv University was denied reservations in both facilities even after attempting to make reservations for the same time period under a fictitious non-Israeli affiliation and…

Urges This Administration to Face the Reality That Jerusalem is the Capital of Israel New York, NY, June 8, 2015 … The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today expressed disappointment with the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Zivotofsky v. Kerry, which held that American citizens born in Jerusalem may not list “Israel” as their place of birth on their American passports. ADL, joined by 12 other groups, had filed an amicus brief arguing that Americans born in Jerusalem…

New York, NY, June 5, 2015 … The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today applauded the overwhelming passage of a Senate resolution, which condemns anti-Semitism and urges measures to prevent and combat anti-Semitic attacks and incidents. Senators Robert Menendez (D-NJ), Mark Kirk (R-IL), Barbara Mikulski (D-MD), and Marco Rubio (R-FL) led the effort with the support of more than half of the Senate -- 53 original co-sponsors total. The resolution (S.Res.87) is a response to the escalation of…

New York, NY, June 4, 2015 … The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today strongly objected to the decision by French telecom company Orange S.A. to eventually end its business relationship with an Israeli company, calling the move a “cowardly” and “completely unjustified” caving-in to anti-Israel boycott demands. “Orange took a cowardly decision to cave into demands by the international campaign to boycott Israel,” said Abraham H. Foxman, ADL National…

New York, NY, June 3, 2015 … The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today condemned the decision made by the executive committee of the UK’s National Union of Students (NUS) to align the group with the BDS movement, as a “biased and divisive” effort which showed “blatant disregard” to the concerns of Jewish students. “We share the outrage of the British Jewish community and the Union of Jewish Students at the decision by the NUS to align itself with the…

New York, NY, June 3, 2015 … The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today welcomed the arrest of an unnamed 28-year-old foreign national in Ribaforada, Spain, for online incitement to kill Jews.  The Spanish Ministry of the Interior announcement on May 30 noted the “gravity and brutality of the content,” being spread on social media. In one video, three visibly identifiable Muslim women reportedly chanted, “Catch and kill all the Jews. Strike them and make the Jews…

New York, NY, June 1, 2015 … The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today said that the Supreme Court’s decision in Elonis v. United States, a case that involves statements that cross the line between speech protected by the First Amendment and an unlawful “true threat,” left open many questions, including the scope of what constitutes a true threat in cyberspace. ADL urged lower courts confronting this issue to find that recklessness in making threatening statements may be…

New York, NY, May 29, 2015 … As the 2014-2015 academic year winds down, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) reported a marked increase in the number and intensity of anti-Israel and anti-Semitic incidents on American college campuses. During this academic year, ADL counted a total of 520 anti-Israel events on campus, representing a 38 percent increase compared to the previous academic year. Moreover, boycott, divestment and sanctions campaigns were initiated on a total of 29 U.S. college…