New York, NY, April 11, 2024 … Today, ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) released its first Campus Antisemitism Report Card assessing incidents, Jewish life on campus and university policies and administrative actions related to combatting antisemitism and protecting Jewish students. The Report Card reviewed 85 schools and assigned grades from A through F, to give campus leadership, parents, students, alumni and stakeholders a mechanism to evaluate the state of antisemitism on campus…

New York, NY, April 10, 2024 … ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) today welcomed the introduction of the Countering Antisemitism Act—the most comprehensive antisemitism initiative to be introduced in Congress—which will implement the U.S. National Strategy to Counter Antisemitism and make permanent its critical policies and infrastructure. “The U.S. Jewish community is facing the worst crisis of antisemitism that we have seen in a generation. The Countering…

New York, NY, April 10, 2024 … ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) and Jones Day today filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against members of a White Lives Matter chapter in Ohio seeking compensatory and punitive damages for their involvement in a hate crime attack targeting the Community Church of Chesterland and three individual plaintiffs in March 2023.  The suit, filed in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio, alleges that members of the local White Lives Matter …

New York, NY, April 9, 2024 … Three Jewish defense organizations today submitted a formal complaint with the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) against Ohio State University, alleging that the university has failed to address the severe discrimination and harassment of Jewish and Israeli students following the Oct. 7 massacre in Israel, which fostered “a hostile antisemitic environment that is now pervasive” at Ohio State. The complaint, filed…

Jerusalem/ New York, NY, April 9, 2024 … The Masa Israel Journey, a leading provider of immersive travel experiences, and ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) today announced a new partnership to combat antisemitism in Jewish communities. This partnership will launch at an event in Jerusalem for Masa gap year program fellows, during which ADL will lead sessions to help fellows prepare to manage antisemitism on college campuses.    Through the partnership, ADL will provide Masa…

Chicago, IL, April 5, 2024 — In response to Israel's Foreign Ministry placing Israeli foreign missions around the world on high alert due to potential attacks against Jewish targets by the Islamic Republic of Iran and its terrorist proxies, ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) and the Secure Community Network (SCN) today urged the American Jewish community to expand its vigilance and preparation to prevent attacks. The importance of this heightened alert level was further evidenced by…

New York, NY, March 26th, 2024: The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today wrote a letter to the University of Michigan President, Santa J. Ono, Ph.D., condemning two recent antisemitic incidents on University of Michigan’s Ann Arbor campus. ADL is calling for immediate action to address violations of the student code of conduct and ensure that future University events can proceed without disruption.   In the first incident on Friday, March 22, a University of Michigan…

New York, NY, March 26, 2024 … White supremacist propaganda distribution reached historic levels across the United States in 2023, with a total of 7,567 incidents, a 12-percent increase from 2022, according to the ADL (Anti-Defamation League) Center on Extremism’s annual assessment. With an average of about 20 incidents per day, 2023 marked the highest level of incidents since ADL began tracking such data in 2017. This was the second consecutive year that ADL has recorded record…

New York, NY, March 19, 2024 … ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) today unveiled an innovative and comprehensive new online learning experience on antisemitism for middle and high school student groups. The course, Awareness to Action: Challenging Antisemitism is designed to unravel the complexities of antisemitism and to empower the next generation to challenge bias in all forms. The four-part digital course, which is available free of charge to schools, includes four learning…

Award cites her deep commitment to ethical leadership and ‘zero tolerance’ for hate New York, NY, March 11, 2024 … Julie Sweet, Chair & CEO of Accenture, a true innovative leader who leads by example and inspires others to do the same, and who has publicly proclaimed zero tolerance for antisemitism and all forms of hate, has received the ADL’s (Anti-Defamation League) highest honor, the Courage Against Hate Award. Sweet was presented with the award on Thursday…

   New York, NY, March 7, 2024 … Leaders of the J7, the Large Jewish Communities’ Task Force Against Antisemitism, whose communities comprise the majority of the world’s diaspora Jews, met today with United Nations Secretary General António Guterres as part of a series of meetings on the sidelines of the ADL’s (Anti-Defamation League) 2024 Never Is Now Summit in New York City. Meeting with Guterres at the U.N.’s headquarters, the J7 leaders…

New York, NY, March 6, 2024 … Today ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) honored Nuseir Yassin, an Israeli-Palestinian content creator, with the ADL’s prestigious Daniel Pearl Award for his work in building bridges of understanding between Jews and Muslims and for promoting peace and understanding across communities. ADL presented the award to Nuseir Yassin during its 2024 Never Is Now Summit on Antisemitism and Hate. The award was presented by Imam Abdullah Antempli, who praised…

Interactive map will display real-time antisemitic incident data from ADL and international organizations New York, NY, March 6, 2024 … ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) today launched the ADL ATLAS (Antisemitism Trends, Learning and Statistics) tool providing global antisemitism information and analysis. The data includes antisemitic incidents, antisemitic attitudes, information about government commitments and a variety of reports – all providing a comprehensive picture of the…

(As delivered) We are not OK. We are not OK. As my friend Bret Stephens so succinctly put it, all of us now live in an October 8th world. We have endured the painful, distressing, and clarifying events of the past 151 days. That video we just saw could be 10 times, 100 times as long and it still wouldn’t capture all the anti-Jewish hate of just the past few months. The world of October 8 is one in which the perpetrators of the worst antisemitic massacre since the Holocaust are celebrated…

New York, NY, March 6, 2024 … Chabad on Campus International (COCI) and ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) today announced a new joint initiative to combat antisemitism on college campuses across the United States. Through the initiative, ADL will provide COCI campus directors and students resources, educational workshops and training to bolster efforts to raise awareness about antisemitism and create a safer environment on campus for Jewish students. ADL and COCI will also launch a…

As prepared for delivery    Thank you for being here. Thank you for serving as leaders in the fight against antisemitism.  And thank you for bringing your passion, energy, and concern to this summit. Last month, I spoke in Stamford, Connecticut at the Jewish Agency’s annual conference of North American shlichim. Working on college campuses and in our communities, these young emissaries from Israel embody the people-to-people connections that link American Jews to the…

A diferencia de las generaciones anteriores, la generación del milenio y la generación Z están de acuerdo con más tópicos antijudíos. El 27% de los estadounidenses consideraría al menos aceptable que un familiar cercano apoyara a Hamás. Nueva York, NY, 29 de febrero de 2024... El número de estadounidenses que sostienen creencias antisemitas aumentó al 24%, frente al 20% en 2022, según una encuesta realizada por el…

Washington, D.C., Feb. 29, 2024 ... The Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law, ADL (the Anti-Defamation League), and StandWithUs, along with four leading law firms, today announced a new pilot helpline to provide pro bono legal assistance to parents whose children are experiencing anti-Semitism in California’s K-12 schools. The pilot program selected California as the first state given a series of troubling incidents of anti-Semitism in the state’s K-12…

In reversal from prior generations, Millennials and Generation Z agree with more anti-Jewish tropes.  27 percent of Americans would find it at least somewhat acceptable for a close family member to support Hamas   New York, NY, February 29, 2024… The number of Americans who hold antisemitic beliefs increased to 24 percent, up from 20 percent in 2022, according to a survey conducted by the ADL (Anti-Defamation League) Center for Antisemitism Research. And in contrast to years…

New York, NY, February 28, 2024 … Julie Sweet, the Chair & CEO of Accenture, a true innovative leader who leads by example and inspires others to do the same, and who has publicly proclaimed zero tolerance for antisemitism and all forms of hate, will receive ADL’s highest honor, the Courage Against Hate Award. Sweet will be presented with the award at ADL’s Never Is Now, the world’s largest summit on antisemitism and against antisemitism and hate, which will be…