by: Abraham H. Foxman | July 25, 2012 This Friday in London, the 2012 Summer Olympic Games will get underway with all the usual pageantry and grand references to the history of this most famous and ancient of athletic competitions. One chapter of Olympics history that the International Olympic Committee has ensured will not be mentioned during the opening ceremonies is the Munich Massacre – the brutal terrorist murder of 11 Israeli athletes and coaches at the 1972 Munich Summer Olympic…
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by: Abraham H. Foxman | May 08, 2012 The Times of Israel The question of how to define what it means to be pro-Israel has risen to the surface with the emergence of a group like J Street, and a writer like Peter Beinart. J Street, the Washington, DC-based lobbying group that is strongly critical of the Netanyahu government's policies and of the positions taken by mainstream American Jewish organizations, refers to itself as a pro-Israel organization. And Beinart, who has written a book, "The…
August 03, 2012 Jewish day school funding is a real challenge and doesn’t lend itself to easy solutions. Letters to the Editor The Jewish Telegraphic Agency To the Editor:
Jewish education and religious freedom are both vital to the American Jewish community. But it would be a mistake to sacrifice one for the other, as advocated by Shai Franklin (“ADL must reassess opposition to gov’t support for parochial schools,” Aug. 1).
We are in agreement that Jewish…
May 25, 2012 All of us who yearn for peace between Israel and the Palestinians await the resumption of peace talks. The negotiating table remains the only suitable venue for reconciliation and a lasting agreement. Such reconciliation will require extensive dialogue, difficult concessions and compromise.
If Israelis and Palestinians are expected to sit down and talk to each other in the pursuit of peace, their supporters should certainly be able to do the same. However, some pro-Palestinian…
For Law Enforcement Mohammad al-Asi, a Muslim activist based in Washington DC, has made numerous anti-Semitic speeches around the country for several years.
Al-Asi is most often invited to speak to Muslim student groups in California and has made some of his more radical speeches at anti-Israel events organized by the Muslim Student Union at the University of California – Irvine. These events often feature a handful of radical anti-Semitic speakers, including Imam Amir Abdul Malik…
The National Alliance was the largest neo-Nazi group in the United States in the 1990s but today is only a bare shadow of its former self.
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November 18, 2011 Remarks of Christopher Wolf Founder and Chair, Anti-Defamation League Task Force on Internet Hate Partner, Hogan Lovells US LLP International Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists Berlin Conference on Holocaust Denial and Freedom of Speech in the Internet Era November 18, 2011The Limits of the Law to Remedy Online Holocaust Denial
I very much appreciate being part of this important program. Thanks so much to Irit Kohn for inviting me and to all of you for making me feel…
Read the full, comprehensive report - Free Gaza Movement: Anti-Israel Boat Campaign Challenges Israel's "Siege of Gaza" (PDF).
Between August 2008 and July 2011, the Free Gaza Movement sent ten boat missions to Gaza to "break the siege" and provoke a confrontation with Israel.
The latest effort, dubbed "Freedom Flotilla II," was organized by an international coalition of groups seeking to send several ships to Gaza. They were ultimately not permitted to leave the Greek port from where…
February 28, 2012 A "One State Conference" featuring a variety of anti-Israel academics and activists, including Stephen Walt, Ali Abunimah and Ilan Pappe, took place at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, March 3-4, 2012.
The conference, which was promoted as an opportunity to explore the "possible contours of a one-state solution" to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, came on the heels of a Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) conference that took place at the University of…
September 09, 2011 A widely circulated e-mail charges that the web site of Nivea skincare products has "removed" Israel from its country list. In fact, as of August 2011 Israel appears on Nivea's web site with a dedicated link under their country listings and an Israel-specific section.
The company has indicated that logistics, not anti-Israel hostility, had caused the original omission. In addition, the company has said that it will soon be launching an Israeli site in Hebrew and in…
New York, NY, December 19, 2011 … The so-called Arab Spring, the series of popular uprisings across the Middle East and North Africa that challenged the old guard and led to the surprising exit of longtime leaders from the scene, including Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and Libyan dictator Muammar Qaddafi, topped the Anti-Defamation League's (ADL) annual list of top issues affecting Jews in 2011. Also among the Top 10 issues affecting Jews: The Palestinians' unilateral bid for…
by: Simon Reich | January 01, 2000 Dimensions Vol. 13, No. 2. To what extent -- if any -- and in what ways, did Ford in Germany cooperate with the Nazi regime? And, if it did, what motivated such cooperation: racist ideology, or a concern for corporate profitability? In 1990 I published a book entitled The Fruits of Fascism (Cornell University Press), in which I attempted to offer a compelling and novel thesis. I argued that the different degrees of success enjoyed by the Ford Motor Company's…
Fifty Years of Forgetting and Remembering by: S. Jonathan Wiesen | January 01, 2000 Dimensions, Vol. 13, No. 2. The great majority of German businessmen behaved in a decidedly unheroic manner during the Nazi era. Most of them, especially leaders of larger companies, not only refrained from risking their lives to save Jews, but actually profited from the use of forced and slave labor, the "Aryanization" of Jewish property, and the plundering of companies in Nazi-occupied Europe. Six years ago,…
by: Christopher Wolf | September 17, 2010 Haaretz Personal information in the wrong hands can cause serious harm. The founders of the European Union looked to the history of the Holocaust and saw what happened when data on Jews and other minorities were exploited in order to perpetrate genocide. With that history in mind, they drafted a comprehensive directive that every EU member state is required to implement, providing for a broad set of restrictions on the use of personal data by…
Read the full, comprehensive report: Charles Barron.
Charles Barron, a New York City Councilman and local activist, has associated with anti-Semitic hate groups and promoted extreme anti-Israel positions intended to demonize the Jewish state since his election in 2001.
During media interviews and frequent speaking engagements around New York City, Barron levels a range of accusations against the Jews and the Jewish state, most notably that it should never have been created. He has also…
by: Michael Lieberman | July 08, 2010 Dissent Magazine Jesse Larner sounds a shrill alarm in his broadside against hate crime laws ("Hate Crime/Thought Crime," Spring 2010), raising a variety of seemingly dire libertarian, First Amendment, and slippery-slope arguments. Yet, despite the fact that federal and state hate crime laws have been on the books for forty years, he fails to illustrate his parade of horribles with a single actual case to demonstrate the kind of "policing of mind and…
August 30, 2011 Ten years after 9/11, antisemitic conspiracy theories surrounding the attacks are "alive and well" and fueled by an entrenched propaganda industry, according to the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), which today issued a new report showing how these theories have grown and evolved over the last decade.
In "Decade of Deceit: Antisemitic 9/11 Conspiracy Theories 10 Years Later," ADL looks at the individuals who continue to circulate distorted conspiracy theories about 9/11,…
Compliance and Confrontation by: Victoria J. Barnett | January 01, 1998 Dimensions, Vol 12, No 2 Churches throughout Europe were mostly silent while Jews were persecuted, deported and murdered by the Nazis. Churches, especially those in Nazi Germany, sought to act, as institutions tend to do, in their own best interests -- narrowly defined, short-sighted interests. The list of "bystanders" -- those who declined to challenge the Third Reich in any way -- that emerges from any study…
July 19, 2011 A 21-year-old Pennsylvania man has been indicted on terror-related charges for allegedly using the Internet to encourage violence against Americans.
Emerson Winfield Begolly, of New Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, was charged on July 14, 2011, with soliciting crimes of violence, including acts of terrorism, and with posting bomb-making materials online.
Begolly had been arrested on January 4, 2011, and charged the next day with assaulting FBI agents and possessing a firearm…