In our final episode of 2023, Oren Segal and Jessica Reaves look back at some of the developments in hate and extremism we wish would end along with the year
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Longstanding accusations of Israeli organ harvesting have reemerged in the aftermath of the October 7 massacres. This conspiracy theory plays on the blood libel trope, which dates to the Middle Ages and alleges that Jews use the blood of Christian children to bake their Passover bread. In the current Israeli-Palestinian context, organs are substituted for blood, and in some cases, activists are alleging that Israel purposefully kills Palestinians to harvest their organs.
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Dear Friends,
As we get ready to welcome 2024, I think we can all agree that 2023 has been a long year. A really long year. So this is going to be a long article; but it’s important to recognize the work that the ADL team – our staff in offices across the country and in Israel alongside our dedicated supporters like you – has done this year in the face of so many challenges.
2023 started off relatively quietly, especially when you consider that two years ago, January…
Owen Benjamin (aka Owen Smith) is a former mainstream comedian and actor who has embraced far-right conspiratorial and antisemitic content since 2018. He released a standup comedy performance on October 13, 2023, that includes antisemitic, anti-LGBTQ+ and racist rhetoric.
Benjamin, who starred in several films and comedy specials in the early 2010s, experienced significant success as a mainstream conservative comedian, and appeared in the movies The House Bunny and All’s Faire…
ADL’s toolkit on digital abuse and online hate equips law enforcement with tools to address hate or harassment that starts online but does not always stay there
Dear University President: Enforce Codes of Conduct in the Wake of Flood of Antisemitic Harassment and Discrimination on Campus Since October 7.
Post-Oct. 7 political cartoons in Arabic press invoke hateful anti-Jewish themesNew York, NY, December 21, 2023 … In the aftermath of the Oct. 7 Hamas massacre and Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza, political cartoonists in the Arab press have doubled down on the use of hateful antisemitic conspiracy theories and tropes, according to a report from ADL (the Anti-Defamation League).
The assessment of political cartoons appearing in a wide range of newspapers across the Middle…
Use this collection of classroom activities about holidays and observances to enhance students' understanding of our multicultural society and world.
Court rules against plaintiff, citing evidence he holds extremist views ascribed to himNew York, NY, December 19, 2023 … A federal judge in Missouri has thrown out a defamation lawsuit filed by Darrell McClanahan against ADL (the Anti-Defamation League), saying his case failed to demonstrate a legitimate claim of defamation/libel or invasion of privacy.
McClanahan, a former candidate for political office in Missouri, alleged in his lawsuit that an article published on the ADL…
December 19, 2023, Paris … Today, leaders of the J7, the Large Jewish Communities’ Task Force Against Antisemitism, concluded two days of consultations in Paris and issued the following statement:
“We have traveled to Paris from around the globe to examine the current state of antisemitism in the seven largest Jewish communities in the Diaspora. Each of our Jewish communities are experiencing unprecedented, sharp increases in antisemitic attitudes and incidents in…
In the wake of the October 7 Hamas massacre, many expressions of solidarity with the Palestinians displayed anti-Israel sentiment and support for Hamas. This includes demonstrations in the Arab World, anti-Israel rallies in the United States, as well as statements by some faculty and student groups on US campuses.
Furthermore, a survey conducted by ADL’s Center for Technology and Society found that most Americans have been exposed to hateful online misinformation and…
Center for Tech & Society explains why access to platform data is important, how APIs work, and evaluates major platforms on their data accessibility.
In the weeks following the October 7 Hamas terror attack on Israel, political activists have targeted elected officials – and their offices – with harassment and vandalism. Many of these incidents featured anti-Israel rhetoric, allegations of support for genocide and demands for a ceasefire.
Fewer than half of the elected officials who have reported being targeted by protestors are Jewish. All targeted individuals have expressed support for Israel, and most have…
Desde la masacre de Hamás se han denunciado más de 2.000 incidentes en Estados Unidos, un aumento del 337 por ciento
Nueva York, NY, 11 de diciembre de 2023 ... Según datos preliminares publicados hoy, desde la masacre de Hamas en Israel el 7 de octubre, los incidentes antisemitas en Estados Unidos alcanzaron la cifra más alta durante cualquier período de dos meses desde que la Liga Antidifamación (ADL) comenzó a hacer seguimiento en 1979.
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More than 2,000 incidents reported in U.S. since Hamas massacre, a 337-percent increaseNew York, NY, December 11, 2023 … Since the Hamas massacre in Israel on Oct. 7, U.S. antisemitic incidents reached the highest number of incidents during any two-month period since ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) began tracking in 1979, according to preliminary data released today.
Between Oct. 7 and Dec. 7, ADL recorded a total of 2,031 antisemitic incidents, up from 465 incidents during the…
Listen to episode 3.4 to hear the hosts consider the (partial) demise of Omegle, hype COE’s Hate Symbols Database and talk with COE mis/disinformation analyst.
By: Andrew Srulevitch
Hostility towards Jewish students on American college and university campuses has rightly been in the news. Physical and verbal assaults, death threats, and antisemitic slogans are intimidating these students and preventing them from getting the education and college experiences they deserve. Less known, but no less worrying, this same phenomenon plagues Jewish students at universities around the world.
In June, I met with British, Spanish and French…
Jewish and Muslim communities worldwide have been rocked by the impact of Hamas’s October 7, 2023 war on Israel, its massacre of over 1,200 people and Israel’s military response targeting Hamas and other terrorists in Gaza. That impact has included an increased number of threats against both Jewish and Muslim communities, per the FBI and ADL. In the U.S., a number of post-October 7 incidents targeting Muslim, Palestinian and Arab American individuals appear to be…
Since the Hamas-led terror massacre in southern Israel on October 7, 2023, BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions) campaigns directly targeting “Zionist” institutions, businesses or individuals, have persisted in response to Israel’s operations against Hamas in the Gaza Strip. BDS is a component of a long history of campaigns and efforts to delegitimize and isolate Israel. In recent years, this has explicitly focused on the rejection, isolation and marginalization of …
Center for Tech & Society checklist maps platform policies, moderation standards, product features and user controls to address graphic violent content online.