The UN World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance, held in Durban, South Africa from August 31 to September 7, 2001, brought together over 12,000 representatives from 194 states and organizations to forge a common agenda against discrimination. Over two decades later, the “Durban process” has come to symbolize the United Nation’s polarization over antisemitism and anti-Zionism, a form of antisemitism which opposes the…
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On January 8, 2024, clashes broke out at the Chabad Lubavitch World Headquarters in Brooklyn, known as 770, over a passageway allegedly constructed by students from adjacent properties into the synagogue. This passageway, referred to as a tunnel in the media, was discovered in December 2023, and when a cement truck came to fill it, skirmishes broke out between police and involved individuals. Video footage showed men inside and in front of the passageway, both defacing the property and…
Will create comparative evaluation of how leading colleges and universities are responding to the surge of antisemitism and protecting their Jewish students. Update: Read the Report Card for 2024>> New York, NY, January 11, 2023 … In the face of growing antisemitism across U.S. college campuses, ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) announced today that it is developing a new tool to evaluate the climate of antisemitism on individual campuses. ADL will publish a “report card…
On October 7, Hamas attacked Israel, slaughtering around 1,200 men, women, children, and infants in the largest and most brutal massacre of Jews since the Holocaust. Hamas terrorists intentionally recorded their murder, rape, and torture of civilians, including around 200 foreign nationals, and took at least 240 hostages back with them to Gaza.
The physical attack was followed by a propaganda and disinformation campaign. Knowing that Israel would have no choice but to respond to the…
En los tres meses transcurridos desde el 7 de octubre, la ADL registró 60 ataques antisemitas y más de 500 incidentes en los campus universitarios.
Nueva York, NY, 10 de enero de 2024 ... Según datos preliminares de la Liga Antidifamación (ADL), en los tres meses transcurridos desde la masacre del 7 de octubre en Israel, los incidentes antisemitas en Estados Unidos se han disparado, alcanzando un total de 3.283 incidentes entre el 7 de octubre y el 7 de enero…
In the three months since Oct. 7, ADL tracked 56 antisemitic assaults, 500 incidents on college campuses
New York, NY, January 10, 2024 … In the three months since the Oct. 7 massacre in Israel, U.S. antisemitic incidents have skyrocketed, reaching a total of 3,291* incidents between Oct. 7 and Jan. 7, according to ADL’s (the Anti-Defamation League) preliminary data. This represents a 361-percent increase compared to the same period one year prior, which saw 712…
New York, NY, January 4, 2024 ... ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) today launched a new online resource hub tracking progress to date on the U.S. National Strategy to Counter Antisemitism. At a time of rising antisemitism, the new website will serve as a hub for accountability -- ensuring that the White House is taking every step possible to meet its commitments as outlined in the strategy to tackle the deluge of hate. “Since the attacks on Oct. 7 opened the floodgates to…
Andrew Tate is a British-American former kickboxer and reality television star with millions of social media followers – 8.5 million on X (formerly Twitter) alone.
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
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.