January 04, 2021 By David Andrew Weinberg
On New Year’s Day, Iranian officials acting with the support of Supreme Leader Khamenei released the full results of Iran’s third major collection of political cartoons aimed at promoting Holocaust denial. Past contests on this horrendous topic were notoriously held with Iranian state support in 2006 and 2016.
Yet again, Iran’s effort came in response to a European publication promoting offensive caricatures of the…
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January 04, 2021 Por David Andrew Weinberg
El 1ero de enero del 2021 funcionarios iraníes —actuando con el apoyo del Líder Supremo Jameneí— publicaron los resultados del tercer concurso iraní de caricaturas políticas destinadas a promover la negación del Holocausto. Los concursos anteriores sobre este horrendo tema se celebraron con el apoyo del Estado iraní en 2006 y 2016.
Una vez más, el esfuerzo de Irán…
January 04, 2021 Several pro-Trump protests are being organized on Wednesday, January 6, 2021, in Washington, D.C. to express rejection of the November 2020 election results and to pressure Congress to not certify President-Elect Joe Biden’s electoral victory. These events—which are being timed to coincide with a joint session of Congress where Electoral College votes will be formally counted—have been encouraged by President Trump in multiple inflammatory tweets urging his…
New York, December 30, 2020 … In response to various threats to the local Jewish community in recent years, including a series of violent attacks affecting Jewish communities of Jersey City, Monsey and Brooklyn last year, ADL’s Center on Extremism and the Community Security Initiative (CSI) today announced a partnership to focus on the security needs of the Jewish communities of greater New York City.
The Center on Extremism is the ADL’s research and investigative arm…
December 29, 2020 Since first emerging in the spring of 2020, “The Great Reset” conspiracy has gained traction with the ongoing spread of COVID-19 in both mainstream and fringe circles alike. In its most common form, adherents warn that “global elites” will use the pandemic to advance their interests and push forward a globalist plot to destroy American sovereignty and prosperity. However, there are more outlandish and pernicious strains of the conspiracy, and the…
New York, NY, December 29, 2020 ... ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) issued the following statement regarding the fatal police shooting of Andre Hill in Columbus, Ohio:
In solidarity with the Black community, we join calls for accountability in the fatal shooting of Andre Hill, a Black man killed by a Columbus, OH police officer. This shooting comes on the heels of the killing of yet another Black person, Casey Goodson Jr., by a Franklin County Sheriff's deputy just a few weeks ago…
Civics Lesson
GRADE LEVEL: High School What are Human Rights?
What is the Universal Declaration of Human Rights?
In 1946, in the immediate aftermath of World War II, with hopes of preventing future atrocities, an international committee with varied legal and cultural backgrounds began to draft the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). The UDHR was proclaimed by the new United Nations General Assembly in 1948. This document contains 30 Articles that set a standard…
December 24, 2020 In mid-December an image started circulating on social media. The image was taken in Washington, D.C. and featured a man standing alongside a group of Proud Boys and wearing a t-shirt emblazoned with the cryptic text “6MWE.” This code for “6 Million Wasn’t Enough” is a not-so-veiled reference to the Holocaust.
The man, who has not yet been identified, also wore a Proud Boys baseball hat and the skull face mask popular among -- but not…
New York, December 21, 2020 … ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) welcomed today’s verdict of a maximum sentence of life imprisonment for the white supremacist terrorist who attacked the synagogue in Halle, Germany on Yom Kippur last year, murdering two people outside the synagogue.
“Today’s verdict of a maximum sentence of life imprisonment will keep the Jewish community safe from this particular white supremacist terrorist and will hopefully send a strong signal of…
What Educators and Family Members Can DoToday, local, national or international tragedies happen so frequently that they can feel almost commonplace. When a hate crime, mass shooting, act of terrorism or other terrible and hate-inspired event occurs, one of the first questions many people ask is, what should we tell the children? How can we explain to them what has happened? Despite our best efforts to protect youth from the details of hate-motivated events, we can never assume that they are…
December 17, 2020 THE WEEK’S BIG 3
The website of a Jewish high school in suburban New York was hacked and defaced with swastikas and antisemitic slurs. A member of a Chabad in Lexington was severely injured when a driver shouting antisemitic slurs dragged and ran over him outside the Jewish Student Center near the University of Kentucky. And the Senate passed a bipartisan bill by unanimous consent upgrading the status of the State Department Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat…
Organizations release new framework on harms in gaming, best practices for addressing Seattle, WA, December 16, 2020 ... The Fair Play Alliance have teamed up with the ADL (Anti-Defamation League) Center for Technology and Society to release the Disruption and Harms in Online Gaming Framework, an unprecedented and comprehensive catalogue of the types, causes, and impacts of antisocial behavior and harassment in gaming. The launch is accompanied by the release of a new set of freely…
December 13, 2020 On December 12, 2020, multiple pro-Trump demonstrations took place in Washington, DC, including one that was organized by white supremacists and another that included extremist speakers on their dais. Later that evening over 100 members of the right-wing extremist group the Proud Boys roamed the streets of the city while chanting expletive-laced slogans against Black Lives Matter and Antifa.
The Jericho March
The largest event of the day was a prayer…
December 11, 2020 THE WEEK’S BIG 3
The only Anne Frank memorial in the United States was vandalized Tuesday, a distressing display of hate that has prompted a police investigation. A report into last year's Christchurch mosque attack found that New Zealand security agencies were "almost exclusively" focused on the threat from Islamist terrorism, and police failed to enforce proper checks on firearm licenses. Facebook is embarking on a major overhaul of its algorithms that detect hate…
New York, NY, December 10, 2020 … ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) applauded the Kingdom of Morocco's historic decision today agreeing to fully normalize relations with the State of Israel. This agreement is especially significant given the longstanding heritage of the Jewish community in Morocco, including an important community there today and hundreds of thousands of Jews around the world with Moroccan family roots, especially in Israel.
"I commend Moroccan, Israeli, and…
New York, NY, December 9, 2020 … ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) CEO Jonathan Greenblatt issued the following statement in response to today’s announcement that 48 states and the Federal Trade Commission filed antitrust lawsuits against Facebook:
Earlier this year, Stop Hate for Profit brought together over 1,200 businesses, 120 nonprofits, and global celebrities in a campaign that reached over a billion people. This massive public pressure effort forced Facebook to move…
New York, NY, December 9, 2020 … ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) today commented on the social media platform Twitch’s announcement of their updated Hateful Conduct and Harassment Policy. ADL’s Center on Technology and Society had consulted with the Twitch team as they were considering the update, which goes into effect on January 22 and addresses harassment, hateful conduct, and extremism.
David L. Sifry, VP of ADL’s Center for Technology and…
New York, NY, December 7, 2020 … ADL’s (the Anti-Defamation League) Task Force on Middle East Minorities today welcomed the bipartisan passage of two important House Resolutions that the Task Force had endorsed earlier this year as part of its work supporting the rights of vulnerable groups. The Task Force consists of scholars, experts, and activists who serve as an advisory body to augment ADL’s work in protecting vulnerable…
Debra Messing hosted first virtual ADL In Concert Against Hate, which recognized a Holocaust survivor, educators and a 4th grade activist who are fighting injustice New York, December 7, 2020 … ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) recognized two individuals and one group for their extraordinary courage and compassion when confronted with injustice and extremism as part of the 26th annual ADL In Concert Against Hate.
This year’s event, which was held virtually on Dec. 6, was hosted…
1-11 is a numeric symbol used by the Aryan Knights, an Idaho-based prison gang, to identify themselves. Substituting letters for numbers, 1 and 11 mean A and K, i.e., Aryan Knights.