What Is the BDS Movement? The Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement is a global campaign that calls for academic, cultural, and economic boycotts of Israel. On campuses, it often pushes universities to 1) divest from companies that do business with Israel or support the Israeli military and 2) boycott Israeli academia, including universities, students and scholars. Why BDS Is a Problem It rejects Israel’s right to exist as a Jewish state.It singles out Israel and…
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Antisemitism Definition: Antisemitism is a certain perception of Jews, which may be expressed as hatred toward Jews. Rhetorical and physical manifestations of antisemitism are directed toward Jewish or non-Jewish individuals and/or their property, toward Jewish community institutions and religious facilities. Examples of manifestations of antisemitism can be found here. Examples: Stereotypes (e.g., Jews are greedy or control the media)Holocaust denial or trivializationVandalism or…
What to do if you experience or witness antisemitismStay Safe & DocumentGet to a safe place.If you feel you are in physical danger, contact 911Write down what happened: date, time, location, names, quotes.Save screenshots/photos/videos if possible. Report the Incident: Report even if you're unsure whether it qualifies as antisemitism - your concern still matters.Internally:Bias Reporting SystemTitle VI/IX CoordinatorNon-Discrimination Office / Dean of StudentsCampus Hillel, Chabad or…
This resource is not intended to provide and should not be construed as legal advice. Overview of Employee Rights Under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits employment discrimination based on race, color, religion, national origin, and sex, including gender, gender identity, pregnancy, and sexual orientation, by employers in both public and private institutions.[1] The law covers all aspects of employment such as hiring, firing,…
This resource is not intended to provide and should not be construed as legal advice. Overview of Student Rights Under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits discrimination based on race, color, and national origin in programs or activities that receive federal financial assistance. This includes protection for Jewish students based on their or actual or perceived shared ethnic characteristics or ancestral background, and Israeli students…
New York, NY, May 5, 2024 – ADL (Anti-Defamation League) and its affiliate, Jlens, welcome the decisions of the two leading independent proxy advisory firms, Institutional Shareholder Services (“ISS”) and Glass, Lewis & Co. (“Glass Lewis”), to recommend that investors vote AGAINST anti-Israel shareholder proposals at the upcoming annual meetings of Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC), General Dynamics (NYSE: GD) and Lockheed Martin Corporation (NYSE: LMT). ADL…
Academic associations play a vital role in fostering scholarly exchange, advancing knowledge and upholding professional integrity. As leaders within these organizations, it is essential to ensure that all members feel respected, safe and included – regardless of their identity or background. In recent years, concerns about antisemitism within academic spaces have grown, including instances of exclusion, bias and politicization that target Jewish, Israeli and Zionist individuals…
The Massachusetts Executive Office of Public Safety & Security’s 2023 report on hate crimes identified a 70 percent increase in incidents of anti-Jewish crime from 2022 to 2023. More were reported in 2023, 119, than in any of the previous eight years, according to past hate crime reports, and marked the third straight year in which Jews and Jewish organizations were targeted more frequently than the year before. The state posts its yearly hate crime reports going back to 2015, and…
High school students and educators, seeking to be leaders in combatting bias and bigotry in their communities, will soon gather for ADL Southeast’s No Place for Hate Summit. The all-day event brings together students so they can amplify their voices to advocate against hate and be inspired by the stories of local leaders. During past programs, featured speakers have included Holocaust survivor Hershel Greenblatt, WNBA star and activist Renee Montgomery, and Nathaniel Smith, founder and…
New York, NY, April 30, 2025 … ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) welcomed the findings of the Harvard Presidential Task Force on Combating Antisemitism and Anti-Israel Bias and commended the administration for finally prioritizing this issue. Jonathan Greenblatt, ADL CEO and National Director, issued the following statement: For years, antisemitism has been a persistent, systemic challenge at so many colleges and universities, and it worsened exponentially in the wake of the…
New York, NY, April 28, 2025 – JLens, a Registered Investment Advisor, and the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today jointly called on shareholders of Meta Platforms, Inc. (NASDAQ: META) (“Meta” or the “Company”) to support Shareholder Proposal 8, which appears in the proxy for the Company’s annual meeting of shareholders, scheduled to be held on May 28, 2025. JLens’ proposal urges Meta shareholders to vote FOR a measure requesting the Company to…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Media contact: Laura Fennell Director of Communications, ADL West lfennell@adl.org Los Angeles, CA. December 11, 2024 … The 2023 Hate Crime Report released by the Los Angeles County Commission on Human Relations today shows that the total number of reported hate crimes increased by 45% percent from the previous year, jumping from 930 to 1,350 reported crimes marking the largest number of hate crimes in the history of this report. While Jews make up only 2% of…
A Young Man Escapes Nazi-Occupied Poland When Ben Zion Kalb (later “Colb”) escaped from Poland to Slovakia shortly after the German invasion of Poland (September 1, 1939), and then proceeded to rescue his fiancée and well more than 1,000 other Jews from death in the Holocaust, he surely would not have imagined that, 85 years later, his granddaughter, Sara Colb, would continue and honor his legacy via her own advocacy for the Jewish people. From Ben Zion to Sara,…
Continúa el pico después del 7 de octubre; aumento del 84% en incidentes en campus universitarios;aumento del 21% en agresiones físicas Nueva York, NY, 22 de abril de 2025... El fuerte aumento de incidentes antisemitas después de la masacre del 7 de octubre en Israel continuó en 2024, con totales que nuevamente superaron cualquier otro recuento anual en los últimos 46 años. Este es el cuarto año consecutivo en que aumentan los…
New York, NY, April 22, 2025 …The massive spike in antisemitic incidents following the Oct. 7 massacre in Israel continued in 2024, with totals again exceeding any other annual tally in the past 46 years. This is the fourth year in a row that antisemitic incidents increased and broke the previous all-time high. It is also the first time that incidents containing elements related to Israel or Zionism made up a majority of all incidents (58 percent of the total). There were 9,354…
Article by ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt: Campus Antisemitism Demands Action, Not Overreach
ABOUT ADL’s Real Estate Division unites leading voices in the New York, Northern and Central New Jersey Region in support of ADL’s mission: to stop the defamation of the Jewish people and to secure justice and fair treatment to all. Founded in 1998 by Burton P. Resnick of Jack Resnick & Sons, Inc. and Leonard Litwin of Glenwood Management, the Division has brought together the most influential and committed members of the industry – raising millions of…
Key Data Points: ADL Reach and Impact in 2024In 2024, ADL Center on Extremism (COE) tools analyzed 10 million+ messages on extremist and antisemitic encrypted messaging channels and detected over 70,000 messages containing violent threats.ADL provided information to law enforcement at least 2,700 times in 2024.In 2024, ADL provided professional development programs and analytic briefings to 17,000 law enforcement personnel on topics which included hate crimes, violent extremism and…
I am an American Jew, and the grandchild of Holocaust survivors. Like so many Jews in this country, I was raised on stories of unthinkable horror. My grandfather’s parents were rounded up with other Jews from their town and shot dead. His brother was tortured and killed by SS officers. His sister, her husband, and baby were killed. My grandmother’s parents and four brothers were murdered, leaving her the sole surviving member of her family. When news of the atrocities Hamas…
Antisemitic incidents have spiked across the U.S. in the year since the Oct. 7 Hamas terrorist attack in Israel — an “avalanche” of disturbing reports as assaults, death threats, Nazi salutes and more have been reported at local schools. More than 10,000 antisemitic incidents have been recorded in the U.S. since last year’s Oct. 7 Hamas terrorist attack, according to new data from the Anti-Defamation League. This is the highest number of incidents ever recorded in any…