New York, NY, May 5, 2021 … ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) CEO Jonathan A. Greenblatt issued the following statement today regarding the Facebook Oversight Board’s decision to uphold Facebook’s suspension of former President Donald Trump from the platform:
We did not need four months and an unaccountable, secretive process to tell us what we already knew: Donald Trump should be immediately and permanently banned from Facebook.
Six months will not change the fact…
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US negotiators must treat Teheran’s antisemitism, persecution of minorities, and backing for terrorism as integral issues in any nuclear talks
MAY 4, 2021, 1:24 PM, by Jonathan Greenblatt
As the number one state sponsor of antisemitism and a self-proclaimed threat to the survival of the State of Israel, Iran has long been a country of grave concern to ADL. Since the Iranian Revolution of 1979, ADL has advocated for the US government and the international community to address…
JONATHAN GREENBLATT AND DAMON HEWITT , CEO AND NATIONAL DIRECTOR OF THE ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE; ACTING PRESIDENT AND EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE LAWYERS’ COMMITTEE FOR CIVIL RIGHTS UNDER LAW
ON 5/4/21 AT 1:32 PM EDT
Now that the trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin has ended with a guilty verdict on all counts for the murder of George Floyd, many are breathing a sigh of relief. Some are relieved to see a semblance of justice, with…
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Foothill High School and
East Career & Technical Academy Faculty and
Administrators Participate in
Building School Culture that is No Place for Hate®,
Grant Funded by The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas
LAS VEGAS (April 29, 2021) – In response to hate-motivated behavior at Foothill High School in Henderson and East Career & Technical Academy in Las Vegas, the Anti-Defamation League has four professional learning…
For Immediate Release: April 29, 2021
Holocaust Education Bill Unanimously Passes Nevada Assembly
Carson City, Nevada – A bill strengthening Holocaust and Genocide education in Nevada unanimously passed the state’s Assembly today in a 42 to 0 vote.
Assembly bill 231 is a bipartisan piece of legislation sponsored by Assemblywomen Lesley Cohen and Lisa Krasner and supported by Lieutenant Governor Kate Marshall.
The bill will establish an educational…
Annual ADL Audit tracks 2,000+ incidents across the U.S., third–highest yearly total on record
Las Vegas, NV, April 27, 2021 … Antisemitic incidents remained at a historically high level across the United States in 2020, with a total of 2,024 incidents of assault, harassment and vandalism reported to ADL (the Anti-Defamation League). While antisemitic incidents declined by 4 percent after hitting an all-time high in…
Legislation would address rising hate crimes though increased funding and reporting mechanisms
New York, NY, April 22, 2021… ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) praised the U.S. Senate’s bipartisan passage of the COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act as well as the Khalid Jabara and Heather Heyer National Opposition to Hate, Assault, and Threats to Equality Act (Jabara-Heyer NO HATE Act), both of which ADL has supported extensively.
The COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act would…
New York, NY, April 20, 2021 … ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) released the following statement regarding the guilty verdict reached today in the trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin for the murder of George Floyd:
The jury’s decision to hold Derek Chauvin accountable for the murder of George Floyd is a critically necessary first step in securing #JusticeforGeorgeFloyd.
And yet, no guilty verdict…
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Good morning and thank you so much for your kind introduction. It is an honor to have an opportunity to speak with all of you today and I look forward to answering your questions after my prepared remarks.
At the ADL, we have been tracking extremist movements and the spread of hatred literally for generations. We have seen all kinds of hateful groups over the decades. But we have never seen a moment like this, not just when tensions seem to be at an all…
New York, NY, April 14, 2021 … ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) issued the following statement today in response to the charging of former Brooklyn Center, MN police officer Kim Potter with second-degree manslaughter in the killing of Daunte Wright:
The charges now filed against former police officer Kim Potter do not change the fact that Daunte Wright – and too many other Black individuals — should be…
It’s one of the goals of Zionism – a normal state for the Jewish People – and this year there’s lots to celebrate on that score
It sure seems like a strange time to be celebrating Israeli Independence Day.
Israel, while doing better, is still in the midst of the Covid pandemic. Israel’s political system remains paralyzed with the choice, after a fourth national election in two years, being between some kind of an unstable,…
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Assemblywoman Rochelle Nguyen on Tuesday, Aug. 4, 2020 during the fifth day of the 32nd Special Session of the Legislature in Carson City. (David Calvert/Nevada Independent, pool)
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Tuesday, April 13, 2021 | 2 a.m.
CARSON CITY — Heather Korbulic was driven out of her job as the head of Nevada’s unemployment agency last June because of threats to her personal safety.
Korbulic had been doxxed, a term for an…
April 11, 2021
By Ken Jacobson
Man In A Glass Booth: Adolf Eichmann on trial.
This week, we commemorate the 60th anniversary of the opening of the Jerusalem trial of Adolf Eichmann. This event was the most significant moment in the evolution of addressing the Holocaust in the post-World War II period.
At the end of World War II, there was a surge of attention to the Shoah fueled by the first pictures of the liberation of the camps, the…
The anti-Semitism entrenched in Western culture does not explain how so few people stood up against the mass murder of Jews that was taking place before them
APR 7, 2021, 10:48 PM
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by: Kenneth Jacobson | April 07, 2021 The Times of Israel It is now 76 years since the death camp at Auschwitz was liberated. As we commemorate Yom HaShoah this week, it is useful to take a look at how the Holocaust is affecting public morality all these years later — and how it is still being abused.
It is both helpful and not helpful to talk about the Holocaust when discussing the disturbing resurgence of anti-Semitism in the world today.
On the one hand, as reflected in ADL…
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59 percent feel Jews are less safe in the U.S. than a decade ago
New York, NY, March 31, 2021 … Well over half of Jewish Americans have either experienced or directly witnessed some form of antisemitic incident in the last five years, according to a new poll released by ADL (Anti-Defamation League). The 2021 poll found that 63 percent of respondents have either experienced or heard antisemitic comments, slurs or threats targeting others, an increase from 54…
Calif. legislation would require social media companies to publicly disclose corporate policies and key data and metrics on enforcement
New York, NY, March 30, 2021…ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) welcomed the introduction of legislation from California State Assemblymember Jesse Gabriel that would require social media platforms to publicly disclose their content moderation policies regarding online hate/racism, disinformation, extremism, harassment and foreign…
With anti-Jewish incidents already on the rise, there’s no need to wait for someone to get hurt. Step one is providing security
By Sharon Nazarian
Readers could be forgiven for not remembering the last article they read about Switzerland. Yet, its Jewish population of 18,000 is almost twice the size of that of its Alpine neighbor, Austria, and a bit larger than Sweden’s, two countries that make regular appearances in Times of Israel headlines. Perhaps because antisemitic…
ADL announces REPAIR plan to hold social media platforms accountable
New York, NY, March 24, 2021… Asian-Americans experienced the largest single rise in severe online hate and harassment year-over-year in comparison to other groups, with 17 percent having experienced sexual harassment, stalking, physical threats, swatting, doxing or sustained harassment this year compared to 11 percent last year, according to a new survey released today by ADL (the Anti…