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Antisemitic Incidents in Nevada Increase in 2019; Overall Increase Nationally
In 2019, Nevada experienced an increase of antisemitic activity according to new data from ADL (the Anti-Defamation League).
The 2019 ADL Audit…
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ADL annual report found more than 2,100 acts of antisemitic hate; 56 percent increase in assaults, five fatalities
New York, May 12, 2020 … The American Jewish community experienced the highest level of antisemitic incidents last year since tracking began in 1979, with more than 2,100 acts of assault, vandalism and harassment reported across the United States, according to new data from ADL (the Anti-Defamation League). The record number of incidents came as the…
May 4, 2020
By Jonathan A. Greenblatt
NEW YORK (JTA) — Prior to the outbreak of COVID-19, the United States was experiencing record-high levels of anti-Semitic incidents. From Poway to Jersey City, from Monsey to Brooklyn, Jews were being targeted in the places they worshipped, lived, shopped and congregated. Social media was awash with Jew hatred. Public figures from all sides seemed to invoke anti-Semitic tropes with alarming regularity. …
New York, NY, April 29, 2020 … ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) has received a generous $1 million grant from Craig Newmark Philanthropies to help support ADL’s work to detect, expose and counter online hate speech. The two-year grant will directly support the work of ADL’s Center on Technology and Society, including the Online Hate Index, while also helping to bolster the organization’s overall activities during the COVID-19 crisis.
The Online…
by: Jonathan Greenblatt | April 23, 2020 eJewish Philanthropy As the oldest anti-hate organization in the world, ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) has weathered our fair share of national tragedies and global events.
From World War I to the Holocaust, the Great Depression to the Great Recession, we have held fast and maintained our focus despite moments of historic turmoil. Today, like everyone, our organization is dealing with the fallout of COVID-19, and we are responding to it in a…
By Jonathan A. Greenblatt
As the oldest anti-hate organization in the world, ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) has weathered our fair share of national tragedies and global events.
From World War I to the Holocaust, the Great Depression to the Great Recession, we have held fast and maintained our focus despite moments of historic turmoil. Today, like everyone, our organization is dealing with the fallout of COVID-19, and we are responding to it in a methodical way that follows what I…
Half of those polled have experienced antisemitism firsthand; 63 percent of Jews feel “less safe”
New York, NY, April 21, 2020 … Nearly two-thirds of American Jews believe that they are less safe today than they were a decade ago, according to a new ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) survey on Jewish encounters with antisemitism in the United States.
The ADL survey found that more than half of American Jews (54…
By Kenneth Jacobson
ADL Deputy National Director
APRIL 14, 2020
Some U.S. officials have taken to referring to the COVID-19 virus as the “invisible enemy.” Such phraseology has been used in the past regarding Polio and other viruses with epidemic potential. This speaks to the fact that the coronavirus is lethal, is beyond a specific place or people, and is hard to identify and control because it is unseen.
As a person who has spent his adult professional…
The flag used by Feuerkrieg Division. (ADL.org)
Conor Climo has been linked to a hate group in Estonia. Climo told an FBI source about plans to firebomb a Las Vegas synagogue or attack a local ADL office, and awaits sentencing after pleading guilty in February to felony possession of an unregistered firearm. (LinkedIn)
By Michael Kunzelman and Jari Tanner
The Associated Press
April 13, 2020 – 7:58 pm
Updated April 14, 2020 – 12:23 am
HELSINKI,…
By Jonathan A. Greenblatt
ADL CEO
APRIL 8, 2020
No one is immune from the threat of COVID-19. It is a virus that pays no heed to who you are; it just infects human beings. But from ancient times through the Middle Ages until today, many people look to someone to blame for their misfortune.
That is happening again with fingers — real and virtual — being pointed at the Haredi and wider Orthodox Jewish community.
For example, the Orthodox Jewish…
by:
Jonathan Greenblatt, National Director of the Anti-Defamation League
April 6, 2020
This article originally appeared in
The Times of Israel
As the Jewish community prepares for Passover under quarantine, I’m reflecting on how this moment is so profoundly difficult for so many Jewish families as we head into the holidays.
The coronavirus pandemic has not only upended the lives and livelihoods of people everywhere, but it is going to…
Experts say U.S. should continue to explore designating other white supremacist groups as foreign terrorist organizations.
New York, NY, April 6, 2020 … Today, as news reports indicated that the U.S. Department of State will – for the first time ever – designate a white supremacist group as a terrorist organization, experts from ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) and George Washington University’s Program on Extremism released a joint…
by: Jonathan Greenblatt | April 06, 2020 The Times of Israel As the Jewish community prepares for Passover under quarantine, I’m reflecting on how this moment is so profoundly difficult for so many Jewish families as we head into the holidays.
The coronavirus pandemic has not only upended the lives and livelihoods of people everywhere, but it is going to have a profound effect on Jewish families preparing for the celebration of Passover, which begins on the night of Wednesday, April…
Letter urges political leaders and all Americans to make extra efforts to reach towards one another in support; not scapegoat or look to blame
New York, NY, April 1, 2020 … ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) joined with more than 180 Jewish communal groups today in a joint statement urging political leaders and all Americans to treat the COVID-19 pandemic as a “moment for kindness and solidarity, and to make extra efforts to reach towards one another in support,…
As America responds to the spread of the coronavirus pandemic, we here at ADL are actively mobilized and continuing our important work of “Fighting Hate for Good.” While recognizing we live in uncertain and unpredictable times, we also realize our vital mission to “stop the defamation of the Jewish people and to secure justice and fair treatment to all” continues, and remains just as important now as it did a week, a month, or a year ago.
While…
March 24, 2020 As America responds to the spread of the coronavirus pandemic, we here at ADL are actively mobilized and continuing our important work of “Fighting Hate for Good.” While recognizing we live in uncertain and unpredictable times, we also realize our vital mission to “stop the defamation of the Jewish people and to secure justice and fair treatment to all” continues, and remains just as important now as it did a week, a month, or a year ago.
While…
New York, NY, March 23, 2020 … ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) released the following statement today concerning the Coronavirus bill currently circulating in the House of Commons that would allow local authorities to cremate a body against the wishes of the deceased.
ADL supports the efforts of Jewish and Muslim communities to assure that religious rights and sensitivities are accommodated within government public health measures, in particular with regard to…
We have to join together to fight this virus effectively. Now is not the time to be torn apart by hatred.
Andrew Yang and Jonathan A. Greenblatt
Opinion contributors
As the fast-spreading coronavirus pandemic threatens to tax our public health systems, takes a toll on the economy and upends nearly every aspect of our lives, there’s a serious risk that the compounding public anxiety around the virus could lead to the spread of another serious…
We have to join together to fight this virus effectively. Now is not the time to be torn apart by hatred. March 20, 2020 By Andrew Yang and Jonathan A. Greenblatt
As the fast-spreading coronavirus pandemic threatens to tax our public health systems, takes a toll on the economy and upends nearly every aspect of our lives, there’s a serious risk that the compounding public anxiety around the virus could lead to the spread of another serious contagion: the scapegoating and blaming of…
New York, NY, March 12, 2020 … ADL’s Task Force on Middle East Minorities today endorsed H. Res. 823 condemning the Government of Iran’s state-sponsored persecution of its Baha’i minority and the regime’s continued violation of the International Covenants on Human Rights. This bipartisan resolution also calls on the Executive Branch to impose sanctions on those Iranian officials who are directly responsible for serious human rights…