By Sharon Nazarian | Senior Vice President for International Affairs February 20, 2018 The Hill It’s been just over three years since an Islamic extremist walked into a kosher supermarket in Paris and murdered four Jews. We had hoped that the attack, coming on the heels of so many others targeting Jews in France, including the horrific 2012 murder of a rabbi and three children at a Jewish school in Toulouse, would be enough of a shock to the French Republic that it would mark a turning…
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February 13, ADL Heartland was pleased to assist in convening Jewish community institutions for a discussion on current security threats, assessing those threats, structural approaches, membership education and law enforcement liaisons.
The North County Police Cooperative together with the Missouri State Highway Patrol - Missouri Information Analysis Center (MIAC) presented Threats to Worship: A Risk Assessment for Houses of Worship and Faith-Based Events.
The…
LINCOLN, NE — February 8, 2018 (by Rick Ruggles)… About 300 University of Nebraska-Lincoln students rallied Wednesday in protest of the white nationalist views espoused by one of their fellow students.
On a cold, sunny afternoon, students said there was no place for racism and hatefulness on their campus. Some speakers called for the student, Daniel Kleve, to be expelled.
Others encouraged white students to be more attentive to the needs and wishes of…
New York/Berkeley, Calif. February 6, 2018… The Anti-Defamation League’s (ADL) Center for Technology and Society today announced preliminary results from an innovative project that uses artificial intelligence, machine learning, and social science to study what is and what isn’t hate speech online. The project’s goal is to help the tech industry better understand the growing amount of hate online.
The Center for Technology and Society (CTS) has…
Over the last year in particular, ADL has seen an increase in reporting on bullying and bias behavior in the classroom and school sports. No Place For Hate gives schools a formal structure in which to create a community where respect and acceptance is the norm. What makes a good structure? First you need leadership in the school -- a club, group, coalition or current effort that will work throughout the school to promote understanding and inclusion for all. This is not…
by: Jonathan Greenblatt | February 05, 2018 USA Today The cold-blooded murder of Blaze Bernstein has horrified the Jewish community and indeed all Americans. It is hard to come to terms with the shocking brutality that ended the life of such a bright and promising young man. At just 19, Blaze already had shown an aptitude for writing and the arts, even while excelling in a rigorous molecular sciences program at the University of Pennsylvania.
Blaze will always be remembered for the…
by: Jonathan Greenblatt | January 26, 2018 The Hill International Holocaust Remembrance Day commemorates the millions of victims of the Nazi Holocaust and marks the anniversary of the liberation of the concentration camps at Auschwitz, where more than 1 million innocents were murdered, including an estimated 960,000 Jews.
The liberation of Auschwitz led to the first real awareness of the true barbarity of the Nazi regime and the death industry it created in an attempt to rid Europe of Jews…
By Sharon Nazarian | Senior Vice President for International Affairs January 25, 2018 The Forward Last week, American Zionists were told they could not be part of the feminist movement — again.
A number of pro-Palestinian groups, most notably the Palestinian American Women’s Association, boycotted Saturday’s L.A. Women’s March. They wouldn’t attend due to the fact that actress Scarlett Johansson, known to be a proud Zionist, was one of the speakers.
Hardly…
By Eric Berger, Staff Writer | Posted: Wednesday, January 24, 2018
A St. Peters gun store has stopped selling yellow star patches like the ones Jews were forced to wear during the Holocaust. Instead of “Jude,” the patches say “Gun Owner.”
The idea behind the product is the belief that gun owners are persecuted in the United States.
The owner of Tactical Shit, a company that has more than 600,000 followers on Facebook, stated in an email…
by: Jonathan Greenblatt | January 18, 2018 The Forward A new report, commissioned by the Trump Administration as part of its efforts to enact new restrictions on immigration, bends over backwards to selectively pick and choose cases in which immigrants who entered the country through the diversity visa lottery or other immigration programs were directly linked to terror plots. The unsubtle agenda of the report is to link terrorism and extremist violence with immigrants.
What’s…
by: Jonathan Greenblatt | January 09, 2018 JTA Several recent political measures in Israel — including announcements by Israel’s parliament, attorney general and ruling party — have significantly begun to undermine the possibility of achieving a two-state solution.
Let me be clear: When discussing why the peace process has been stalled for so many years, one has to begin with the Palestinians. There is little evidence to suggest that the Palestinians have yet made the…
January 05, 2018 The Arizona Republic By Carlos Galindo-Elvira | Arizona Regional Director
What does Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy mean to us in these challenging times?
Dr. King exposed the brutality of discriminatory laws and institutionalized racism. He served a greater good. His purpose was to remove the burden of oppression. He reminded us about the importance of "content of character."
As we head toward another day of remembering Dr. King, his own…
by: Ken Jacobson | December 06, 2017 It has often been noted that remembering past events usually leads to an unfounded nostalgia for a so-called golden past. When undergoing close examination, the past usually was not so rosy as imagined and not much better than today.
On so many levels this is not true as we look back this week at the 30th anniversary of the historic rally on behalf of Soviet Jewry in Washington, D.C. The rally, which had 250,000 participants, including Jews and others…
by: Jonathan Greenblatt | November 28, 2017 The Forward At the Anti-Defamation League, we have spent more than 100 years fighting anti-Semitism, often referred to as the world’s oldest hatred. And we have labored to distinguish between a more modern phenomenon –- when criticism of Israel can be considered legitimate political conversation and when it crosses the line into insidious anti-Semitism.
We feel obligated to revisit the subject in light of a new book, “On…
Remarks by Jonathan A. Greenblatt, CEO of the Anti-Defamation League November 13, 2017 San Francisco, CA, November 13, 2017
Good morning everyone. Thank you for being here. I am grateful that you have all joined us this morning.
At the ADL, we’ve been fighting the scourge of anti-Semitism for more than 100 years. But until last year, we hadn’t created an open venue for dialogue about the issue, and so we launched the Never Is Now! conference last November. And as it…
Remarks from ADL CEO and National Director Jonathan Greenblatt to the House Judiciary Committee November 06, 2017 To read the full testimony of Jonathan Greenblatt, click here.
Good Morning Chairman Goodlatte, Ranking Member Conyers, and members of the Committee,
I am Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO and National Director of the Anti-Defamation League. We deeply appreciate the opportunity to participate in this timely hearing to examine anti-Semitism on college campuses.
I want…
The white supremacist Nationalist Front will hold a series of “White Lives Matter” protests at various points in Tennessee on Saturday, October 28, 2017. The events will begin at 10am EST and culminate in a private social event that evening. With an expected attendance of around 200 people, this could be the largest gathering of white supremacists since Unite the Right in Charlottesville, Virginia.
The morning protests will be held in Shelbyville, and…
by: Kenneth Jacobson | October 20, 2017 JTA Here we go again: The issue of how and why the United States should engage with the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization is back in the news.
The announcement by the Trump administration that the U.S. will be pulling out of UNESCO over its biased treatment of Israel is only the latest manifestation of a fraught relationship between America and this U.N. body.
Established soon after World War II as an effort to…
New York, NY, October 8, 2017 … The individuals who converged August 12 in Charlottesville for one of the largest gatherings of white supremacists in at least a decade traveled from at least 35 states, according to an analysis of 200 participants identified by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL).
ADL Releases Analysis of First “Unite the Right” Rally which Drew Participants from 35 States
The new ADL analysis of “Unite The Right” rally…
Salon's David Masciotra sat down with ADL Regional Director, Lonnie Nasatir to discuss our mission to combat anti-Semitism and track the rise of the alt-right. Check out the full piece here.