One animation based on ADL’s Antisemitism Uncovered resource will be released weekly over the next seven weeks
New York, NY, March 9, 2022 … ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) today released the first in a series of new videos conceived to explain and combat the seven most pernicious antisemitic tropes to a new generation of social media users.
The videos explore seven classic antisemitic tropes detailed in Antisemitism Uncovered: A Guide to…
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by Ken Jacobson
The invasion of Ukraine by Russia is clearly an attempt by Vladimir Putin to revive the Soviet empire — if not its communist ideology. He has said that the demise of the Soviet Union was the greatest disaster of the 20th century, and now he’s trying to resurrect that ultimate imperialist edifice.
Another aspect of that era that is alive and well — indeed, is making a resurgence like the empire — is the Soviet-inspired theme that the Jewish…
History shows that when America retreats from the issues of the world there are dire consequences for all
By Ken Jacobson
MAR 5, 2022, 4:32 PM
There’s no doubt that the course of world history in the 20th century was dramatically influenced – both for good and ill – by the role played and leadership exerted by the United States. Whenever America was in retreat from the world it was inevitably bad for the world, bad for America and bad for the Jewish people…
National average of 13 incidents per day; 27% rise in propaganda targeting Jews and Jewish institutions. The top two offenders of extremism nationwide accounted for 62% of Nevada’s reported incidents.
Las Vegas, NV. March 3, 2022 … White supremacist propaganda distribution remained at historic levels across the United States in 2021, with a total 4,851 cases of racist, antisemitic and other hateful messages reported by ADL (Anti-Defamation League). The latest data comes amid a…
Both Reddit and Twitter failed to remove over 70 percent of the antisemitic content ADL uncovered with first-ever independent artificial intelligence tool
New York, NY, February 28, 2022 … The ADL (Anti-Defamation League) Center for Technology and Society today announced the launch of the first version of its Online Hate Index, a machine-learning system that detects hate targeting marginalized groups on online platforms. The Online Hate Index represents the…
New York, NY, February 25, 2022 … ADL (Anti-Defamation League) today issued a statement in response to the president’s nomination of federal appellate court Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Jonathan A. Greenblatt, ADL CEO and National Director, issued the following statement:
We congratulate Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson on her historic nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court. If confirmed, she will undoubtedly bring an important new perspective to…
New York, NY, February 24, 2022 … ADL (Anti-Defamation League) released the following statement on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine:
“ADL condemns in the strongest terms Russia’s unprovoked war of aggression against Ukraine, a blatant violation of international law. This unnecessary war instigated by President Vladimir Putin has already caused thousands of deaths over the last eight years, will unleash untold misery on the civilian population, and threatens the…
The impressive events in the Middle East the last few days— the official state visit of Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett to Bahrain and the participation of Israel’s petroleum minister at the petroleum conference in Cairo, highlighted by the moving greeting by Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi of Israeli Energy Minister Karine Elharrar—stand in stark contrast to the other track now dominating the region.
That track, which represents a past…
As reports first began to trickle out that a gunman had taken worshipers hostage at a synagogue in Colleyville, Texas during Shabbat services on Jan. 15, the nation watched in horror as a terrorist threatened one of America’s most sacrosanct activities: the practice of faith. Fortunately, this incident — described by President Biden as both a hate crime and an act of terrorism — ended without death or injury to the hostages.
But this fact should not…
The latest stale accusations may hurt Israel’s public image, but they hurt the Palestinians far more by reinforcing their futile rejectionism
FEB 5, 2022, 4:42 PM
In a world where criticism of the State of Israel and its policies is hardly unusual, the newly issued Amnesty International report stands out for its offensiveness and destructiveness.
Reaching even beyond problematic reports such as that of Human Rights Watch, which falsely characterized Israeli policy in the…
White supremacists killed more people in 2021 than any other type of extremist
New York, NY, February 15, 2022 … Right-wing extremists were linked to at least 26 extremist-related murders in the United States in 2021 and have been responsible for 75 percent of such murders in the last ten years, according to new data from ADL (Anti-Defamation League).
According to an annual analysis of extremist fatalities by ADL Center on Extremism, domestic extremists…
February 13 is an ominous anniversary. Sixteen years have passed since the murder of Ilan Halimi, the young, Jewish French cellphone salesman. On this date in 2006, Halimi was murdered, having been kidnapped and held for ransom in a basement in a Paris suburb where he was starved, tortured, and beaten for 24 days before his captors gave up their depraved plan to cash in on a young Jewish life.
Like the hostage taker in Colleyville, Texas, Halimi’s…
The Whoopi Goldberg controversy, in which she originally claimed that the Holocaust was not about racism, has a number of complexities. One of them surfaced on the Late Show with Stephen Colbert where she defended/apologized for her comments by explaining that Jews don’t suffer from racism, unlike Black people, because a Jewish person can walk down the street and go completely unnoticed as a Jew.
On one level, Goldberg is mostly right. There is no doubt that in the…
There is much to dispute in the laundry list of accusations against Israel in Amnesty International’s report released Tuesday as well as critiques that are worthy of fair-minded concern and attention. But why all the fierce reaction to one more critical report on Israel?
What makes this document different from prior reports is that it goes beyond criticizing Israeli policies and actions by presenting the world’s only Jewish and democratic state itself as…
(SC Times) - Despite more than two years of explaining why vaccine and mask mandates should not be conflated with the Holocaust, many still do not seem to grasp one simple truth: Comparing something that bothers you to the Holocaust is deeply inaccurate, insulting and troubling.
And yet again, we find ourselves – during the week of International Holocaust Remembrance Day – facing another ignorant and shameful example of this misuse. On Jan. 24, a St. Cloud community member wore…
Iran’s influence in Latin America is a dangerous reminder for regional leaders
The attendance of AMIA bomb suspect Mohsen Rezaei at a Nicaragua ceremony is just one sign of Tehran’s growing foothold in the region
FEB 5, 2022, 12:49 PM
On January 10, 2022 Mohsen Rezaei, Iran’s Vice President for economic affairs, attended the inauguration of the autocratic Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega as a guest of honor.
Rezaei is a wanted man, subject to an…
New York, NY, February 4, 2022 … Michael Sheetz, a seasoned trial lawyer and commercial litigator in Boston who also served as lead counsel for many civil rights groups in important litigation helping to enhance diversity in public schools, has been appointed President of the ADL (Anti-Defamation League) Foundation.
A partner in the Boston office of Cooley LLP and a longtime ADL volunteer both at the local
and national levels, Sheetz will lead the board that…
Remarks by Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO, ADL February 02, 2022
February 2, 2022
Mr. Chairman, Ranking Member Katko, Members of the Committee, good morning. I am Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO and National Director of ADL, the Anti-Defamation League, the oldest anti-hate organization in America. It is an honor to appear before you today to address the current terrorism landscape and the dire threat that extremists pose to the United States.
Since 1913, ADL has worked to stop the…
New York, NY, January 30, 2022 … ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) issued the following statement concerning Amnesty International UK’s upcoming report on Israel:
“We have reviewed Amnesty International UK’s upcoming report on Israel and strongly condemn it as an effort to demonize Israel and undermine its legitimacy as a Jewish and democratic state. In an environment of rising anti-Jewish hate, this type of report is not only inaccurate but also irresponsible and…
We need creative approaches to engage the next generation, thanks to events fading into history, antisemitism surging, and the rise in extremism of all kinds
Soon after the reunification of Germany, the Anti-Defamation League organized a leadership mission to a united Germany. One of our most significant meetings was with Dr. Rita Süssmuth, then-head of the Bundestag. One member of our group asked her about teaching young Germans about the Holocaust.
Her answer is even more…