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Nearly Half of Schools Assessed Show Improvement Philadelphia, PA, March 3, 2025 – ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) gave 36% of schools an A or B in its 2025 Campus Antisemitism Report Card, up from 23.5% in 2024. The updated evaluation of how U.S. colleges and universities are addressing antisemitism assessed 135 schools—50 more than last year—using 30 evaluation criteria to assign letter grades from A to F. 9 schools in total were assessed in ADL’s Philadelphia region…

Boston, MA, January 30, 2025…ADL (The Anti-Defamation League) held a panel conversation on preventing and responding to antisemitism in K-12 schools featuring the Attorney General of Massachusetts, Andrea Joy Campbell, Counsel to the U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts, Mary Murrane, and Becky Shuster, Principal of Home Ground Consulting, LLC. The event took place at the John Joseph Moakley Courthouse and was attended by 200 supporters from across Massachusetts.  The…

Edan Alexander is free at last.  Shortly after Hamas began its attack on October 7, 2023, Edan Alexander, an American-Israeli from Tenafly, New Jersey, was able to speak to his mother and tell her he was alright. Just half an hour later, she couldn’t reach him. Edan's family heard nothing from him for over a year and a half, except for the cruel propaganda videos released by the terrorists holding Edan hostage. After 584 days of agony, torture, and darkness – Edan has finally…

New York, NY, May 13, 2025 – JLens, a Registered Investment Advisor, along with ADL (the Anti-Defamation League), today called upon shareholders of Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG)(the “Company”) to vote AGAINST a shareholder proposal designed to harm Israel by pressuring the Company into severing business ties with the country.  ADL and JLens noted that Proposal 9 is expected to be submitted to a shareholder vote at the Alphabet annual meeting on June 6, 2025. The…

The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) extends its congratulations to Pope Leo XIV on his election as the new head of the Catholic Church. As he assumes this sacred role, we look forward to building upon the legacy of cooperation between the Catholic Church and the Jewish people. “For decades, relations between the Catholic Church and the global Jewish community have steadily strengthened,” said Jonathan Greenblatt, ADL CEO and National Director. “We hope Pope Leo XIV will continue…

New York, NY, May 8, 2025, …  Researchers at the ADL (Anti-Defamation League) Center for Technology and Society (CTS) found that Jewish Members of Congress have experienced a nearly five-fold increase in antisemitic harassment on Facebook since Meta rolled back its moderation policy at the start of the year.  Following this policy shift, ADL stated its deep concerns, saying that this change would be a "step backward" and allow increased hate, antisemitism,…

  Los incidentes antisemitas aumentan en 2024: un 317% en Australia; más de 38 incidentes por cada 1.000 judíos alemanes  Berlín, Alemania, 7 de mayo de 2025 ... Mientras el mundo conmemora el 80º aniversario del final de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, el Grupo de Trabajo de Grandes Comunidades contra el Antisemitismo - J7 publicó su primer Informe Anual del J7 sobre Antisemitismo, documentando fuertes aumentos en los incidentes antisemitas en las…

Berlin, Germany, May 7, 2025 … As the world commemorates the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War, the J7 Large Communities’ Task Force Against Antisemitism released its inaugural J7 Annual Report on Antisemitism, documenting sharp increases in antisemitic incidents in the seven largest Jewish communities outside of Israel. The report highlights dramatic rises in both the total number of antisemitic incidents and antisemitic incidents per capita in—Argentina,…

New York, NY, May 6, 2025 … ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) issued the following statement in advance of tomorrow's Congressional hearing on campus antisemitism by the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, "Beyond the Ivy League: Stopping the Spread of Antisemitism on America's Campuses." Antisemitism on college campuses is a serious crisis. Over the past year, we’ve seen hate-fueled rhetoric and protests that have crossed the line into harassment, intimidation,…

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…

  Boston, MA, January 7, 2025…ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) announced today the appointment of Samantha Joseph as Director of ADL’s New England Region. Joseph will lead the fight against antisemitism and all forms of hate in Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont. Samantha Joseph comes to ADL with a distinguished background in the private and public sectors, including her work on the National Strategy to Counter Antisemitism, and most recently having…

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…

MEDIA ADVISORY WHAT: ADL Partners Against Hate Luncheon WHERE: JW Marriott Marquis Miami (street) WHEN: Wednesday, February 5, 2025, 11:30am – 1:30pm December 5, 2024… ADL is proud to announce its annual Partners Against Hate Luncheon Event in Miami, where it will present Jurisprudence and Community Champion Awards to three leaders who exemplify the principles and mission upon which ADL was founded. It will build on ADL’s decades-long legacy of celebrating members of Miami…

 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…

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…

Keynote speaker, Boston University sociology professor Dr. Jill Walsh, highlighted the dangers of normalizing hate online and how it can affect teenagers.  Philadelphia, PA, December 11, 2024 … More than 400 students and 76 educators from 38 high schools gathered at the Pennsylvania Convention Center to hear from an expert on online hate and learn from each other, taking back what they learned to become agents of positive change in their school communities. With teens reporting…

New York, NY, April 7, 2025 – JLens, a Registered Investment Advisor (RIA) and Fund Sponsor of the JLens 500 Jewish Advocacy U.S. ETF (NYSE: TOV), today calls upon shareholders of two prominent global defense companies to vote AGAINST shareholder proposals that JLens believes were designed to pressure the companies into severing ties with Israel. The companies, General Dynamics (NYSE: GD) and Lockheed Martin Corporation (NYSE: LMT), are portfolio holdings of TOV, a faith-based ETF that…