New York, NY, February 7, 2025 … In response to Kanye West’s latest antisemitic tirades on the social media platform X, Jonathan Greenblatt, ADL CEO and National Director, issued the following statement: “Here we go again. Another egregious display of antisemitism, racism and misogyny from Ye on his X account this morning. Just a few years ago, ADL found that 30 antisemitic indents nationwide were tied to Kanye’s 2022 antisemitic rants." "We condemn this…
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New York, NY, February 6, 2025 … ADL (the Anti-Defamation League), Paul Weiss and Taft today filed a civil lawsuit against the neo-Nazi extremist group Blood Tribe, its leaders, and additional unnamed individuals, seeking compensatory and punitive damages for the campaign of harassment and intimidation they unleashed against the people and city of Springfield, Ohio, beginning in July 2024. The filing in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio alleges that Blood Tribe…
Throughout 2024, the ADL Center on Extremism documented the tactics deployed by extremists and purveyors of hate to promote false narratives, as well as the harmful impact of conspiracy theories, misinformation and disinformation on communities including Jews, immigrants and other marginalized groups. Predicting how extremists may weaponize false narratives requires an understanding of the strategies that allow them to spread most effectively. Here, we highlight three key mis-…
New York, NY, February 5, 2025…ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) today applauds the re-introduction of the Antisemitism Awareness Act, a critical piece of legislation aimed at combating the rising tide of antisemitism across the United States. The bipartisan bill, reintroduced in Congress by Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY), Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ), Rep. Max Miller (R-OH) and Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-FL) will ensure the Department of Education has a clear framework for identifying and…
New York, NY, February 5, 2025 ... ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) issued a statement following yesterday's meeting at the White House between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Trump: It was significant that in the White House yesterday, Prime Minister Netanyahu and President Trump discussed critical priorities including the release of all hostages, Israel's security needs and steps for regional engagement. U.S. involvement -- in coordination with Israel and…
King will headline world’s largest summit addressing antisemitism and hate. New York, NY, February 5, 2025…ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) announced today that sports icon and equality champion, Billie Jean King, will be honored with ADL’s 2025 Changemaker Award. The award will be presented during ADL’s signature event, Never Is Now: The World’s Largest Summit on Antisemitism and Hate, held at the Javits Center in New York City on March 3-4, 2025. “The…
New York, NY, February 5, 2025 … ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) today announced the launch of its Ratings and Assessments Institute (RAI), designed to identify and address antisemitism and the pervasive challenges Jewish individuals face across diverse sectors, through rigorous research and collaboration. “Antisemitism is surging in ways we haven’t seen in generations, yet too many institutions remain complacent—or complicit,” said Jonathan Greenblatt, ADL CEO…
While much of the world welcomed the prospect of a pause in hostilities and the release of hostages following news of the ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas in mid-January, leading voices in the U.S. anti-Zionist movement responded by doubling down on extreme and inflammatory positions and support for violent action. In online statements and at on-the-ground rallies in the days following the deal — which was announced on January 15, 2025, and officially began with a multiphase…
TND and TKD are abbreviations for (respectively) racist and antisemitic slogans referring to the mass death or killing of Black people and Jews.
Board Strengthened with Leaders from Business, Journalism and Law New York, NY, February 6, 2025 … ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) today announced the election of five new members to its board of directors: · Steven E. Fineman, Managing Partner of Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, LLP · Jonathan Kolber, Chairman and CEO of Anfield Ltd · Max Neuberger, Founder and Publisher of The Circuit, Jewish Insider, and eJewish Philanthropy ·…
41 percent of Jewish students felt the need to hide their Jewish identity; One-in-four Jewish students felt compelled to take security precautions; Two-thirds of Jewish students lack confidence in their university’s ability to prevent antisemitic incidents Washington, D.C., January 30, 2025 … Eighty-three percent of Jewish college students have experienced or witnessed some form of antisemitism since the October 7, 2023 Hamas attacks on Israel, according…
New York, NY, January 29, 2025 … ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) today welcomed the new executive order from the Trump Administration calling on every federal agency and department to review and report on civil and criminal actions available to fight antisemitism. Jonathan Greenblatt, ADL CEO and National Director, issued the following statement: "We welcome this effort by President Trump to put the full force of the federal government against rising antisemitism in our country…
January 28, 2025 Dear Dr. Susan Kressly, Dr. Andrew Racine, CEO Mark Del Monte, Dr. Nathanial Jones, and other AAP Committee and Board Members, We, the undersigned organizations, write on behalf of medical and Jewish organizations to express our disappointment and grave concern about the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) leadership’s letter to former Secretary of State Antony Blinken related to the wellbeing of Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya. According to Israeli authorities and other sources,…
New York, NY, January 23, 2025 … ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) today welcomed the introduction of a bill in the New York Legislature designed to bring back and strengthen a law prohibiting masked intimidation. The law will protect New Yorkers from harassment, violence and intimidation by people wearing face coverings, which have been exploited in recent months to subject innocent New Yorkers to threats, violence and intimidation. Sponsored by State Senator James Skoufis (D-Cornwall)…
On January 22, 2025, a 17-year-old student opened fire inside the cafeteria at Antioch High School in Nashville, Tennessee. The shooter killed one student and injured another before taking his own life. Preliminary research by the ADL Center on Extremism (COE) found the shooter, who was Black, was fueled by violent misanthropic views, anti-Black hate and hateful extremist beliefs including inceldom and antisemitism. He subscribed to broad accelerationist beliefs, which hold…
Provides information about antisemitic bullying, how it takes places in schools and among young people and what educators can do.
New York, NY, January 17, 2025 … ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) today welcomed the disciplinary action taken against multiple editors by the Wikipedia arbitration committee in the wake of a massive effort by anti-Israel editors to spread misinformation and hate across the platform. Among those topic-banned by Wikipedia from the Israel-Palestine discussion were Iskandar323, Selfstudier, Nableezy, Levivich and Nishidani – all of whom ADL has identified as being part of a bad-faith…
Episode 4.5: “Create Just Worlds": Can We Break Extremism's Hold on Gaming?Video games are supposed to be fun and provide players with safe, supportive communities. Unfortunately and unsurprisingly, extremists are ruining gaming for everyone. On this month’s episode of extremely, Oren Segal and Jessica Reaves talk to Mariana Olaizola Rosenblat, Policy Advisor on technology and law at the NYU Stern Center for Business and Human Rights. Rosenblat studies the societal impact of…
New York, NY, January 16, 2025, … Hate and harassment was recorded in almost half of online multiplayer game sessions tested with a range of religious, ethnic and national identity-based usernames, shows new research conducted by the ADL (Anti-Defamation League) Center for Technology and Society. Examples of hate and harassment included racial slurs, trash-talking or disrupted play. Identity-based harassment was present in one-third of play sessions across the four games …
ADL Statement on Announcement of Israel-Hamas Deal