ADL and Jewish community partners call on TikTok to take concrete steps in order to address the prevalence and proliferation of antisemitism on their platform.
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Conspiracy theories and antisemitic narratives have flooded social media in the wake of an Islamic State-claimed terror attack at a music venue outside Moscow. On March 22, 2024, four gunmen attacked concertgoers at Crocus City Hall, shooting into the crowd and using explosives to set the building on fire, killing at least 130 people and injuring at least 140 others. Hours after the attack, the Amaq News Agency, a propaganda arm of the Islamic State (IS or ISIS), claimed…
The post-Oct. 7 Israel-Hamas war placed Arab normalization with Israel at a critical juncture like never before, risking past achievements, recent progress and future prospects. First, the Oct. 7 massacre perpetrated by Hamas wasn’t just an outburst of antisemitic hate by an Islamist terror organization seeking to exterminate Jews. It also served as a warning sign of the lengths to which the Islamic Republic of Iran and its proxies would go in order to thwart the prospects of Israeli…
New York, NY, March 26th, 2024: The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today wrote a letter to the University of Michigan President, Santa J. Ono, Ph.D., condemning two recent antisemitic incidents on University of Michigan’s Ann Arbor campus. ADL is calling for immediate action to address violations of the student code of conduct and ensure that future University events can proceed without disruption. In the first incident on Friday, March 22, a University of Michigan…
New York, NY, March 26, 2024 … White supremacist propaganda distribution reached historic levels across the United States in 2023, with a total of 7,567 incidents, a 12-percent increase from 2022, according to the ADL (Anti-Defamation League) Center on Extremism’s annual assessment. With an average of about 20 incidents per day, 2023 marked the highest level of incidents since ADL began tracking such data in 2017. This was the second consecutive year that ADL has recorded record…
Table Talk: Family Conversations about Current EventsAll young people should be able to feel safe, included and respected in their classrooms and schools. Unfortunately, many do not. A recent study of high school students found that nearly four in ten students experienced identity-based bullying or bullying related to an aspect of their identity such as race, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or physical appearance. How can we listen and learn from young people about…
Since the horrific Hamas attack on Israel on October 7 and the ensuing war in Gaza with a large humanitarian toll, there are intensifying calls for an immediate ceasefire. We are supportive of ongoing diplomatic efforts, led by the U.S. and regional leaders, to negotiate a mutually agreed-to pause in fighting that would include the release of all the hostages, humanitarian assistance for the civilians of Gaza, and the end to the threat posed by Hamas to the people of Israel and Gaza. All…
Part of the ADL Center on Extremism’s coverage of the misogynist manosphere and its subcultures, each of which impacts women’s experiences of safety and equity – online and offline. Men Going Their Own Way (MGTOW) is a distinct faction of the “manosphere,” the broad set of male supremacist, anti-feminist, misogynist and sometimes violent extremist movements that exist largely online. The MGTOW movement began online in the early 2000s when…
On March 13, 2024, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill that could potentially lead to a nationwide ban of the popular social media platform TikTok. According to the bill, the issue stems from TikTok being owned by a “foreign adversary,” which poses a national security threat. TikTok’s China-owned parent company ByteDance would be required to find another buyer within six months to avoid the app being pulled from app stores in the US. While the bill has not yet…
New York, NY, March 19, 2024 … ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) today unveiled an innovative and comprehensive new online learning experience on antisemitism for middle and high school student groups. The course, Awareness to Action: Challenging Antisemitism is designed to unravel the complexities of antisemitism and to empower the next generation to challenge bias in all forms. The four-part digital course, which is available free of charge to schools, includes four learning…
Friday, March 8, 2024, marked the annual commemoration of International Women’s Day. Over the weekend of March 8–10, anti-Israel activists nationwide used the occasion to celebrate female Palestinian terrorists, including glorifying individuals affiliated with recognized terrorist organizations and whose acts of anti-Israel violence have included bombings, plane hijackings and more. As previously noted by ADL, in the months since Hamas’s October 7, 2023 attack on…
March 14, 2024 Mathias Döpfner CEO Axel Springer SE John F. Harris Global Editor in Chief Politico Brad Dayspring Executive Vice President, Global Communications and Brand Dear Mr. Döpfner, Mr. Harris and Mr. Dayspring: We were deeply concerned by Politico’s decision to publish a highly offensive political cartoon by Matt Wuerker, depicting a “punch card” suggesting that Israel and Jews are using “centuries of pogroms, antisemitism and the Holocaust”…
The U.S. wing of Hizb Ut Tahrir, an international Islamist organization that seeks to establish an Islamic theocracy, held their annual conference on March 2, 2024, in Villa Park, Illinois. The group, which is banned in the United Kingdom, Germany and several other countries, featured speakers who called for an army to invade and destroy Israel, justified the October 7 Hamas terror attack, suggested men should travel to Gaza to fight Israel, implored followers to “resist…
We asked five of the main AI Chatbot platforms about topics related to antisemitism and their answers revealed concerning discrepancies.
On March 9, 2024, authorities arrested Frankie Rizzello Jr., a 20-year-old resident of Chesterfield, Missouri, on two felony charges related to property damage motivated by discrimination, one grounded in religion and the other in race. According to charging documents from the University City Police Department, Rizzello faces these charges for allegedly spray-painting a church and an Asian restaurant with graffiti in 2023. In October 2023, after an extensive examination of user…
Listen to episode 3.7 to hear freewheeling, thoughtful conversation about Israeli-Palestinian identity with Nuseir Yassin and Alex Dwek of Nas Company.
Award cites her deep commitment to ethical leadership and ‘zero tolerance’ for hate New York, NY, March 11, 2024 … Julie Sweet, Chair & CEO of Accenture, a true innovative leader who leads by example and inspires others to do the same, and who has publicly proclaimed zero tolerance for antisemitism and all forms of hate, has received the ADL’s (Anti-Defamation League) highest honor, the Courage Against Hate Award. Sweet was presented with the award on Thursday…
New York, NY, March 7, 2024 … Leaders of the J7, the Large Jewish Communities’ Task Force Against Antisemitism, whose communities comprise the majority of the world’s diaspora Jews, met today with United Nations Secretary General António Guterres as part of a series of meetings on the sidelines of the ADL’s (Anti-Defamation League) 2024 Never Is Now Summit in New York City. Meeting with Guterres at the U.N.’s headquarters, the J7 leaders…
Table Talk: Family Conversations about Current EventsYou may have heard about “swatting” because it's been in the news recently. What exactly is swatting? Why do people do it? Because young people are exposed to swatting online, on both mainstream websites and the “dark web” (i.e., hidden websites) and because some swatting incidents begin in online gaming or other digital platforms, it is an important topic to discuss with young people. Swatting is &ldquo…
New York, NY, March 6, 2024 … Today ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) honored Nuseir Yassin, an Israeli-Palestinian content creator, with the ADL’s prestigious Daniel Pearl Award for his work in building bridges of understanding between Jews and Muslims and for promoting peace and understanding across communities. ADL presented the award to Nuseir Yassin during its 2024 Never Is Now Summit on Antisemitism and Hate. The award was presented by Imam Abdullah Antempli, who praised…