Nueva York, NY, 14 de abril de 2024... Los líderes del J7, el Grupo de Trabajo de las Grandes Comunidades Judías Contra el Antisemitismo, cuyas comunidades comprenden la mayoría de los judíos de la diáspora mundial, emitieron hoy la siguiente declaración en respuesta al ataque sin precedentes perpetrado ayer por la República Islámica de Irán contra el estado judío de Israel: El J7 expresa su apoyo inquebrantable a Israel y…
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New York, NY, April 14, 2024 … Leaders of the J7, the Large Jewish Communities’ Task Force Against Antisemitism, whose communities comprise the majority of the world’s diaspora Jews, today issued the following statement in response to yesterday’s unprecedented attack by the Islamic Republic of Iran against the Jewish state of Israel: The J7 expresses its unwavering support for Israel and the Israeli people, and unequivocally condemns the Islamic…
Anti-Zionist activists in the U.S. praised Iran for its drone attack on Israel, using rhetoric similar to what was used immediately after October 7.
Un nuevo Boletín de Calificaciones muestra que la mayoría de las instituciones todavía no están haciendo lo básico para proteger a los estudiantes judíos Nueva York, NY, 11 de abril de 2024 ... Hoy, la Liga Antidifamación (ADL) publicó su primer Boletín de calificaciones sobre el antisemitismo en los campus, en el que se evalúan los incidentes, la vida judía en los campus, y las políticas y acciones…
New York, NY, April 11, 2024 … Today, ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) released its first Campus Antisemitism Report Card assessing incidents, Jewish life on campus and university policies and administrative actions related to combatting antisemitism and protecting Jewish students. The Report Card reviewed 85 schools and assigned grades from A through F, to give campus leadership, parents, students, alumni and stakeholders a mechanism to evaluate the state of antisemitism on campus…
Over the weekend of April 5, 2024, anti-Israel activists in the US and around the world marked Al Quds Day (“Jerusalem Day”) with protests and other events against Zionism and the state of Israel. This annual event, originally conceived by the leader of the 1979 Iranian Revolution, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, serves as a platform for support for terrorism and other violence against Israel and regularly includes virulent antisemitic and anti-Zionist…
CW: This piece contains reference to rape and sexual assault In the wake of the October 7 terror attack in Israel, horrific details began to emerge of Hamas assailants brutalizing Israeli women and girls, parading their broken bodies through the streets, and concertgoers being raped and murdered in front of their friends. By November, videos and eyewitness testimony were widely available to the public, showing and describing Hamas terrorists using rape as a weapon of war. …
New York, NY, April 10, 2024 … ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) today welcomed the introduction of the Countering Antisemitism Act—the most comprehensive antisemitism initiative to be introduced in Congress—which will implement the U.S. National Strategy to Counter Antisemitism and make permanent its critical policies and infrastructure. “The U.S. Jewish community is facing the worst crisis of antisemitism that we have seen in a generation. The Countering…
New York, NY, April 10, 2024 … ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) and Jones Day today filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against members of a White Lives Matter chapter in Ohio seeking compensatory and punitive damages for their involvement in a hate crime attack targeting the Community Church of Chesterland and three individual plaintiffs in March 2023. The suit, filed in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio, alleges that members of the local White Lives Matter …
College and University Presidents and Campus Leaders, Over the past six months, since Hamas’s terrorist attack on Israel, we have seen an unprecedented spike in antisemitism, especially on our college campuses. According to ADL survey data, close to 75 percent of Jewish students have witnessed or experienced an antisemitic incident since the beginning of the school year, and things only seem to be getting worse. As commencement season approaches, what should otherwise be a joyous…
New York, NY, April 9, 2024 … Three Jewish defense organizations today submitted a formal complaint with the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) against Ohio State University, alleging that the university has failed to address the severe discrimination and harassment of Jewish and Israeli students following the Oct. 7 massacre in Israel, which fostered “a hostile antisemitic environment that is now pervasive” at Ohio State. The complaint, filed…
Jerusalem/ New York, NY, April 9, 2024 … The Masa Israel Journey, a leading provider of immersive travel experiences, and ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) today announced a new partnership to combat antisemitism in Jewish communities. This partnership will launch at an event in Jerusalem for Masa gap year program fellows, during which ADL will lead sessions to help fellows prepare to manage antisemitism on college campuses. Through the partnership, ADL will provide Masa…
Chicago, IL, April 5, 2024 — In response to Israel's Foreign Ministry placing Israeli foreign missions around the world on high alert due to potential attacks against Jewish targets by the Islamic Republic of Iran and its terrorist proxies, ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) and the Secure Community Network (SCN) today urged the American Jewish community to expand its vigilance and preparation to prevent attacks. The importance of this heightened alert level was further evidenced by…
April 4, 2024 Hrag Vartanian Editor and CEO Hyperallergic Dear Mr. Vartanian: We were horrified and outraged by your cover story, “Israel Flattens Neighboring Pavilions at Venice Biennale,” (April 1). While labeled in fine print as an “April Fools” satire on your website, the piece has been flagged to us by many readers who found the article deeply insensitive and offensive. We agree with those readers – satire label notwithstanding, the article is little more…
Daniel Haqiqatjou is an antisemite and conspiracy theorist who also spreads anti-LGBTQ+ and misogynistic rhetoric. He is the founder, editor-in-chief and contributor at the Muslim Skeptic, an online magazine that frequently elevates antisemitic tropes and antisemitic conspiracy theories under the guise of legitimate criticism of Israel or Jewish law. Haqiqatjou has praised Hamas and its October 7, 2023, terror attack on Israel across his social media profiles and shared age…
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.
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…