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Riots across the United Kingdom involving far-right elements broke out after the murder of three young girls at a dance class in the Southport knife attack was falsely attributed to a recently arrived Muslim migrant. It is predictable but still problematic to see Israel scapegoated as the cause of the riots raging across the United Kingdom involving far-right elements. This is happening across social media. The claims have no basis and contribute to the increasing anxiety among the Jews in the…
Ismail Haniyeh, who was killed on July 31, 2024 in Tehran, led the so-called politburo of Hamas, a US-designated Islamist terror organization dedicated to the destruction of the State of Israel and the establishment of an Islamic state between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea. Hamas’ founding covenant issued in 1988, which echoes the notorious Protocols of the Elders of Zion charging Jews with an international conspiracy to gain control of the world, is…
New York, NY, August 1, 2024 ... A new report released today by the ADL (Anti-Defamation League) Center for Technology and Society (CTS) reveals that a group of moderators of Jewish communities on Reddit faced with increased antisemitism on the social media platform reached out to ADL for support. Based on research into these moderators’ experiences, ADL engaged with Reddit, which led the platform to take several important steps to stem instances of antisemitism on the site and to…
Teach students about what online hate and harassment is and its prevalence among adults and teenagers.
Engage in a family conversation about the online hate and harassment and what can be done about it.
Nueva York, NY, 15 de julio de 2024 ... Un nuevo informe de la ADL ha encontrado que HispanTV, un medio de comunicación en español fundado por la corporación de medios de comunicación controlada por el estado de la República Islámica de Irán y con un amplio alcance en América Latina, promueve las opiniones antisemitas del régimen iraní, el revisionismo del Holocausto, los prejuicios contra Israel y la incitación. …
Since October 7, extremists and conspiracy theorists have promoted mis- and disinformation narratives about the reality of Hamas’s unprecedented, multi-pronged attack on Israel, attempting to deny or minimize the tragedy and shift the blame towards victims, a majority of whom were innocent civilians. These misleading or false claims — many of which have proliferated on mainstream social media platforms — manipulate and distort the facts of the mass assault, invalidate the…
Key PointsThe Act Now to Stop War and End Racism (ANSWER) Coalition, established in 2001, is an anti-imperialist organization that often calls for anti-Israel and anti-war protests across the United States.The ANSWER Coalition frequently organizes mass actions nationwide, including over 150 protests opposing the 2026 military operation against the Iranian regime, as well as hundreds of protests following Hamas’s October 7, 2023 terror attack on Israel and during the subsequent Israel…
New York, NY, June 10, 2024 … More than half of all Americans - 56 percent - report experiencing online hate or harassment in their lifetimes, continuing an upward trend, according to ADL’s sixth annual Survey of Online Hate and Harassment – the highest rate since 2020. At a time when antisemitic incidents are at historic levels, 34 percent of Jewish adults who were harassed online reported being targeted because of their religion in the past 12 months. In addition, 63…
New York, NY, June 6, 2024 … Researchers at the ADL (Anti-Defamation League) Center for Technology and Society (CTS) found that some Facebook groups in local communities have become toxic sites of harassment, particularly identity-based harassment against Jews, women, LGBTQ+ advocates, immigrants, and people of color. Through interviews with community members, targets of the harassment and other stakeholders, combined with online observation, content analysis, and data scraping,…
IntroductionAs university encampments and other forms of student protests against Israel capture attention across the United States, protest organizers have made it clear that, on the majority of campuses, their goals go far beyond urging their universities to call for a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war or to denounce Israeli government policies. The ADL Center on Extremism analyzed statements published by the organizers of more than 130 university encampments nationwide…
New York, NY, May 9, 2024… ADL (Anti-Defamation League) applauds the decision by Institutional Shareholder Services (“ISS”), a leading independent proxy advisory firm, to recommend investors vote against an anti-Israel shareholder proposal in Amazon's 2024 proxy statement. Titled “Customer Due Diligence,” Shareholder Proposal 6 seeks to end the company's involvement in Project Nimbus—a $1.2 billion cloud computing agreement with the…
The death of Saleh Al-Arouri, a leading Hamas financier and military leader on January 2, 2024, resulted in threats of retribution against Israel by Hamas, Hezbollah and other regional proxies of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Similar to the killing of Qassim Soleimani, the head of Quds Force, in 2020 in Baghdad, and the killing of Seyed Razi Mousavi, a senior adviser of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps – Quds Force (IRGC-QF), in 2022 in Syria, Al-Arouri's death led to vitriol and…
New York, NY, April 15, 2024 – In response to Sunday’s unprecedented aerial attack by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) on Israel, which involved over 300 drones and missiles, ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) today urges shareholders to vote against Proposal 7 outlined in the RTX’s 2024 Proxy Statement. RTX Corporation, the world’s largest aerospace and defense company, is a producer of the Iron Dome defense system through a joint…
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.
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.
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…
We asked five of the main AI Chatbot platforms about topics related to antisemitism and their answers revealed concerning discrepancies.
On February 25, 2024, Aaron Bushnell, an active-duty member of the U.S. Air Force, approached the Israeli Embassy in Washington, D.C., and set himself on fire to protest the ongoing Israel-Hamas war, saying he would “no longer be complicit in genocide.” His act of protest has garnered praise from anti-Israel groups and foreign terrorist organizations (FTOs). Bushnell is the second person to self-immolate in front of a U.S.-based Israeli government building in protest of the…