May 10, 2017 More than 500 ADL leaders and Jewish activists from across the country gathered for ADL’s annual Shana Amy Glass National Leadership Summit in Washington, D.C., where government officials, policy experts, journalists, opinion makers and other public figures addressed the participants on some of the most critical issues on the League’s agenda.
ADL CEO's Opening Remarks: Action to Impact
To kick off the Summit, ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt gave a rousing…
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May 05, 2017 White supremacists are gearing up for what they are calling the “Battle of New Orleans,” on May 7th. They plan to confront left-wing and anti-fascist (antifa) groups that have been calling for the removal of more Confederate monuments in New Orleans after the mayor of the city removed the Liberty Place monument on April 24th.
Even in the South, Confederate monuments and flags have become more controversial and a growing body of opinion is uncomfortable…
May 01, 2017 By Susan Heller Pinto
Associate Director of International Affairs and Director of Middle Eastern Affairs at the Anti-Defamation League
This blog originally appeared in The Times of Israel
I feel like I have spent the better part of 2017 in meetings discussing and planning for portentous anniversaries in the history of Zionism and Israel. This year, after all, marks the 120th anniversary of the First Zionist Congress (August 1897); the centennial year of the Balfour…
May 01, 2017 Updated: 9/5/18 Has the simple thumb-and-forefinger “OK” hand gesture become a common white supremacist hand sign? Not quite, but it has become a popular gesture used by people across several segments of the right and far right—including some actual white supremacists—who generally use it to trigger reactions, or what they would describe as “trolling the libs.” This is thanks to a 2017 hoax campaign started by members of the…
by: Jonathan A. Greenblatt April 28, 2017 ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt's remarks after receiving the Active Citizenship and Public Service Award from Tufts University
Accepting an Honor and Exercising My Responsibility as a Tufts Alumnus
Thank you. I want to thank the Awards Committee, President Monaco and my dear friend Dean Alan Solomont for helping to make this honor possible. It’s wonderful to be here on campus at Tufts. I’m so proud to be a Jumbo, and…
New York, NY, April 24, 2017 … Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Memorial Day in the Jewish calendar, is observed today. The Anti-Defamation League remembers the six million Jews murdered by the Nazis, and the many millions more who perished at their hands. We recall the precious few who acted to protect the persecuted, and all who gave their lives in the struggle to defeat Nazism.
The enormity of the evil that was the Shoah defies definition. The numbers themselves are…
New York, NY, April 21, 2017 … The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today welcomed the U.S. Department of Justice’s filing criminal charges against the Israeli-American teen charged with making more than 150 bomb threats to Jewish Community Centers, schools, ADL offices, and other Jewish community institutions.
Jonathan A. Greenblatt, ADL CEO, issued the following statement:
We welcome the Department of Justice filing charges against the Israeli-American teen arrested in…
April 19, 2017 Police in Fresno, California, arrested a suspected gunman on April 18 after he allegedly killed three people in a shooting spree in downtown Fresno (and may be responsible for a fourth, earlier murder as well).
The victims of the gunman, Kori Ali Muhammad, were all white and Fresno Police Chief Jerry Dyer said that Muhammad had given “very detailed” information to them following his arrest that led police to believe his acts had been a hate crime. Dyer…
April 14, 2017 UPDATE: Auburn University has cancelled Richard Spencer’s speech due to safety concerns.
The creation of a white supremacist group at Auburn University and the upcoming speech there by white supremacist Richard Spencer on April 18 are prompting concern at the school and in the surrounding community.
Though it is not clear if the two events are directly related, they do have common themes. The group created at the school—the Auburn White…
April 10, 2017 An online campaign of anti-Semitism has been directed at Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and advisor over the past week. It comes in the context of Trump’s removal of chief strategist Stephen Bannon from the National Security Council and reports about a feud between Bannon and Kushner as well as airstrikes in Syria in response to the chemical attack last week.
This campaign of anti-Semitism has been driven by white supremacists and anti-Semites…
New York, NY, April 10, 2017 … An anti-Semitic social media trolling campaign aimed at presidential advisor Jared Kushner has escalated from a series of tweets into a full-bore assault perpetrated primarily by white supremacists and anti-Semites of various stripes, according to an online analysis by the Anti-Defamation League’s Center on Extremism.
The campaign of anti-Semitic messages has included accusations that Jews in the Trump Administration are trying to start a war to…
Nueva York, NY, 6 de abril de 2017... Dos nuevas encuestas de opinión pública contratadas por la Liga Antidifamación (ADL) revelan importantes tendencias entre los estadounidenses en relación a sus puntos de vista sobre los judíos y otras minorías religiosas.
Las encuestas revelan que, aunque las actitudes antisemitas en Estados Unidos han aumentado ligeramente a un 14 por ciento, la gran mayoría de los estadounidenses albergan opiniones…
New York, NY, April 6, 2017 … Two new public opinion polls commissioned by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) reveal important trends among Americans in terms of their views of Jews and other religious minorities.
The surveys reveal that while anti-Semitic attitudes in the United States have increased slightly to 14 percent, the vast majority of Americans hold respectful opinions of their Jewish neighbors. However, for the first time ADL found a majority of Americans (52 percent)…
April 04, 2017 The past two years have been challenging for certain groups of people, especially those targeted during the 2016 presidential election campaign with taunts, verbal attacks, name-calling and threats. Now that the election is over, those threats have resulted in proposed policy, legislation and executive orders affecting those very same people. This has left many—especially immigrants and Muslim people—feeling fearful, on edge, marginalized and worried about their…
March 30, 2017 Dozens of people showed up at the Indiana State House in Indianapolis on March 25, 2017, to support President Trump and his administration at a “Make America Great Again” (MAGA) rally, one of a number of such events held around the country that weekend. Waving Trump signs and American flags, many participants were everyday Americans excited about their president.
But about a dozen of the ralliers—a significant portion of the whole—were a little…
March 24, 2017 On Tuesday, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued new guidelines for the use of electronic devices on certain airlines and aircraft bound to the U.S. from eight majority-Muslim countries: “Electronic devices larger than a cell phone/smart phone will not be allowed to be carried onboard the aircraft in carry-on luggage or other accessible property. Electronic devices that exceed this size limit must be secured in checked luggage.”
The DHS release states…
March 21, 2017 The irony was thick this week when a Massachusetts rabbi wrote a blog piece musing about the dangerous effects of online trolling, citing the neo-Nazi website The Daily Stormer as a prime perpetrator. A Daily Stormer writer immediately pounced, posting a story ridiculing the rabbi’s concern and encouraging readers to, yes, troll her via Twitter (he provided the rabbi’s handle) “to thank her for spreading degeneracy among the Jews, or for helping spread our fame…
March 20, 2017 While ADL has documented nearly 120 incidents of white supremacist activity at college campuses across the country, racists have turned their attention to another group they want to attract—high school students. Between January and March of this year, there have been four incidents of white supremacists targeting high schools with fliers.
It is not unusual for white supremacists to target young people who have not yet matured and are susceptible to new ideas. The…
Updated: March 17, 2017 On Friday March 17, U.N. Secretary General called on ESCWA to withdraw its report on Israel. It is currently not available on their website. In response, ESCWA Executive Secretary Rima Khalaf, who has a history of anti-Israel activity, resigned. New York, NY, March 16, 2017 … The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today joined with U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, in calling for the immediate recall of a “hostile and biased report”…
March 15, 2017 On Sunday morning, U.S. Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) took to Twitter to express some feelings about immigration, finding common cause with a well-known anti-immigration activist from Europe. “Wilders understands that culture and demographics are our destiny,” the Congressman wrote. “We can’t restore our civilization with somebody else’s babies.”
King was referring to Dutch politician Geert Wilders, an anti-Muslim crusader who is…