New York, NY, August 5, 2021 … ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) today announced the election of Ben Sax as Chair-Elect of ADL’s Board of Directors. Currently vice chair of the board, Ben has served in various regional and national leadership positions, including National Chair of Development and New York Regional Board Chair. Ben also helped revamp ADL’s governance structure in 2017 to bolster leadership accountability and transparency to sustain the…
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New York, NY, July 27, 2021 ... ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) has been engaged in deep dialogue with Unilever management since early last week regarding the decision by the independent board of Ben & Jerry's to stop selling its ice cream in the West Bank. (Ben & Jerry's is a Unilever subsidiary.) The Unilever CEO sent ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt a letter in which the company assured ADL it remains strongly committed to serving the Israeli business…
January 01, 1970 ADL proudly supports the right of the Jewish people, like other peoples, to self-determination. In the case of the Jews, this translates to the right to live in a Jewish, democratic state in their ancient homeland, Israel. ADL believes that the existence of Israel provides Jews with a safe haven from the bigotry and endangerment they have suffered perennially as a minority culture among non-Jewish majority cultures — be it from Tsarist pogroms, Hitler’s Third Reich…
New York, NY, June 15, 2021… ADL (the Anti Defamation League) commends the release today of the U.S. government’s first-ever comprehensive interagency strategy focused specifically on countering the threat of domestic violent extremism, such as violent white supremacy and anti-government extremism.
“Domestic violent extremism is the nation’s top terrorism threat and the Biden Administration’s new strategy is an excellent step forward in addressing it,…
El 60 % dice haber sido testigo de antisemitismo en las últimas semanas. June 14, 2021 Nueva York, NY, 14 de junio de 2021 – Una encuesta nacional realizada por la ADL (Liga Antidifamación) a raíz de la reciente violencia entre Israel y Hamás encontró que tres cuartas partes de los judíos estadounidenses están más preocupados por el antisemitismo en Estados Unidos y en el extranjero, y el 60 % ha sido testigo de primera mano de…
Updated: January 2024 Since 1979, ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) has compiled data on antisemitic incidents, including both criminal and non-criminal acts, occurring across the United States. These include incidents of harassment, vandalism and assault against individuals and groups. Incident data is gathered from reports from victims, law enforcement and the media, as well as reports obtained by ADL’s 25 regional offices across the country. The data is used to help…
Los Angeles, CA, May 22, 2021 … ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) welcomed the arrest of one of the primary suspects in the antisemitic beating of several Jewish diners outside of a Los Angeles restaurant earlier this week. One of the perpetrators in the attack on La Cienega Boulevard was arrested Friday night and charged with assault with a deadly weapon. LAPD is still searching for a second suspect in the attack.
Jeffrey Abrams, ADL L.A. Regional Director, issued the following…
by: Kenneth Jacobson
The Times of Israel The current crisis in Israel is disturbing on many levels. While there’s nothing new about Hamas raining rockets down on Israeli civilian centers, the heightened levels of sophistication of the rockets, combined with the distressing outburst of inter-communal violence in Israeli cities have added to the stark challenges facing Israel as it moves into the second week of conflict with Hamas.
Undoubtedly, the beginning of this current…
by: Carole Nuriel | May 14, 2021 The Times of Israel JERUSALEM — The State of Israel and Israeli society are currently in the throes of a major crisis, one of the gravest ever. For several weeks, we have been witnessing events that one after the other have escalated the situation. Now we have reached a point where Israel is engaged in direct warfare with Hamas, a U.S.-designated terrorist organization, along with a dangerous conflagration inside Israel that threatens to shred the…
New York, NY, May 10, 2021 ... ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) issued the following statement today regarding the recent violence, tensions, and rocket attacks in Jerusalem:
ADL is deeply concerned by the growing crisis in Jerusalem and beyond.
We strongly condemn Hamas' firing rockets in Jerusalem and across southern Israel. We stand by Israel’s right to self-defense.
Those who explicitly seek to destroy the state of Israel, including Hamas, Islamic Jihad…
New York, NY, April 20, 2021 ... ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) released the following statement regarding the guilty verdict reached today in the trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin for the murder of George Floyd:
The jury’s decision to hold Derek Chauvin accountable for the murder of George Floyd is a critically necessary first step in securing #JusticeforGeorgeFloyd.
And yet, no guilty verdict can…
April 20, 2021 April 20, 2021
Good morning and thank you so much for your kind introduction. It is an honor to have an opportunity to speak with all of you today and I look forward to answering your questions after my prepared remarks.
At the ADL, we have been tracking extremist movements and the spread of hatred literally for generations. We have seen all kinds of hateful groups over the decades. But we have never seen a moment like this, not just when tensions seem to be at an all…
New York, NY, April 14, 2021 ... ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) issued the following statement today in response to the charging of former Brooklyn Center, MN police officer Kim Potter with second-degree manslaughter in the killing of Daunte Wright:
The charges now filed against former police officer Kim Potter do not change the fact that Daunte Wright -- and too many other Black individuals -- should be alive today. This issue is much…
by: Kenneth Jacobson | April 07, 2021 The Times of Israel It is now 76 years since the death camp at Auschwitz was liberated. As we commemorate Yom HaShoah this week, it is useful to take a look at how the Holocaust is affecting public morality all these years later — and how it is still being abused.
It is both helpful and not helpful to talk about the Holocaust when discussing the disturbing resurgence of anti-Semitism in the world today.
On the one hand, as reflected in ADL…
Calif. legislation would require social media companies to publicly disclose corporate policies and key data and metrics on enforcement New York, NY, March 30, 2021...ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) welcomed the introduction of legislation from California State Assemblymember Jesse Gabriel that would require social media platforms to publicly disclose their content moderation policies regarding online hate/racism, disinformation, extremism, harassment and foreign interference, as well as key…
More than 50% of Israelis changed their views for the worse of Haredi sector in wake of the COVID-19 crisis Jerusalem, Israel, March 8, 2021 … A new survey of Israeli public attitudes released by ADL (Anti-Defamation League) found that a record 81 percent of Israelis believe that their society is increasingly divided, and the rifts are widening. This represents a marked increase from the 69 percent of Israelis who held those views in a similar poll four years ago.
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New York, NY, February 5, 2021 … ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) issued the following statement in response to the introduction of the “Safeguarding Against Fraud, Exploitation, Threats, Extremism, and Consumer Harms Act” or the SAFE TECH Act from Senators Mark Warner (D-VA), Mazie Hirono (D-HI), and Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) and which proposes reforms to Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act that would directly address tech platform involvement in discrimination,…
Remarks by Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO, ADL February 04, 2021 February 4, 2021
Mr. Chairman, Ranking Member Katko, Members of the Committee, good morning.
I am Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO of ADL. It is an honor to appear before you today to address the dire threat domestic terrorism poses. For more than a century, ADL has worked to stop the defamation of the Jewish people and to secure justice and fair treatment to all. As part of that, we’ve built a world-class team investigating…
Announces Bipartisan PROTECT Plan to Fight Domestic Terrorism New York, February 3, 2021 … Right-wing extremists were linked to at least 16 extremist-related murders in the United States in 2020 and have been responsible for 75 percent of such murders in the last ten years, according to new data from ADL (Anti-Defamation League).
According to an annual analysis by ADL’s Center on Extremism, domestic extremists were responsible for killing at least 17 people in the U.S. in…
Diverse business, philanthropic leaders joined Board effective Jan. 1 New York, NY, January 25, 2021 … ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) today announced the election of Geraldine Acuña-Sunshine and Donna Levin to ADL’s Board of Directors. Acuña-Sunshine, born in the Philippines, is a philanthropist and hedge fund lawyer. Levin, a social entrepreneur, academic and executive, is the first Black woman to join the board.
“We are fortunate that Geraldine and…