Letters

September 5, 2024 Mr. Mark Zuckerberg, CEO Meta 1 Hacker Way Menlo Park, CA 94025 Dear Mr. Zuckerberg, We write to you as leaders of seven of the largest Jewish Diaspora communities representing over 90% of Jews globally outside of Israel. As Jews, our communities continue to feel the impact of the brutal Hamas attack of October 7, 2023, with its death toll of over 1200 Israelis, over 4000 wounded, and over 250 taken hostage, and over a hundred still held captive in Gaza. Our Jewish…

     Dear Mr. Zuckerberg, We write to you as leaders of seven of the largest Jewish Diaspora communities representing over 90% of Jews globally outside of Israel. As Jews, our communities continue to feel the impact of the brutal Hamas attack of October 7, 2023, with its death toll of over 1200 Israelis, over 4000 wounded, and over 250 taken hostage, and over a hundred still held captive in Gaza.  Our Jewish communities continue to bear the brunt of dramatic increases of…

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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.

January 17, 2024 Mr.  Geoff Allardice Chief Executive Officer International Cricket Council Dear Mr. Allardice, ADL is the leading anti-hate organization in the world. Founded in 1913, its timeless mission is “to stop the defamation of the Jewish people and to secure justice and fair treatment to all.”  The Board of Deputies of British Jews is the democratically elected representative of the British Jewish community.  The Executive Council of…

Dear University President: Enforce Codes of Conduct in the Wake of Flood of Antisemitic Harassment and Discrimination on Campus Since October 7.

Note: The following letter from ADL and the Brandeis Center has been sent to the presidents of nearly 200 colleges and universities in response to the increase of antisemitic incidents on campus in the aftermath of the Hamas massacre of Israeli civilians. October 25, 2023 Dear President, We write to you today on behalf of ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) and Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law (the Brandeis Center) with an urgent request that your university…

Nueva York, NY, 19 de octubre de 2023 ... La Liga Antidifamación (ADL) publicó hoy la siguiente Carta Abierta a las organizaciones de medios de comunicación de todo el mundo que están cubriendo actualmente la crisis en Israel y Gaza. Apreciados periodistas, productores y editores: Nos dirigimos hoy a ustedes con un llamado urgente a la integridad periodística cuando la atención mundial está puesta en la crisis y guerra en Israel y Gaza. …

Dear University Presidents: As CEO of ADL (the Anti-Defamation League), I’m writing to express our shock and concern regarding an upcoming Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) event titled “National Day of Resistance,” scheduled to take place on campuses across the country this Thursday, October 12, 2023. Based on the promotional materials we have seen, this planned “resistance” appears to include an endorsement of terrorism and violence (cloaked in…

ADL strongly encourages the Oversight Board to affirm Meta's decision to remove Holocaust denial and distortion content, rightly classified as hate speech.

August 14, 2023 The Honorable Moshe Lion Mayor of Jerusalem Dear Mayor Lion, ADL (Anti-Defamation League) is a 110-year-old U.S.-based anti-hate organization, and a global leader in combating antisemitism, countering extremism and battling bigotry wherever and whenever it happens. I am writing to share ADL’s deep concern over the ongoing abuse of members of Jerusalem’s Christian community by a small group of Jews and urge you, as Mayor of Jerusalem, to speak out…

H.E. António Guterres Secretary-General United Nations, New York H.E. Miguel Ángel Moratinos High Representative for the UN Alliance of Civilizations United Nations, New York May 17, 2023 Your Excellencies, We, the undersigned Jewish communities and organizations, civil society organizations, and scholars and practitioners from around the world, write to you regarding the “UN Action Plan on monitoring antisemitism and enhancing a system-wide response…

May 9, 2023 The Honorable Kevin McCarthy Speaker U.S. House of Representatives Washington, D.C. 20515 Dear Mr. Speaker: I write to alert you to an event featuring Representative Rashida Tlaib that is taking place on Wednesday, May 10th at the U.S. Capitol Visitor's Center entitled, "Nakba 75 & the Palestinian People.” In previous years, many Nakba Day events have devolved into hateful, anti-Israel and even antisemitic language. Just last year, in May 2022,…

February 15, 2023  Sir Bill Beaumont World Rugby Chairman Dear Chairman Beaumont,  The Anti-Defamation League is a 110-year-old American organization with a mission to “fight the defamation of the Jewish people and secure justice and fair treatment for all.”   I am writing to you regarding the South African Rugby Union’s (SARU) decision to disinvite the Israeli rugby team Tel Aviv Heat to participate in the South African Mzansi Challenge…

January 20, 2023  Ms. Ada Colau Ballano  Mayor of Barcelona   Barcelona Municipal Council  Pl. de Sant Jaume  Barcelona  Dear Mayor Colau,  The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) is the world’s leading anti-hate organization. Founded in 1913 in response to an escalating climate of antisemitism and bigotry, its timeless mission is to protect the Jewish people and to secure justice and fair treatment for all. Today, ADL continues to fight…

November 21, 2022  Jeff Bezos,   Executive Chair  Andy Jassy,  President and CEO  David Zapolsky,   Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary Dear Mr. Bezos, Mr. Jassy and Mr. Zapolsky,   We, the undersigned, lead organizations representing US Jewish communities. We come together today in one voice to express how disturbed we are that Amazon has not given any indication that it will remove the book and film, Hebrews to…

Jeffrey P. Bezos, Executive Chair Andy Jassy, President and CEO David A. Zapolsky, Senior VP, General Counsel and Secretary Amazon Dear Mr. Bezos, Mr. Jassy and Mr. Zapolsky: More than a week ago I wrote you, along with the Brooklyn Nets, to express our concerns about a virulently antisemitic book and related video, “Hebrews to Negroes: Wake Up Black America” by Ronald Dalton Jr., being sold on Amazon. We asked that either Amazon remove the works from their shelves or…

Kasper Rorsted Chief Executive Officer Thomas Rabe Chairman-Supervisory Board Adidas World of Sports Adi-Dassler-Straße 1 91074 Herzogenaurach Germany Dear Mr. Rorsted and Mr. Rabe: In light of Kanye West’s increasingly strident antisemitic remarks over the past few weeks, we were disturbed to learn that Adidas plans to continue to release new products from his Yeezy brand without any seeming acknowledgement of the controversy surrounding his most recent…