Letters

[node:summary] 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…

Jonathan Greenblatt CEO and National Director July 27, 2022 Dear Mr. Agrawal, I am once again reaching out regarding Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s chronic violations of Twitter’s terms of service on his accounts of Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. We ask that you de-platform him for his continued use of Twitter to promote antisemitism, hate, violence and Holocaust denial. As I wrote in January 2021 to then Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, Khamenei…

July 13, 2022 In a letter to Iceland's Minister for Foreign Affairs, ADL urged the government to take immediate action against the antisemitic "Mapping Project," which is currently being hosted on the web by an Iceland-based provider. H.E. Thórdís Kolbrún Reykfjörd Gylfadóttir Minister for Foreign Affairs Ministry for Foreign Affairs Rauðarárstíg 25 105 Reykjavík Dear Minister Reykfjörd Gylfadóttir,  …

June 18, 2022 In an email correspondence to "1984.is", a web hosting service based in Iceland, ADL urged the company to remove the antisemitic "Mapping Project" immediately. To whom it may concern, I am writing on an urgent basis from the Anti-Defamation League, a US nongovernmental organization.     A website, https://mapliberation.org/, has apparently relocated to your hosting service after being removed from its previous hosts for doxing.  Specifically, the site…

The Honorable Claudia Roth Dienstsitz der Kulturstaatsministerin Bundeskanzleramt Willy-Brandt-Str. 1 10557 Berlin Dear Madam Minister: Since its founding 109 years ago, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), has been a global leader in combating antisemitism and extremism. We have followed with great concern the story of blatant antisemitic images featured in the documenta 15 art exhibition. We write to convey that concerns about this scandal are felt well beyond Germany,…