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Antisemitic Incidents at Anti-Israel Events and Actions Around the World

Fact Sheet

Antisemitic Graffiti on a Synagogue Door in Norwich, UK

Updated: June 1, 2021 Since the start of the May conflict between Israel and Hamas, there have been numerous antisemitic incidents around the world related to the conflict. The perpetrators of these attacks deliberately targeted Jewish institutions in order to express their anger towards Israel. Whenever anti-Israel actions target synagogues, Jewish community centers, kosher restaurants, Jewish owned businesses, or individual Jews – in other words, holding Jews…

May 13, 2021

A View from Southern Israel

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by: Carole Nuriel July 30, 2018 One morning, my colleague Gaby Dubois and I set out to visit Israel’s south, near the border with Gaza, in the wake of tensions there in recent months. Just a few days earlier it seemed as if the escalating security situation would force us to cancel our visit, but thankfully things had quieted down a bit by then to enable us to go. We went to visit the Sdot Negev Regional Council for two reasons: first, to express ADL’s support and solidarity…

July 30, 2018

Turkish President Compared Israel To Nazi Germany In Recent Remarks on Gaza

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May 31, 2018 As world attention focused on the demonstrations taking place earlier this month along the Gaza border, Turkish President Recept Tayyip Erdogan fanned the flames of incitement against Israel and Jews with remarks comparing Israel to Nazi Germany. It was just another in a long line of his vocal criticism of Israel, using incendiary language and anti-Semitic statements to attack Israel and mobilize Turkish and Muslim action against the Jewish State. Just days after the May 14…

May 31, 2018

Iranian Regime Continues to Propagate Anti-Semitic Tropes

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February 28, 2018 The Iranian Javan (young) website published an article on February 13, 2018 which demonstrates the Islamic Republic’s consistent use of anti-Semitic tropes to promote the regime’s entrenched hostility towards Israel. The piece appears at a time of growing tensions between Iran and Israel and within Iranian society, and feeds into long utilized conspiracy theories propagated by the Islamic Republic about Israel and Jews, as well as their demonization of Western…

February 28, 2018

Al-Aqsa Aftermath: Analyzing post-Attack Extremist Rhetoric

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July 18, 2017 Introduction: Following the July 14th attack on al-Aqsa mosque, during which three Israeli-Arab gunmen shot and killed two Israeli police officers, tensions mounted as police canceled Friday prayers at the mosque for the first time in nearly two decades. Many international terror groups issued statements praising the attack, denouncing the closure, and inciting further violence against Jewish people and institutions. Further analysis showed an extraordinary amount of…

July 18, 2017

ADL Statement Following President Trump’s Israel Trip

Press Release

Says Remarks on Jewish Connection to Israel Serve as Important Rebuke Against Anti-Israel Forces New York, NY, May 23, 2017 … The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today commended President Donald Trump on a successful visit to Israel and his commitment to working for a secure Israel at peace with its neighbors. Jonathan A. Greenblatt, ADL CEO, issued the following statement: We commend the president for choosing to visit Israel on his first international trip and his affirmation…

May 23, 2017

The Iran Nuclear Deal: One Year Later

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by: Jonathan Greenblatt July 07, 2016 This blog originally appeared in Medium. As we approach the first anniversary of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) it is an appropriate time to reassess the merits of the deal. ADL was among the nuclear deal’s critics. Beyond the nuclear restraints it would impose on Iran, our concern is that it would normalize an expansionist, militant regime whose unrepentant and fundamentalist ideology was not tamed by the deal. Unlike…

July 07, 2016