New York, NY, December 19, 2024 … ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) today welcomed the House Republican leadership’s report concluding their investigation into the alarming surge of antisemitism since Hamas’s terrorist attack on October 7, 2023. The committee’s investigation found that several universities failed to stop antisemitism on their campuses, likely violating Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Additionally, the report found that several American…
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Lowest participation from cities and states in two decadesNew York, NY, December 12, 2022 … ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) today expressed serious concern and called on law enforcement agencies to urgently commit to hate crime data collection and reporting in the wake of newly released FBI hate crime data for 2021, which did not include huge swaths of data from some of the largest jurisdictions in the country.
There was a 22 percent decrease in the number of reporting…
New York, NY, January 7, 2022 … ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) today welcomed the sentencing of the three men responsible for Ahmaud Arbery’s murder to life in prison, saying the judgment sends a message that there will be serious consequences for acts of hate-motivated violence.
Georgia Superior Court Judge Timothy Walmsley sentenced the three men found guilty in the death of Arbery to life in prison. Travis McMichael, who killed Mr. Arbery with two shotgun blasts was…
A jury found all three defendants guilty of murder in February 2020 shooting death of Ahmaud Arbery New York, NY, November 24, 2021 … ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt issued the following statement today after a jury found the three men charged in the death of Ahmaud Arbery were guilty of murder:
“The pain and loss resulting from Ahmaud Arbery’s murder can never be rectified, but this is a significant moment of accountability and justice. The men who murdered Mr. Arbery were…
2020 marked the highest level in 12 years and represents a 6% increase from 2019 New York, NY, August 30, 2021 … ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) today expressed deep alarm in response to the FBI’s annual Hate Crimes Statistics Act (HCSA) report, which revealed that 2020 saw a six percent increase in reported hate crimes from the previous year and represented the highest total in 12 years.
In 2020, the FBI reported 7,759 hate crime incidents, a six percent increase from 7,314…
Legislation would address rising hate crimes though increased funding and reporting mechanisms New York, NY, April 22, 2021... ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) praised the U.S. Senate’s bipartisan passage of the COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act as well as the Khalid Jabara and Heather Heyer National Opposition to Hate, Assault, and Threats to Equality Act (Jabara-Heyer NO HATE Act), both of which ADL has supported extensively.
The COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act would address the rise in hate…
New York, NY, March 17, 2021 ... In response to historic increases in anti-Chinese and anti-Asian American and Pacific Islander incidents and assaults, ADL (the Anti-Defamation League), the world’s leading anti-hate organization and Committee of 100, a non-profit U.S. leadership organization of prominent Chinese Americans, issued the following joint statement:
“We are united with all of our Asian American brothers and sisters in standing up against hate, xenophobia and violence…
Debra Messing hosted first virtual ADL In Concert Against Hate, which recognized a Holocaust survivor, educators and a 4th grade activist who are fighting injustice New York, December 7, 2020 … ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) recognized two individuals and one group for their extraordinary courage and compassion when confronted with injustice and extremism as part of the 26th annual ADL In Concert Against Hate.
This year’s event, which was held virtually on Dec. 6, was hosted…
New national data reveals deadliest year on record for hate crimes, even as fewer agencies reported data New York, NY, November 16, 2020 … ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) today called on Congress and law enforcement agencies across the U.S. to improve data collection and reporting of hate crimes in response to newly released FBI data for 2019. The data reveals a harrowing trend of increasing hate crimes being reported in the United States, even as fewer law enforcement agencies…
New York, NY, October 9, 2020 ... ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) today issued a new study showing a dramatic spike in anti-Asian sentiment and conspiracy theories about the spread of coronavirus in conversations on Twitter in the days immediately following the president’s first tweet about his positive diagnosis on October 2.
The new study of Twitter conversations and activity, conducted by ADL’s Center for Technology and Society, found that in the 12 hours after the…
Atlanta, GA, June 14, 2020 … ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) and the NAACP today called for the swift passage of HB 426, the Georgia Hate Crimes legislation, and committed to working for further actions to reform the state’s antiquated criminal justice system. Both organizations issued a joint statement in the wake of the police shooting of Rayshard Brooks, an African American man on Friday night in Atlanta.
“Ahmaud Arbery. George Floyd. Breonna Taylor. Rayshard…
El Paso shooting by white supremacist capped a bloody decade for the extreme right New York, NY, February 26, 2020 … Right-wing extremists were responsible for the vast majority of extremist-related murders in the United States in 2019, with the El Paso shooting capping off a bloody decade during which the far right was responsible for 76 percent of all extremist-related murders.
ADL (Anti-Defamation League)’s annual Murder and Extremism report found that of the 42 extremist…
Albany, NY, January 8, 2020 … ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) today praised New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo for his proposal to introduce a bill in 2020 that would for the first time classify mass violence motivated by hate as domestic terrorism and establish a task force to examine the issue. Under this initiative, announced at today’s State of the State speech in Albany, hate crimes committed with the intent to cause mass casualties would be considered “domestic acts of…
New York, NY, December 29, 2019 … ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) and the Secure Community Network (SCN), the official safety and security organization of The Jewish Federations of North America and the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, issued the following statement regarding Saturday night’s stabbing attack at a rabbi’s home in Monsey, NY:
We are horrified by the latest string of anti-Semitic attacks in New York, and the most recent…
New York, NY, December 29, 2019 … ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) CEO Jonathan Greenblatt issued the following statement regarding Saturday night’s stabbing attack at a rabbi’s home in Monsey, NY:
We are saddened, disturbed, and outraged by last night’s attack in Monsey, NY at a celebratory Hanukkah party. Again, here we are: mourning another act of senseless anti-Semitic violence committed against our community and praying for those who were the victims of this…
ADL partnering with non-profit Integrity First for America in its pathbreaking litigation against organizers of 2017 ‘Unite the Right’ violence New York, NY, November 19, 2019 … ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) today announced a partnership with Integrity First for America to support that organization’s ongoing lawsuit against the organizers of the 2017 “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Va.
Integrity First for America (IFA), a nonprofit…
New national data shows hate-crime murders hit 27-year high; increase is attributable to Pittsburgh Tree of Life synagogue massacre New York, NY, November 12, 2019 … ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) today called on lawmakers and law enforcement authorities to take action to address the deeply disturbing climate of hate in the United States after newly released FBI data showed that Jews and Jewish institutions were the overwhelming target of religion-based hate crimes last year –…
New York, NY, October 16, 2019 … In memory of the 11 people who lost their lives in the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting, ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) today announced “11 Actions for 11 Lives,” an online campaign encouraging Americans from all walks of life to participate in one meaningful action to help commemorate the one-year mark of the tragedy.
Beginning next week and leading up to the October 27 commemoration, ADL will be sharing a list of 11 suggested actions …
ADL providing expert analysis in what may be the third deadliest act of violence by a domestic extremist in over 50 years New York, August 4, 2019 … ADL expressed deep sadness following the mass shooting in El Paso, Texas on Saturday, which left 20 dead and more than two dozen injured, in what police are investigating as a possible hate crime.
“Yet again we turn our thoughts and prayers to a community grieving after another mass shooting potentially motivated by hate and…
New York, NY, June 27, 2019 … ADL (Anti-Defamation League) today welcomed the introduction of bipartisan legislation designed to improve hate crime data collection. The measure would authorize grants to promote hate crime training, prevention, best practices, and data collection initiatives – and to develop state hate crime reporting hotlines to refer individuals to local law enforcement and support services.
“Especially in a time of rising hate crimes, we must…