New York, NY, February 18, 2011 … The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today expressed appreciation to the United States for vetoing the "fundamentally flawed" U.N. Security Council resolution on Israeli settlements and for making clear to the Palestinian Authority that the only route to peace is through direct negotiations with Israel. Abraham H. Foxman,ADL National Director, issued the following statement:
We express our strong appreciation to the United States for its forceful action in…
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New York, NY, February 17, 2011 … The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today said it was deeply troubled by the dozens of violent attacks on journalists covering pro-democracy protests in Egypt and in other countries in North Africa and the Middle East. Scores of reporters were subjected to violent beatings, detentions, assaults and equipment seizures during the protests in Egypt. Among those attacked was CBS News Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent Lara Logan, who was the victim of a…
New York, NY, February 16, 2011 … The street protests that led to the ouster of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and shook Arab capitals from Tunis to Sana are contributing to a "new Middle East" where ordinary citizens are successfully agitating for democracy and reform, experts told a gathering of Anti-Defamation League (ADL) leaders last week in Florida. But the revolution in Egypt has also raised questions about what the future holds for…
New York, NY, February 12, 2009 … Israel's operation to defend itself from Hamas rocket attacks "opened the floodgates" of anti-Semitism, with Jewish communities in Europe and Latin America feeling especially vulnerable, the head of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) said in an address last week.
No one imagined that the war in Gaza "would so explode in an epidemic, a pandemic of anti-Semitism," said Abraham H. Foxman, ADL National Director, who described global fallout from the Gaza…
New York, NY, July 14, 2008 … The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today called on the government of Argentina to continue to pursue all leads in the investigation of the terrorist bombing of the AMIA-DAIA building in Buenos Aires, in which 86 were killed and hundreds more wounded 14 years ago, and to work to counter the Hezbollah influence in South America.
"While some important progress has been made in recent years, we share the frustration of the Argentine Jewish community that the…
New York, NY, February 13, 2008 … The head of the Interfaith Alliance last week told a gathering of top leaders from the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) that the increasing emphasis on religion by the presidential candidates has troubling implications for the separation of church and state, and for religious freedom in the United States.
"The major candidates don't fully get it," the Rev. Dr. C. Welton Gaddy, President of the Interfaith Alliance, told more than 250 leaders of…
New York, NY, August 19, 2003 ... The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) said today that the leader of the upcoming Million Youth March has a long record of promoting racist views and inciting anti-Semitism. Malik Zulu Shabazz, national chairman of the New Black Panther Party, most recently manifested his anti-Semitism by giving expression to hateful 9/11 conspiracy theories about Jews.
ADL called on New York City Councilman Charles Barron, D-Brooklyn, who has publicly endorsed the September 6…
New York, NY, November 7, 2007 … The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today welcomed a decision by Interpol’s General Assembly to uphold arrest warrants for five Iranians and one Lebanese believed to be behind the 1994 terrorist attacks on a Jewish Community Center in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in which 85 people were killed and hundreds wounded. The General Assembly, meeting in Marrakesh, Morocco, upheld a March 2007 decision by Interpol's executive committee to arrest the…
Atlanta, GA, February 11, 2008…The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) condemned the distribution of a flyer that attempts to incite tension between the Memphis African American and Jewish communities.
The flyer makes the repugnant charge that "Steve Cohen and the Jews hate Jesus." It purports to be from Reverend George Brooks of Murfreesboro, Tenn., and calls on African Americans to select "one black Christian candidate" to challenge Representative Cohen. It describes Cohen as an …
New York, NY, August 28, 2006 … Deeply distressed at announcements by El Salvador and Costa Rica that both intend to move their embassies in Israel to Tel Aviv, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today called on the leaders of both nations to reverse their decisions and maintain their official diplomatic offices in the capital city of Jerusalem.
"El Salvador and Costa Rica have for many years maintained a special and constructive relationship with Israel, so it would be a shame for…
New York, NY, August 1, 2006 … The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today accepted actor Mel Gibson's apology for anti-Semitic remarks he made during an arrest on suspicion of drunken driving.
Abraham H. Foxman, ADL National Director, issued the following statement:
This is the apology we had sought and requested. We are glad that Mel Gibson has finally owned up to the fact that he made anti-Semitic remarks, and his apology sounds sincere. We welcome his efforts to repair…
New York, NY, July 30, 2006 … The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) said actor and director Mel Gibson's apology for hurling anti-Semitic invective at a police officer during his arrest for driving under the influence was "unremorseful and insufficient" and said his tirade "finally reveals his true self."
According to reports, Mr. Gibson yelled epithets at the arresting officer, asked him if he was Jewish and stated that "the Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world."
In a…
Los Angeles, December 16, 2004….The Hate Crimes Report released by the Los Angeles County Commission on Human Relations today shows that, while hate crimes are down from their post-9/11/2001 highs, Jews continue to be the most frequently targeted religious group, now accounting for 84% of religious-based hate crimes.
"The Los Angeles County report is consistent with state and federal reports that show an overall reduction in hate crimes," said Amanda Susskind, Director, Pacific…
New York, NY, June 7, 2004 … The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has written to high-level Catholic Church officials in Rome, the United States and Germany to express "great distress" over the Vatican's plans to beatify a 19th century stigmatic nun whose visions, as recounted in literature of the period, have fomented hatred and anti-Semitism in her name.
ADL said the beatification of Anne Catherine Emmerich (1774-1824) "could cause harm to Jewish-Christian relations," especially in…
New York, N.Y., July 18, 2003 … The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today commemorated the ninth anniversary of the Jewish community center bombing in Buenos Aires, Argentina, which killed 86 people and wounded hundreds.
In a statement regarding the anniversary, Abraham H. Foxman, ADL National Director, said:
Today, as we commemorate the ninth anniversary of the bombing of the Jewish community building in Buenos Aires, Argentina, we remember the 86 innocent people who were killed…
Buenos Aires, December 15, 2008 … In a series of high-level government meetings in Argentina, top leaders of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) expressed profound disappointment over the lack of resolution in the investigation of two deadly terrorist attacks against Jews carried out by Hezbollah on instruction from Iran in Argentina more than 14 years ago. The Israel Embassy in Buenos Aires was bombed on March 17, 1994 and a suicide terrorist drove a car filled with explosives into…
New York, New York, July 14, 1999 … The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today called on the Government of Argentina to take immediate action to bring to justice the perpetrators of the 1994 bombing of the Jewish community building in Buenos Aires.
In a letter to President Carlos Menem, the League expressed concern "that the perpetrators of this barbarous crime are yet to be brought to justice" even as the fifth anniversary of the bombing approaches this month. The bombing killed 87…
Washington, D.C., September 28, 1995 ... The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today called on the United States Congress to urge Argentina to enact aggressive counterterrorism measures to assist in the investigation of recent anti-Jewish terrorist bombings in Buenos Aires and to prevent similar attacks in the future.
In testimony before the House International Affairs Committee, ADL National Commissioner Barry Mehler stated that "fourteen months after the assault against the AMIA (the Jewish…
New York, NY, May 9, 1995...The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today expressed support for the Jerusalem Embassy Relocation Implementation Act of 1995 introduced by Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole (R-KS ) calling for the U.S. to move its Embassy to Jerusalem.
David H. Strassler, ADL National Chairman and Abraham H. Foxman, ADL National Director issued the following statement:
"Moving the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem, the capital of the State of Israel, should have taken place a long time…