Ronald Birnbaum Center to Combat Antisemitism in Education
The Center to Combat Antisemitism in Education (CCAE) drives coordinated advocacy to address rising antisemitism in K-12 schools and universities.
Through CCAE, ADL compels educational institutions to meet their legal and moral obligations to provide safe, welcoming learning environments for all members of their communities. We prioritize a whole-of-society approach to countering antisemitism in education, harnessing our research, advocacy, litigation, monitoring and outreach to drive meaningful action to change the education ecosystem and protect students. We lead nationwide campaigns to influence school districts and university policies, partner with Jewish communities and their allies and mobilize stakeholders. From collaboration and consultation to partnerships, lobbying, litigation and leveraging our regional offices, we ensure local and national impact.
CCAE has four focus areas:
Ensuring Safefy
Holding Institutions Accountable
Countering Antisemitic Extremism
Empowering Jewish Communities and Allies
Counter Antisemitism on Campus and in the K-12 Classroom
Take Action with Not On My Campus Campaign
Call on administrators to create safe campus environments through ADL’s six recommendations for an actionable path toward combating antisemitism. Become empowered with our best practices guides and tools and demand urgent, impactful change as a student, parent, alum, faculty or staff member or campus leader.
Explore the Campus Antisemitism Report Card
Discover how universities and colleges are addressing the campus antisemitism crisis and protecting their Jewish students. The Campus Antisemitism Report Card offers students, families and other stakeholders critical insights into the current landscape and how specific universities and colleges are responding to antisemitism on campus.
Address Antisemitism at the K-12 Level with ADL Resources
Explore practical tools and strategies for educators and parents designed to guide impactful discussions, promote understanding and counter antisemitism and bias in K-12 classrooms in addition to resources to help administrators counter antisemitism and respond to incidents of bias.
Take Administrative Actions
There are several action steps K-12 school and university administrators can take to demonstrate a commitment to creating inclusive, safe learning environments.
Advocate with ADL
- Tell Your State’s Department of Education to combat antisemitism in schools.
- Tell your Governor to fight antisemitism and make your state safer for everyone.
- Demand university leaders take action to combat campus antisemitism.
Get Help with Incidents of Antisemitism and Bias
Campus Antisemitism Legal Line (CALL)
Click here if you are a college or university student, professor or employee and would like to report a campus incident for legal evaluation by an attorney.
K-12 Antisemitism Legal Line (CA, MA and NY only)
Click here if you are a parent with a child experiencing antisemitism in a K-12 school in California, Massachusetts or New York and would like to report a school-based incident for legal evaluation by an attorney.
If you have experienced or witnessed an incident of antisemitism, extremism, bias, bigotry or hate, and seek ADL assistance, but not necessarily legal help, please report the incident to ADL. We will work to assess your situation and respond as quickly as possible.
View ADL Impact
Antisemitic incidents tracked by ADL on college campuses in 2023.
Complaints submitted in the first nine months of the Campus Antisemitism Legal Line program with nearly 100 attorneys supporting Jewish students.
School districts received our best practices guide for K-12 schools.
Learn about ADL's Litigation Work
ADL utilizes the legal system to confront, address and deter antisemitism, hate and extremism at the K-12 and university levels.
Coalition Files Lawsuit to Stop Antisemitic Content in Santa Ana Public Schools
This lawsuit, filed against the Santa Ana Unified School District (SAUSD), alleges violations of California’s open meetings law, including failing to provide proper public notice before approving multiple ethnic studies courses containing anti-Jewish bias.
ADL Files Title VI Complaint; Antisemitic Bullying in Philadelphia Schools
The federal civil rights complaint was filed on behalf of Jewish parents whose children have been subjected to “severe and persistent harassment and discrimination” at the hands of fellow students and teachers in the School District of Philadelphia (SDP).
ADL, Brandeis Center File Title VI Complaint; Antisemitic Climate at UMass
The federal civil rights complaint alleges that the university failed to address the severe discrimination and harassment of Jewish and Israeli students, including a violent assault, which fostered a hostile antisemitic environment.
Explore Research and Analysis
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Anti-Israel Activism on U.S. Campuses, 2023-2024
Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP)
Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP): What You Need to Know
Read about ADL Partnerships on Campus to Counter Antisemitism
ADL partners with organizations across the communal landscape that serve the Jewish community on campus. Our partners include student-driven campus organizations, Jewish and historically Jewish sororities and fraternities, Hillel International and Chabad on Campus, youth-serving organizations like BBYO and NCSY, organizations serving faculty, and alumni groups. Together, we work to strengthen our collective force to fight antisemitism by offering programs, resources and joint statements.
Sign Up for Campus Crisis Alert
Sign up for news updates and ways to take action to counter the rise of antisemitism and hate on college and university campuses.