New York, NY, February 28, 2023… ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) today joined an amicus brief in the Supreme Court case Groff v. DeJoy, supporting people of faith seeking religious accommodations in the workplace under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Title VII requires employers to allow religious accommodations for employees unless doing so would constitute an “undue hardship” for the business. However, in Trans World Airlines, Inc. v. Hardison, the Supreme…
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New York, NY, June 30, 2022 ... ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) today welcomed the Supreme Court’s decision in Biden v. Texas, a 5-4 ruling that the Biden administration properly rescinded the Trump Administration’s Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP).
Informally known as the “Remain in Mexico” policy, under this cruel policy more than 71,000 asylum seekers arriving at the U.S./Mexico border have been forced to return to Mexico to await their U.S. asylum…
New York, NY, June 27, 2022 ... ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) is deeply disturbed by today's Supreme Court decision undermining the separation of church and state enshrined in the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment.
“This is a significant change in how we approach prayer in public schools, and one that will have a negative impact in particular on students of marginalized faiths and non-religious students,” said Rachel Robbins, Chair of ADL’s Civil Rights…
New York, NY, November 29, 2021… Members of ADL’s (the Anti-Defamation League’s) Task Force on Middle East Minorities issued a letter today calling on United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken to broaden the criteria for Priority-2 refugee admissions status to include Afghan nationals from ethnic and religious minority groups that have a well-founded fear of persecution under Taliban rule.
Vulnerable ethnic and religious groups are now in much greater peril since…
New York, NY, June 17, 2021 … ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) expressed disappointment in response to today’s Supreme Court ruling in favor of Catholic Social Services, which rejected the city of Philadelphia’s argument that it should not have to renew a foster care certification contract with an agency that refuses to serve same-sex couples.
However, the decision was narrow, and it is important to note that the Court focused on the details of the city’s contract…
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…
New York, NY, December 7, 2020 … ADL’s (the Anti-Defamation League) Task Force on Middle East Minorities today welcomed the bipartisan passage of two important House Resolutions that the Task Force had endorsed earlier this year as part of its work supporting the rights of vulnerable groups. The Task Force consists of scholars, experts, and activists who serve as an advisory body to augment ADL’s work in protecting vulnerable…
New York, NY, September 29, 2020 … ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) today expressed deep concern about the nomination of Chad Wolf to serve as Secretary of Homeland Security. In advance of the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs vote on his nomination, scheduled for Sept. 30, Jonathan Greenblatt, ADL CEO and National Director, issued the following statement:
As an organization founded to stop the defamation of the Jewish people and committed to…
New York, NY, August 13, 2020 ... ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) has voiced deep concern over problematic remarks reportedly made by Col. Douglas Macgregor (ret.), who was recently nominated to be the next U.S. Ambassador to Germany.
In a letter to Chairman Jim Risch (R-ID) and Ranking Member Bob Menendez (D-NJ) of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, ADL raised concerns regarding reports of Col. Macgregor's highly troubling past remarks downplaying the importance of…
New York, NY, February 14, 2020 … ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) today called on USA Table Tennis (USATT) to accommodate the Jewish religious observance of an Orthodox teenager at the upcoming U.S. Olympic Table Tennis Team trials scheduled in Santa Monica, CA for later this month.
According to reports, Estee Ackerman, an Orthodox-Jewish teenager, likely will not be able to compete at the Olympic trials because one day of the four-day tournament falls on Saturday, the Jewish…
New York, NY, February 4, 2020 … ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) Task Force on Middle East Minorities today endorsed three bipartisan pieces of federal legislation designed to increase U.S. support to vulnerable minority groups: the Deferred Removal for Iraqi Nationals including Minorities Act, the Resolution Supporting Coptic Christians in Egypt, and the Resolution Calling for the Global Repeal of Blasphemy, Heresy, and Apostasy Laws.
First, the Task Force endorsed H.R. 2537…
Washington, DC, October 7, 2019 … A coalition of civil rights and social justice organizations led by the national Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law and including the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, filed an amicus brief before the Supreme Court urging that the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) rescission of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program is unlawful.
Since its inception in…
Partnership comes on heels of deadliest white supremacist attack in more than 50 years, which targeted the Latin American community New York, NY, August 7, 2019 … In response to the recent white supremacist attack in El Paso, Texas, ADL (the Anti-Defamation League), UnidosUS (formerly NCLR) and LULAC (League of United Latin American Citizens) announced a new partnership today, which will share best practices and techniques for documenting and responding to hate violence –…
New York, NY, July 17, 2019 … ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) mourns the passing of Retired Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, the third-longest serving justice in the history of the court and a staunch defender of civil rights and religious liberty for all Americans.
Jonathan A. Greenblatt, ADL CEO and National Director, issued the following statement:
“We mourn the passing of John Paul Stevens, a Justice who served with distinction for 35 years. Justice…
New York, NY, June 27, 2019 … ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) today welcomed the Supreme Court’s decision to block the Commerce Department’s attempt to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census for the time being. The Court labeled the Commerce Department’s rationale for adding the question – voting rights enforcement – as “contrived,” and sent the case back for further deliberations.
ADL CEO and National Director Jonathan…
New York, NY, June 20, 2019 … ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) today expressed deep disappointment at the Supreme Court’s ruling allowing a 40-foot Latin cross to continue to stand on a traffic island at a major intersection in Bladensburg, Maryland.
ADL CEO and National Director Jonathan Greenblatt issued the following statement:
We are alarmed that the Supreme Court has allowed a 40-foot memorial cross to remain on government property in Maryland. As Justice Ginsburg…
New York, NY, June 5, 2019…ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) hailed the U.S. House of Representatives’ historic passage of legislation that would provide more than 2 million undocumented immigrants a pathway to permanent protections and citizenship, including young Dreamers and recipients of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) and Deferred Enforced Departure (DED).
The Dream and Promise Act, H.R. 6, passed yesterday in the House by a vote of 237-187 and is the first…
Washington DC, June 5, 2019 … ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) and the Mexican Foreign Ministry on Tuesday launched a new social media campaign, “#DenunciaElOdio” (“Denounce Hate”) to raise awareness among the Mexican immigrant community in the U.S. of the value and importance of identifying, reporting and exposing hate crimes. At a time of increased hate and discriminatory language being directed at immigrant populations, ADL and the Mexican Foreign Ministry are…
Mexico City, Mexico, May 29, 2019 …ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) and the Mexican Foreign Ministry today signed an agreement to work collaboratively to assist people of Mexican heritage living in the United States who are victims of discrimination, bigotry, bullying and hate crimes.
The Memorandum of Understanding between ADL and Mexico commences the second phase of a two-year partnership working to fight back against the rising tide of hate crimes and discrimination facing…
New York, NY, March 12, 2019 … ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) today hailed the introduction of H.R. 6, the Dream and Promise Act of 2019. Introduced by Reps. Nydia Velazquez (D-NY), Yvette Clarke (D-NY) and Lucille Roybal-Allard (D-CA), the bill would provide a pathway to citizenship for millions of DREAMers and recipients of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) and Deferred Enforced Departure (DED).
Jonathan A. Greenblatt, CEO and National Director, issued the following statement:
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