New York, NY, January 23, 2025 … ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) today welcomed the introduction of a bill in the New York Legislature designed to bring back and strengthen a law prohibiting masked intimidation. The law will protect New Yorkers from harassment, violence and intimidation by people wearing face coverings, which have been exploited in recent months to subject innocent New Yorkers to threats, violence and intimidation. Sponsored by State Senator James Skoufis (D-Cornwall)…
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School District of Philadelphia Agrees to Address Repeated Incidents of Antisemitism New York, NY, December 20, 2024 … The School District of Philadelphia (SDP) has entered into a resolution agreement to take a series of steps to address repeated incidents of antisemitic harassment, bullying and discrimination in response to a federal civil rights complaint filed by ADL (the Anti-Defamation League). Under the terms of the settlement announced yesterday, SDP will undertake a…
Remarks as delivered June 27th, 2024 Thank you- I join you all here this morning on behalf of ADL, the oldest anti-hate organization in the United States, alongside my good friend Marc Morial, President of the National Urban League, and our partners - Assembly members Brian Cunningham, Nily Rozic, Grace Lee, Jennifer Rajkumar and Pastor Johnnie Green. In addition. We are very grateful to Dr. Hazel Dukes of the NY NAACP, an icon of the civil rights movement for lending her strong words of…
Tips and guidance for helping K-12 schools encourage students to become civically engaged, provide safety and protection for all students, and adhere to students’ First Amendment rights.
Read ADL Letters, testimony and comments sent to Congress and Federal Agencies.
New York, NY, October 5, 2021 … Thousands of individuals from all walks of life will join together in communities across the country, both in-person and virtually, with an aim to “Fight Hate for Good” in ADL’s (the Anti-Defamation League’s) Walk Against Hate.
Scheduled to take place on Sunday, October 10 in communities across the country, the annual event brings together families, friends, colleagues, teammates, community groups, students, educators and more…
New York, NY, June 23, 2021 … ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) today welcomed the Supreme Court’s decision in Mahanoy v. B.L., an 8-1 ruling that a school violated the free speech clause of the First Amendment when they suspended a student from the cheerleading team for a vulgar social media post made off-campus and outside of school hours.
“This is an important win for the free speech rights of all U.S. students,” said ADL Legal Affairs Chair Joe Berman. …
April 16, 2021 THE WEEK’S BIG 3
The former police officer who was recorded on camera fatally shooting Daunte Wright during a traffic stop was arrested and charged with second-degree manslaughter on Wednesday. ADL called on Fox News to remove primetime opinion host Tucker Carlson after he openly embraced a white supremacist conspiracy theory in front of millions of viewers. Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson signed a watered-down hate crimes bill into law this week, one that ADL and other…
February 22, 2021 Social media platforms have received the lion’s share of attention for enabling users to spread hate and disinformation and plan and incite violence and terrorist acts. Flying under the radar are infrastructure providers like Epik, a domain registrar and web hosting company that works with nearly 750,000 websites and is ranked among the 50 largest web hosts. A domain is the address of a website you type into the URL bar of an internet browser. Domain registrars are…
New York, NY, November 9, 2020 ... ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) will honor chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov for using his platform to stand up for democracy and human rights in his native Russia, the United States and around the world. ADL will present Kasparov with its International Leadership Award, which pays tribute “to those exceptional individuals whose vision, imagination and creativity have left an indelible mark upon the global community.
Kasparov will accept the…
New York, NY, November 8, 2020 ... ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) announced today that Kenneth C. Frazier, Chairman and CEO of Merck & Co., Inc. is this year’s recipient of ADL’s Courage Against Hate Award for using his platform to speak out on behalf of marginalized communities and serving as an exemplary role model for corporate leadership.
Frazier is a leader who has demonstrated that the business community has a responsibility to make the world better for…
New York, NY, November 7, 2020 ... ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) today congratulated President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris on their election victory. ADL called on both Democrats and Republicans to ensure a peaceful transfer of power once the election results have been validated.
Jonathan A. Greenblatt, ADL CEO, issued the following statement:
We congratulate President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. on his milestone election victory. We also…
As the final votes are tallied, we reiterate our longstanding calls that every vote counts and every vote must be counted. New York, NY, November 4, 2020 ... Jonathan A. Greenblatt, CEO of ADL (the Anti-Defamation League), today issued the following statement on the undetermined outcome of the United States presidential election:
We have just witnessed one of the most consequential presidential election contests in the history of our nation. The turnout exceeded expectations across the…
New York, NY, October 22, 2020 ... ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) today responded to reports that the U.S. State Department is considering designating several prominent international nongovernmental organizations as antisemitic.
ADL issued the following statement:
“We oppose broadly applying the antisemitism label to these human rights organizations; doing so is neither accurate nor helpful to the fight against antisemitism. Rather, this move would…
August 28, 2020 THE WEEK’S BIG 3
Federal investigators announced that they have launched a civil rights probe into the police shooting of Jacob Blake, a 29-year-old Black man, in Kenosha, Wisconsin. A sign with the phrase “The Jews Want A Race War” was hung from the heavily trafficked Los Angeles interstate 405 highway overpass on Saturday. The NAACP will replace all leadership of its Philadelphia chapter — including its president, Minister Rodney Muhammad —…
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 29, 2018 … Anti-Defamation League (ADL) CEO and National Director Jonathan Greenblatt issued the following statement following the announcement of Supreme Court Associate Justice Anthony Kennedy’s retirement:
"While often the fifth and deciding vote on many cases, Associate Justice Kennedy has been an important voice on key cases throughout his 30 years of distinguished service on the Court. He has affected a broad range of civil…
December 07, 2017 Updated: December 18, 2017 Editor's Note: Christian Picciolini and ADL's work battling extremism was featured on Sunday, Dec. 17 on 60 Minutes on CBS. As the one-time leader of one of the most infamous white supremacist groups in America, Christian Picciolini was once so immersed in the hate movement that his name appeared prominently in an ADL report on neo-Nazi activity in Illinois. Picciolini had swastika and racist tattoos on his arms and led a small empire…
Urges Congress Not to Restrict Campus Leader Discretion New York, NY, October 26, 2017 … As the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee held hearings on “Exploring Free Speech on College Campuses,” the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) urged Senators to recognize that, while the First Amendment protects hateful, offensive, and ugly speech, campus leaders have a responsibility to use their bully pulpit to address the impact and harm of this speech.
ADL…