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…
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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.
The mission of ADL’s Task Force on Middle East Minorities is to bring international attention to the human rights offenses committed against minority communities in the Middle East. The Task Force consists of regional and topical experts who serve as an advisory body to augment ADL’s work in protecting vulnerable minorities by identifying, elevating, and educating on emerging human rights issues in the Middle East.
The task force is comprised of leading scholars, experts, and…
New York, NY, September 30, 2022 ... In light of the widespread protests across Iran, ADL’s Task Force on Middle East Minorities called on the international community to make clear to the Islamic Republic that it must guarantee women’s rights, human rights, and rights of all ethnic, religious, gender and sexual minorities in Iran.
The protests, sparked in response to the death in custody of Mahsa Amini, who was arrested and imprisoned by the so-called …
August 21 marked the 53rd anniversary of the 1969 al-Aqsa Mosque arson and the ongoing disinformation campaigns scapegoating Jews and Israel for the attack. Although Israeli authorities promptly arrested, tried, and convicted the culprit, Denis Michael Rohan – a Protestant extremist from Australia who believed his actions would prompt the Second Coming of Jesus – Middle Eastern outlets have been publishing inaccurate reports of the event to this day. In a blog published last month,…
August 21 marks the 53rd anniversary of a terrible attack against an Islamic holy site, when a Protestant extremist from Australia named Denis Michael Rohan set fire to the al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem, destroying large parts of the site and irreplaceable artifacts.
Rohan’s crime should rightly be widely condemned and the loss commemorated even five-plus decades later. It is important to note that Rohan, who believed his actions would prompt the Second Coming of Jesus, was…
New York, NY, August 5, 2022 … ADL (Anti-Defamation League) Task Force on Middle East Minorities released the following statement in response to the intensified campaign by the Iranian regime targeting Iran’s Baha’i minority:
“We condemn the recent attacks targeting Iran’s vulnerable Baha’i community, and the July 31 statement by Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence which alleged that Baha'is are spies for foreign countries. This is part of the…
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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…
The phrase “You Will Not Replace Us” is a white supremacist slogan referring to the common White supremacist belief that the white race is in danger of going extinct due to rising numbers of non-White people who are controlled and manipulated by Jews. It may also be seen in acronym form as YWNRU.
ALTERNATE NAMES: YWNRU, Jews Will Not Replace Us
The phrase “We Wuz Kangs” is a racist term meant to attack African-Americans by racist mockery of Afrocentric theories about Egyptian connections to sub-Saharan Africa.
ALTERNATE NAMES: We Wuz Kings, Kings N Shiet
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The phrase “The Goyim Know” is an antisemitic phrase portraying the ostensible reaction of Jews when their supposedly conspiratorial or manipulative misdeeds are revealed to the public. Often combined with “Shut It Down.”
ALTERNATE NAMES: Da Goyim Know
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“Six Gorillion” is an antisemitic phrase used by white supremacists to refer to the Jews who died during the Holocaust (typically thought to be around six million). They replace “million” with “gorillion” to give the impression that Jews wildly exaggerate Holocaust-related deaths.
ALTERNATE NAMES: Muh Six Gorillion
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“Muh Holocaust” is an antisemitic phrase popular with the alt right used to convey the bigoted notion that Jews routinely bring up the Holocaust to gain attention or to deflect negative attention.
“It’s okay to be white” is a slogan popularized on the website 4chan in 2017 for trolling purposes and which was soon adopted by white supremacists (who had occasionally used the phrase themselves in the past).
“Diversity = White Genocide” is a white supremacist slogan intended to suggest that multiculturalism will mean the death of the White race.
“Day of the Rope” is a white supremacist slogan referring to mass murders of “race traitors” that occur in The Turner Diaries, a novel written by neo-Nazi William Pierce. The slogan is typically used to urge or promise some similar scenario in the real world.
“Anudda Shoah” is an antisemitic phrase used by white supremacists to mock Jews, whom they claim bring up the Holocaust when confronted with anything they don’t like.
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. …
“White Lives Matter” is both a white supremacist slogan adopted after the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement as well as a loose movement of white supremacists who hold events to popularize the phrase.
ALTERNATE NAMES: WLM
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