King accepted award at world’s largest summit addressing antisemitism and hate. New York, NY, March 4, 2025…ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) today presented sports icon and equality champion, Billie Jean King, with the ADL’s 2025 Changemaker Award. The award was presented during ADL’s signature event, Never Is Now: The World’s Largest Summit on Antisemitism and Hate in New York City. “Billie Jean King has used her platform to break down barriers, expand…
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Misogyny is a dangerous and underestimated component of extremism, and it shares alarming common ground with white supremacist ideology.
King will headline world’s largest summit addressing antisemitism and hate. New York, NY, February 5, 2025…ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) announced today that sports icon and equality champion, Billie Jean King, will be honored with ADL’s 2025 Changemaker Award. The award will be presented during ADL’s signature event, Never Is Now: The World’s Largest Summit on Antisemitism and Hate, held at the Javits Center in New York City on March 3-4, 2025. “The…
Tallahassee, Florida, September 18, 2024 … Florida State University’s (FSU) Maura’s Voice Research Fund (MVRF) and ADL (Anti-Defamation League) are renewing their partnership established in 2023 to perform research into the extremist elements of misogynistic subculture, including potentially violent incels -- who continue their often-deadly attacks on women and girls in the US and around and the world. ADL-MVRF research and related publications will now be published and…
CW: This piece contains reference to rape and sexual assault In the wake of the October 7 terror attack in Israel, horrific details began to emerge of Hamas assailants brutalizing Israeli women and girls, parading their broken bodies through the streets, and concertgoers being raped and murdered in front of their friends. By November, videos and eyewitness testimony were widely available to the public, showing and describing Hamas terrorists using rape as a weapon of war. …
Washington, D.C., Feb. 28, 2024: The Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law and ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) today filed a complaint with the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights against the Berkeley Unified School District (BUSD) for failing to take action to end nonstop bullying and harassment of Jewish students by peers and teachers since Oct. 7. According to the complaint, Berkeley administrators have ignored parent reports and…
Teach students about this history of Barbie, reflect on their own experiences with Barbie and consider what identity groups may be missing from Barbie's collection.
Part of the ADL Center on Extremism’s coverage of the misogynist manosphere and its subcultures, each of which impacts women’s experiences of safety and equity – online and offline.
Men’s Rights Activists (MRAs) are a part of the manosphere, a broad set of male supremacist, anti-feminist, misogynist and sometimes violent movements that exist largely online. MRAs embrace traditional masculinity as the ideal state of men in society and vehemently reject the…
Andrew Tate is a British-American former kickboxer and reality television star with millions of social media followers – 8.5 million on X (formerly Twitter) alone.
The Jewish community faced unthinkable tragedy on October 7th, when the terrorist group Hamas committed mass atrocities against thousands of Israelis, including murder, torture, dismemberment and rape. As the global Jewish community mourns our collective trauma, one could imagine a world in which Jewish students were comforted on campus with supportive words, candlelight vigils, and an understanding community mobilizing to support their needs. Instead, increasing numbers of Jewish students…
La ADL contabilizó 665 incidentes antiisraelíes en el último año académicoNueva York, NY, 13 de septiembre de 2023... Según un nuevo informe de la Liga Antidifamación (ADL), la reciente actividad antiisraelí en los campus universitarios de Estados Unidos se caracterizó por el vilipendio de los sionistas y las expresiones de apoyo a la violencia y a las organizaciones terroristas. En total, hubo 665 incidentes antiisraelíes…
ADL tallied 665 anti-Israel incidents in the last academic yearNew York, NY, September 13, 2023… Recent anti-Israel activity on U.S. college campuses was defined by the vilification of Zionists and expressions of support for violence and terrorist organizations according to a new report from ADL (Anti-Defamation League). In total, there were 665 anti-Israel incidents nationwide from June 2022 through May 2023. The annual report from the ADL Center on Extremism identifies a broad…
March is Women’s History Month, which provides an opportunity to bring the experience and perspective of girls and women to the forefront of conversations in schools. These discussions should include the stories, accomplishments, milestones and viewpoints of women and how they addressed and continue to work on overcoming sexism and injustice. Because women's stories and perspectives are sometimes excluded, discounted or marginalized, we need to remember…
February 25, 2021 The idea of dedicating a month to Women’s History came about in 1981 when Congress requested the President proclaim a week in March as “Women’s History Week.” In 1986, the National Women’s History Project played a significant role in expanding the observance to the entire month of March. Women’s History Month recognizes and honors the historical and present-day achievements, milestones and experiences of women. Over time, other countries…
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GRADE LEVEL: High School What is Bias? What is Implicit Bias?In What Ways Could Bias Have an Impact on Your Civic Participation? The U.S. Constitution embodies ideals of equal opportunity and fair treatment for all and is reinforced by laws like the Civil Rights Act and Title IX. Yet, marginalized people who have experienced discrimination and unfair treatment historically, continue to do so in the present day. The stories in the news and social media seem to…
August 17, 2020 This week marks the 100th anniversary of the U.S. Congress passing and the states ratifying the 19th Amendment, officially giving the right to vote to all citizens of the United States regardless of gender. This amendment finally granted the right to vote to one of the last remaining populations of non-voters: women. After years of fighting, it appeared as though the suffragists achieved what they had been demanding since the first women’s suffrage convention in Seneca…
May 23, 2019 For many women in America, and for advocates against discrimination and supporters of equal rights for all, the past few weeks have been particularly dark. The constitutional safeguards promised by Roe v. Wade are under attack like never before. The right to safe and legal abortion for many women hangs in the balance.
ADL is an organization whose 100+ year mission commits us to fight hate and secure fair treatment to all and we firmly believe that reproductive…
Teach students about the U.S. women’s soccer team’s lawsuit against the U.S. Soccer Federation and explore how sexism manifests in a variety of ways in women’s sports.
March 20, 2019 The U.S. Department of Education (DoED) recently announced that it will ignore a longstanding requirement of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) limiting federally funded contracts, which provide schools with services such as special education or instruction, to secular vendors. As a result, religious organizations, including houses of worship, are now eligible to be such contractors. This decision is not legally required, will compel taxpayers to fund…
Table Talk: Family Conversations about Current Events Topic Summary
On March 8, 2019 (International Women’s Day), the U.S. women’s soccer team filed a gender discrimination suit against the U.S. Soccer Federation, which governs soccer in the U.S. The soccer team’s complaint alleges pay inequities and inferior support and working conditions. In their statement released by the team, the twenty-eight players described “institutionalized gender discrimination” that…