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Remarks by Gal Gadot, Recipient of ADL's International Leadership Award Delivered: March 4, 2025     (As delivered) Thank you! Thank you for this incredible recognition, and an enormous thank you to the ADL. Jonathan, thank you so much for your kind words. As we all know, hatred, intolerance and bigotry are on the rise. Most of us will never have experienced a worse time for antisemitism in our lifetimes. But we should feel safer knowing that the ADL has our backs. So thank you…

In the aftermath of the terrible attack in New Orleans, the Jewish Federations of North America, the Secure Community Network, ADL, Community Security Initiative-NY, and the Community Security Service have all been in close coordination.  As of this time, we are not aware of any specific threat to the Jewish community from this particular incident. All Jewish Federation community security programs are on alert, especially with regard to any large public gatherings that may be occurring…

By Jonathan A. Greenblatt Applying for a job is hard. Whether you’re already employed or not, whether it’s your first job out of school or you’ve been in the workforce for decades, it takes time, it takes energy, and it takes courage. Candidates will pore over their resumés, practice for interviews, ask trusted friends and mentors how to put their best self forward. Discrimination against Jewish job applicants: But it turns out the name atop that resumé sadly…

Given the harrowing history of Israel at the games, we must be vigilant in safeguarding Jewish athletes by Jonathan Greenblatt The 2024 Paris Olympics’ motto is “Games Wide Open” – but we must ask: Are these games truly wide open to Israelis and Jews? Sports are often touted as a great equaliser, especially at the Olympics. However, sports can also serve as a vehicle for harmful elements in society, including anti-Semitism, racism, sexism, and other forms of…

By Ken Jacobson, ADL Deputy National Director  This is a particularly hard Yom Hashoah commemoration because of the suffering in Israel from October 7, deemed the worst massacre of Jews since the Shoah, and because over 100 are still being held hostage by the terrorists. These events, together with the worldwide surge in antisemitism, remind us, while not comparing anything to the horror of the Shoah, that the world hasn’t learned a lot since that great tragedy. It is particularly…

Remarks by Jonathan Greenblatt, ADL CEO  To students at Brown University February 22, 2024 Good afternoon! It is an honor, truly an honor, to be here with you all on this beautiful campus today. And I want to acknowledge  Sylvia Carey-Butler for facilitating my visit and for that kind introduction, to everyone Brown University’s Office of Institutional Equity and Diversity for this invitation.  I also appreciate all of you for spending some of your afternoon here with me…

As the leaders of the largest Jewish diaspora communities, we stand with Israel as it defends itself against the war launched by Hamas.

ADL Chair Ben Sax’s Remarks at U.S. Department of Agriculture Sukkot Celebration

August 26, 2023 As delivered Good afternoon. Good afternoon! What a pleasure it is to see all of you, here at the Mall, standing up for justice. I stand here on behalf of ADL, a century-old anti-hate organization. That fights bigotry, that fights antisemitism that fights hatred of all types.  From the very start of the modern civil rights movement, ADL leadership stood, shoulder to shoulder, with our friends in the Black community.  In 1963, we came here to this…

  As delivered on July 28, 2023 in Houston, TX Good morning everyone. As Mark said, my name is Jonathan Greenblatt, I am the CEO and National Director of the Anti-Defamation League. ADL is the oldest anti-hate organization in America and we fight antisemitism and bigotry here in the US and around the world.   I am honored to be here today, and want to thank my good friend, my partner, Marc Morial, for the invitation to join all of you. For Marc…for the…

It is with humility and privilege that I am proud to introduce our next speaker. This is a man who, on the surface, might not seem an obvious choice for a program celebrating Israel’s 75 years. Yet he is an individual of remarkable vision who repeatedly has displayed the kind of courage that is rarely seen on the world stage. His royal highness the Crown Prince of Iran, truly is a historic figure. He is the eldest son of the former Shah of Iran, Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, who left…

This article originally appeared in The Times of Israel By Meir Javedanfar  On January 20, 2022, the United Nations General Assembly passed a resolution that condemned the denial and distortion of the Holocaust. To no one’s surprise, the Islamic Republic of Iran chose to be the only country in the world that condemned and rejected this resolution.  The UN passed the resolution one month after Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi cast doubt on the Holocaust during an…

By Jonathan Greenblatt and Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker One year ago on a cold shabbat morning, a gunman entered Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville, Texas and took members of Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker’s small, assembled congregation at gunpoint, the start of an 11-plus hour standoff.   It’s still hard to believe that Rabbi Charlie and his congregants were taken hostage by a man who travelled from England to Texas, with a demand to speak to a prominent female…

Forty years ago, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday was designated as a national holiday. ADL strongly supported the designation then and believes in the importance of honoring Dr. King’s memory now. Dr. King’s teachings inspire us each day as we strive to achieve our mission of stopping the defamation of the Jewish people and securing justice and fair treatment to all. To this day, many Jews take great pride in the deep friendship between Dr. King and Rabbi Abraham…

Good morning, everyone. I am so glad to be with you all here in Washington D.C. and to join the McCain Institute and Dr. Farkas for this event on one of the most important issues facing our country today. I would like to thank our guest speakers, especially Congressman Jamie Raskin for joining us today, as well as everyone here in person or tuning in virtually.     I can think of no better way to honor the legacy of Senator McCain, a man who dedicated his life to public service…

Good evening and thank you for being a part of this important gathering of the Inter-Parliamentary Task Force to Combat Online Antisemitism. I’m delighted to see so many friends in this room tonight. I want to particularly thank Task Force co-chairs U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Canadian Member of Parliament Anthony Housefather for organizing this critically important summit that challenges us to ask hard questions about the evolution and proliferation of online antisemitism…