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The following letter, penned by Brittan Heller, director of the ADL's Center for Technology and Society, and Susan Benesch, executive director of the Dangerous Speech Project, appeared in The New York Times in response to President Trump's speech to the F.B.I. National Academy. To the Editor: Re “Deceit and Confusion in Talk on Law and Order” (Fact Check, Dec. 16): Addressing elite F.B.I. National Academy graduates last week, President Trump…

ADL responded to an op-ed by a Jewish Voice for Peace staffer, who asserted that alt-right leader Richard Spencer was right in his remarks that Zionism is akin to white supremacy. Days after the horrific showcase of American far-right extremism in Charlottesville, America’s leading extremist, white supremacist leader Richard Spencer, appeared on an Israeli television newscast and compared his hate-filled ideology to Jewish nationalism, declaring it “white Zionism.” …

Letters to the Editor National Review To the Editor: Re “Remember the Hysteria about Trump-Induced Anti-Semitism” (June 13): Our concerns about anti-Semitism in America are real and based on fact. Dennis Prager, in making his claim of hysteria, ignores the data and chooses to mischaracterize our statements. We made clear, reflecting ADL’s most recent poll of the American people, that the American public at-large was not becoming more anti-Semitic. We also…

ADL reacted to an op-ed in The New York Times which "bears no resemblance to the complicated reality" between Israel and the Palestinians. Letters to the Editor The New York Times To the Editor: Re “Israel’s Everlasting Occupation” (Sunday Review, June 4): Nathan Thrall attributes to Israel an early determination to hold on to the territories. In fact, from the outset after the Six-Day War, Israel saw its winning territory as a perfect bargaining chip…

ADL responds to an article in The New York Times titled "Hamas Tempers Extreme Stances in Bid for Power” which appeared on May 2, 2017. Letters to the Editor The New York Times To the Editor: The story of a new Hamas statement of principles, with all the fuss and anticipation, is much ado about nothing. On the core of Hamas’s attitudes and policies toward Israel, nothing has changed. For Hamas, there is only one legitimate authority in the Holy Land. Israel,…

ADL letter to the public editor concerning convicted Palestinian terrorist Marwan Barghouti. Letters to the Editor The New York Times To the Public Editor: We appreciate your comments about the Times failure with regard to the article by Marwan Barghouti. Unfortunately, it did not go far enough nor did the newspaper's clarification. Yes, Mr. Barghouti was not merely a Palestinian parliamentarian. He was convicted of murder by an Israeli court. Also important…

This letter was written in response to an article that appeared in The Nation regarding zionism and feminism. Letters to the Editor The Nation To the Editor: My parents came to Israel from Morocco, a country where Jews and Muslims lived together in harmony for centuries. They instilled in me and my siblings a loving humanism that demands we treat people of different race, gender, and religion with equal respect. As an Israeli woman, I inhabit multiple identities…

December 29, 2016 Letters to the Editor The New York Times To the Editor: Re “Israel and the Two-State Solution” (editorial, Dec. 29): Regrettably, developments over the last few days will likely worsen the very point that Secretary of State John Kerry identified as the critical hurdle to reaching a two-state solution: the lack of trust and confidence between the parties. The Security Council resolution and Mr. Kerry’s harsh and hectoring speech…

The following letter was written to The New York Times in response to "Celebration at Trump Hotel Illustrates Rift Among Jews” (Dec. 16) Letters to the Editor The New York Times To the Editor: While we can’t speak for the other organizations who did not attend the Hanukkah celebration sponsored by the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, it is inaccurate to suggest that all of us “refused to attend” as part of some…

The following letter was written in response to an op-ed in the New York Post on December 9, 2016. Letters to the Editor New York Post To the Editor: Your op-ed hatchet job attacking Jonathan Greenblatt’s leadership as CEO of the Anti-Defamation League was not only riddled with errors but predicated on the false presumption that there’s been a shift in mission and mandate under his leadership of this 103-year-old organization. Nothing could be further from the…

December 8, 2016 Letters to the Editor Commentary Magazine To the Editor: Jonathan Tobin’s characterization of the Anti-Defamation League’s position on U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison fitness to lead the Democratic National Committee is completely off the mark (“The Ellison Tipping Point,” Dec. 2). We did not, as Mr. Tobin suggests, originally declare Rep. Ellison as “kosher” on his views toward Israel.  In fact, while we…

December 7, 2016 Letters to the Editor Huffington Post Arabic Dear Editors: On November 29, the Arabic version of The Huffington Post, HuffPost Arabi, published an anti-Semitic blog that promotes a preposterous claim of a Jewish responsibility for the death of Islam’s prophet, Mohammed which parallels the Jewish deicide. We decried the article from our @ADLArabi Twitter account as poisoned with religious bigotry. The article, “&lsquo…

The following letter appeared in the New York Post on December 7, 2016. Letters to the Editor New York Post To the Editor:  Andrea Peyser's column notes that "few places of learning are free from threats, harassment and verbal" attacks against Jews, while lamenting that protections afforded to those of the Jewish faith are few and far between. In fact, Congress has recently taken up this very issue. The Anti-Semitism Awareness Act, which the Senate…

Letters to the Editor The New York Times To the Editor:  Re “America Must Recognize Palestine” (Nov. 29): As a staunch advocate of a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, I was appalled at Jimmy Carter's latest one-sided account of the decades-old struggle. His bias against Israel--he could only bring himself to talk, at length, about what’s wrong with Israeli policy--is disturbing enough, though not surprising. Far more…

Letters to the Editor The New York Times To the Editor: Re “Volkswagen Parts Ways with the Historian who Chronicled its Nazi Past,” (Nov. 2):  The Anti-Defamation League has found Volkswagen to be a reliable partner in addressing its World War II history and in promoting Holocaust education in general. The Volkswagen described by the Times is not the Volkswagen we have come to know and respect. Grieger because of the contents of his 2014 article. Yet there is…

The following letter appeared in The New York Times on September 16, 2016. Letters to the Editor: The New York Times Re “Rid the World of Wahabbism” (Op-Ed, Sept. 14): Mohammad Javad Zarif, Iran’s foreign minister, raises a number of concerns about Wahabbism and the role it has played, particularly as an ideology that some in the Muslim world blame for inspiring terrorism. Unfortunately, in making these important points, Mr. Zarif ignores the Iranian regime…

Letters to the Editor Poughkeepsie Journal To the Editor: Recent letters published in the Poughkeepsie Journal utilize spurious claims and wild conspiracies to viciously attack Israel and question the U.S. relationship with the Jewish state (“ Police brutality in America mirrors current events in Israel,” July 31; “Israel lobby remains power danger to US,” Aug. 1). It is absurd to suggest that Israel is responsible for the actions of…

The following letter appeared in The New York Times on August 6, 2016. Letters to the Editor The New York Times To the Editor: Re “Fatah Makes Public Claim That It Killed 11,000 Israelis” (Aug. 5): Sadly, celebrations of hatred, violence and terrorism are not anything new to Fatah. Just a few days ago, the Fatah media bureau website featured a caricature depicting a stereotypical bearded and hooknosed Jew lighting the fuse under a bomb that was aimed at Sunni and…

The following letter appeared in the New York Jewish Week on July 27, 2016 Letters to the Editor New York Jewish Week To the Editor: We need to set the record straight on several points raised in a recent letter taking issue with the Anti-Defamation League’s efforts to advocate for the fair treatment of African-Americans at the hands of police (“Critical Of #BlackLivesMatter,” Letters, July 22). First of all, ADL has not endorsed the Black Lives Matter movement…

Letters to the Editor Boulder Daily Camera To the Editor: Tom Mayer highlights the Palestinian perspective on Israel's establishment 68 years ago ("Hear about the Nakba," Daily Camera, May 17). He mischaracterized it as an "unrectified political crime." Mayer omitted important facts and the complexities of the conflict: • Jewish connection to the land of Israel goes back nearly four millennia. It is the cornerstone of Jewish life — embedded in prayer, ritual and…