New York, NY, March 2, 2017 … The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has produced an online resource to help parents, families and educators discuss the recent wave of bomb threats and evacuations affecting Jewish Community Centers and day schools with young children and teens.
The ADL resource, “Five tips for talking with children about bomb threats at Jewish community centers” provides educators, caregivers and family members with tools to help children understand the…
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New York, NY, March 3, 2017 … The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) welcomed the arrest of a St. Louis man in connection with a bomb threat against its headquarters in New York and threats against at least eight other Jewish institutions across the United States.
According to a complaint unsealed this morning in Manhattan federal court, Juan Thompson, 31, of St. Louis, Missouri, is alleged to have made at least eight of the threats against JCCs in January and February as part of a…
New York, NY, February 16, 2017 … The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today voiced deep concern over President Donald Trump’s response to a question posed regarding an uptick in anti-Semitic incidents across the country, including recent bomb threats made to Jewish Community Centers (JCCs).
Marvin D. Nathan, ADL National Chair, and Jonathan A. Greenblatt, ADL CEO, issued the following statement:
On two separate occasions over the past two days, President…
For Law Enforcement This document is an archived copy of an older ADL report and may not reflect the most current facts or developments related to its subject matter. Introduction
The Topeka, Kansas-based Westboro Baptist Church (WBC) is a small virulently homophobic, anti-Semitic hate group that regularly stages protests around the country, often several times a week. The group pickets institutions and individuals they think suppor t homosexuality or otherwise subvert what they believe is…
For Law Enforcement This document is an archived copy of an older ADL report and may not reflect the most current facts or developments related to its subject matter. The Hammerskin Nation is the most violent and best-organized neo-Nazi skinhead group in the United States. A number of its members have been convicted of harassing, beating or murdering minorities. Many popular racist rock bands are affiliated with the Hammerskin Nation, and the group regularly sponsors concerts. Though internal…
The belief or behavior hostile toward Jews just because they are Jewish. It may take the form of religious teachings that proclaim the inferiority of Jews, for instance, or political efforts to isolate, oppress, or otherwise injure them. It may also include prejudiced or stereotyped views about Jews. ADL considers the IHRA Working Definition of Antisemitism to be the preeminent tool for understanding antisemitism and its real-world manifestation today. For more information, click here.
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Threats Do Not Appear Credible; ADL Closely Monitoring Situation and in Touch with Law Enforcement New York, NY, January 18, 2017...The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has issued a Security Advisory to Jewish institutions nationwide following a series of bomb threats to Jewish community centers in at least 18 states. ADL is closely monitoring the situation and has been in touch with federal and local law enforcement across the country.
Although the threats do not appear to be credible, the…
“...a stark and sobering reminder that hatred of Jews is not history, it is a current event…” New York, NY, December 28, 2016...The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today issued its top 10 list of manifestations of anti-Semitism that have afflicted Jewish communities across the United States and around the world in 2016.
The past year saw the volume of anti-Semitic cyberhate elevated to unprecedented levels. The ADL list included Jewish social media users being targeted…
New York, NY, December 22, 2016...In a year where white nationalists and racists attempted to inject bigotry into the public square and when a divisive election season ended with unconscionable acts of hatred, there was plenty of reason for despair in 2016.
And yet, there were also glimmers of hope: A community brought together in the aftershock of a mass shooting at an LGBT nightclub in Florida; a Texas campus drowning out the hateful views of an unwanted visiting white supremacist; the…
New York, NY, December 13, 2016 ...The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today strongly condemned anti-Semitic lyrics in a newly released song by popular rapper Lupe Fiasco. In the song, “N.E.R.D.,” Fiasco rhymes about, “Artists getting robbed for their publishing by dirty Jewish execs who think that it’s alms from the covenant.” In response to a tweet from DJ Booth -- a resource for DJs and fans on Twitter -- questioning his lyrics about “dirty Jewish…
December 11, 2016 The following letter was written in response to an op-ed that appeared in the New York Post on December 9, 2016. Letters to the Editor
New York Post
To the Editor:
“Jonathan Greenblatt is destroying the Anti-Defamation League” by Alex VanNess (Dec. 9) is nothing short of a mendacious attack on an organization that has tirelessly fought on behalf of the Jewish people against the evils of anti-Semitism and anti-Israel forces for more…
December 07, 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, “‘Arsenic’ The…
December 28, 2016 Google deserves praise for taking steps to prioritize authoritative information sources in search results. Last week, the company released a statement saying that, “when non-authoritative information ranks too high in our search results, we develop scalable, automated approaches to fix the problems, rather than manually removing these one-by-one.”
As a leading company in the online and technology field, Google has been the target of individuals and groups…
December 20, 2016
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As 2016 draws to a close, the Anti-Defamation League is counting down the major milestones we accomplished this year in the fight against hate. Here’s a look at some highlights of our work this year – bringing us that much closer to our goal of achieving a world without hate.
Alarmed by a year when anti-Semitism coursed through social media, anti-Semitic incidents rose and Jewish stereotypes appeared…
December 16, 2016
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As 2016 draws to a close, the Anti-Defamation League is counting down the major milestones we accomplished this year in the fight against hate.
In the aftermath of the 2016 presidential campaign, we witnessed a series of disturbing hate crimes targeting Jews, African-Americans, Muslims, members of the LGBTQ community and others following Election Day. This, as white supremacists and those…
December 15, 2016
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As 2016 draws to a close, the Anti-Defamation League is counting down the major milestones we accomplished this year in the fight against hate.
ADL continues to respond to anti-Semitism and anti-Israel bias on college campuses across the U.S. Here are some examples from this past year:
More than 100 Words to Action workshops with 2,648 participants, educating college and pre-college…
New York, NY, December 2, 2016 … The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today hailed Senate passage of the Anti-Semitism Awareness Act, legislation which provides important guidance for the Department of Education and the Department of Justice for federal anti-discrimination investigations involving anti-Semitism, including on campus. The act addresses a core concern of Jewish and pro-Israel students and parents: When does the expression of anti-Semitism, anti-Israel sentiment and anti…
December 01, 2016 There has been a lot of debate lately about whether media outlets should use the term “alt right.” Some argue that the term whitewashes or normalizes a grouping that is, at its core, racist and anti-Semitic. The problem is not so much with the term “alt right” but in how people define or not define it. It is crucial that whenever the term “alt right” is used, it be defined clearly and put in the proper context.
The…
New York, NY, December 1, 2016 … The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today praised news organizations such as The Associated Press, The Washington Post and others for their ongoing efforts to ensure that readers understand the meaning of the term “alt right” as a calling card of racists -- not something trendy or “cool.”
The alt right is a loose network of people and groups that promote white identity and reject mainstream conservatism in favor of politics that…
by: Oren Segal November 22, 2016
As Director of the Anti-Defamation League’s Center on Extremism, it’s my job to be aware of how anti-Semitism is promoted, exploited and embraced on the fringes of society. It’s also my job to try to keep that hatred on the fringes, where it belongs.
Thanks in part to the work of the ADL, Jews in the United States are no longer openly discriminated against or excluded from universities, hotels, resorts or social clubs. Today…