New York, NY, June 18, 2024 … ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) today announced that it has issued revised grades for some schools assessed in its Campus Antisemitism Report Card, an initiative that assesses campus climate and administrative policies related to countering antisemitism on college campuses. The tool, released in a beta version this past April, examined 85 institutions and assigned grades to provide campus leadership, parents, students, alumni and other key…
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Extremists and online trolls are using Suno, an increasingly influential Generative Artificial Intelligence (GAI) music creation tool, to make songs promoting hate speech, racist stereotypes, calls for violence and extremist rhetoric. The tool, created by Suno AI, became popular in 2023 after the company announced a partnership with Microsoft. Today, many users employ the tool for innocuous purposes. However, the ADL Center on Extremism has discovered a vast library of disturbing songs…
While the days of lockdowns and social distancing are behind us, anti-vaccine narratives remain prevalent on social media, and extremists continue to exploit these sentiments to recruit new members, raise money and mainstream their beliefs. Many extremists view anti-vaxxers as a massive pool of potential fresh recruits and followers primed for the “red pill.” While the mainstreaming of once-fringe anti-vaccine beliefs poses obvious risks to public health,…
This resource assists parents, families and other trusted adults in understanding and helping the young people in their lives who are facing antisemitism—in school, online, in communities.
As the “People’s Conference for Palestine” got underway in Detroit, MI on May 24, the packed audience cheered as Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM) organizer and conference MC Mohammed Nabulsi opened by offering “salutations to our people in Palestine and to our noble, steadfast Resistance.” Nabulsi garnered further enthusiastic applause when he urged “eternal glory to our martyrs” and called to “liberate every inch of Palestine, from the Jordan…
Nakba Day commemorations across the United States, already charged events, were compounded this year by a sharp rise in anti-Israel activity tied to the Israel-Hamas war that was triggered by the October 7 mass terror attacks. Nakba Day (“catastrophe” in Arabic) is commemorated annually on May 15 by Palestinians and their supporters worldwide to mourn the events related to the creation of the State of Israel, including its impact on Palestinians, and to advocate for the…
IntroductionAs university encampments and other forms of student protests against Israel capture attention across the United States, protest organizers have made it clear that, on the majority of campuses, their goals go far beyond urging their universities to call for a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war or to denounce Israeli government policies. The ADL Center on Extremism analyzed statements published by the organizers of more than 130 university encampments nationwide…
ADL has been carefully monitoring the state of antisemitism on college and university campuses, and how schools are responding. As reflected in our Campus Antisemitism Report Card, ADL’s goal is to incentivize colleges and universities to create and maintain a safe and welcoming campus and commit to no tolerance for antisemitism. Below is an overview of best practices when it comes to the steps schools should take to most effectively counter rising antisemitism and hate. *This resource…
Explore films that highlight the richness of Jewish life by viewing the movie lists ADL's Media & Entertainment Institute developed with Common Sense Media.
Disturbing memes and images created using Generative Artificial Intelligence (GAI) are polluting social media with camouflaged hate and extremist propaganda. Innovations in AI technology, plus a wider range of tools available than ever before, have enabled the use of AI image generators for nefarious purposes—some of which have been coordinated and crowdsourced online. In the last year, one GAI feature has emerged as a favorite among extremists: The ability to embed shapes, symbols and…
“Go back to Auschwitz, bitch!” This disturbing antisemitic refrain rang out repeatedly at an anti-Israel protest held across the street from a synagogue in Fort Lee, NJ on November 5, 2023. More recently, in March and April 2024, anti-Israel protests outside of synagogues in nearby Teaneck have included protesters explicitly calling for the exclusion of “Zionists” from the community. These incidents are part of a wave of antisemitic and extreme anti-Zionist…
A new analysis by the ADL Center on Extremism (COE) has found that online expressions of antisemitism on Telegram, a prominent messaging platform frequented by purveyors of hate speech, increased dramatically in the days following the Iranian regime's unprecedented assault on Israel on April 13, 2024. The weekend attack consisted of some 300 drones, cruise missiles and ballistic missiles. The Iranian regime’s Lebanese proxy Hezbollah and other Tehran-backed militias based in Iraq, Syria…
Anti-Zionist student groups on more than 100 U.S. college and university campuses have established “encampments” in recent days to ostensibly protest Israel’s actions in Gaza and their academic institutions’ alleged “complicity” in those actions. College campuses have been the site of many tense anti-Israel protests and antisemitic incidents since the start of the ongoing Israel-Hamas war that began with Hamas’s October 7, 2023, terrorist attack. These…
Massiver Anstieg nach dem 7. Oktober; Campus-Vorfälle verdreifachten sich; Bombendrohungen gegen jüdische Einrichtungen stiegen um das Zehnfache New York, NY, 16. April 2024 … Die jüdische Gemeinde in den USA erlebte im vergangenen Jahr einen beispiellosen Anstieg antisemitischer Vorfälle, der die Zahl aller antisemitischen Vorfälle in den letzten 45 Jahren bei weitem übertraf. Dies ist teilweise auf die massive Zunahme antisemitischer Reaktionen auf das…
Un pic massif a été enregistré après le 7 octobre ; les incidents sur les campus universitaires ont triplé ; il y a eu dix fois plus d’alertes à la bombe visant des institutions juives.New York, le 16 avril 2024 ... Affectée en grande partie par une hausse massive de réactions antisémites à la suite du massacre du 7 octobre en Israël et de la guerre en cours à Gaza, la communauté juive amé…
Se registró un aumento masivo después del 7 de octubre; los incidentes en los campus universitarios se triplicaron; las amenazas de bomba dirigidas contra instituciones judías se multiplicaron por 10 Nueva York, NY, 16 de abril de 2024 ... Inducido en parte por un pico masivo de reacciones antisemitas a la masacre del 7 de octubre en Israel y la guerra en curso en Gaza, la comunidad judía de Estados Unidos experimentó el año pasado un aumento sin…
New York, NY, April 16, 2024 … Driven in part by a massive spike in antisemitic reactions to the Oct. 7 massacre in Israel and the ongoing war in Gaza, the U.S. Jewish community last year experienced an unprecedented increase in antisemitic incidents, far exceeding any other annual tally in the past 45 years. ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) today released the final statistics for antisemitic incidents in 2023, reporting a total of 8,873 incidents of assault, harassment, and vandalism…
Anti-Zionist activists in the U.S. praised Iran for its drone attack on Israel, using rhetoric similar to what was used immediately after October 7.
Un nuevo Boletín de Calificaciones muestra que la mayoría de las instituciones todavía no están haciendo lo básico para proteger a los estudiantes judíos Nueva York, NY, 11 de abril de 2024 ... Hoy, la Liga Antidifamación (ADL) publicó su primer Boletín de calificaciones sobre el antisemitismo en los campus, en el que se evalúan los incidentes, la vida judía en los campus, y las políticas y acciones…
Over the weekend of April 5, 2024, anti-Israel activists in the US and around the world marked Al Quds Day (“Jerusalem Day”) with protests and other events against Zionism and the state of Israel. This annual event, originally conceived by the leader of the 1979 Iranian Revolution, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, serves as a platform for support for terrorism and other violence against Israel and regularly includes virulent antisemitic and anti-Zionist…