New partnership aims to build online spaces for Jewish teens through positive social media content and guidance on combating online antisemitism. New York, NY, February 14, 2024 …Lost Tribe and ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) today announced their partnership to combine efforts to combat antisemitism through a joint initiative aimed at providing Jewish pre-teens and teenagers with safer online spaces and effective tools to confront antisemitism. “Partnering with ADL, an…
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The Foundation to Combat Antisemitism (FCAS), a non-profit organization founded by Robert Kraft, aired multiple advertisements during the Super Bowl on February 11, 2024, urging people to #StandUpToJewishHate. Notably, a new ad premiered during the game, featuring Dr. Clarence B. Jones, former advisor to and speech writer for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Although online reactions to the campaign were largely positive, many users on X (formerly Twitter) were quick to criticize the…
Executive Summary Transparency reports of the largest social media platforms continue to be anything but transparent. New research from the ADL Center for Tech & Society (CTS) shows that most of these platforms only publish partial information about how much hate content they remove or action in some way. To make matters worse, these reports are often hard to locate, void of meaningful information, and only provide patchy insights into how platforms address hate, harassment,…
Though Salafi-jihadist groups like the Islamic State (IS) and Al-Qaeda (AQ) have a long and well-established history of making calls for violence against Jews, over the last few months they have capitalized on the momentum of the Israel-Hamas war to broadcast violent messaging, justify hateful rhetoric against the state of Israel and denigrate Jews around the world. Using their official media outlets, as well as supporter-produced propaganda, both the Islamic State and Al-Qaeda have called on…
New York, NY, February 1, 2024 … An estimated 83 million people, or 75 percent of all online gamers in the United States, were exposed to online hate or harassment in 2023, according to a new survey from the ADL (Anti-Defamation League) issued today.
The annual ADL Hate and Harassment in Online Gaming survey shows that harassment of young gamers increased across the board, with three-quarters of teens and pre-teens saying they experienced harassment while playing online…
New York, NY, February 1, 2024 ... Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO and National Director of ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) today issued the following statement about the organization’s partnership with U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas in fighting antisemitism, extremism and hate in all forms.
“ADL has had the privilege of working closely with Department of Homeland Security Secretary Mayorkas for over a decade in his capacity as a senior government…
New York, NY, January 31, 2024 …The Jewish Agency for Israel and ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) today announced a new partnership to combat antisemitism, strengthen Jewish identity and connect Jews to Israel and one another. The announcement was made today by Jewish Agency Chairman Maj. Gen. (res.) Doron Almog and ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt at a gathering of over 350 Jewish Agency emissaries, or shlichim, who are currently serving throughout North America.
ADL will support the…
New York, NY, January 26, 2024 … Leaders of the J7, the Large Jewish Communities’ Task Force Against Antisemitism, issued the following statement in response to today’s International Court of Justice ruling on South Africa’s demand for an Israeli ceasefire in Gaza:
We take note of the International Court of Justice’s (ICJ) appropriate rejection of South Africa’s extreme demand for an Israeli ceasefire - which tacitly recognizes Israel’s…
Cartoons and posts that accuse Israel of stealing organs from Palestinians in Gaza illustrate the persistency of the age-old antisemitic canard of blood libel.
In the aftermath of October 7, 2023, and the start of the Israel-Hamas war, some anti-Israel activists have boldly expressed support for terrorism against the State of Israel and Jews, which at first manifested in explicitly supporting Hamas. More recently, these activists and leftist groups have also expressed admiration for another group they consider allies in the fight against U.S. imperialism and Zionism: the Houthis. The Houthis, an Iranian-regime backed U.S.-designated terrorist group…
Board Strengthened with Leaders from Business, Philanthropy, and LawNew York, NY, January 25, 2024 … ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) today announced the election of two new members to its board of directors: Bernard Taylor, Vice Chair of the National Board for UNICEF USA, and Heidi Packer Eskenazi, Co-Founder of the World Alliance Group.
“Bernard and Heidi’s wealth of expertise in innovation, philanthropy, brand management, and law will be invaluable on ADL&rsquo…
The Not On My Campus campaign calls on colleges to enforce codes of conduct and commit to no tolerance for antisemitismNew York, NY, January 24, 2024 … In an effort to protect the safety, wellbeing and civil rights of Jewish students, ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) announced today the launch of the Not On My Campus campaign to demand that U.S. colleges and universities commit to No Tolerance for Antisemitism.
Existing campus systems have failed to protect Jewish students facing…
On August 26, 2023, Ryan Christopher Palmeter shot and killed three Black people at a Dollar General in Jacksonville, Florida, before killing himself. On January 19, 2024, the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Department released the shooter’s “manifesto,” which he left behind for his family to find. The vitriolic, hateful writings show that Palmeter held white supremacist beliefs and demonstrated a wide range of hate, including racism, extreme anti-LGBTQ+ animus, xenophobia and…
ADL Center for Tech and Society shows anonymous campus messaging apps like Yik Yak & Sidechat are failing to curb hatred triggered by the Israel-Hamas war.
ADL research shows ChatGPT misleads people seeking information about current events. This can be abused by bad actors & undermines trust.
On January 8, 2024, clashes broke out at the Chabad Lubavitch World Headquarters in Brooklyn, known as 770, over a passageway allegedly constructed by students from adjacent properties into the synagogue. This passageway, referred to as a tunnel in the media, was discovered in December 2023, and when a cement truck came to fill it, skirmishes broke out between police and involved individuals. Video footage showed men inside and in front of the passageway, both defacing the property and…
Will create comparative evaluation of how leading colleges and universities are responding to the surge of antisemitism and protecting their Jewish students. Update: Read the Report Card for 2024>> New York, NY, January 11, 2023 … In the face of growing antisemitism across U.S. college campuses, ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) announced today that it is developing a new tool to evaluate the climate of antisemitism on individual campuses. ADL will publish a “report card…
On October 7, Hamas attacked Israel, slaughtering around 1,200 men, women, children, and infants in the largest and most brutal massacre of Jews since the Holocaust. Hamas terrorists intentionally recorded their murder, rape, and torture of civilians, including around 200 foreign nationals, and took at least 240 hostages back with them to Gaza.
The physical attack was followed by a propaganda and disinformation campaign. Knowing that Israel would have no choice but to respond to the…
En los tres meses transcurridos desde el 7 de octubre, la ADL registró 60 ataques antisemitas y más de 500 incidentes en los campus universitarios.
Nueva York, NY, 10 de enero de 2024 ... Según datos preliminares de la Liga Antidifamación (ADL), en los tres meses transcurridos desde la masacre del 7 de octubre en Israel, los incidentes antisemitas en Estados Unidos se han disparado, alcanzando un total de 3.283 incidentes entre el 7 de octubre y el 7 de enero…
In the three months since Oct. 7, ADL tracked 56 antisemitic assaults, 500 incidents on college campuses
New York, NY, January 10, 2024 … In the three months since the Oct. 7 massacre in Israel, U.S. antisemitic incidents have skyrocketed, reaching a total of 3,291* incidents between Oct. 7 and Jan. 7, according to ADL’s (the Anti-Defamation League) preliminary data. This represents a 361-percent increase compared to the same period one year prior, which saw 712…