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…
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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…
For Educators Our country has a long history of youth-led movements that brought about significant social change. Young people have advocated for child labor laws, voting rights, civil rights, school desegregation, immigration reform and LGBTQ+ rights. Through their actions, the world has changed. Because young people often have the desire, energy and idealism to do something about the injustice they see in the world, they are powerful agents for change. Our work in education helps…
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…
Being able to have respectful and constructive conversations is the bedrock of any relationship—whether those connections take place at home, school, work or in communities. However, when controversy or conflict arises, the discussions can quickly become polarized, heated and personal, making it very difficult to have a conversation where different points of view are aired and discussed. These conversations can be about something controversial like politics, current events, moral…
January 13, 2017 On January 9, a Reddit-user discovered a horrific image on his way to work, under his own feet. When the man bought a pair of Polar Fox boots, he did not realize that the rubber treads on the bottom would leave swastika shaped footprints. “There was an angle I didn’t get to see when ordering my new work boots,” ‘FRSHFSHFCKR’ wrote alongside the images of the boot soles and the track marks they left.
The next day, the white…
January 11, 2017 For more than a year, white supremacists from a variety of hate groups have organized events and activities under the banner of “white lives matter.” What started as a transparent white supremacist slogan designed to respond to the Black Lives Matter movement is now used to protest a range of topics including the removal of confederate symbols from public spaces, immigration, the Anti-Defamation League, and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored…
January 10, 2017 Last month, international action put the onus on Israel for the absence of peace with the Palestinians, with the December 22 UN Security Council resolution, followed by Secretary of State John Kerry’s speech on December 28, both focusing on Israel’s settlement policy. In response to Secretary Kerry, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu charged: “For more than an hour, Kerry obsessed over the issue of settlements and hardly touched on…
January 09, 2017 In recent years, ISIS propaganda has urged followers to use a range of weapons, from knives to guns to cars, in terror attacks. The latest issue of the group’s Rumiyah (Rome) magazine reveals a new focus: incendiary attacks with various flammable weapons.
Rumiyah, which is distributed online, is a relatively new English-language propaganda magazine; it emphasizes individual attacks against Western targets.
An entire section of the magazine…
January 05, 2017
Alt right and neo-Nazi blogger Andrew Anglin, who runs the white supremacist website Daily Stormer, has for several weeks threatened to stage an anti-Semitic armed march in Whitefish, Montana.
Though no march permit has yet been filed with town officials, Anglin today announced a date for his purported march, January 16, calling it the “James Earl Ray Day Extravaganza.”
January 16, 2017, is also Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.
This is no coincidence.
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Teachers may want to engage young people in conversations about presidential and other elections and provide opportunities for students to learn more, ask questions and understand what they see and hear. Below are tips and strategies for engaging in these potentially contentious conversations in the classroom and doing so with a critical thinking and anti-bias lens. These strategies can also be used with other controversial issues that arise in your classroom. It is critical that students…
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…
New Orleans, LA, December 7, 2016...The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) honored author, social innovator and community leader Walter Isaacson, President and CEO of the Aspen Institute, with the A.I. Botnick Torch of Liberty Award in honor of his local contributions to the rebuilding of the City of New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina as well as his long history of local community involvement.
A New Orleans native and former local newspaperman, Mr. Isaacson stepped in and…
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…
by: Jonathan Greenblatt December 23, 2016
Andrew Anglin, the neo-Nazi who runs The Daily Stormer, a blatantly racist and anti-Semitic website, has ratcheted up his campaign of harassment against the Jewish community in and around Whitefish, Montana, including announcing an armed march in the town by white supremacists that he has scheduled for January.
Whitefish is the part-time home of Richard Spencer, a prominent spokesperson within the white supremacist alt right, and his…
December 21, 2016 Editor’s Note:A Muslim academic and a Jewish interfaith rabbi recently sat down together for a discussion about the spate of hate crimes that have taken place in the aftermath of the 2016 election campaign and what can happen with Jews and Muslims work together to combat hate speech.
The following conversation between Dr. Mehnaz Afridi, Director of the Holocaust and Genocide Institute at Manhattan College, and Rabbi David Sandmel, Director of Interreligious…
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 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 from our education division:
Demand for ADL’s education programs and curriculum increased substantially in 2016, as educators, families and community leaders sought ways to help young people feel safe …
December 20, 2016 Richard Spencer, the white supremacist most closely associated with the alt right, appears to be making common cause with neo-Nazis, something that did not seem likely even a few years ago. Before becoming a white nationalist, Spencer worked for the mainstream American Conservative magazine and carefully cultivated his image as a “suit and tie” racist who did not use blatantly racist language or sport racist tattoos. However, over the last month, Spencer has…