Ten Decades of Fighting Hate and Building a Better WorldWhen they signed the Declaration of Independence in 1776, the founders of the United States of America set out to establish a new nation, where all were deemed equal, and the pursuit of happiness and justice for all were inalienable rights of all citizens.
By 1913, it was evident to Jewish Americans that the promise of democracy remained unfulfilled. That year, the founders of the Anti-Defamation League set out with a mission that…
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Honorary Centennial Chairs*
*In formation
Hon. Madeleine K. Albright
Harold Burson
Hon. Jane Harman
Hon. Henry A. Kissinger
Rep. John Lewis
Bernard Marcus
Hon. Robert Morgenthau
Samuel H. Miller
Hon. Federico Peña
Hon. Colin Powell
Hon. Condoleezza Rice
Hon. George P. Shultz
Diane von Furstenberg
Professor Elie Wiesel
ADL Centennial Leadership
Barry Curtiss-Lusher, National Chair
Barbara B. Balser, Centennial Chair
Robert G. Sugarman,…
In Tribute & In MemoryYitzhak Rabin
March 1, 1922 - November 4, 1995
Yitzhak Rabin was an Israeli Prime Minister and winner of the 1994 Nobel Peace Prize for his attempts to achieve a lasting peace with the Palestinian Authority. Born in Jerusalem on March 1, 1922, Rabin started his Israeli military career as a volunteer, and would go on to serve a distinguished 27-year career in the armed services, culminating his career as Chief of Staff in the Israel Defense Forces. Following…
In Tribute & In MemoryMatthew Shepard
December 1, 1976 - October 12, 1998
Matthew Shepard was a 21-year-old freshman at the University of Wyoming where he studied political science, foreign relations and languages. On October 7, 1998, a few hours after he had attended a planning meeting for Gay Awareness Week events on campus, Shepard was tortured and murdered by two men in a remote area east of Laramie, Wyoming, the victim of a heinous hate crime. The son of Judy and…
In Tribute & In MemoryJames Byrd Jr.
May 2, 1949 - June 7, 1998
James Byrd Jr. was born in Beaumont, Texas, one of nine children, to Stella and James Byrd Sr. In 1967, Byrd, who was African American, graduated from the last segregated class at Jasper’s Rowe High School. Byrd went on to marry and have three children. In the pre-dawn hours of June 7, 1998, Byrd was walking home in Jasper, Texas, when he was stopped by three white men who offered him a ride home. Byrd got in…
In Tribute & In MemoryHarvey Milk
May 22, 1930 - November 27, 1978
Harvey Milk, born in Woodmere, NY, was a U.S. politician who became the first openly gay man to be elected to public office in California, when he won a seat on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. Milk’s groundbreaking election in 1977 as one of the world’s first openly gay elected officials—and its most visible one—symbolized the freedom to live life with authenticity to millions of…
In Tribute & In MemoryDaniel Pearl
October 10, 1963-February 1, 2002
The world has come to know Daniel Pearl as the Wall Street Journal reporter who was kidnapped and murdered by terrorists in Pakistan in early 2002, just four months after 9/11. Since then, he has been remembered as a symbol of hope: a man who built bridges between diverse cultures as a writer and a musician.
Pearl was born in Princeton, New Jersey, and grew up in Los Angeles, California where he…
In Tribute & In MemoryAnne Frank
June 12, 1929 - March, 1945
Anne Frank was a young victim of the Nazis during the Holocaust, when 6 million Jews, including 1.5 million children, were systematically murdered during World War II in Nazi-occupied Europe. Anne has become one of the most well-known victims of the Holocaust because of the diary she kept during her time in hiding before being captured by the Nazis.
Anne Frank was born in Frankfurt, Germany in 1929, before the…
The FBI “Shared” Antisemitic Protocols on Twitter 8/19/20
One of the FBI’s official twitter handles, the FBI Records Vault, disseminated a link labeled “Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion.”
Forever 21 Swastika Rings A Hoax 9/2/16
A photo of "swastika rings" was determined to be part of an unfortunate Internet hoax.
Edible Arrangements Owners Do Not "Fund Hamas" 8/1/14
There is no truth to the rumor that the company and its…
New York, NY, Oct. 30, 2026 ... ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) today issued the following statement in response to the release of the findings from the House Education and Workforce Committee report, “Antisemitism at the American Psychological Association (APA),” which documents the climate for Jewish and Israeli psychologists within APA. This report confirms the gravest concerns ADL has long raised: Antisemitism at the American Psychological Association is not isolated; it…
Student called a "dirty filthy Jew," told she should be "gassed" and thrown into a cabinet as school officials failed to effectively address ongoing antisemitic harassment New York, NY, Oct. 29, 2026 ... ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) and Reed Smith LLP have filed a federal civil rights complaint with the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights, alleging that a Jewish student was subjected to severe, persistent and pervasive antisemitic harassment, culminating in a…
New York, NY, October 29, 2026 ... New research from the ADL Center for Antisemitism Research and Boundless released today reveals that a single, brief message telling young Americans that most people reject antisemitism made them more likely to recognize and report antisemitic social media content. Of six messages tested, an educational message sharing that the social norm was not antisemitic produced statistically significant improvements in reporting. “Young people are…
Israel’s first parliamentary election since the Hamas-led terror attacks of October 7, 2023, drew the highest voter turnout in decades, an estimated 78 percent of registered voters and 80 percent turnout among Arab Israelis. In English, Arabic, Persian and Turkish language commentary about the election analyzed by ADL, bad actors across the ideological spectrum used the elections to demonize Jews, Zionists, Israelis, and the State of Israel. These trends were observed across traditional…
For more than a century, ADL has exposed and combated the white supremacist movement in all its manifestations, from the Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s and Nazis of the 1930s to the alt right of the 2010s and accelerationist white supremacists of today. White supremacists have long constituted one of the major sources of antisemitism in the United States. Motivated by their extreme ideology, white supremacists have also committed shocking acts of antisemitic violence, such as the deadly mass…
A year after ADL's "Editing for Hate," bias still shapes Wikipedia, and even banned editors' work remains unreviewed.
Every patient deserves care that honors their dignity and safety. As a patient at this facility, you have the right to: Seek and receive medical care free from discrimination.This facility prohibits discrimination based on race, color, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. Care must not be denied, delayed or provided on less favorable terms for a discriminatory reason.Be treated with…
New York, NY, October 23, 2026 … The Academic Engagement Network (AEN) and the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) express deep concern about the programming and speakers scheduled for the American Studies Association's (ASA) 2026 Annual Meeting, to take place October 22–25 in Chicago. The conference program raises serious questions about the ASA's commitment to fostering an intellectually rigorous and inclusive professional community, particularly for Jewish and Zionist scholars…
We are horrified by the terrorist attack at St. George’s Greek Orthodox Church in the village of Hmoud, where gunmen opened fire on Christian mourners gathered for a funeral, killing and wounding many. We mourn the victims, pray for the recovery of the wounded, and stand with their families, with the Jordanian’s Christian community, with Christians around the world, and with all Jordanians.
Susan Abulhawa is a Palestinian American novelist, antizionist activist and the Executive Director of the Palestine Writes Literature Festival. Her novels, published by major houses including Bloomsbury and Simon & Schuster, have been translated into more than 30 languages and have sold over one million copies worldwide. Abulhawa has more than 230,000 followers on social media and frequently uses her accounts to cast doubt upon Holocaust history, propagate historically antisemitic tropes…
A Capital One Bank branch on the Upper East Side had its windows smashed and was vandalized this week with graffiti that read “DROP ELBIT,” referring to the Israeli defense company, and “PAL ACTION.” The international anti-Israel direct action group Palestine Action claimed responsibility on October 19, calling the incident “the price of complicity in genocide.” New York City Council Speaker Julie Menin posted a photograph of the Upper East Side incident on…