Tag: ADL
ADL offers up to $10,000 reward for those tied to anti-Semitic attack in Brooklyn
The New York Police Department is investigating a possible bias-crime attack against a Jewish man on Saturday, and now the Anti-Defamation League is offering a reward to help catch the assailants.
According to NYPD spokesman...
Meet the man seeking to build a grassroots effort to secure Jewish communities
If you had told a young Evan Bernstein that he would be a leader in Jewish communal affairs, he probably would have laughed and said, “There is no way.” But life, as everyone well...
Kansas newspaper under fire for Holocaust comparison, removes Facebook post
A Kansas newspaper has come under fire for posting a cartoon on the weekly outlet’s Facebook page that compared the governor’s face-covering order in response to the coronavirus pandemic with the Holocaust.
The Anderson County...
ADL CEO under fire for partnering with Sharpton in pressing Facebook boycott
Anti-Defamation League national director and CEO Jonathan Greenblatt has come under fire from Jewish groups for appearing on the MSNBC show “Politics Nation With Al Sharpton” on Sunday to promote the ADL’s call for...
Can the ADL ‘stop the hate’ by embracing Al Sharpton?
Is there any red line that the Anti-Defamation League won’t cross in order to pursue its current agenda that prioritizes partisan politics over combating anti-Semitism? In the five years since Jonathan Greenblatt succeeded longtime...
ADL joins with other civil-rights groups in calling for July boycott of Facebook
The Anti-Defamation League, along with several civil-rights groups, is calling for corporations to boycott Facebook in July over its unwillingness to ban hate speech on the social-media company’s platform.
The groups, including the National Association...
ADL: Hezbollah school books used in Lebanon incite terror
School textbooks used in Hezbollah-affiliated schools in Lebanon to teach history and other core subjects are filled with systematic and egregious incitement to anti-Semitism and support for terrorism, according to an Anti-Defamation League report...
ADL: Anti-Israel activities on campus contribute to Jewish students feeling ‘threatened’
While most anti-Israel activism on college and university campuses come in the form of political expression, a significant segment of the activism reported in 2019 contributed to an atmosphere in which Jewish students felt...
Is the panic about a rise in American anti-Semitism justified?
American Jews are more worried about anti-Semitism than at any time in recent memory. Recent surveys conducted by the Anti-Defamation League and the American Jewish Committee show that they feel less safe with large numbers claiming personal experience...
ADL: Number of anti-Semitic incidents in US hit record high in 2019
The number of anti-Semitic incidents in the United States in 2019 were the most in at least four decades, according to a report released on Tuesday by the Anti-Defamation League.
There were 2,107 reported anti-Semitic...