Tag: ADL
Fliers with swastikas, Star of David found at Arizona State University
Police are investigating who is responsible for fliers around the campus at Arizona State University that read “Love Not Hate,” with a swastika for the “O” in “love” and a Star of David for...
ADL condemns Benedictine SJP member for urging Holocaust survivor to denounce Israel
Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt on Tuesday condemned a member of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at Benedictine University for asking a Holocaust survivor last week to denounce the Israeli government’s “ethnic cleansing.”
“To...
Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg pledges personal donation of $2.5 million to ADL
The Anti-Defamation League has announced that Sheryl Sandberg, chief operating officer of Facebook, pledged a gift of $2.5 million to the organization in support of ADL’s ongoing efforts to combat hate and bias in...
ADL: OK hand gesture now considered a hate symbol
The OK hand gesture is now a hate symbol, declared the Anti-Defamation League on Thursday.
This development was part of the ADL expanding and updating its list of hateful symbols.
The gesture has been adopted by the far-right,...
ADL, Jewish groups criticize Omar, Tlaib for sharing anti-Semitic cartoon
The Anti-Defamation League and other Jewish groups have criticized Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) and Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) for sharing a cartoon on Instagram on Aug. 16 by a cartoonist who placed second in...
Pat Buchanan on relaunch of prominent political talk show ‘The McLaughlin Group’
Right-wing pundit and anti-Semite Pat Buchanan will be featured as part of the relaunch early next year of the longtime prominent political talk show “The McLaughlin Group” on PBS.
Debuting in 1982 and airing for...
Mexico, ADL ink an anti- hate pact
The ADL (Anti-Defamation League) and the Mexican Foreign Ministry on Wednesday signed an agreement to work collaboratively to assist people of Mexican heritage living in the United States who are victims of discrimination, bigotry,...
ADL: Anti-Semitic incidents lower in 2018, but assaults and vandalism doubled
There were 1,879 anti-Semitic incidents in 2018, representing the third-highest figure of such incidents since 1979, according to a new report by the Anti-Defamation League released on Tuesday.
The highest number of anti-Semitic incidents was in...
Qatar book fair continues to sell anti-Semitic books, despite ADL pressure
The Anti-Defamation League has asked the U.S. Embassy in Qatar to pressure Doha to remove anti-Semitic titles from its government-sponsored book fair, which it said “has a record of promoting blatantly anti-Semitic content.”
The 29th...
Whatever happened to the ADL?
When Jonathan Greenblatt replaced Abe Foxman as national director of the Anti-Defamation League in 2015, the shift from a career Jewish professional to a veteran Democratic Party operative with no experience working in the...