New York, NY, February 24, 2022 ... ADL (Anti-Defamation League) released the following statement on Russia's invasion of Ukraine:
"ADL condemns in the strongest terms Russia's unprovoked war of aggression against Ukraine, a blatant violation of international law. This unnecessary war instigated by President Vladimir Putin has already caused thousands of deaths over the last eight years, will unleash untold misery on the civilian population, and threatens the independence of Ukraine,…
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February 23, 2022 On Saturday, February 19, 2022, 43-year-old Benjamin Jeffrey Smith allegedly fired into a crowd of racial justice protestors, killing one woman and injuring five other people. Smith reportedly initially yelled at the group of protesters who were gathering on his block in Portland, Oregon, to protest the recent police killing of Amir Locke, a Black man who was shot while Minneapolis police were serving a no-knock warrant. Smith, who police have named as the primary suspect,…
The impressive events in the Middle East the last few days— the official state visit of Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett to Bahrain and the participation of Israel’s petroleum minister at the petroleum conference in Cairo, highlighted by the moving greeting by Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi of Israeli Energy Minister Karine Elharrar—stand in stark contrast to the other track now dominating the region.
That track, which represents a past…
February 17, 2022 THE WEEK’S BIG 3
The number of refugees fleeing across the borders of Ukraine has reached one million and is still rising, according to the United Nations, as Russia's brutal assault on the country enters its second week. In the United States, the distribution of antisemitic pamphlets, banners and other propaganda jumped 27% in 2021 from the year before, according to a new report by ADL. One of the 11 Oath Keepers indicted earlier this year on a charge of seditious…
February 16, 2022 Truckers line up their vehicles on Metcalfe Street as they honk their horns in Ottawa, Canada on February 5, 2022. | Minas Panagiotakis/Getty Images - Source: Politico
For the second time since February 13, an unknown hacker leaked information from GiveSendGo, a Christian-oriented crowdfunding website, revealing identifying information of people donating both to Canada’s “Freedom Convoy” protest and the January 6 demonstration outside the U.S. Capitol…
As reports first began to trickle out that a gunman had taken worshipers hostage at a synagogue in Colleyville, Texas during Shabbat services on Jan. 15, the nation watched in horror as a terrorist threatened one of America’s most sacrosanct activities: the practice of faith. Fortunately, this incident — described by President Biden as both a hate crime and an act of terrorism — ended without death or injury to the hostages.
But this fact should not…
The latest stale accusations may hurt Israel’s public image, but they hurt the Palestinians far more by reinforcing their futile rejectionism
FEB 5, 2022, 4:42 PM
In a world where criticism of the State of Israel and its policies is hardly unusual, the newly issued Amnesty International report stands out for its offensiveness and destructiveness.
Reaching even beyond problematic reports such as that of Human Rights Watch, which falsely characterized Israeli policy in the…
White supremacists killed more people in 2021 than any other type of extremist
New York, NY, February 15, 2022 … Right-wing extremists were linked to at least 26 extremist-related murders in the United States in 2021 and have been responsible for 75 percent of such murders in the last ten years, according to new data from ADL (Anti-Defamation League).
According to an annual analysis of extremist fatalities by ADL Center on Extremism, domestic extremists…
February 13 is an ominous anniversary. Sixteen years have passed since the murder of Ilan Halimi, the young, Jewish French cellphone salesman. On this date in 2006, Halimi was murdered, having been kidnapped and held for ransom in a basement in a Paris suburb where he was starved, tortured, and beaten for 24 days before his captors gave up their depraved plan to cash in on a young Jewish life.
Like the hostage taker in Colleyville, Texas, Halimi’s…
February 10, 2022 THE WEEK’S BIG 3 The Biden Administration’s Nominee for U.S. Special Envoy to Combat and Monitor Anti-Semitism Deborah Lipstadt vowed to speak out against antisemitism, regardless of the political affiliation, as the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee finally held her confirmation hearing this week. A Jewish high school student was reprimanded for refusing to give a Nazi salute in his Alabama classroom. Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker of Congregation Beth Israel…
The Whoopi Goldberg controversy, in which she originally claimed that the Holocaust was not about racism, has a number of complexities. One of them surfaced on the Late Show with Stephen Colbert where she defended/apologized for her comments by explaining that Jews don’t suffer from racism, unlike Black people, because a Jewish person can walk down the street and go completely unnoticed as a Jew.
On one level, Goldberg is mostly right. There is no doubt that in the…
There is much to dispute in the laundry list of accusations against Israel in Amnesty International’s report released Tuesday as well as critiques that are worthy of fair-minded concern and attention. But why all the fierce reaction to one more critical report on Israel?
What makes this document different from prior reports is that it goes beyond criticizing Israeli policies and actions by presenting the world’s only Jewish and democratic state itself as…
Iran’s influence in Latin America is a dangerous reminder for regional leaders
The attendance of AMIA bomb suspect Mohsen Rezaei at a Nicaragua ceremony is just one sign of Tehran’s growing foothold in the region
FEB 5, 2022, 12:49 PM
On January 10, 2022 Mohsen Rezaei, Iran’s Vice President for economic affairs, attended the inauguration of the autocratic Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega as a guest of honor.
Rezaei is a wanted man, subject to an…
New York, NY, February 4, 2022 … Michael Sheetz, a seasoned trial lawyer and commercial litigator in Boston who also served as lead counsel for many civil rights groups in important litigation helping to enhance diversity in public schools, has been appointed President of the ADL (Anti-Defamation League) Foundation.
A partner in the Boston office of Cooley LLP and a longtime ADL volunteer both at the local
and national levels, Sheetz will lead the board that…
February 04, 2022 NSM members demonstrating in Orlando, Florida, January 29, 2022
On February 4, 2022, the Orange County (Florida) Sheriff’s Department arrested and charged three participants of a neo-Nazi demonstration in Orlando, Florida, for their alleged role in the January 29, 2022, hate crime assault of David Newstat, who is Jewish.
Newstat, who saw the demonstration and stopped to confront the group, said he was spit on, pepper-sprayed and punched. Video of the altercation…
February 03, 2022 THE WEEK’S BIG 3 Major U.S. Jewish groups, including ADL, blasted Amnesty International’s latest “effort to demonize Israel” – this time in the form of a report accusing Israel of being an apartheid state and engaging in ethnic cleansing. ABC News suspended The View host Whoopi Goldberg for two weeks after she drew significant criticism for falsely claiming that the Holocaust was "not about race." The FBI has identified people suspected of making…
February 02, 2022 Spotify is in hot water for its support of controversial podcaster Joe Rogan. In January 2022, a group of 270 medical professionals wrote an open letter to the company accusing Rogan of spreading misinformation about the Covid-19 pandemic, calling him “a menace to public health.” Soon after, legendary rocker Neil Young demanded that the company either remove his music or stop airing the podcast because it promotes false information about Covid-19 vaccines. The…
Remarks by Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO, ADL February 02, 2022
February 2, 2022
Mr. Chairman, Ranking Member Katko, Members of the Committee, good morning. I am Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO and National Director of ADL, the Anti-Defamation League, the oldest anti-hate organization in America. It is an honor to appear before you today to address the current terrorism landscape and the dire threat that extremists pose to the United States.
Since 1913, ADL has worked to stop the…
New York, NY, January 30, 2022 … ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) issued the following statement concerning Amnesty International UK’s upcoming report on Israel:
“We have reviewed Amnesty International UK’s upcoming report on Israel and strongly condemn it as an effort to demonize Israel and undermine its legitimacy as a Jewish and democratic state. In an environment of rising anti-Jewish hate, this type of report is not only inaccurate but also irresponsible and…
January 27, 2022 THE WEEK’S BIG 3 Nearly 100 candidates for political office and politicians across the country are increasingly embracing extremist talking points, endorsing hateful campaigns and promoting conspiracy theories, according to a new report from ADL. A Tennessee school board voted to remove "Maus," a Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel about the Holocaust, from the district's curriculum after officials objected to instances of profanity and an image of a nude woman. A white…