January 13, 2025 To our Jewish community, As your non-Jewish neighbors on Mercer Island, we are writing to you to express our heartfelt sadness and outrage over the recent string of antisemitic incidents that took place on and around Islander Middle School. We are paying attention and we will not stay silent. We condemn antisemitism in the strongest terms and stand united with you as we seek to build schools – and a broader Mercer Island community – that are safe and respectful for…
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Academic associations play a vital role in fostering scholarly exchange, advancing knowledge and upholding professional integrity. As leaders within these organizations, it is essential to ensure that all members feel respected, safe and included – regardless of their identity or background. In recent years, concerns about antisemitism within academic spaces have grown, including instances of exclusion, bias and politicization that target Jewish, Israeli and Zionist individuals…
New York, NY, April 30, 2025 … ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) welcomed the findings of the Harvard Presidential Task Force on Combating Antisemitism and Anti-Israel Bias and commended the administration for finally prioritizing this issue. Jonathan Greenblatt, ADL CEO and National Director, issued the following statement: For years, antisemitism has been a persistent, systemic challenge at so many colleges and universities, and it worsened exponentially in the wake of the…
New York, NY, April 28, 2025 – JLens, a Registered Investment Advisor, and the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today jointly called on shareholders of Meta Platforms, Inc. (NASDAQ: META) (“Meta” or the “Company”) to support Shareholder Proposal 8, which appears in the proxy for the Company’s annual meeting of shareholders, scheduled to be held on May 28, 2025. JLens’ proposal urges Meta shareholders to vote FOR a measure requesting the Company to…
High school students and educators, seeking to be leaders in combatting bias and bigotry in their communities, will soon gather for ADL Southeast’s No Place for Hate Summit. The all-day event brings together students so they can amplify their voices to advocate against hate and be inspired by the stories of local leaders. During past programs, featured speakers have included Holocaust survivor Hershel Greenblatt, WNBA star and activist Renee Montgomery, and Nathaniel Smith, founder and…
The Massachusetts Executive Office of Public Safety & Security’s 2023 report on hate crimes identified a 70 percent increase in incidents of anti-Jewish crime from 2022 to 2023. More were reported in 2023, 119, than in any of the previous eight years, according to past hate crime reports, and marked the third straight year in which Jews and Jewish organizations were targeted more frequently than the year before. The state posts its yearly hate crime reports going back to 2015, and…
Continúa el pico después del 7 de octubre; aumento del 84% en incidentes en campus universitarios;aumento del 21% en agresiones físicas Nueva York, NY, 22 de abril de 2025... El fuerte aumento de incidentes antisemitas después de la masacre del 7 de octubre en Israel continuó en 2024, con totales que nuevamente superaron cualquier otro recuento anual en los últimos 46 años. Este es el cuarto año consecutivo en que aumentan los…
New York, NY, April 22, 2025 …The massive spike in antisemitic incidents following the Oct. 7 massacre in Israel continued in 2024, with totals again exceeding any other annual tally in the past 46 years. This is the fourth year in a row that antisemitic incidents increased and broke the previous all-time high. It is also the first time that incidents containing elements related to Israel or Zionism made up a majority of all incidents (58 percent of the total). There were 9,354…
Article by ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt: Campus Antisemitism Demands Action, Not Overreach
A Young Man Escapes Nazi-Occupied Poland When Ben Zion Kalb (later “Colb”) escaped from Poland to Slovakia shortly after the German invasion of Poland (September 1, 1939), and then proceeded to rescue his fiancée and well more than 1,000 other Jews from death in the Holocaust, he surely would not have imagined that, 85 years later, his granddaughter, Sara Colb, would continue and honor his legacy via her own advocacy for the Jewish people. From Ben Zion to Sara,…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Media contact: Laura Fennell Director of Communications, ADL West [email protected] Los Angeles, CA. December 11, 2024 … The 2023 Hate Crime Report released by the Los Angeles County Commission on Human Relations today shows that the total number of reported hate crimes increased by 45% percent from the previous year, jumping from 930 to 1,350 reported crimes marking the largest number of hate crimes in the history of this report. While Jews make up only 2% of…
Key Data Points: ADL Reach and Impact in 2024In 2024, ADL Center on Extremism (COE) tools analyzed 10 million+ messages on extremist and antisemitic encrypted messaging channels and detected over 70,000 messages containing violent threats.ADL provided information to law enforcement at least 2,700 times in 2024.In 2024, ADL provided professional development programs and analytic briefings to 17,000 law enforcement personnel on topics which included hate crimes, violent extremism and…
New York, NY, April 7, 2025 – JLens, a Registered Investment Advisor (RIA) and Fund Sponsor of the JLens 500 Jewish Advocacy U.S. ETF (NYSE: TOV), today calls upon shareholders of two prominent global defense companies to vote AGAINST shareholder proposals that JLens believes were designed to pressure the companies into severing ties with Israel. The companies, General Dynamics (NYSE: GD) and Lockheed Martin Corporation (NYSE: LMT), are portfolio holdings of TOV, a faith-based ETF that…
New York, NY – April 4, 2025 – ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) today announced that, following consultations with 40% of the 135 schools assessed in the second Campus Antisemitism Report Card, it has issued revised grades for 19 schools. Since the March 3, 2025, release of the report card, ADL's regional offices have actively worked with a substantial number of the assessed institutions to guide them in adopting best practices and policies to combat antisemitism. As part of…
1. The Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism is a non-profit organization seeking to dismantle Zionism. The Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism (ICSZ) is a far-left, explicitly anti-Zionist non-profit organization founded in 2023 by prominent anti-Zionist activists and academics who seek the villainization and wholesale rejection of Zionism—the movement for the self-determination and statehood of the Jewish people in their ancestral homeland, Israel—from academia…
New York, NY, April 10, 2025 – JLens, a Registered Investment Advisor (RIA) and affiliate of ADL (the Anti-Defamation League), announced today the recipients of its 2024 Corporate TOV Awards. The TOV Awards, whose name reflects the Hebrew word for “good,” were created to annually recognize and honor 18 companies that rank highly and outperform peer companies according to JLens’ Jewish values scorecards. The 18 TOV Awards recipients were selected based on JLens’…
ABOUT ADL’s Real Estate Division unites leading voices in the New York, Northern and Central New Jersey Region in support of ADL’s mission: to stop the defamation of the Jewish people and to secure justice and fair treatment to all. Founded in 1998 by Burton P. Resnick of Jack Resnick & Sons, Inc. and Leonard Litwin of Glenwood Management, the Division has brought together the most influential and committed members of the industry – raising millions of…
Nueva York, NY, 27 de marzo de 2025 ... En 2024, el Centro sobre Extremismo (COE) de la Liga Antidifamación (ADL) documentó distribuciones de propaganda supremacista blanca en todos los estados de Estados Unidos y el Distrito de Columbia, con la única excepción de Hawái. La evaluación de 2024 se centró en los temas comunes detrás de los miles de incidentes propagandísticos que afectaron a ciudades de todo Estados Unidos, y concluy…
In 2024, the ADL Center on Extremism (COE) documented white supremacist propaganda distributions in every U.S. state and the District of Columbia, except Hawaii. Our 2024 assessment focuses on messaging-- the common themes behind the thousands upon thousands of propaganda incidents that have plagued American cities across the nation. White supremacist groups chose to respond to current events and the elevation of certain narratives in the media by tailoring their propaganda accordingly. In…
I am an American Jew, and the grandchild of Holocaust survivors. Like so many Jews in this country, I was raised on stories of unthinkable horror. My grandfather’s parents were rounded up with other Jews from their town and shot dead. His brother was tortured and killed by SS officers. His sister, her husband, and baby were killed. My grandmother’s parents and four brothers were murdered, leaving her the sole surviving member of her family. When news of the atrocities Hamas…