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Anti-Defamation League (ADL)


Self Description

May 2003: "ADL fights anti-Semitism and all forms of bigotry here and abroad, combats international terrorism, probes the roots of hatred, advocates before Congress, comes to the aid of victims of bigotry, develops educational programs, and serves as a public resource for government, media, law enforcement and the public, all toward the goals of countering and reducing hatred. With its National Headquarters in New York City, ADL has a network of Regional and Satellite Offices throughout America, and in Jerusalem, Vienna and Moscow."
http://www.adl.org/focus_sheets/focus_overview.asp

Third-Party Descriptions

August 2012: 'Yet, "Jewish students at all campuses were clear that the most pervasive negative issue impacting their daily experiences on campus were intergroup challenges related to political disagreements about the state of Israel and Palestine," said the report by Richard Barton of the Anti-Defamation League and Alice Huffman of the California NAACP.'

http://www.sfgate.com/education/article/UC-report-on-anti-Semitism-draws-ire-3774302.php

October 2011: 'Abraham H. Foxman, national director of the Anti-Defamation League, urged the protest organizers to condemn any expressions of anti-Semitism, but said, “There are manifestations in the movement of anti-Semitism, but they are not expressing or representing a larger view.” He also pointed out that, according to his organization’s periodic polls, roughly one in six Americans believed Jews had too much power in Wall Street and the American government.'

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/22/nyregion/occupy-wall-street-criticized-for-flashes-of-anti-semitism.html

May 2001: 'In the United States, the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith called the Assad remarks poisonous, and Rabbi Marvin Hier, founder of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, said the Syrian was "offering up an almost daily menu of more hate and bigotry."'

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/07/world/07POPE.html

June 2011: 'Mr. Hess also writes an online comic book, “Foreskin Man,” with villains like “Monster Mohel.” On Friday, the Anti-Defamation League issued a statement saying the comic employed “grotesque anti-Semitic imagery.”'

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/05/us/05circumcision.html

June 2011: '“Do not overlook other types of terrorist groups,” the report warned, noting that five purely domestic groups had considered using weapons of mass destruction in that period. Similar warnings have been issued by the two principal non-government groups that track domestic terrorism: the New York-based Anti-Defamation League and the Alabama-based Southern Poverty Law Center.'

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/homeland-security-department-curtails-home-grown-terror-analysis/2011/06/02/AGQEaDLH_story.html

June 2010: 'According to the Anti-Defamation League, although 44 states have bullying statutes, fewer than half offer guidance about whether schools may intervene in bullying involving “electronic communication,” which almost always occurs outside of school and most severely on weekends, when children have more free time to socialize online.'

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/28/style/28bully.html

April 2010: 'Abraham Foxman, the national director of the Anti-Defamation League in the United States, attributed the remarks to ignorance, not malice. “You would think that a senior priest in the church would have a better understanding of anti-Semitism than to make this hideous comparison,” he said.'

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/03/world/europe/03church.html

March 2010: "The Massachusetts House and Senate have passed versions of an anti-bullying law, but disagreement remains on whether all schools will be required to conduct staff training about bullying — a provision in about half the states with such laws and one that is vital, said Robert O. Trestan, Eastern States Civil Rights Counsel of the Anti-Defamation League, which has led the effort for legislation in Massachusetts."

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/30/us/30bully.html

December 2008: "The Anti-Defamation League said in a statement that Mr. Madoff’s arrest had prompted an outpouring of anti-Semitic comments on Web sites around the world, most repeating familiar tropes about Jews and money. Abraham H. Foxman, the group’s national director, said that canard went back hundreds of years, but he noted that anti-Semites did not need facts to be anti-Semitic."

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/24/us/24jews.html

September 2007: '[Columbia University President Lee Bollinger] went overboard in trying to balance a response to a criticism by being insulting,' said Abraham Foxman, national director of the Anti-Defamation League, who originally opposed Ahmadinejad's visit.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/29/AR2007092901404.html

September 2007: And after the 1997 shooting atop the Empire State Building, Giuliani said it was 'irresponsible' to label it terrorism, a judgment that brought criticism from the Anti-Defamation League after the gunman's anti-Israel note surfaced.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/23/AR2007092301432.html

September 2007: In a statement, the Anti-Defamation League office in Jerusalem praised the arrests but cautioned that the immigration experience was difficult and “that stereotypes are not formed on a whole community because of a small group.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/09/world/middleeast/10cnd-mideast.html

Relationships

RoleNameTypeLast Updated
Opponent (past or present) Ku Klux Klan (KKK) Organization Sep 5, 2011
Opponent (past or present) National Alliance Organization Sep 5, 2011
Opponent (past or present) Hon. Minister Louis Farrakhan Person Dec 8, 2007
Opponent (past or present) Prof. Norman G. Finkelstein Ph.D. Person Oct 10, 2006
Organization Head/Leader (past or present) Abraham "Abe" H. Foxman Person
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Sally J. Greenberg Person Jul 24, 2011
Opponent (past or present) Matthew Hess Person Jun 11, 2011
Financial Recipient from (past or present) Ronald S. Lauder Person Mar 8, 2008
Opponent (past or present) Dr. William L. Pierce Person Sep 5, 2011

Articles and Resources

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Date Fairness.com Resource Read it at:
Aug 08, 2012 UC report on anti-Semitism draws ire

QUOTE: To students who regard Israel as an essential Jewish homeland, this event and others like it that are staged each year on University of California campuses seem hostile, like poorly concealed anti-Semitism - especially when the Israeli flag with its Star of David is paired with a Nazi swastika, says a new report by a UC fact-finding team seeking to understand Jewish students' experiences

 San Francisco Chronicle
Oct 21, 2011 Cries of Anti-Semitism, but Not at Zuccotti Park

QUOTE: The Occupy Wall Street protests, now in their second month, have increasingly been criticized by a variety of groups, most of them politically conservative, for flashes of anti-Semitism....Jewish groups that have sensitive antennas for eruptions of bigotry have not criticized the protesters.

 New York Times
Jun 07, 2011 Homeland Security Department curtails home-grown terror analysis

QUOTE: The Department of Homeland Security has stepped back for the past two years from conducting its own intelligence and analysis of home-grown extremism...The decision to reduce the department’s role was provoked by conservative criticism of an intelligence report on “Rightwing Extremism” issued four months into the Obama administration, the officials said.

 Washington Post
Jun 04, 2011 Efforts to Ban Circumcision Gain Traction in California

QUOTE: When a group of activists proposed banning circumcision in San Francisco last fall, many people simply brushed them aside. Even in that liberal seaside city, it seemed implausible that thousands of people would support an effort to outlaw an ancient ritual that Jews and Muslims believe fulfills a commandment issued by God... Activists say the measures would protect children from an unnecessary medical procedure, calling it “male genital mutilation.”

 New York Times
Jun 27, 2010 Online Bullies Pull Schools Into the Fray

QUOTE: Affronted by cyberspace’s escalation of adolescent viciousness, many parents are looking to schools for justice, protection, even revenge. But many educators feel unprepared or unwilling to be prosecutors and judges.

 New York Times
Apr 02, 2010 Vatican Priest Likens Criticism Over Abuse to Anti-Semitism

QUOTE: A senior Vatican priest, speaking before Pope Benedict XVI at a Good Friday service, compared the world’s outrage at sexual abuse scandals in the Catholic Church to the persecution of the Jews, prompting angry responses from victims’ advocates and consternation from Jewish groups.

 New York Times
Mar 29, 2010 9 Teenagers Are Charged After Classmate’s Suicide

QUOTE: It is not clear what some students at South Hadley High School expected to achieve by subjecting a freshman to the relentless taunting described by a prosecutor and classmates. Certainly not her suicide. And certainly not the multiple felony indictments...

 New York Times
Jul 26, 2009 Latin American Jews contend with spike in anti-Semitism: Derogatory political statements and attacks on synagogues have increased since Israel's January war in Gaza.

QUOTE: Across Latin America, Jewish leaders say they are contending with a new level of anti-Semitism that heated up after Israel's military operation in Gaza in December.

 Christian Science Monitor
Jun 17, 2009 Immigration Debate Tied to Rise in Hate Crimes

QUOTE: U.S. civil rights leaders said yesterday that an increase in hate crimes committed in recent years against Hispanics... "correlates closely" to the nation's increasingly contentious debate over immigration.

 Washington Post
Jun 11, 2009 Notoriety's Missing Links: Online Files Scrubbed After Museum Shooting

QUOTE: Those who Googled immediately were able to find him [James W. von Brunn]: a personal Web site claiming Jewish "conspiracies," diatribes posted on message boards. But those who started their hunt just a few hours later would have found only empty holes -- information that was scrubbed away as Web sites figured out how to address the fact that they had once hosted the words of an accused murderer.

 Washington Post
Dec 24, 2008 In Madoff Scandal, Jews Feel an Acute Betrayal

QUOTE: Here is a Jew accused of cheating Jewish organizations trying to help other Jews, they say, and of betraying the trust of Jews and violating the basic tenets of Jewish law. A Jew, they say, who seemed to exemplify the worst anti-Semitic stereotypes of the thieving Jewish banker....In addition to theft, the Torah discusses another kind of stealing, geneivat da’at, the Hebrew term for deception or stealing someone’s mind. “In the rabbinic mind-set, he’s guilty of two sins: one is theft, and the other is deception,” said Burton L. Visotzky, a professor at the Jewish Theological Seminary.

 New York Times
Dec 22, 2008 Police to get training after head-scarf wearer's arrest

QUOTE: The Douglasville Police Department said Monday its officers will undergo "sensitivity and cultural diversity training" after a Muslim woman who refused to remove her head scarf at a courthouse was jailed.

 CNN (Cable News Network)
Apr 28, 2008 Battle in Brooklyn: A Principal’s Rise and Fall: Critics Cost Muslim Educator Her Dream School

QUOTE: Muslim leaders, academics and others see the drive against the school as the latest in a series of discriminatory attacks intended to distort the truth and play on Americans’ fear of terrorism. They say the campaign is also part of a wider effort to silence critics of Washington’s policy on Israel and the Middle East.

 New York Times
Sep 30, 2007 Enough Said? Probably Not. Free-Speech Issues Once Again Testing University President

QUOTE: The event has drawn attention to Bollinger's record at Columbia, where issues related to Israel and the Middle East have exploded in controversy in nearly every one of his five years as president.

 Washington Post
Sep 24, 2007 Giuliani's Rhetoric on Terror Contrasts With His Record

QUOTE: for most of Giuliani's career as a Department of Justice official, prosecutor and New York's chief executive, terrorism was a narrow aspect of his broader crime-fighting agenda, which was dominated by drug dealers, white-collar criminals and the Mafia. Giuliani expressed confidence that Islamic extremism could be contained through vigorous investigation by law enforcement agencies and prosecution in the court system -- the same approach he now condemns.

 Washington Post
Sep 09, 2007 Israel Arrests Suspects in Neo-Nazi Attacks

QUOTE: Russia has a problem with neo-Nazi groups, and the phenomenon arrived in Israel with relatives of Jews who came here from the former Soviet Union but who are not themselves Jewish. Some Russian immigrants have had difficulty adjusting to Israeli life.

 New York Times
May 18, 2007 'Ecoterrorism' case stirs debate in US: Environmental radicals, who pleaded guilty to arson, may face harsher sentences under antiterror laws.

QUOTE: Among the crimes solved were a string of arsons and other attacks across five Western states totaling more than $40 million in damage. Intimidation, coercion, and retaliation aimed at the conduct of government, prosecutors said, deserves "enhanced" punishment under federal antiterrorism laws.

 Christian Science Monitor
May 10, 2007 Parents and District Settle Dispute on Teacher’s Religious Remarks

QUOTE: The Kearny Board of Education in New Jersey and the parents of Matthew LaClair, a 17-year-old junior at Kearny High School, settled their dispute on Tuesday night about a teacher who proselytized in class. The settlement will include training for teachers and students about the separation of church and state and a public statement by the board praising Matthew for bringing the matter to its attention.

 New York Times
Feb 09, 2007 Anti-immigrant sentiments fuel Ku Klux Klan resurgence: Long stuck in splintered obscurity, the group is seeing an increase in activity and a return to its nativist origins

QUOTE: Gay marriage and urban crime are part of the picture. But, in particular, it is the debate over what to do about the nation's nearly 35 million immigrants, of whom about 11 million are in the US illegally, that has become the Klan's main recruiting tool.

 Christian Science Monitor
Oct 08, 2006 In God’s Name: Secular Laws Cede to Religious Exemptions

QUOTE: In recent years, many politicians and commentators have cited what they consider a nationwide “war on religion” that exposes religious organizations to hostility and discrimination. But such organizations — from mainline Presbyterian and Methodist churches to mosques to synagogues to Hindu temples — enjoy an abundance of exemptions from regulations and taxes. And the number is multiplying rapidly.

 New York Times

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