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Fast Forward How the ADL went from working with Facebook to leading a boycott against it
(JTA) — It was when Mark Zuckerberg said he would allow Holocaust denial on his platform that the Anti-Defamation League realized its partnership with Facebook wasn’t working. The social media giant and the Jewish civil rights group had been working together for years to curb hate speech online. In October 2017, Facebook headlined a new…
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News ADL, known for anti-bias training, hires FBI official as law enforcement liaison
The Anti-Defamation League has hired a longtime FBI official as its new vice president of Law Enforcement and Analysis. Greg Ehrie, who served 22 years with the FBI, is organizing partnerships with law enforcement offices across the U.S. He spent a year in Israel for the FBI and led the FBI’s Newark office last December…
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News Crunching the numbers: What the ADL’s annual anti-Semitism audit means for you
The Anti-Defamation League released its annual audit of anti-Semitic incidents on Tuesday. The watchdog group documented 2,107 anti-Semitic incidents to have taken place in 2019 – a 12% increase from the previous year and the highest number on record since the organization began tracking such incidents in 1979. Here are some of the key takeaways:…
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News White supremacists are putting out more propaganda than ever, but meeting less
The Anti-Defamation League released a report Wednesday on the increase in white supremacist propaganda in the United States during 2019. Here’s what you should know: 2019 saw a doubling in propaganda activity since 2018. The ADL said last year’s 2,713 reported cases made up the highest number of incidents they’ve ever recorded. There were 630…
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News ADL launches new online tools for analyzing anti-Semitism
The Anti-Defamation League unveiled a pair of online tools Thursday allowing users to search its database of anti-Semitic incidents in real time. The ADL has been collecting and analyzing reports of violence and vandalism against Jews since the 1960s. While users were able to search through its data before, only a selection was publicly available…
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Fast Forward The ADL Surveyed 18 Countries On Anti-Semitism. Here’s What You Need To Know.
The Anti-Defamation League has released a new poll of anti-Semitic attitudes in 18 countries around the world. The ADL spoke to residents of Canada, Brazil, Argentina, South Africa and several countries in Western and Eastern Europe. While anti-Semitic attitudes appear to have largely held steady across Western Europe as compared with the two previous years,…
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Fast Forward 12 White Supremacists Were Arrested For Threats To Jews Since Pittsburgh: ADL
(JTA) — At least 12 white supremacists have been arrested for allegedly attacking, planning attacks against or threatening the Jewish community in the year since the attack on the Tree of Life synagogue building in Pittsburgh, the Anti-Defamation League said in a new report. Since Oct. 27, 2018, white supremacists have targeted Jewish institutions’ property…
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Fast Forward PewDiePie Rescinds $50,000 Donation To ADL After Fans Object
(JTA) — The popular video blogger PewDiePie announced a donation of $50,000 to the Anti-Defamation League, then rescinded it a day later after fan feedback. PewDiePie, whose name is Felix Kjellberg of Sweden, made the announcement of the donation on Wednesday during an online celebration of surpassing 100 million subscribers, saying he wanted to get past…
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