Dear John, we are always looking for ways to extend the impact of the ADL Center on Extremism, a world-renowned team here at ADL that tracks antisemitism, hate and extremism. Our team of 40 investigators and analysts monitor, expose and disrupt potential threats from across the ideological spectrum.

Working within the Center on Extremism has made it possible to sift through thousands of pieces of information daily to narrow down the noise into useful pieces of intel.

As a member of the ADL community, we wanted you to know about the exciting and groundbreaking way we’re dramatically scaling up our efforts to counter extremism and hate. We have launched a program to embed investigators from partner organizations in our offices and on our teams, with the goal of better protecting vulnerable communities and responding decisively to threats.

We now host two embedded investigators from the Community Security Initiative, which was founded by UJA-Federation of NY and JCRC-NY to enhance the security of the thousands of Jewish institutions in the greater New York metro area, from synagogues to summer camps. A notable example of how this collaboration helps protect the Jewish people was with an alert that this team provided to law enforcement that led to the arrest of two men at Penn Station last November in connection to threats to attack a synagogue.

We also host an embedded analyst, Sarah Moore, from GLAAD, an organization dedicated to LGBTQ+ advocacy and cultural change. As Moore says, her work has enhanced both ADL and GLAAD’s monitoring capabilities and our collective abilities to identify threats. She tracks hate on mainstream platforms like Twitter, Facebook and YouTube, but also on extremist forums. To sift through thousands of pieces of information daily, she relies on ADL’s technology to help narrow down the noise into useful pieces of intel.

In this role, Moore has helped the LGBTQ+ community across the country. In the wake of the Club Q shooting in Colorado Springs, for example, she worked with GLAAD and ADL colleagues to provide information and resources to the shaken community and help them respond to online harassment.

These embedded experts have already tracked thousands of antisemitic and other extremist individuals, events and incidents and led to dozens of alerts to law enforcement and communities as threats arise. At the same time, the program is strengthening our partnerships and activating more allies for the Jewish community to fight antisemitism.

Next up will be an embedded analyst from TAAF, The Asian American Foundation, which was launched in response to anti-Asian hostility in recent years. ADL helped the group launch, and our CEO Jonathan Greenblatt is a member of its board.

Going forward, there are plans already in the works to support embedded experts from Jewish and other communities across the United States, and potentially even from other countries, facing antisemitic and hateful threats.

We are excited to share this vision for a growing group of partners and allies, all using our state-of-the-art tools and expertise to Fight Hate for Good alongside you and I and the rest of the ADL community.

Sincerely,

Oren Segal

VP of ADL Center on Extremism