—
[link removed]
View email in browser —
[link removed]
Dear John,
Shabbat is a time for reflection. This has been a week that has been alternately alarming, devastating and reinvigorating, and this timely chance to reflect and reset was vital.
I am so grateful to you and to the entire ADL community for making the work we do possible, so I wanted to reach out to you to share my thoughts.
I thought about how earlier this week, I found myself on multiple national news shows and was interviewed in the Jewish and mainstream media across the country to explain how a campaign from the right-wing fringes had surged on Elon Musk’s Twitter/X platform. The haters are trying to ban ADL for daring to loudly speak out against antisemitism and to demand that others do so as well. We will not be silenced.
Then on Friday, I went to Florida to mourn with the Jacksonville community and to remember the lives that were lost when a man, motivated by a desire to kill Black people, opened fire at a Dollar General store and killed three innocent people. I knew it was vital that ADL join with the local Black community and express our love and support. We took the energy of the recent March on Washington with us, fully aware that our communities are better and we are stronger when we are together. We will not be intimidated.
Over the last several years we have seen how online hate, such as the sort that radicalized the Jacksonville shooter (who also reportedly expressed antisemitic beliefs), has the capability to jump from online rhetoric to consequences on the ground. Online hate helped inspire the deadliest attack on the American Jewish community, the Tree of Life shooting in Pittsburgh. Robert Bowers was active in extremist social media channels that stoked his hate about antisemitism and immigration. His final post on social media was “screw your optics, I’m going in.”
We will continue to do the work each and every day to make it harder for this to happen, to prod social media platforms to carry out their own policies to remove hate and bigotry. Freedom of speech should not mean freedom of reach. We will not back down.
ADL will not hesitate, and we will not be daunted by those who seek to undermine our mission to stop the defamation of the Jewish people and to secure justice and fair treatment to all and we will remain ferocious in defending the Jewish community and all marginalized communities.
With great urgency, we come together in solidarity to decry hate, denounce scapegoating, and ensure that rising extremism not be mainstreamed, normalized or amplified.
Antisemitism is a threat to us all. We call on everyone — from government officials to community leaders to clergy and educators — to join us and use their power to send that message and do their part to reverse this tide.
This is why we need you to join us in urging elected officials to sign this
[link removed]
“Open Letter to Combat Antisemitism and Fight Hate for Good” NOW.
[link removed]
Urge Elected Officials to Act Now
Thank you for everything you do to reject antisemitism and Fight Hate for Good.
Sincerely,
Jonathan Greenblatt
CEO and National Director
ADL
P.S. We can all take action against hate! If you experience or witness an incident of antisemitism, extremism, bias or bigotry please report it to ADL.
[link removed]
REPORT AN INCIDENT.
[link removed]
Support Our Work
[link removed]
Subscribe to Our Newsletters
[link removed]
Read Our Blog and Follow Us
[link removed]
[link removed]
[link removed]
[link removed]
[link removed]
ADL, 605 Third Avenue, New York, NY, 10158
(c) 2023
[link removed]
Anti-Defamation League . All rights reserved.
[link removed]
Contact ADL
[link removed]
Unsubscribe or Update Email Preferences
[link removed]
Privacy Policy
