| From | ADL Antisemitism Briefing <[email protected]> |
| Subject | [BRIEFING] Israel under attack + antisemitism in the U.S. |
| Date | October 12, 2023 11:12 PM |
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A weekly wrap of ADL’s reports, updates and analysis on antisemitism around the world.
This Week’s Topline
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We Stand With Israel: ADL Impact and Information During Crisis
On October 7, the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas carried out an unprecedented surprise attack on the Jewish state of Israel. In an act of war, Hamas terrorists invaded Israel, infiltrated cities and towns across Israel’s south, kidnapped civilians and fired thousands of rockets and missiles at cities across the country.
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We send our condolences to the families of the murdered and our wishes for a speedy recovery to those who are wounded. Israel has every right to defend itself from acts of terrorism, acts of war and war crimes. We stand united with Israel.
ADL is on full alert, leveraging our capabilities and leaning into our expertise in monitoring how antisemitism emerges from crises like this. We are monitoring threats and tracking reactions to these crimes. We are sharing what we learn with elected officials and policymakers as well as corporations and other influential figures, urging them to speak out against the horrors that we’ve witnessed and we are actively engaging and supporting local partners, communal allies and our friends overseas.
At this time of devastation in Israel and heightened concern about anti-Zionist and antisemitic incidents in the U.S. and around the world, ADL’s team is working around the clock. Please use the ADL information below to better understand and speak out about the crisis.
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Stay Up to Date with ADL’s Info Page
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WEBINAR 10/13: ISRAEL UNDER ATTACK & ANTISEMITISM IN THE U.S.
In the wake of Hamas’s war on Israel, which is the deadliest attack on Jews since the Holocaust, and the horrific kidnapping of 150 innocent children, women and men into Gaza, we are seeing the inevitable... The terrorist attacks and Israel’s response have sparked anti-Israel and antisemitic activity in the United States and around the world — at a time when antisemitism around the world was already on the rise.
Extremists have been amplifying the hate spread by anti-Israel voices who are parroting Hamas claims. Many in the media have distorted the news in their coverage. And on campus, ‘Day of Resistance’ protests against Israel are breaking out, further elevating concern for Jewish students.
Our ADL team across the world is working around the clock. Join us for
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an important Fighting Hate from Home webinar this Friday at 10 a.m. ET to hear first-hand from an Israeli whose family was taken hostage by Hamas. We will discuss Israel under attack, antisemitism in the U.S. and how ADL is responding with ADL Center on Extremism VP Oren Segal, who will share updates on the situation, take your questions and provide resources.
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REGISTER NOW
What’s News
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Pro-Hamas on Campus: In the days following Hamas’s invasion of Israel, the national leadership of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) and many of their campus chapters have explicitly endorsed the actions of Hamas and their armed attacks on Israeli civilians and voiced an increasingly radical call for confronting and “dismantling” Zionism on U.S. college campuses. According to the ADL Center on Extremism, SJP was planning a National Day of Resistance for its campus chapters for October 12. SJP encourages chapters to use tactics such as protests and demonstrations, or to use “a sit-in, disruption, or educational event.” Although these are, on their face,
all non-violent tactics, they raise the real possibility of creating a hostile environment for Jewish students, and the confrontational spirit raises the concern that these actions could lead to acts of harassment or vandalism targeting Jewish students and organizations.
→
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READ the full report.
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Covering the War Correctly: In ADL’s Media Guidelines for Covering the War in Israel, we provide recommendations for reporters, producers and editors assigned to cover the unfolding situation in Israel. For example: “the horrific and unspeakable acts of violence that occurred on Oct. 7 are not justifiable nor can these horrific acts be acknowledged as a response to past conflicts. Assigning sole blame for the conflict to Israel or Jewish people, without acknowledging or reporting on the long history of rejecting Israel’s right to exist, decades of security threats including Palestinian terrorism, can feed into anti-Jewish tropes.”
→
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Read the Media Guidelines.
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Antisemitism Around the World: Following Hamas’s horrific attacks on Israel, Jewish communities around the world are beginning to experience a spike in antisemitic incidents. In the UK, they are reporting three times the usual number of incidents being perpetrated. France’s Minister of the Interior announced that police had recorded 1,000 antisemitic incidents in 48 hours, including 50 that were “particularly serious.” The Israeli embassy in Bogota was vandalized with antisemitic graffiti. We will continue to monitor and update and work with our international partners to keep Jewish communities around the world safe. →
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Read more about these incidents.
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White House Meeting: ADL was proud to join President Joe Biden and Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff at the White House to discuss the Biden-Harris administration’s commitment to Israel, protecting the American Jewish community, and the important progress on the National Strategy to Counter Antisemitism. As Biden said during the meeting: The terrorist attack on Israel has brought to the surface painful memories and the scars left by a millennia of antisemitism and genocide of the Jewish people. So, in this moment, we must be crystal clear: We stand with Israel and the Jewish community.
→
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Read news coverage of the meeting.
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Speaking out in the Workplace: In response to a surge of antisemitism around the world in the aftermath of the terrorist massacre of well over a thousand unarmed civilians in Israel, ADL calls on the CEOs of corporations globally to speak out against hate and commit to ADL’s “Workplace Pledge to Fight Antisemitism.” Watch
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ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt on CNBC as he calls on CEOs to stop being silent about the atrocities committed by Hamas, and to speak out for their Jewish employees facing antisemitism.
→
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Find out more about the Workplace Pledge.
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Reducing Online Misinformation Now: People in large numbers are going online to help make sense of the war in Israel and Gaza. Since the start of Hamas’ invasion and massacre of innocent civilians, we have seen a surge of antisemitism, hate, disinformation, misinformation, and propaganda spread on social media and messaging platforms. And we know from experience that this type of content can translate into verbal and physical antisemitic attacks in places far removed from the battlefield.
→
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Here are seven things that the ADL Center for Technology and Society calls on social media companies to do immediately.
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Learning from Last Time: During the 2021 military conflict between Israel and Hamas, antisemitic incidents in the U.S. reported to ADL increased by 75% compared to the two weeks before the fighting began. Many of these incidents appear to have been perpetrated by individuals scapegoating American Jews for the actions of the Israeli government. ADL’s report on that last crisis helps you to better understand the concerns for the days ahead.
→
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Read about U.S. antisemitism during the 2021 conflict.
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Compassion in the Classroom: During this crisis, Jewish students could be experiencing a range of emotions and processing information and current events differently. ADL Education provides ‘6 Tips for Supporting Jewish Students in the Classroom’ including ways to provide empathy and how to recognize common antisemitic myths and stereotypes so that you can recognize them if they occur in the classroom or community.
→
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Read the 6 classroom tips.
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Solidarity Statements: ADL has called on leaders in the political world and across civil society to speak out against Hamas terrorism and in solidarity with Israel and the Jewish community. We are collecting those statements on our ‘We Stand with Israel’ page, where you will find statements from President Biden, Republican and Democratic congressional leaders, U.S. governors and partners including the U.S. Conference of Mayors, MLK III, the NAACP, National Urban League, UnidosUS, The Asian American Foundation (TAAF) and the National Action Network.
→
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View the full set of statements at the bottom of our page.
On the Fringe: Extremists on the white supremacist fringe are openly celebrating Hamas’s attack on Israel, cheering explicit depictions of violence against Israelis and promoting expanded violence against Jews worldwide. Some fringe-left groups are aligning with anti-Zionist organizations in the wake of Hamas’s attack on Israel. These groups are also helping to organize in-person, anti-Israel events, where participants are expressing antisemitic rhetoric.
→ Read about hate
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on the right and
[link removed]
on the left.
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Let’s Be Honest: Today on Time.com, ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt says ‘Let’s be honest about the hate that drove the Hamas attack. This massacre was a function of hate — the kind of toxic intolerance in its purest form. It was years in the making, and just as it took sophisticated military and logistical planning, it also took years of ideological planting — sowing seeds of antisemitism. Indeed, one cannot look at what Hamas did without understanding their thinking about Jews.
→
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Read Jonathan’s full column.
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Show Signs of Support: ADL offers several printable signs to show your support for Israel in its time of need. You can print them for rallies or other ways to display that you stand with Israel.
→
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Download our printable signs here.
[link removed]
Take Action Today
We are greatly concerned about anti-Israel and pro-Hamas rallies, and how they may lead to Jewish students being harassed and intimidated on campus.
[link removed]
Click here to see a list of schools where these events may be happening, and use our rapid-response tool to connect to the university leaders of any that you are an alum of, have a child or family friend at, or have another connection to. Urge these school officials to condemn antisemitism and to take action to protect Jewish students on campus.
[link removed]
Join us now.
Social Spotlights
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@ADL
ADL is aware of Hamas’s calls for individuals and groups around the world to dedicate Friday, October 13, to pro-Hamas activism. In advance, we are sending out an advisory alerting Jewish community leaders.
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Read the full post.
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@JGreenblattADL
An extraordinary demonstration of solidarity with @Israel by the US, UK, Italy, France and Germany. This is an important demonstration of leadership and a message to those who attempt to equivocate, justify or blatantly ignore Hamas' brutal crimes.
[link removed]
Read the full post.
@ ADL’s Incident Tracker
The
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@ADL_tracker feed of news and developments in antisemitism activities.
Anti-Semitic flyers circulated in neighborhoods
Some residents in the Chapel Hills neighborhood found anti-Semitic flyers in their driveways earlier this...
— October 11, 2023
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Read the full post
Absolutely vile display of anti-Jewish hate in front of the Sydney Opera House last night.
Once again, we see how incidents in Israel lead to antisemitism abroad & how supporters of Hamas support one thing: killing Jews. We stand with the Australian Jewish community. (R/T @ADL)
— October 10, 2023
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Read the full post
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A weekly wrap of ADL’s reports, updates and analysis on antisemitism around the world.
This Week’s Topline
[link removed]
We Stand With Israel: ADL Impact and Information During Crisis
On October 7, the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas carried out an unprecedented surprise attack on the Jewish state of Israel. In an act of war, Hamas terrorists invaded Israel, infiltrated cities and towns across Israel’s south, kidnapped civilians and fired thousands of rockets and missiles at cities across the country.
[link removed]
We send our condolences to the families of the murdered and our wishes for a speedy recovery to those who are wounded. Israel has every right to defend itself from acts of terrorism, acts of war and war crimes. We stand united with Israel.
ADL is on full alert, leveraging our capabilities and leaning into our expertise in monitoring how antisemitism emerges from crises like this. We are monitoring threats and tracking reactions to these crimes. We are sharing what we learn with elected officials and policymakers as well as corporations and other influential figures, urging them to speak out against the horrors that we’ve witnessed and we are actively engaging and supporting local partners, communal allies and our friends overseas.
At this time of devastation in Israel and heightened concern about anti-Zionist and antisemitic incidents in the U.S. and around the world, ADL’s team is working around the clock. Please use the ADL information below to better understand and speak out about the crisis.
[link removed]
Stay Up to Date with ADL’s Info Page
[link removed]
WEBINAR 10/13: ISRAEL UNDER ATTACK & ANTISEMITISM IN THE U.S.
In the wake of Hamas’s war on Israel, which is the deadliest attack on Jews since the Holocaust, and the horrific kidnapping of 150 innocent children, women and men into Gaza, we are seeing the inevitable... The terrorist attacks and Israel’s response have sparked anti-Israel and antisemitic activity in the United States and around the world — at a time when antisemitism around the world was already on the rise.
Extremists have been amplifying the hate spread by anti-Israel voices who are parroting Hamas claims. Many in the media have distorted the news in their coverage. And on campus, ‘Day of Resistance’ protests against Israel are breaking out, further elevating concern for Jewish students.
Our ADL team across the world is working around the clock. Join us for
[link removed]
an important Fighting Hate from Home webinar this Friday at 10 a.m. ET to hear first-hand from an Israeli whose family was taken hostage by Hamas. We will discuss Israel under attack, antisemitism in the U.S. and how ADL is responding with ADL Center on Extremism VP Oren Segal, who will share updates on the situation, take your questions and provide resources.
[link removed]
REGISTER NOW
What’s News
[link removed]
Pro-Hamas on Campus: In the days following Hamas’s invasion of Israel, the national leadership of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) and many of their campus chapters have explicitly endorsed the actions of Hamas and their armed attacks on Israeli civilians and voiced an increasingly radical call for confronting and “dismantling” Zionism on U.S. college campuses. According to the ADL Center on Extremism, SJP was planning a National Day of Resistance for its campus chapters for October 12. SJP encourages chapters to use tactics such as protests and demonstrations, or to use “a sit-in, disruption, or educational event.” Although these are, on their face,
all non-violent tactics, they raise the real possibility of creating a hostile environment for Jewish students, and the confrontational spirit raises the concern that these actions could lead to acts of harassment or vandalism targeting Jewish students and organizations.
→
[link removed]
READ the full report.
[link removed]
Covering the War Correctly: In ADL’s Media Guidelines for Covering the War in Israel, we provide recommendations for reporters, producers and editors assigned to cover the unfolding situation in Israel. For example: “the horrific and unspeakable acts of violence that occurred on Oct. 7 are not justifiable nor can these horrific acts be acknowledged as a response to past conflicts. Assigning sole blame for the conflict to Israel or Jewish people, without acknowledging or reporting on the long history of rejecting Israel’s right to exist, decades of security threats including Palestinian terrorism, can feed into anti-Jewish tropes.”
→
[link removed]
Read the Media Guidelines.
[link removed]
Antisemitism Around the World: Following Hamas’s horrific attacks on Israel, Jewish communities around the world are beginning to experience a spike in antisemitic incidents. In the UK, they are reporting three times the usual number of incidents being perpetrated. France’s Minister of the Interior announced that police had recorded 1,000 antisemitic incidents in 48 hours, including 50 that were “particularly serious.” The Israeli embassy in Bogota was vandalized with antisemitic graffiti. We will continue to monitor and update and work with our international partners to keep Jewish communities around the world safe. →
[link removed]
Read more about these incidents.
[link removed]
White House Meeting: ADL was proud to join President Joe Biden and Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff at the White House to discuss the Biden-Harris administration’s commitment to Israel, protecting the American Jewish community, and the important progress on the National Strategy to Counter Antisemitism. As Biden said during the meeting: The terrorist attack on Israel has brought to the surface painful memories and the scars left by a millennia of antisemitism and genocide of the Jewish people. So, in this moment, we must be crystal clear: We stand with Israel and the Jewish community.
→
[link removed]
Read news coverage of the meeting.
[link removed]
[link removed]
Speaking out in the Workplace: In response to a surge of antisemitism around the world in the aftermath of the terrorist massacre of well over a thousand unarmed civilians in Israel, ADL calls on the CEOs of corporations globally to speak out against hate and commit to ADL’s “Workplace Pledge to Fight Antisemitism.” Watch
[link removed]
ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt on CNBC as he calls on CEOs to stop being silent about the atrocities committed by Hamas, and to speak out for their Jewish employees facing antisemitism.
→
[link removed]
Find out more about the Workplace Pledge.
[link removed]
Reducing Online Misinformation Now: People in large numbers are going online to help make sense of the war in Israel and Gaza. Since the start of Hamas’ invasion and massacre of innocent civilians, we have seen a surge of antisemitism, hate, disinformation, misinformation, and propaganda spread on social media and messaging platforms. And we know from experience that this type of content can translate into verbal and physical antisemitic attacks in places far removed from the battlefield.
→
[link removed]
Here are seven things that the ADL Center for Technology and Society calls on social media companies to do immediately.
[link removed]
Learning from Last Time: During the 2021 military conflict between Israel and Hamas, antisemitic incidents in the U.S. reported to ADL increased by 75% compared to the two weeks before the fighting began. Many of these incidents appear to have been perpetrated by individuals scapegoating American Jews for the actions of the Israeli government. ADL’s report on that last crisis helps you to better understand the concerns for the days ahead.
→
[link removed]
Read about U.S. antisemitism during the 2021 conflict.
[link removed]
Compassion in the Classroom: During this crisis, Jewish students could be experiencing a range of emotions and processing information and current events differently. ADL Education provides ‘6 Tips for Supporting Jewish Students in the Classroom’ including ways to provide empathy and how to recognize common antisemitic myths and stereotypes so that you can recognize them if they occur in the classroom or community.
→
[link removed]
Read the 6 classroom tips.
[link removed]
Solidarity Statements: ADL has called on leaders in the political world and across civil society to speak out against Hamas terrorism and in solidarity with Israel and the Jewish community. We are collecting those statements on our ‘We Stand with Israel’ page, where you will find statements from President Biden, Republican and Democratic congressional leaders, U.S. governors and partners including the U.S. Conference of Mayors, MLK III, the NAACP, National Urban League, UnidosUS, The Asian American Foundation (TAAF) and the National Action Network.
→
[link removed]
View the full set of statements at the bottom of our page.
On the Fringe: Extremists on the white supremacist fringe are openly celebrating Hamas’s attack on Israel, cheering explicit depictions of violence against Israelis and promoting expanded violence against Jews worldwide. Some fringe-left groups are aligning with anti-Zionist organizations in the wake of Hamas’s attack on Israel. These groups are also helping to organize in-person, anti-Israel events, where participants are expressing antisemitic rhetoric.
→ Read about hate
[link removed]
on the right and
[link removed]
on the left.
[link removed]
Let’s Be Honest: Today on Time.com, ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt says ‘Let’s be honest about the hate that drove the Hamas attack. This massacre was a function of hate — the kind of toxic intolerance in its purest form. It was years in the making, and just as it took sophisticated military and logistical planning, it also took years of ideological planting — sowing seeds of antisemitism. Indeed, one cannot look at what Hamas did without understanding their thinking about Jews.
→
[link removed]
Read Jonathan’s full column.
[link removed]
Show Signs of Support: ADL offers several printable signs to show your support for Israel in its time of need. You can print them for rallies or other ways to display that you stand with Israel.
→
[link removed]
Download our printable signs here.
[link removed]
Take Action Today
We are greatly concerned about anti-Israel and pro-Hamas rallies, and how they may lead to Jewish students being harassed and intimidated on campus.
[link removed]
Click here to see a list of schools where these events may be happening, and use our rapid-response tool to connect to the university leaders of any that you are an alum of, have a child or family friend at, or have another connection to. Urge these school officials to condemn antisemitism and to take action to protect Jewish students on campus.
[link removed]
Join us now.
Social Spotlights
[link removed]
@ADL
ADL is aware of Hamas’s calls for individuals and groups around the world to dedicate Friday, October 13, to pro-Hamas activism. In advance, we are sending out an advisory alerting Jewish community leaders.
[link removed]
Read the full post.
[link removed]
@JGreenblattADL
An extraordinary demonstration of solidarity with @Israel by the US, UK, Italy, France and Germany. This is an important demonstration of leadership and a message to those who attempt to equivocate, justify or blatantly ignore Hamas' brutal crimes.
[link removed]
Read the full post.
@ ADL’s Incident Tracker
The
[link removed]
@ADL_tracker feed of news and developments in antisemitism activities.
Anti-Semitic flyers circulated in neighborhoods
Some residents in the Chapel Hills neighborhood found anti-Semitic flyers in their driveways earlier this...
— October 11, 2023
[link removed]
Read the full post
Absolutely vile display of anti-Jewish hate in front of the Sydney Opera House last night.
Once again, we see how incidents in Israel lead to antisemitism abroad & how supporters of Hamas support one thing: killing Jews. We stand with the Australian Jewish community. (R/T @ADL)
— October 10, 2023
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Read the full post
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