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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.
→ READ the full report.
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.”
→ Read the Media Guidelines.
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.
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.
→ 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 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.
→ Find out more about the Workplace Pledge.
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.
→ Here are seven things that the ADL Center for Technology and Society calls on social media companies to do immediately.
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.
→ Read about U.S. antisemitism during the 2021 conflict.
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.
→ Read the 6 classroom tips.
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.
→ 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 on the right and on the left.
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.
→ Read Jonathan’s full column.
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.
→ Download our printable signs here.
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