This Week’s Topline

Now is the Time to Urge your Senators to Support Israel

Call on your Senators to back the President’s funding request for Israel which includes emergency supplemental funding for the Nonprofit Security Grant Program. We need to fight the surge of antisemitism and show solidarity with Israel and the Jewish community.

Your moment of action can help at this pivotal time.

What’s News

A New Project to Set the Record Straight: The nation’s most prominent American Jewish organizations, including ADL, have joined forces to launch The 10/7 Project — a new communications operation designed to promote continued U.S. bipartisan support for Israel. The 10/7 Project will focus on fact-based coverage of the Israel-Hamas war and a media campaign dedicated to reminding policymakers and the American public about the more than 130 hostages still held by Hamas terrorists; uplifting the stories of the innocent victims of October 7; setting the record straight about the conflict; and combating misinformation spouted by Hamas terrorists and their anti-Israel allies.
→ Visit the10-7project.com.

Are You Prepared to Respond to Antisemitism on your Campus?: ADL and Hillel International have launched “Antisemitism on Campus”, a new self-paced digital module that helps students gain a common understanding of Jewish identity and antisemitism and gain strategies and tools to act as advocates and allies against antisemitism. This is another way ADL is working to ensure the White House Strategy to Counter Antisemitism is implemented. You can email ADL for more information about how to share this program with students at [email protected].

Fundraising for Hate: Antisemitic and white supremacist groups and their supporters are using Facebook Pages, Instagram profiles, YouTube channels and X accounts to raise money for their causes. Our findings highlight where these companies are falling short on their promises to moderate hate groups and even, at times, providing tools to facilitate fundraising efforts. Much of this activity is taking place in plain sight. We found that dozens of accounts, including some whose very existence violates platforms’ policies, are using social media to direct people to hate group websites that solicit donations, sell memberships or hawk hate-related merchandise like books, mugs and T-shirts.
→ READ the report.

Social Spotlights

@JGreenblattADL

Let’s be crystal clear: there is NO “context” in which calling for the genocide of Jews is OK. These leaders’ lack of moral clarity in response to this line of questioning is shameful but not surprising based on the past few weeks. @ADL will continue fighting to protect Jewish students on campus.

@ADL

Now more than ever, it’s clear that ADL-backed provisions, which protect our armed forces from threats posed by antisemitism & extremism, must be included in the final National Defense Authorization Act. Efforts to hamper measures that counter extremism undermine our national security.

@ADL

The @FBI has seen about a 60% increase in hate crime investigations since Oct 7, and the majority of those cases involve threats against Jews. Director Wray stated that “the Jewish community is uniquely targeted by pretty much every terrorist organization across the spectrum.”

@ ADL’s Incident Tracker

The @ADL_tracker feed of news and developments in antisemitism activities.

Zoombombing made an unwanted comeback in @townofwinthrop last night & continues to disrupt our civic forums and city council meetings with hate & #antisemitism. Be prepared to turn them off. (h/t @ADL_NewEngland)

— December 6, 2023 Read the full post

Students should be able to go to class unobstructed and without being subjected to shouts of “shame!” And no student should have to endure calls for “intifada” or their peers telling Zionists to “Go to Hell!” But that was the outrageous reality at @TheNewSchool yesterday. We appreciate the university’s clear communication & warning about this violation of the school’s demonstration policies. (h/t @ADL_NYNJ)

— December 5, 2023 Read the full post

Maryland teachers union representative suspended for antisemitic posts targeting local wealthy Jews.

— December 5, 2023 Read the full post