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New ADL Report Card to Help Students and Parents:
ADL will publish a “report card” every spring that will offer students, parents, guidance counselors, admissions consultants, concerned alumni and others with a comprehensive tool and comparative ranking to evaluate how colleges and universities are taking action to combat anti-Jewish hate on their campuses. This month, ADL is sending a letter to colleges and universities across the country with significant Jewish populations, informing them of ADL’s forthcoming evaluation and requesting data on their efforts to address antisemitism and protect Jewish students. The report card is in line with our call for campuses to commit to No Tolerance for Antisemitism. ADL
intends to release preliminary results in time for students and parents of incoming students to have this critical information before they need to make college commitments this spring.
→ Read more about the upcoming campus antisemitism report card.
Solidarity or Prejudice?: Carole Nuriel, head of ADL’s Israel-based office, writes about how to distinguish between legitimate solidarity with the plight of Palestinians and endorsement of underlying prejudices against Jews, Zionism and Israel.
As the current war is in its third month, Palestinians and their supporters should do the moral thing by disentangling solidarity with Palestinians from anti-Jewish animus, as well as by being mindful of the ways in which such animus fosters a broader antisemitic climate. While it’s hard to imagine today a future of peaceful coexistence between Israelis and Palestinians, building a foundation for such a possibility will require seeking opportunities to create understanding and mutual respect, and the avoidance of hateful, antisemitic tropes.
→ Read Carole’s full op-ed in the Times of Israel.
Explaining an Unsettling Time to Students:
The brutal Hamas attacks in Israel and subsequent global rise in antisemitism are profoundly unsettling, and reinforce the need for all people to understand, identify and challenge antisemitism in our world. These new resources for educators are intended to help middle and high school students make sense of current antisemitic incidents. Others with young people in their lives may also find them to be helpful.
→ Explore the lesson plan, on-demand webinar and FAQ.
Supporting the Strategy:
As part of ADL's efforts to support the White House’s National Strategy to Counter Antisemitism, we held meetings to brief the Departments of Education, Veterans Affairs, National Security Council, Domestic Policy Council, AmeriCorps and Equal Employment Opportunity Commission on ongoing trends in antisemitism and to support implementation of the national strategy in 2024. You can track progress in fulfilling the key objectives and milestones in this first-ever whole-of-government, whole-of-society effort on
ADL’s new National Strategy to Counter Antisemitism hub.
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