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ADL Condemns Anti-Israel Actions by the ICC and ICJ |
ADL condemned the the International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor's announcement that he is seeking arrest warrants for the Israeli Prime Minister and Defense Minister, alongside three senior Hamas leaders.
ADL said that the ICC’s accusations, which include that Israel is exterminating and deliberately starving Palestinians, are unfounded and feed into the broader anti-Israel narrative plaguing international institutions, adding that decision to link Israeli officials with Hamas’s genocidal leaders – who orchestrated the Oct. 7th attack – serves to undermine the ICC’s credibility and significance.
ADL also spoke out against the International Court of Justice's (ICJ) decision to order Israel to halt its military operation in Rafah, stating that the order effectively says Israel has no right to retrieve the hostages or defend its citizens from terror. The statement further criticized the South African government for acting as Hamas’s representative at the ICJ, and called on the international community to reject the biased ICJ decision.
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Jonathan Greenblatt Visits Israel |
ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt visited Israel for a series of high-level meetings and presentations, as well as visits to different communities across the country. Highlights included: |
ADL-TAU Report Shows Antisemitism Spiked in Countries with Large Jewish Populations |
ADL and Tel-Aviv University published the joint Annual Antisemitism Worldwide Report
for 2023, highlighting the increase of dozens of percentage points in the number of antisemitic incidents in Western countries in comparison to 2022. The report found that even though there was particularly steep increase recorded following the Oct 7 attacks, the first nine months of 2023, also witnessed a relative increase in the number of incidents in most countries with large Jewish minorities, including the United States, France, the UK, Australia, Italy, Brazil, and Mexico.
Read the Full Report Here >>
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| Israel and the Middle East |
To mark Yom Hashoah, ADL Israel hosted a special event for foreign diplomates serving in Israel, which featured testimonies from Holocaust survivors and a briefing by Carole Nuriel, Senior Director for Israel and MENA, on the state of global antisemitism.
ADL said it was saddened by reports that as many as 45 Palestinians were killed during an Israeli airstrike in Rafah targeting Hamas operatives. An initial IDF investigation found that a fire resulting from the airstrike may have ignited a nearby Hamas weapons depot, which was adjacent to a refugee encampment.
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Marina Rosenberg, Andrew Srulevitch, Senior Director of European Affairs, and Dalia Grinfeld, Associate Director of European Affairs, participated in the European Conference on Antisemitism, hosted by the Austrian Government in Vienna.
Marina Rosenberg and Andrew Srulevitch traveled to Budapest for meetings with the Federation of Hungarian Jewish Communities, the Hungarian government’s Special Envoy, and NGOs involved in education against antisemitism.
ADL condemned the decision by Norway, Ireland and Spain to unilaterally recognize a Palestinian state. In a related op-ed, Ken Jacobson writes about how unilateral recognition was always the wrong approach, but doing so in the wake of Hamas’s genocidal massacre is a victory for those seeking Israel’s violent destruction.
Dalia Grinfeld spoke on a panel at the #rp24 conference in Germany about antisemitism in Germany before and after Oct. 7.
ADL released a video highlighting its Words to Action program in Europe, which has trained over 2,100 Jewish youth and young since 2022 on how to respond to antisemitism and anti-Israel activity.
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ADL hosted a Spanish-language webinar for Latin American students and parents about antisemitism on US college campuses, which included best practices and tools to address antisemitism in Latin American universities.
In an op-ed, Marina Rosenberg, SVP for International Affairs, examines the resurgence of global antisemitism, from the tent encampments at Columbia University in New York to the statements and actions of Colombian President Petro, and what we can do to address the threat. |
| ADL op-eds, blogs and backgrounders were published and translated into Spanish, including: |
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