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The Antisemitism Briefing and all the work that ADL does to fight antisemitism and other forms of hate wouldn’t be possible without you. Please consider making a tax-deductible, year-end donation to support our work.
A generous donor was inspired to increase our December matching challenge, making it a 3X match challenge for all year-end donations up to $250,000! That means every $1 you donate becomes $3 through December 31.
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The 2024 Year in Review from ADL: Challenging Times and Moments of Hope During the Past Year
Dear Friends,
As I reflect on the end of the long year that has been 2024, two words come to mind first. ‘Challenges’ and ‘Community.’ Or possibly just ‘good riddance.’ But before we turn the page, it’s important to reflect on the work that the ADL community did this year in the face of such upheaval. I am so grateful to our dedicated professional staff, our amazing volunteer leadership, our generous donors and everyone else who speaks up and shows up to fight hate for good in your neighborhood, online, on campus and everywhere that antisemitism and other
forms of bigotry and extremism must not go unanswered.
We entered 2024 with the sobering realization that in the three months since the Oct. 7 massacre in Israel, U.S. antisemitic incidents rose dramatically, foreshadowing a trend that would play out through the year. As I noted then, “the American Jewish community is facing a threat level that’s now unprecedented in modern history.”
In January:
- Addressing what would be one of the themes for the year — the hostile campus climate — ADL launched our Not On My Campus Hub with tools and resources for students, faculty, parents and alumni.
CLICK HERE to read the rest of the 2024 Year in Review, including advancements in the fight against antisemitism on campus, in the courts, online, in Washington and even in shareholder meetings.
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| Jonathan Greenblatt |
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Supporting Jewish Students in Philadelphia K-12 Schools: In an agreement
with the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights, the largest school district in Pennsylvania has signed off on a resolution that finds that the district failed to prove that it protected Jewish students despite “repeated, extensive notice” of antisemitic behavior in district schools. This resolution resolves allegations against the School District of Philadelphia that were raised by ADL
in a complaint filed in July 2024. ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt praised Jewish students and parents “who had the courage to speak out against the pattern of antisemitic harassment, abuse and bullying.” The resolution includes a lengthy list of steps that the school district has agreed to.
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NEW SURVEY: K-12 Students and Antisemitism:
Seventy-one percent of Jewish parents and 37 percent of non-Jewish parents surveyed reported that their child witnessed or experienced antisemitism in K-12 classrooms or through course materials, according to a survey released by the ADL Center for Antisemitism Research. This represents more than a third of all parents. The findings also reveal a strong correlation between students' access to Holocaust and antisemitism education and their ability to recognize antisemitic incidents when they occur. Dig into the survey findings here.
NY’s “Stop Hiding Act” Passes:
Earlier this week, NY Governor Kathy Hochul signed into law an important social media transparency bill that ADL has been an outspoken advocate for. The new law (S895/A6789) requires greater transparency regarding content moderation protocols from major social media platforms, helping to ensure accountability and hopefully create a safer social media environment for all users. We are grateful for the hard work of State Senator Brad Hoylman-Sigal and Assembly Member Grace Lee for working with ADL and other community organizations and constituents across New York to take this step towards greater internet transparency and safety. Read a
news summary and ADL’s official statement.
About Radical Group ‘Unity of Fields’:
Review ADL's backgrounder on Unity of Fields (UoF), formerly Palestine Action U.S., a radical far-left, anti-Zionist “direct action network” that engages in and/or promotes aggressive, targeted protests and the defacement of property belonging to Jewish and non-Jewish organizations and individuals it considers supportive of Israel or Zionism or “complicit” in Israel’s alleged actions. The group’s stated mission is disrupting and “dismantling zionism [sic] and US imperialism” through “militant direct actions.”
Read the ADL article.
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