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New Orleans Attack is the Latest in Increased Islamist Terror Incidents Targeting U.S.
On January 1, Shamsud-Din Jabbar of Houston bypassed barriers to drive a rental truck into a crowd of New Year’s celebrators on Bourbon Street in New Orleans, an attack that left 14 people dead and dozens more injured.
The suspect had an ISIS flag on his vehicle and reportedly made videos prior to the attack in which he claimed to have joined ISIS. Jabbar was fatally shot by police after exiting the vehicle and opening fire, wounding two officers in the exchange. Shortly afterwards, police found explosive devices in the vicinity of the attack, possibly intended to target first responders.
Read analysis from the ADL Center on Extremism about the rise in Islamic terror incidents in the U.S., including the December FBI arrest of an Egyptian citizen and George Mason University student on a charge of demonstrating how to manufacture an explosive with intent to murder internationally protected persons.
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What Happened on Campus in 2024?
As we move into 2025, we celebrate the substantial strides made by the ADL community and our new Ronald Birnbaum Center to Combat Antisemitism in Education (CCAE). Amid distressing increases
in antisemitic incidents in schools and on campuses, our mission to protect educational environments from the rising tide of hate is more urgent than ever. A notable highlight of the year was the Not On My Campus campaign, which has been championing the Six Asks, calling on administrators to adopt these recommendations to combat antisemitism.
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| ADL recognized several college students as Levenson Family Defender of Democracy Award honorees at ADL’s In Concert Against Hate in 2024. |
Hundreds of thousands of volunteers have joined the campaign’s Calls to Action and received regular updates through the Campus Crisis Alert. Our Campus Antisemitism Legal Line
has also been critical, handling over 760 complaints and achieving key victories, including the Title VI settlement with Occidental College. In April, the Campus Antisemitism Report Card graded 85 colleges,
inspiring
policy updates by schools. We are expanding the Report Card, adding 50 more schools and new criteria in Spring 2025 to support students, parents, schools, faculty, alumni and others. We will also publish a new campus climate report, conduct surveys of faculty members and develop more resources for everyone involved in supporting Jewish students — and all students.
Meanwhile, in the K-12 area, we launched the K-12 Antisemitism Legal Line for schools in California, Massachusetts and New York. We also have shared best practices with over 16,000 school districts as well as
resources for parents and caregivers who are supporting their students in public and independent K-12 schools.
With these efforts, ADL is proud to strengthen advocacy capabilities at every educational level, ensuring that antisemitism has no place in our classrooms and on our campuses.
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VIDEO: How Investors Can Combat Hate and Harassment in the Gaming Industry:
Watch ADL’s recorded webinar on how the gaming industry is grappling with a serious issue: antisemitism, hate and harassment in online multiplayer games. The problem has become widespread, impacting the player experience and posing significant risks to players, investors and gaming companies. ADL affiliate JLens hosted Daniel Kelley, interim head of the ADL Center for Technology and Society for this fascinating discussion where he shared insights into the proliferation of hate and harassment in the gaming industry and discussed what shareholders can do to tackle this issue.
Watch the webinar here.
COMING SOON: Are You Being Targeted For Your Identity In Games?:
In a report later in January, ADL follows up on the webinar above by examining what happens when gamers express pride in religious, ethnic and national identities (including Proud2BJewish, Proud2BIsraeli, and Proud2BMexican) while playing online competitive multiplayer games. Are they targeted with hate and harassment? And is there any prosocial behavior in these games? In the report, Playing with Hate,
we will show that there was hate and harassment (examples: ‘gas the Jews’, calling people the ‘n-word’, a player named Hitler) in about half of the game sessions that ADL asked a group of participants to play. You can read an earlier ADL study on anti-Jewish hate in games here.
Op-Ed: How Anti-Western Education Excuses Antisemitism:
With the surge in campus antisemitism and anti-Zionist views in the United States and around the world, ADL’s Ken Jacobson writes about what is surprising about this surge and what is much less surprising as a flare-up of the world’s oldest hatred. Ken’s timely op-ed can be read in English in the Times of Israel, and in Spanish, in El Español,
which has the largest online audience in Spain.
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When signs of antisemitism began to emerge in her community, a mother reached out to ADL. Here’s how it started...
On his first day of tennis practice, a freshman Jewish student at a high school in the suburbs of Philadelphia heard antisemitic “jokes” from the court next to him. When his mother Dorothy asked, he revealed more heartbreaking examples of the anti-Jewish experiences he had been having in school. Dorothy relied on resources and data from ADL to guide her response. Eventually, her township issued a proclamation condemning antisemitism and all forms of hate. Dorothy continues to speak out, and is resolved to make a difference, saying: “We need to reengage with our allies,
and we need to find new allies.” Read more about what happened to Dorothy's son, and how her community responded.
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