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June 2020
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Top 3 ADL Actions Around the Globe
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New ADL Report on Antisemitism in Hezbollah Schools in Lebanon
A new ADL
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report by Washington Director for International Affairs David Weinberg highlights how Hezbollah educational institutions in Lebanon are systematically indoctrinating children with antisemitism and support for terrorism.
In advance of the report’s release, David and Sharon Nazarian, ADL’s SVP for International Affairs, briefed senior officials at the U.S. National Security Council, the State Department, the Treasury Department, the U.S. Agency for International Development, and the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, as well as the Embassy of Israel and the European Union Delegation to the United States.
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European Commission Coordinator on Combatting Antisemitism Speaks to ADL
European Commission Coordinator on Combatting Antisemitism Katharina von Schnurbein addressed ADL leadership on the state of antisemitism in Europe and the well-being of European Jewish communities.
Katharina discussed how Jewish communities are approaching the issue of physical security and how they are dealing with antisemitism and other forms of hate on social media platforms. She spoke about efforts to lobby additional European governments to formally adopt the IHRA definition of antisemitism, and offered suggestions on how ADL and the EU can further collaborate on fighting antisemitism.
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Panel Discussion on the Impact of Israeli Annexation of West Bank on US Jews
ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt participated in an Israeli Policy Forum-sponsored
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panel discussion with other major US Jewish community leaders on the issue of annexation and its impact on US Jewry and US-Israel relations.
In his remarks, Jonathan articulated ADL’s positioning on the complex issues surrounding possible pending annexation of areas of the West Bank by the Israeli government, and spoke about the need to ensure that the Jewish community provides a space for people to be critical about the decision but also speak out against those who will use the opportunity to promote the delegitimization of the Jewish state and engage in anti-Zionism and antisemitic speech.
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AROUND THE WORLD
Israel & Broader Middle East
Roger Waters
After Roger Waters used an interview with a Hamas-affiliated TV station to invoke multiple antisemitic stereotypes, including that the U.S. government is being manipulated by a Jewish puppet master who is “filling the coffers and pulling all the strings,” ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt
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tweeted that Waters’s comments were a “classic antisemitic conspiracy theory right out of the Protocols of Zion.” An ADL
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blog highlighted Water’s history of problematic anti-Israel and antisemitic comments.
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welcomed the decision to rehang a Pride banner that had been removed from the American Embassy building in Jerusalem.
ADL Israel briefed the Orthodox Union’s Israel’s women group on antisemitism, COVID-19 and the killing of George Floyd.
ADL Washington Director for International Affairs David Weinberg and Coordinator of ADL’s Task Force on Middle East Minorities Tugba Tanyeri Erdemir wrote a
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blog documenting Iran and Turkey's scapegoating of Jews and other Mideast minorities over the public health crisis.
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welcomed new U.S. sanctions against Iranians who illegally shipped oil to the Maduro regime in Venezuela, a hardline anti-Israel and anti-American government.
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expressed alarm at reports of a new crackdown against Bahai’s in Iran by the regime.
ADL sent several letters to Arab ambassadors, including the Saudis raising concern about promotion of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion in Saudi mass media by a quasi-governmental Saudi human rights official; the Qataris raising concern about religious incitement to violence against Jews by a department chair from Qatar's main public university on Qatar's state-owned Al Jazeera; and to the U.A.E. welcoming the U.A.E. Ambassador’s recent direct outreach to Israelis.
International Affairs staff and ADL's Task Force on Middle East Minorities held a small consultative call with Nadia's Initiative, the human rights campaign of Nobel Laureate Nadia Murad, to discuss how ADL can help the Yazidi community recover from the campaign of genocide perpetrated by ISIS.
Europe
Lord John Mann, the U.K.’s government Independent Adviser on Antisemitism, consulted with SVP for International Affairs Sharon Nazarian and Director of European Affairs Andrew Srulevitch about issues related to antisemitism in the U.K. They also held a consultation with the Jewish community of Norway to hear about current challenges to and activities of their communities and to offer ADL support and cooperation.
Sharon Nazarian, SVP for International Affairs, presented on global antisemitism to the Henry Jackson Society, a London-based think-tank.
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welcomed the Italian government’s decision to form an inter-ministerial working group to implement the IHRA definition of antisemitism across its government.
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called on German churches to remove antisemitic statutes that depict Jews engaged in obscene acts with pigs.
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welcomed a decision by German’s parliament to allow Rabbis to serve as military chaplains, for the first time since the 1930s.
A Norwegian court’s decision to give the maximum sentence to an admitted Norwegian white supremacist for the racist murder of his Chinese half-sister and armed attack on a mosque was
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welcomed .
Latin America
Consultations were held with the Jewish communities of Panama, Sao Paolo, Peru, Argentina, Chile and Colombia to hear about current challenges to and activities of their communities, including those related to antisemitism, and to offer ADL support and cooperation.
At the request of the Panamanian Jewish community, Liat Altman, Director of Latin American Affairs, moderated a panel on social unrest in the US that featured Alex Rosemberg, NY/NJ Deputy Regional Director, and Monica Bauer, Director of Hispanic Affairs.
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welcomed Argentina's adoption of the IHRA working definition on antisemitism, which will help Argentina prevent and respond to antisemitic incidents targeting the Jewish community, the largest in Latin America.
Monica Bauer, Director of Hispanic Affairs, led webinars on hate crimes, racism and hate related to COVID-19 for Mexican Consulates in Houston and Dallas.
Global
ADL condemned antisemitic attacks and trends globally, including: a journalist who engaged in Holocaust denial in
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Poland ; the stabbing of a Hasidic man in
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London ; chants of “dirty Jews” by white supremacists during an anti-racism rally in
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Paris ; and the appointment of a Holocaust denier to the National Electorate Committee in
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Venezuela .
ADL joined a coalition
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letter to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo raising concern about recent U.S. actions that have undermined multilateral support for LGBTI rights around the world.
ADL endorsed a bipartisan Congressional letter signatures in the House and Senate addressed to European Union member states encouraging tougher sanctions against Hezbollah.
As the international community marked World Refugee Day, ADL
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joined with the #70Million campaign to call on the Jewish community to act and advocate on behalf of the world’s 70 million refugees and asylum seekers.
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