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July 2020
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Top 3 ADL Actions Around the Globe
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Iranian Regime’s Persecution of Minorites During COVID-19
Experts from ADL's Task Force on Middle East Minorities participated in a
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Zoom webinar on the impact of COVID-19 on the Iranian regime’s domestic and foreign policy, its ramifications for Iran's minorities as well as other vulnerable groups in the region and consider how the pandemic has fueled antisemitism, Holocaust denial, and anti-Israel conspiracy theories in Iran and beyond.
Moderated by ADL SVP for International Affairs Sharon Nazarian, panelists included: journalist and film maker Maziar Bahari, ARAM Founder and Director Marjan Keypour Greenblatt, FDD Turkey Program Senior Director and former Turkish lawmaker Aykan Erdemir and USCIRF Commissioner Rev. Johnnie Moore.
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Polish Election Marred by Antisemitism and Homophobia
A new
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blog by ADL Director of European Affairs Andrew Srulevitch on the Polish election, which saw incumbent President Andrzej Duda defeat Warsaw Mayor Rafal Trzaskowski by 51%-49%, examines how the Duda campaign turned negative, and used antisemitic and homophobic language that was elevated by state media.
Examples of antisemitic and homophobic statements include: state TV ran claiming that Trzaskowski would “sell out” Poland and take money from Polish families to pay “Jewish interests;” Duda disparaging the LGBTQ community by saying “LGBT are not people, they are an ideology;” and Duda referring to the campaign for LGBTQ rights as an “ideology” that was “more destructive” than “Communism,” a hard-hitting judgment in a country that is deeply anti-Communist across the political spectrum.
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26th Anniversary of the AMIA Bombing
Commemorating the 26th anniversary of bombing of the AMIA Jewish Center in Argentina which killed 85 people, ADL
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called for the Hezbollah and Iranian operatives responsible to be brought to justice. In the lead-up to the anniversary, ADL sent a
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letter to Secretary of State Pompeo calling on the US to designate Hezbollah as Entity of Particular Concern for International Religious Freedom, due to its ongoing efforts to destroy Israel and target Jewish communities.
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AROUND THE WORLD
Israel & Broader Middle East
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An ADL
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blog highlighted several “Day of Rage” anti-Israel rallies held across the US that featured antisemitic and anti-Zionist rhetoric.
ADL Deputy National Director Ken Jacobson
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responded to Peter Beinart’s NYT op-ed - which articulated why Beinart can longer support Israel’s existence as a Jewish state - by writing: “With all his soothing words about equality and blissful coexistence, Peter Beinart is calling for the elimination of the Jewish state itself. His contortions to argue that Zionism does not require an independent Jewish state are transparently false and a tactic to rationalize the dismantling of a sovereign Israel.”
ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt sent letters to the
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Republican and
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Democratic National Conventions’ Platform Committees to outline ADL’s broad array of policy recommendations, including on US foreign policy and the US-Israel alliance.
The Turkish government’s decision to convert the Hagia Sofia from a museum into a Mosque was
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condemned .
ADL Washington Director for International Affairs David Weinberg briefed the State Department’s Division for Counter Threat Finance and Sanctions on findings from ADL’s recent
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report about antisemitic incitement by Hezbollah-aligned educational institutions in Lebanon. David also
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presented to the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust on July 13th and on a
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podcast by editor-in-chief of the Jewish Journal David Suissa on July 8th about ADL’s work combating state-enabled antisemitism in the Mideast.
As part of a webinar series on Fighting Hate in the COVID-19 Era, co-sponsored by the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, ADL Israel Director Carole Nuriel spoke on a
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panel that examined how the global pandemic became a fertile ground for disseminating antisemitism and other forms of hate. In a subsequent panel, ADL Israel Education Director Rachel Kedar addressed issues related to stereotyping of vulnerable community and the importance of solidarity and working to enhance relations amongst Israelis.
ADL Israel Director Carole Nuriel spoke on a panel entitled How to Disrupt the Mechanism of Hate? where she shared insights into how Israelis can take this moment in time to change, inspire and look for a better future.
Europe
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In response to Twitter’s failure to address antisemitism across its platform, including several antisemitic posts by the musician Wiley, ADL
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joined a 48-hour walkout of Twitter in solidarity with the UK Jewish community who are calling on social media companies to do more to combat hate on their platforms.
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welcomed the Netherlands' government investigation and suspension of Dutch contributions to a Palestinian group accused of funding terrorism.
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marked the 9-year anniversary of the murder of 77 people in Norway by a neo-Nazi, and highlighted the
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Hate Beyond Borders report which shows how the murderer’s manifesto of hate inspired other white supremacist mass murderers around the globe.
Latin America
Consultations were held with Jewish communities in Peru (with ADL’s SVP for International Affairs Sharon Nazarian and Director of Latin American Affairs Liat Altman) and El Salvador (Liat Altman) to hear about current challenges to and activities of their communities, including those related to antisemitism, and to offer ADL support and cooperation.
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marked the 26th anniversary of the Alas Chiricanas terrorist attack in Panama by Hezbollah which killed 20 people, and called for those responsible to be brought to justice.
Monica Bauer, ADL Director of Hispanic Affairs, led a webinar on hate crimes for the Consulate of Mexico in Albuquerque, NM.
Global
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ADL condemned antisemitic attacks and trends globally, including: an antisemitic canard by a mayor in
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Chile ; deicide charges by the leader of Unbowed party in
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France ; Jewish graves desecrated in
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Germany ; antisemitic comments by the former Prime Minister of
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Malaysia ; and hateful antisemitic stereotypes by State TV in
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Poland .
ADL Director of Interreligious Engagement Rabbi David Sandmel and the other officers of the International Jewish Committee on Interreligious Consultations held an introductory meeting with Rev. Ioan Sauca, Acting Secretary General of the World Council of Churches. The discussion focused on Jewish-Christian relations and the WCC's problematic history regarding Israel.
Director of Interreligious Engagement Rabbi David Sandmel also lectured by Zoom to a group of Christian theological students based in Harare, Zimbabwe on "Jewish Concepts of
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