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🚩 DSA’s Anti-Zionist Litmus Test:
The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), now the largest socialist organization in the country with over 120,000 members and 220 chapters nationwide, has made anti-Zionism a binding requirement for its endorsed candidates and members in good standing, according to a new ADL backgrounder.
DSA-backed candidates, including NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani, have translated this agenda into real political power, with over 250 members now serving in elected office nationwide, even as several chapters and leaders have expressed open support for Hamas’s October 7 attack. ADL’s new backgrounder traces how anti-Zionism, which is antisemitic in intent or effect, has moved from DSA's internal platform into City Halls, state legislatures and Congress.
→ READ ABOUT THE DSA
🎥 A Warning Sign For All of Us: From Groyper rallies in Tampa to a Twitch streamer’s slurs against “settlers,” antisemitism is going mainstream on both the left and right. In a new USA Today documentary series,
“Extremely Normal,” ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt joins reporter Will Carless to unpack what that shift means for the Jewish community. The episode spotlights figures like Nick Fuentes, Hasan Piker and James Fishback, who blend criticism of Israel with antisemitic tropes and Holocaust denial. ‘No one should need armed guards to attend religious services... That’s not just a Jewish problem. It’s a warning sign for all of us,’ Greenblatt says.
Watch the full episode HERE.
🌍 Supreme Leader Brings Supreme Incitement: Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s six-day funeral procession became a stage for violent antisemitic and anti-Israel incitement, according to
new ADL analysis. Placards called for setting “the lives of Jews across the entire world” ablaze, alongside eliminationist threats against Israel and explicit death threats against President Trump, including the hashtag “#KillTrump.” Leadership from Hamas, Hezbollah and other U.S.-designated terrorist groups attended in person, while American influencers like Jackson Hinkle and Max Blumenthal amplified the regime’s messaging.
LEARN MORE in ADL’s report.
📚 A Course Built to Boycott Us: Illinois teachers can now earn state licensing credit for a six-hour course titled
“Why We Need to #DropTheADL From Schools,” which brands ADL a “right-wing and white supremacist organization” and pushes educators to boycott our programs. This is deeply alarming and as ADL Midwest Regional Director Rebecca Weininger said, “All fair-minded teachers should reject calls to boycott educational programs that benefit Chicago’s students.”
Read more about how a state-approved professional development requirement is being used to spread a disturbing narrative that contradicts the fundamental principles of academic freedom.
✍️ PEN America President Sends A ‘Chilling Message.’: PEN America President Dinaw Mengestu resigned last week over the group’s new report on the exclusion and threats Jewish and Israeli writers have faced since October 7, arguing PEN should instead defend boycotters’ free speech rights. ADL
noted the resignation "sends a chilling message,” urging PEN America to “oppose all efforts to boycott, silence, or exclude any voices, including Jewish and Israeli ones.” In a video response, ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt added
that “writers are facing ideological litmus tests in a way we've never seen before… Free expression means just that. Free expression. Protecting every voice, including Jewish and Israeli voices.”
🕯️ 1,000 Days Later:
Marking 1,000 days since October 7, ADL's Ken Jacobson reflects on what has made this tragedy different from other major terror attacks: instead of the global sympathy and condemnation that followed 9/11, the massacre was met with rationalizations and, in some quarters, justification. In a new op-ed for the Times of Israel,
Jacobson argues that the perception of Israeli vulnerability on October 7, and the broader sense that Jews could once again be targeted without consequence, helped fuel the historic surge in antisemitism that followed. "Perception of weakness generates new opportunities for haters," he writes.
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