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January 2021
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Top 3 ADL Actions Around the Globe
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International Holocaust Remembrance Day Observed
To mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day – January 27th - ADL held a
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webinar on Holocaust Educational programs around the world featuring representatives from UNESCO, the Mimouna Association in Morocco and the Museum of Memory and Tolerance in Mexico City. The panelists spoke about their work to educate the public about the Holocaust, and share some unique initiatives in that field.
In conjunction with the webinar, SVP for International Affairs Sharon Nazarian published an
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op-ed highlighting some different Holocaust educational efforts around the world, explaining how Holocaust education is an effective tool in promoting tolerance and acceptance towards others. Liat Altman, Director of Latin American Affairs, published a
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Spanish-language version of the op-ed on an Argentinian website. Ken Jacobson, Deputy National Director, wrote a
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piece about the transformation of the Catholic Church’s attitude toward Jews and the need for Arab states and others to follow that model.
Additionally, Sharon spoke to audiences in the United Arab Emirates on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, including an event for New York University’s Abu Dhabi campus about the state of antisemitism in the world today.
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ADL Letter on Khamenei Twitter Account
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welcomed a decision by Twitter to suspend a Persian-language account associated with the website of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei. In a letter to Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, CEO Jonathan Greenblatt called on the company to suspend other Twitter accounts associated with Khamenei, writing:
Khamenei’s Twitter accounts have a long history before that as well of promoting acts and perpetrators of terrorism against civilians, in violation of Twitter policy... given that you have already suspended an American president from your platform earlier this month, and just removed one of Khamenei’s many Twitter accounts for its blatant and threatening violations of Twitter policies, that standard must urgently be applied to Khamenei’s panoply of other Twitter accounts, which so clearly pose a danger to physical safety and routinely violate Twitter’s terms of service.
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ADL Training for Finnish Police Officials
At the request of the Ministry of Interior of Finland and the Helsinki Jewish Community, ADL hosted a 3-hour webinar for over 30 senior Finnish police officials.
Presentations by ADL’s Center on Extremism covered recognizing antisemitism and understanding violent white supremacy. Transatlantic links between white supremacists, including Finnish extremists, were also highlighted. SVP for International Affairs Sharon Nazarian described ADL's mission of bringing our expertise to fight extremism around the world.
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AROUND THE WORLD
Israel & Broader Middle East
To mark Holocaust International Remembrance Day, ADL Israel presented on a series of lectures to over 600 students on topics relating to antisemitism and Holocaust denial.
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A new
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blog by Washington Director for International Affairs David Weinberg highlighted numerous antisemitic entries from Iran’s third Holocaust cartoon collection.
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marked the anniversary of the 1969 hanging of 9 Jews in Iraq, one of the most horrific episodes of state-sponsored antisemitism.
Ken Jacobson, ADL Deputy National Director, spoke to the Council on Foreign Relations in St. Louis on the topic of the rapidly changing Middle East and the Impact on Israeli-Palestinian Relations.
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Europe
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welcomed a new European Commission handbook on the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition on antisemitism, which provides concrete examples and best practices of how governments and civil society can apply the working definition in education, law enforcement and elsewhere.
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called on the Celtic Football Club to support Israeli member Nir Bitton after he and his family were subjected to antisemitic abuse by club fans.
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recalled those killed during the Charlie Hebdo massacre in France in 2015.
A significant decrease among UK Jewry who felt “unwelcome” due to antisemitism during the Corbyn-era was
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welcomed .
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thanked the US Ambassador to Lithuania for publicly rebuking a Lithuanian lawmaker who claimed Jews shared blame for the Holocaust.
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welcomed the Norwegian Government’s second multi-year action plan against antisemitism.
Latin America
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commemorated 6 years since the passing of AMIA prosecutor Alberto Nisman, and called on Argentinean authorities to advance the investigation and find those responsible for his alleged murder.
The decision by Guatemala’s Congress to adopt the IHRA definition was
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welcomed .
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Global and Communal
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ADL condemned antisemitic attacks and trends globally, including: an assault on a Jewish family in
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Argentina ; swastikas spray painted on a synagogue in Canada; an attempted vandalism of a synagogue in Montreal,
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Canada ; desecration of a Holocaust monument in
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Greece ; antisemitic comments by the former Prime Minister of
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Iraq ; a former elected official who used Nazi and antisemitic canards against a presidential candidate in
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Peru ; Nazi symbols spray painted on the wall of a Jewish cemetery in
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Poland ; classic antisemitic tropes in a pro-government newspaper in
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Turkey .
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called a decision by Pakistan’s Supreme Court to release Daniel Pearl’s killer a “travesty of justice,” and
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welcomed a commitment by Secretary of State Blinken to bring him to justice.
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welcomed a decision by the State Department to designate China’s oppression of the Uighurs as a genocide.
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