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March 2021
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Top 3 ADL Actions Around the Globe
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Annual Israel Social Cohesion Summit Highlights Divisions and Commonalities
ADL Israel’s annual
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Social Cohesion Summit was held virtually this year, bringing together thousands of attendees from Israel – including over a thousand students – the U.S., Europe and around the globe to hear timely and trenchant discussions on salient and divisive issues, including the impact of Covid on Israeli society, challenges related to Haredi relations with the state, and the status of
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Diaspora-Israel relations.
The summit featured leading voices, including CEO Jonathan Greenblatt, Omer Yankelevitch, Israel’s Minister of Diaspora Affairs, heads of numerous Israeli political parties and Isaac Herzog, Chairman of the Jewish Agency.
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View Summit videos ❯
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Webinar Explores Results of 4th Israeli Election Since 2019
The International Affairs Committee hosted a
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special briefing on the fourth Israeli election held on March 23rd, featuring Dana Weiss, the anchor of “Saturday Night with Dana Weiss” on the Israel News Channel.
Dana shared her insights into the results of the election and the prospects for the next Israel government, and highlighted a number of election-related issues including the prevalence of far-right parties as well as the election of the first Reform rabbi.
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Watch Special ADL Briefing on Israel’s Election ❯
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How Switzerland Can Preempt a Rise in Antisemitism
In a
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new op-ed, SVP Sharon Nazarian laid out steps that the Swiss government could take to address security concerns of the country’s Jewish community.
Written on the heels of three separate antisemitic incidents across Switzerland in the month of February, the op-ed suggests three actions which could be taken to address the worrisome trend: comprehensive security funding for the Jewish community, the adoption of the IHRA definition by the Swiss government and the building of an official state Holocaust memorial. The recommendations were welcomed by the Swiss Jewish Federation.
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Read Op-Ed on Antisemitism in Switzerland ❯
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AROUND THE WORLD
Israel & Broader Middle East
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US Secretary of State Blinken’s public affirmation of strong US support for Israel was
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welcomed by ADL.
ADL
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criticized a UN Human Rights Council resolution that falsely accused Israel of committing crimes against humanity.
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reiterated serious concerns about the International Criminal Court’s decision to open up a war crimes probe against Israel.
An offensive political ad by the Haredi (ultra-Orthodox) United Torah Judaism party comparing Reform and Conversative Jews to dogs was
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labeled “hateful and demeaning.”
A ruling by Israel’s Supreme Court to recognize Reform and Conservative conversions conducted in Israel was
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welcomed.
In a Washington Post
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op-ed, SVP for International Affairs Sharon Nazarian and Task Force on Middle Eastern Minorities co-chair Aykan Erdemir warned of the extinction of religious minorities in the Middle East, and called on the international community to provide assistance.
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reiterated a call for Palestinian terrorist Ahlam al-Tamimi, who helped carry out the 2001 Sbarro bombing in Jerusalem that killed 15 people, to be extradited from Jordan to the US to face justice.
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condemned the Islamic Republic of Iran for imprisoning Iranian citizens, including a Jew, for having a connection to Israel.
In a new
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blog, Washington Director for International Affairs David Weinberg explained why Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei’s antisemitic and violent tweets merit him being kicked off the platform. In addition, David penned two articles on the pervasiveness of antisemitism in Iranian textbooks for
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Arab News and for the
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Long War Journal.
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Europe
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As part of ADL’s student delegation to the Social Cohesion Summit, 25 European and Israeli Jewish students heard from and met with a number of ADL staff, including
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CEO Jonathan Greenblatt.
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marked the third anniversary of the antisemitic murder of Holocaust survivor Mireille Knoll in Paris, France.
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said it was disturbed by a display of hanging dolls outside a synagogue in Norrkoping, Sweden on the first night of Passover. Pictures of the display were
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shared online by the neo-Nazi Nordic Resistance Movement.
UK PM Boris Johnson’s repudiation of Iran’s nuclear weapons ambitions was
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welcomed.
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Latin America
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marked the 29th anniversary of the bombing of the Israeli Embassy in Buenos Aires by the Hezbollah terrorist organization.
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condemned Brazilian government adviser Filipe Martins for displaying the “OK gesture”, a well-known “white power” signal, during a livestreamed speech of the President of the Brazilian Senate.
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Global and Communal
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ADL condemned antisemitic attacks and trends globally, including: antisemitic chants by soccer fans in
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Argentina; antisemitic harassment and violence targeting two visibly identified Jews in
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Argentina; the vandalizing of a synagogue in
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Belarus (photo above); accusations of Jewish child sacrifice by the leader of the Labor party in
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Brazil; calls for Jews to be massacred by a pastor in
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Brazil; an attempting stabbing of Jewish students in
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France; and a rise in antisemitic Covid-related conspiracy theories in
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Switzerland.
CEO Jonathan Greenblatt
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spoke at the UN’s Alliance of Civilizations conference about exploring holistic approaches to combating antisemitism.
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commended Singaporean security forces for apprehending a Hamas supporter who plotted to stab Jews outside a synagogue.
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called for justice for murdered Jewish journalist Daniel Pearl, whose kidnapper was released from prison to a safe house in Pakistan.
Following disturbing reports about ethnic cleansing in Ethiopia’s Tigray region, ADL
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called for the US and others to work to prevent further atrocities.
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marked the two-year anniversary of the Christchurch mosque terror attack by a white supremacist who killed 51 people.
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