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ADL is pushing for the Senate to confirm Dr. Deborah Lipstadt as U.S. Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism, where she will be a powerful voice on the world stage in the fight against hate.
Dr. Lipstadt is a pillar of the Jewish community and one of the world’s leading historians on antisemitism. She fought, and won, a landmark legal battle against a Holocaust denier. She is an eminently qualified and distinguished scholar who knows that if we do not learn from history, we are doomed to repeat it. With increased antisemitism, including the recent Colleyville, TX hostage crisis, the need for an antisemitism envoy has never been more vital.
Join us in taking action now:
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Each year, individuals with ties to extreme movements and ideologies kill people in the United States. Some killings are high profile and spark nationwide outrage; others may go largely unnoticed except by the family and friends of victims. For 14 years, the ADL Center on Extremism has worked to identify and track as many of these domestic extremist-related murders as possible, and to identify past extremist-related murders dating back to 1970. | |
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Spotify is in hot water for its support of controversial podcaster Joe Rogan. In January 2022, a group of 270 medical professionals wrote an open letter to the company accusing Rogan of spreading misinformation about the Covid-19 pandemic, calling him “a menace to public health.”
Soon after, legendary rocker Neil Young demanded that the company either remove his music or stop airing the podcast because it promotes false information about Covid-19 vaccines. The company chose Rogan—whose podcast attracts an estimated 11 million listeners per episode and commands a minimum ad spend of $1 million—prompting a wave of backlash from other artists threatening to walk away from the platform. | |
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Last week, ADL Senior Vice President of International Affairs Sharon Nazarian wrote an op-ed in The Forward about the Amnesty International report on Israel. In this op-ed, Nazarian discussed the dangerous implications of this report for both Jews and Palestinians. | |
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ADL Washington, D.C. offers timely information, statements and resources in response to regional and national trending topics via Twitter. Check out the links below to see what we are Tweeting about:
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Our collection of K-12 education resources promotes critical thinking and learning around historical and current events topics through the lens of diversity, bias and social justice. This week, we are featuring resources to celebrate Black History Month. Check out the links below for more information:
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We are inviting synagogues across D.C., MD, NC and VA to join ADL Washington, D.C.’s 2022 Signature Synagogue Program. Through the program, ADL partners with synagogues across our region to ignite a congregation-wide commitment to raising awareness of and speaking out against antisemitism and hate. Participants in the Signature Synagogue Program will have special direct access to ADL speaking engagements, Words to Action workshops, resources and learning opportunities.
For those who are already participating in the 2021 Signature Synagogue Program, we invite you to renew your participation and join us for the 2022 session. To sign up, gather more information or renew your membership, please reach out to Erica Biegen at [email protected]. | |
