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By Grace Gilson (JTA) — The board of directors for the National Education Association, the United States’ largest teachers union, has rejected a proposal by its delegates to sever ties with the Anti-Defamation League. The rejection on Friday night comes … Read More
Jewish community organizations representing the majority of American Jewry welcomed the decision by the National Education Association (NEA) Executive Committee and Board of Directors late Friday to reject a vote by the organization’s Representative Assembly to boycott ADL (Anti-Defamation League) … Read More
By Grace Gilson (JTA) — The National Education Association, the United States’ largest teachers union, has passed a non-binding measure barring the union from using, endorsing or publicizing any materials from the Anti-Defamation League. The proposal, supported by a slim … Read More
By Andrew Lapin (JTA) — The letter grades that the Anti-Defamation League has issued to campuses on their response to antisemitism are showing signs of growing influence: The group announced today that several schools have adopted new policies to improve … Read More
By Asaf Elia-Shalev (JTA) — Wikipedia’s editors have voted to declare the Anti-Defamation League “generally unreliable” on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, adding it to a list of banned and partially banned sources. An overwhelming majority of editors involved in the debate … Read More
By Andrew Silow-Carroll (JTA) — I’d mostly forgotten about Ivan Boesky when I heard he died Monday at age 87. But news of his death brought me back to some of my earliest assignments as a Jewish journalist — and … Read More
By Andrew Adler Community Editor Anyone doubting the fraught nature of contemporary American Jewish life need only to scan the Anti-Defamation League’s recently released annual Audit of Antisemitic Incidents to be reminded – via statistic after sobering statistic – that we … Read More
By Andrew Lapin (JTA) – At a recent city council meeting in Evanston, Illinois, a man in dark sunglasses stepped up to the podium during the public comment period to accuse the Anti-Defamation League of stifling free speech. Wearing a … Read More
By Ben Sales (JTA) — Antisemitism in the United States has “skyrocketed” in the three months since Hamas’ Oct. 7 invasion of Israel, according to data tallied by the Anti-Defamation League. There were 3,283 antisemitic incidents in the United States … Read More
By Suzanne Kurtz Sloan When actor and director David Schwimmer stood up last November to talk about his experience with hate and the importance of building alliances to combat racism and antisemitism, the “Friends” star emphasized the importance of speaking … Read More