The Hillary Clinton campaign on Monday scolded Donald Trump for defending his Saturday tweet, which included an image of Clinton and a Star of David created by a racist Twitter user and first posted on a white-supremacist website.
Donald Trump’s candidacy and his rhetoric on the campaign trail has presumably led to the uptick in racism and anti-Semitism, ADL’s CEO Jonathan Greenblatt said on Monday.
The number of anti-Semitic incidents in the United States stayed roughly stable in 2015, rising 3 percent, according to a new report from the Anti-Defamation League (ADL).
Three seminaries — American Jewish University (AJU), Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion (HUC-JIR) and the Academy for Jewish Religion, California (AJR-CA) were among the local schools holding commencement ceremonies last month.
The triple parentheses known as the echo symbol, used by white supremacists and anti-Semites to identify Jews on Twitter, has been added to the Anti-Defamation League’s hate symbols database.
Recent vandalism targeting three New England synagogues is aimed at intimidating the Jewish community, the director of the New England office of the Anti-Defamation League said.
The Ottoman government’s massacre of 1.5 million Armenians in the early 20th century was “unequivocally genocide,” the head of the Anti-Defamation League said in the group’s strongest position on the subject.
Journalist Julia Ioffe has filed a report with the D.C. police department for anti-Semitic threats that she had received from Trump fans after writing a negative profile of Melania Trump in GQ, The Washington Post reported on Monday.
Police arrested 23 activists from an anti-Israeli occupation group at two protests, one at an Anti-Defamation League office and another at an American Israeli Public Affairs Committee headquarters.
The Anti-Defamation League said it was “outrageous” that a debate topic at an inter-university debating competition in Atlanta required participants to justify Palestinian stabbing attacks against Israelis.
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