New York, NY, April 26, 2016 … The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today commended New York University (NYU) for rejecting a vote to divest from Israeli institutions. NYU’s Graduate Student Organizing Committee voted to back a Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) resolution against the State of Israel, which included divestment from Israeli companies and a call to close a joint-NYU-Tel Aviv University
New York, NY, April 6, 2016 … The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today said it was troubled by alleged anti-Semitic vandalism of an apartment building in the Borough Park neighborhood of Brooklyn, and welcomed the NYPD’s announcement that the incident is being investigated by its Hate Crimes Task Force. On April 3, the words “F— Jews” were discovered spray-painted in the
Says it Still Awaits “Tangible Results” From CUNY Task Force on Anti-Semitism New York, NY, March 29, 2016 … The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today expressed concern over attempts by the New York Senate to use anti-Semitic incidents at the City University of New York (CUNY) as a pretext to defund the system as the “wrong solution to a real problem.”
ADL made clear that concrete measures must be taken to confront anti-Semitism and anti-Israel bias on campus, ensuring that Jewish students are not marginalized.
After last month’s anti-Zionist incident at Brooklyn College, the City University of New York tasked its chancellor with studying complaints of anti-Semitism at several of its campuses.
