New York, NY, December 4, 2014 … In response to a Staten Island grand jury’s failure to issue an indictment in the Eric Garner case, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today said the decision “reminds us that the problems we face as a nation transcend Garner and Ferguson,” and that our nation “must all come together to address the persistence of
New York, NY, November 26, 2014 … The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) said an Instagram post by Detroit Lions running back Reggie Bush equating the situation in Ferguson with the Palestinian people, “demonstrates a severe lack of understanding of both issues.” Bush posted a photo on his account yesterday of a man holding up a sign which read, “The Palestinian people know what mean to
New York, NY, November 19, 2014 … The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today welcomed an arrest in the assault of a Jewish man from Israel at the Marcy Avenue subway station in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. According to reports, the victim was attacked on November 17 by three assailants who called him a “dirty bloody Jew” and a “f—ing Jew,” spit at him,
The Anti-Defamation League is forming a local advisory committee in Westchester County to help expand its education programs and initiatives in the community.
The launch of the league’s new committee was announced Oct. 21 at the Metropolis Country Club in White Plains, with a roster of speakers that included U.S. Rep. Eliot Engel, D-Bronx, state Assemblywoman Amy Paulin, D-Scarsdale, and Reginald Richardson, the principal of New Rochelle High School.
On November 11, 2014, ADL New York Regional Director Evan Bernstein told CBS2 News why the Anti-Defamation League is disturbed by the Nazi and Holocaust imagery in popular artist Nicki Minaj’s new music video “Only”. Watch the video clip here.
