New York, NY, January 8, 2014 … The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today urged the Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) to hold the El Palestino Club soccer team accountable for violating FIFA regulations and its Code of Ethics during a soccer game on January 4, when its players replaced their standard uniform with jerseys imprinted with the outline of what
New York, NY, January 8, 2014 … The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) welcomed Governor Andrew Cuomo’s call for changes to New York State law related to discrimination and bullying in schools in the wake of reports of wide spread anti-Semitic harassment and violence in the Pine Bush School District. ADL said that that the Governor’s proposal, if enacted, “will go a
January 6, 2014 Letters to the Editor New York Post To the Editor: While there has been much focus on the Post’s insensitive headline, “Who Didn’t Want Him Dead?” surrounding the murder of Menachem Stark, we are equally troubled by the opening of the Jan. 5 article, “The millionaire Hasidic slumlord.” There was time enough in the piece to describe
New York, NY, December 27, 2013 … The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today commended CUNY Interim Chancellor William P. Kelly’s statement rejecting the decision made by the American Studies Association (ASA) to boycott Israeli academic institutions. Interim Chancellor Kelly reiterated The City University of New York’s proud affiliations with Israeli universities and scholars, and expressed CUNY’s rejection of “any effort to
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) welcomed today’s apology from Brooklyn Councilwoman-elect Laurie Cumbo for remarks she made in a December 3 open letter to her constituents in which she cited “Jewish success” as one of a number of factors that had triggered rising resentment among African-Americans in the Crown Heights community. In her apology, the incoming city councilwoman expressed remorse for
