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.”
New York, NY, March 10, 2016 … The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today praised the New York Police Department (NYPD) for their arrest of Keny Rochelin, a suspect in the February stabbing of an Orthodox Jewish man in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn. According to reports, Mr. Rochelin was apprehended on March 9 and charged with mugging and stabbing two
New York, NY, March 9, 2016 … The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today welcomed the conviction of Elliot Morales in the May 2013 bias-motivated fatal shooting of Mark Carson in Manhattan. During the trial, witnesses testified that Mr. Morales used anti-gay slurs against Mr. Carson and his friend before shooting him in the face. Evan R. Bernstein, ADL New York Regional
