ADL’s Southwest Region celebrated 20 years of No Place for Hate® and the recipients of the Walter Kase Educator Excellence Awards during a special program May 12.  No Place for Hate began in Southwest Region with nine schools in 2001. In the 20 years since 2001, it has grown to hundreds of participating campuses each year, and has touched tens of

Joanna Mendelson, ADL Associate Director of our Center on Extremism spoke to board members at the March 24 board meeting about the landscape of extremism and hate, and she began with saying in her 20 years at ADL, it never has been so busy. She said we’re in a climate now where extremists have become emboldened. They openly display their

Amy Iandiorio joined ADL as an Investigative Researcher in November 2019. In her role at the Center on Extremism her areas of focus include white supremacist groups, Incels, and the Black Hebrew Israelite Movement. She is based in the Southeast Regional Office in Atlanta and serves as a resource for the Southern Division.    

ADL’s Senior Vice President of International Affairs, Sharon Nazarian, spoke before the World Affairs Council of Greater Houston March 4.   Part of her job is monitoring and countering global antisemitism, so she was well-positioned to talk about why it seems to be on the rise around the world, and what ADL is doing to prevent it and combat it. She

Now that the Texas Legislature’s session is in full swing, so are ADL’s Texas offices, working to fight online hate through the agency’s Backspace Hate™ initiative. The initiative supports victims and targets of online hate and harassment by raising awareness and working to pass legislation to better hold perpetrators accountable for their actions. In particular, ADL is working with legislators