Houston, TX, September 25, 2017 … The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today welcomed the decision of ACT, Inc. to schedule an additional examination on October 1 after ADL contacted the nonprofit student testing organization to note a scheduling conflict with the Jewish High Holiday of Yom Kippur. The scheduling conflict was created by the ACT rescheduling its administration of the September
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) is grateful to federal authorities for thoroughly investigating and charging the suspect in the fire at a Victoria mosque with a hate crime. The fire destroyed the Victoria Islamic Center in January. Marq Vincent Perez has been charged with a hate crime, damage to a religious property and use of a fire to commit a federal
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) is happy that Houston City Council voted 10-6 to join the lawsuits filed by the City of El Cenizo, El Paso County and the cities of San Antonio and Austin challenging the constitutionality of Senate Bill 4 (SB 4). ADL was one of several organizations that urged Houston City Council members to vote to join the
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today expressed deep concern over coordinated anti-Muslim marches that are slated to take place in at least twenty states across the country on Saturday June 10. ADL joined more than 100 groups to urge Mayors where the rallies are taking place to disavow these marches, and sent a letter directly to Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner. The
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) is deeply troubled by Texas Governor Greg Abbott’s signing of House Bill 3859 into law. This legislation empowers private child placing agencies to discriminate on the basis of religious or moral beliefs. Dayan Gross, ADL Southwest Regional Director issued the following statement: “This law has the potential to force taxpayers to fund discrimination where a child
