Anti-Defamation League
International Jewish organization
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| 2024 | ADL presented Jared Kushner an award for his work on the Abraham Accords, a decision that was criticized by both ADL supporters and board members. |
| 2024 | According to Georgetown University's Bridge Initiative, the ADL's CEO made an offensive analogy comparing the Palestinian keffiyeh to the Nazi swastika. |
| 2024 | The ADL asserted that Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) had violated federal law concerning material support for Hamas, a claim criticized by The Nation, The Intercept, ACLU, and CAIR as unsubstantiated. |
| June 2024 | The English Wikipedia community reached a consensus that the ADL was 'generally unreliable' on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, a decision the ADL condemned and which was also criticized by over 40 Jewish organizations. |
| February 2024 | ADL's media and entertainment institute appointed documentary producer and journalist Deborah Camiel as its leader. |
| January 2024 | ADL reports over 3,283 antisemitic incidents in the United States since October 7, 2023, with two-thirds tied to the Gaza war, including the classification of anti-war protests by Jewish groups as 'anti-Israel'. |
| January 2024 | Two ADL staff members quit the organization in response to its pro-Israel advocacy during the Israel-Hamas war. |
| 2023 | ADL released a report indicating white supremacists were responsible for 45% of right-wing extremism in the US from 2017 to 2022. |
| December 2023 | ADL ended its long-running anti-bias education program A World of Difference (AWOD), removing curricula materials and reassigning or laying off staff. |
| December 5 2023 | ADL supported a US Congress resolution that officially described anti-Zionism as antisemitism. |
| October 2023 | The ADL sent letters to almost 200 college presidents condemning Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) chapters, alleging potential links to Hamas funding. National SJP organization denied these claims. |
| October 7 2023 | Following the Hamas attack, ADL significantly broadened its definition of antisemitic incidents, including anti-war protest events in its tally of over 3,283 antisemitic incidents in the United States. |
| September 2023 | ADL launched a media and entertainment institute aimed at combating antisemitism and improving depictions of Jewish people in entertainment. |
| January 2023 | The ADL attempted to pressure Bard College to cancel a course titled 'Apartheid in Israel-Palestine' taught by Nathan Thrall, which was also opposed by an Israeli consul. Bard's president Leon Botstein characterized the interaction with ADL CEO Greenblatt as 'not civil'. |
| 2022 | ADL's CEO denounced Jewish Voice for Peace and Students for Justice in Palestine as the 'photo inverse of the extreme right', a statement condemned by over 50 American Muslim and civil rights groups. |
| 2022 | ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt delivered a speech to ADL leaders asserting that 'anti-Zionism is antisemitism', which sparked internal controversy and disagreement within the organization. |
| 2022 | ADL criticized the Israeli government formed by Benjamin Netanyahu in his sixth term, specifically highlighting concerns about the inclusion of far-right parties Otzma Yehudit and Religious Zionist Party, led by Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich. |
| 2022 | ADL revised its definition of racism to focus on favorable treatment based on race or ethnicity. |
| November 2022 | ADL acquired JLens, a pro-Israel advocacy group that campaigns against economic disengagement with Israel in ESG investing guidelines. |
| September 2021 | ADL renewed its call for Tucker Carlson to be fired after he expressed support for the great replacement theory. |
| September 5 2021 | Jonathan Greenblatt, national director and CEO of ADL, publicly apologized for the organization's previous opposition to the Park51 Community Center, stating 'We were wrong, plain and simple'. |
| April 2021 | Jonathan Greenblatt released a letter calling on Fox News to remove Tucker Carlson, alleging he espoused the white genocide conspiracy theory. |
| February 2021 | By February, an additional hundred groups had joined the 'Drop the ADL' campaign, expanding its initial coalition of progressive organizations. |
| January 2021 | ADL called for the removal of Donald Trump as president following the storming of the United States Capitol, highlighting the connection to far-right and antisemitic groups. |
| 2020 | ADL paused the National Counter-Terrorism Seminar for police delegations to Israel due to associated costs and controversies, with an internal memo recommending potential program termination. |
| 2020 | ADL joined the Stop Hate For Profit campaign, targeting online hate on Facebook, with over 1000 businesses pausing ad buys and celebrity supporters including Sacha Baron Cohen, Kim Kardashian, and Mark Ruffalo joining the effort. |
| 2020 | ADL board of directors renewed Jonathan Greenblatt's contract as CEO and national director for a second five-year term. |
| August 2020 | A coalition of progressive organizations launched the 'Drop the ADL' campaign, criticizing the organization's approach to social justice and its treatment of marginalized communities. Approximately sixty organizations initially supported the campaign. |
| August 2020 | A coalition of progressive organizations launched the 'Drop the ADL' campaign, arguing that the ADL is not an ally in social justice work. The campaign included an open letter and website, shared with the hashtag '#DropTheADL', with signatories such as Democratic Socialists of America, Movement for Black Lives, and others. |
| May 2020 | ADL produced a controversial 'threat assessment' report on a Black Indianapolis activist working with the Deadly Exchange campaign, which included personal information and surveillance. |
| April 2020 | ADL began training staff to edit Wikipedia pages, but suspended the project after criticism from Wikipedia editors regarding conflict of interest. |
| February 2020 | ADL condemned the United Nations Human Rights Council's list of companies doing business with Jewish settlements in Israeli-occupied territories, calling it a 'blacklist'. |
| 2019 | ADL endorsed a congressional resolution recognizing the Armenian genocide. |
| 2019 | Graduate student Emmaia Gelman published a critique in the Boston Review arguing that the ADL had conducted a campaign to characterize Arab American political organizing as demonstrating 'dual loyalty'. |
| 2019 | ADL's Center on Technology and Society launched a survey exploring online harassment in video games, recommending increased content moderation. |
| 2019 | ADL executives and staff testified multiple times in Congressional committees about the dangers of right-wing domestic extremists. |
| 2018 | The ADL criticized Secretary of State Mike Pompeo for Islamophobia. |
| 2018 | ADL criticized US Representative Danny Davis for not condemning Louis Farrakhan, which led to Davis subsequently rejecting and condemning Farrakhan's views. |
| 2018 | ADL's CEO Jonathan Greenblatt sent a letter to Iceland's Parliament opposing a proposed infant circumcision ban, arguing against it on religious freedom grounds and warning about potential economic consequences if the ban passed. |
| 2018 | ADL called for the resignation or firing of Trump administration official Stephen Miller due to his association with white supremacists. |
| 2018 | ADL's national chair Esta Gordon Epstein was elected for a three-year term, becoming the second woman to hold the organization's top volunteer leadership position. |
| 2018 | ADL raised concerns about Brett Kavanaugh's nomination to the Supreme Court and released a report noting that the majority of domestic extremist-related murders in the past decade were committed by white supremacists. |
| May 2018 | ADL supported the Trump administration's decision to move the US Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, which drew significant criticism from various groups. |
| July 2017 | ADL announced they would be developing profiles on 36 alt-right and alt-lite leaders. |
| 2016 | ADL joined other groups urging Congress to pass a resolution recognizing the Armenian genocide. |
| 2016 | ADL repeatedly accused presidential candidate Donald Trump of using antisemitic tropes and divisive rhetoric during the election campaign. |
| 2015 | The ADL opposed State Religious Freedom Restoration Acts, concerned they targeted LGBT people and could deny employee access to contraceptives. |
| July 2015 | Jonathan Greenblatt officially became the national director of the ADL, replacing Abraham Foxman who had served in the role since 1987. |
| November 2014 | The organization announced Jonathan Greenblatt would succeed Abraham Foxman as national director, transitioning leadership in July 2015. |
| 2013 | ADL published another list of organizations deemed to be maligning Israel in the US. |
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