Webinars

Fighting disinformation & repression: Contesting the ADL in media & political culture

11/10/23

This #DroptheADL webinar took place on Friday, Nov. 10 at 9 AM PT/12 PM ET.

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The Anti-Defamation League is denouncing anti-war protests, amplifying disinformation on violence, and partnering with right-wing organizations on anti-hate/antisemitism policy. Using social media, it has set out to redefine major concepts like settler colonialism to exempt the US and Israel.

Yet it still appears regularly in media as a source for reporting and commentary on civil rights.

Join experts on media, antisemitism discourse, and terror policy for a discussion of the ADL’s role in disinformation, racial repression, and war – and on efforts to push back.

Mari Cohen, Associate Editor, Jewish Currents
“Interpreting ADL’s Antisemitism Statistics”

Darryl Li, Univ. of Chicago
“The ADL & Repressive ‘Terrorism’ Laws”

Barry Trachtenberg, Academic Advisory Board of JVP/Wake Forest University
“Counteracting the ADL’s Appropriation of Settler-Colonial Narratives”

Host: Emmaia Gelman, #DropTheADL/Sarah Lawrence College

Defend our Movements, Strengthen our Communities:
#Drop the ADL.

5/8/22

This #DroptheADL webinar, co-sponsored with Jewish Voice for Peace, took place on Friday, April 8, 2022 at 12 PM PT/3 PM ET.

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Join us to discuss the ways the ADL has — since its inception — undermined racial and social justice movements and communities, and how we can participate in #DroptheADL organizing in our schools and communities.

About our speakers:

Robin D.G. Kelley has spent decades as an activist and scholar exploring the history of social movements in the U.S. and internationally. Among his many published essays and books are Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination and Race Rebels: Culture, Politics, and the Black Working Class. Prof. Kelley is Distinguished Professor and Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in U.S. History at UCLA.

Lara Kiswani is the executive director of the Arab Resource & Organizing Center and a faculty member in the College of Ethnic Studies at San Francisco State University.

Emmaia Gelman is an American Studies scholar and NYU lecturer writing a political history of the ADL, and a queer antiracist in NYC.

Lesley Williams is a member of the Jewish Voice for Peace Action board and is an activist and educator against racism, Islamophobia, and anti-Palestinian racism.