MEDIA ADVISORY

PRESS BRIEFING AND PROTEST

A broad group of social justice organizations call to “abolish the Anti-Defamation League” at the ADL’s Never is Now conference on March 16 from 5-7pm at the Javits Center, preceded by a press briefing

Contact: Mindy 929-777-0571 or Bonnie 646-210-1566

WHAT: 

Increasingly, the Anti-Defamation League boldly partners with racist MAGA and “anti-woke” figures, uses discredited claims of “left antisemitism” to attack its critics, and continues to deny Israel’s livestreamed anti-Palestinian genocide.

On Monday evening, ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt plans to broadcast a summit session with a MAGA pastor who has called for a “blood-washed” Christian uprising against Muslims and LGBTQ people. Outside, a coalition of Jewish, Palestinian, Arab, educator, student, and human rights groups will call for the abolition of the ADL. This is part of escalating broad-based public opposition to the ADL for its role in escalating racism and fascism.

The press briefing just prior to the protest will include information about:

• The ADL’s growing role in MAGA and its domestic and foreign policy projects, including policing/surveillance, Israeli territorial expansion, and war on Iran

• ADL’s role in racism and racist violence targeting BIPOC people, Palestinians, Jews, and Indigenous people

• ADL’s moves to censor education on Palestine and Israel and criminalize honest teaching

• ADL’s role in “anti-woke” Trump-era politics

• Ongoing partnerships with hard right, racist, and violent figures at the ADL’s annual “Never is Now” summit

• Challenges from Jewish, Arab, LGBTQ, and school/university groups against the ADL

WHEN: 

• Monday, March 16

• Press briefing at 4:45pm

• Protest 5-7pm

WHERE: 

Javits Center, 11th and 36th, NYC (If you cannot locate the press briefing, please phone 917-517-3627.)

SPEAKERS: 

• Emmaia Gelman, Director of the Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism, author of The Anti-Defamation League and the Racial State (UC Press, 2026)

• Speaker, Palestinian Youth Movement

• Rabbi Abby Chava Stein, Rabbis for Ceasefire 

SPONSORS: 

This action is co-sponsored by a growing list of social justice groups including: NYC Jewish Elders, Drop the ADL from Schools, Rabbis for Ceasefire, Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism, American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC), NYU Alumni for Palestine, and Jewish Voice for Peace.

For additional information about the ADL and the groundswell of opposition to it, see Drop the ADL from Schools and #DropTheADL.