Fight antisemitism, reject the ADL.

For decades, the ADL has surveilled and targeted social justice movements, including civil rights, anti-apartheid, immigrant, farmworker, queer, Palestinian rights, and labor movements.

Last week, the Guardian revealed that the ADL spied on progressive Black organizer, Tatjana Rebelle, keeping a file on their political activity and personal information. This news is just the latest installment in the ADL’s long history of spying on and repressing social justice activists and movements, particularly those led by marginalized communities.

We’ve long known that the ADL is not a civil rights organization, it only masquerades as one. In reality, it operates as a pro-Israel lobbying group, focused on co-opting and abusing accusations of antisemitism to smear critics of Israel as bigots.

As more and more people recognize that the ADL is not a neutral source for data on antisemitism or civil rights issues, the organization is rapidly losing its legitimacy. Just last month, Wikipedia editors voted that the ADL could not be trusted as a reliable source on issues of antisemitism or Israel’s war on Gaza, citing the organization’s persistent pro-Israel bias.

Still, too many of our local school boards continue to partner with the ADL. More than 24,000 teachers and about 2,000 K-12 schools use ADL resources for civil rights education — meaning that this bigoted and biased organization is presented to students in our schools as a credible source on the exact issues, racism and antisemitism, that the ADL is itself guilty of.

Our children deserve so much better than to learn from an organization that uses its power to harm individuals and movements working towards justice for all people.

Join us in taking action to ask our local school boards to end any partnerships with the ADL, and to replace any ADL-authored resources on antisemitism or racism.

Here’s what you can do:

1. Read and sign the petition to local school boards, and share it with others in your community using this link: jvp.org/RejectTheADL.
   
2. Learn more about why the ADL is not an ally to social justice movements from our partners at #DropTheADL.
   
3. Use this resource sheet for more information on the ADL’s work to dangerously misdefine antisemitism and its history of Islamophobic, racist, anti-Palestinian advocacy.
   
4. If you are leading advocacy efforts in your area, when you are ready to present a petition to your local school board, contact [email protected]. We will provide you with a formatted petition, including a list of signatories in your area.