Anti-Defamation League Mountain States Regional Director Scott L. Levin was interviewed this morning on Colorado Public Radio for a news story about the Masterpiece Cake Shop case and the shop’s legal representation by the Alliance for Defending Freedom. The case reaches the U.S. Supreme Court today. “I have begrudging respect for them,” said Levin. He worries, though, that the shield of
Denver, CO, November 13, 2017 …The Anti-Defamation League Mountain States Region expressed concern that, for the second year in a row, the FBI’s annual hate crimes report documents an increase in hate crimes nationwide. Regionally, while the number of reported incidents in Colorado remained flat, both New Mexico and Wyoming experienced increases. The FBI’s 2016 Hate Crime Statistics Act report
ANTI-SEMITIC INCIDENTS CONTINUE TO SURGE IN 2017 100 percent increase in incidents in Colorado since 2016, including targeting of Jewish individuals, synagogues, schools New Mexico experiences a slight increase during the same period Denver, CO, November 2, 2017 … The number of anti-Semitic incidents reported in Colorado doubled in the first 9 months of 2017 compared to the same period
In an October 30 letter to the Editor of the Greeley Tribune, Anti-Defamation League Mountain States Regional Director Scott L. Levin explained why the Tribune’s decision to run a front page story that seemingly glorifies an individual who dresses up in a Nazi costume for Halloween is both offensive and disturbing. TRIBUNE HALLOWEEN STORY, PHOTO OFFENSIVE The Greeley Tribune’s
Denver, CO, October 30, 2017 … The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today joined a friend-of-the court brief to the U.S. Supreme Court urging rejection of a bakery’s claim that the Free Exercise Clause to the First Amendment empowered it to refuse the sale of a wedding cake to a same-sex couple based on the owner’s religious beliefs. The brief filed
