Denver, CO, November 15, 2016… The Anti-Defamation League Mountain States Region is concerned by the increase in hate crimes reported yesterday in the FBI’s annual Hate Crime Statistics Act (HCSA) report. According to the report, there were 5,850 documented hate crimes in the United States in 2015 – a seven percent increase nationally over the 2014 report and
Denver, CO, October 26, 2016…The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) is disturbed to learn that voters in Colorado’s Senate District 19 recently received political mailings that incorporate stereotypes about Asians and Asian culture. These mailings include fortune cookies in a box with a photo of candidate Rachel Zenzinger and a printed message with a red airplane with the word “China” on
Scott Levin, Mountain States Regional Director for the Anti-Defamation League, spoke with Colorado Matters host Ryan Warner on Colorado Public Radio about hateful and anti-Semitic rhetoric that has included posts in a Facebook chat group and an uptick in anti-Semitic language on Twitter.
In a letter to the Editor of the Denver Post published on October 19, Anti-Defamation League Mountain States Region Director Scott L. Levin wrote concerning a troubling “Fourth Reich” Facebook chat group created by students in the Boulder area: It is disturbing that students in Boulder area schools participated in a Nazi-themed Facebook chat group called the “Fourth Reich,”
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Todd Gutnick (212) 885-7755 adlmedia@adl.org ADL TASK FORCE ISSUES REPORT DETAILING WIDESPREAD ANTI-SEMITIC HARASSMENT OF JOURNALISTS ON TWITTER DURING 2016 CAMPAIGN Some 800 Reporters Targeted; 1,600 Accounts Responsible for Two-Thirds of Hateful Tweets New York, NY, October 19, 2016 … The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) Task Force on Harassment and Journalism
