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ADL Decries Hateful Radio Broadcasts by Greeley School Board Member

The Anti-Defamation League’s Mountain States Office today issued a statement decrying twice-daily radio broadcasts attacking Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., produced by a member of the Greeley-Evans District 6 School Board.  School Board member, Brett Reese, has been broadcasting a recording on his radio station two times a day in which he reads a letter attacking Dr. King.  Purportedly, the

ADL Responds in Opposition to Support of Rental Ban in Israel

The following letter to the editor was published in the January 7, 2011 edition of the Intermountain Jewish News: Editor: In your December 24, 2010, “View From Denver,” you assert that the edict signed by dozens of Israeli rabbis prohibiting their followers from renting or selling homes to non-Jews is not necessarily racist.  We respectfully disagree and join together with

Nazi Analogies Trivialize Holocaust, ADL Says

The Mountain States Region of the Anti-Defamation League today called on Coloradoans during this election season to avoid Nazi and Holocaust analogies in political debate. ADL Mountain States Interim Regional Director Joyce Rubin issued the following statement: “As an organization committed to honoring the memory of the victims of the Holocaust, the Anti-Defamation League is deeply disturbed by reports that

ADL Condemns Alleged Boulder Hate Crime, Applauds Boulder Police

In response to the reported assault of a Boulder man who was allegedly physically attacked because of his race after enduring racial taunts, the Anti-Defamation League’s Boulder Office today condemned bias-motivated violence and applauded the Boulder Police Department for its quick and responsive actions investigating the incident as a bias-motivated crime. Amy M. Stein, Boulder Office Community Director, issued the

ADL Condemns Plans to Burn Koran in Cheyenne

Responding to reports that a Wyoming man plans to burn a Koran at the State Capitol on September 11, the Mountain States Regional Office of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) issued the following statement today: The Anti-Defamation League strongly condemns the reported plans of a Wyoming man to burn or otherwise mutilate a copy of the Koran on Saturday, September 11,