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Governor, Mayor and Police Chief condemn anti-Semitic vandalism in Colorado Springs

    After a second Colorado Springs synagogue was targeted with anti-Semitic vandalism this summer, the Anti-Defamation League Mountain States Region helped bring together community leaders, including Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper, to condemn the incidents and express their support for all those targeted with hate crimes. Governor Hickenlooper, Colorado Springs Mayor John Suthers and Colorado Springs Police Chief Pete Carey

ADL decries anti-Semitic and anti-immigrant graffiti

The Anti-Defamation League Mountain States Region condemns the latest anti-Semitic and anti-immigrant vandalism found in the Metro-Denver area, this time near a high school in Highlands Ranch, Colorado. Two separate sections of an underpass were spray-painted with graffiti including “Build that wall” and “Hitler was right” next to a drawing of a swastika. “There is no place for such hateful,

No Holiday From Hate

Anti-Defamation League Scott L. Levin was interviewed on July 4 by Channel 7 News about the posting of a drawing of Adolf Hitler at a Taco Bell drive thru in Parker, Colorado. Levin noted: It was particularly upsetting that someone would choose to take such hateful action over the Independence Day Holiday.  While there were no words on the picture to indicate

Letter to the Editor, Daily Camera: Balanced Narrative Necessary

  This past weekend, the Boulder Daily Camera published a letter to the Editor by Anti-Defamation League Mountain States Regional Director Scott L. Levin responding to an opinion piece by Ira Chernus about the 50th anniversary of the Six Day War. The letter may be found in its entirety below.   Re: “The Six-Day War: 50 years later” (Daily Camera, June 4): Ira

ADL Supports Adding Hate Crimes to Denver Ordinances

  On May 22, 2017 ADL Regional Director Scott L. Levin testified before the Denver City Council in support of a bill that reformed Denver’s criminal sentencing structure for violations of the Denver Revised Municipal Code.  The new ordinance establishes a tiered structure for sentencing.  In addition to the much discussed reduction of maximum sentences for most crimes to 300