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

  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

Denver, CO, September 7, 2017…The Anti-Defamation League Mountain States Region condemned the alleged vandalism of a Jewish couple’s apartment door in Lafayette with a swastika. According to news reports, the apartment door was vandalized twice since Tuesday with swastikas that were carved into the door. The incident took place in the 400 block of Strathmore Lane in Lafayette. ADL Mountain

Denver, CO, August 23, 2017 . . . The U.S. Conference of Mayors (USCM) and the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) announced a joint plan to fight extremism and bigotry and to promote justice and equality in response to the disturbing hate and violence in Charlottesville, Virginia. Approximately 270 mayors from across the country representing USCM, including four from Colorado, have pledged