Explainer: The Anti-Defamation League

The ADL is a US-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit that was founded in 1913 with the stated mission of combating antisemitism and other forms of prejudice. It is an influential voice with governments, media outlets, schools, law enforcement agencies, and the private sector. Since the 1970s, the ADL has become increasingly vocal in its backing of Israel, promoting the notion of a “new antisemitism” which includes anti-Zionism, or opposition to the religious-nationalist ideology Israel was founded on.

Fact Sheet: Meir Kahane & The Extremist Kahanist Movement

Kahane was a far-right Jewish supremacist who espoused violence and wanted to establish a theocratic Jewish state and expel or enslave indigenous Palestinians.

Fact Sheet: Rabbi Dov Lior

Dov Lior is an influential extremist Israeli settler rabbi and leading figure in the religious Zionist movement; former longtime chief rabbi of Israel’s illegal settlements in Hebron and Kiryat Arba in the occupied Palestinian West Bank, and former head of the Council of Rabbis of Judea and Samaria [the West Bank].

The 7 Most Racist Israeli Laws

In Their Own Words: Senior Israeli Officials on Palestinian Statehood (2015)

The IMEU's latest fact sheet summarizes the views of senior officials in the new extreme Israeli right-wing government towards the Palestinians, in their own words.

Fact Sheet: Israel’s Extremist Rabbis

On July 22, Israeli media reported that Israel's Supreme Court ruled against a petition asking that the controversial Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu be barred from running for the post of Israel's chief Sephardic rabbi. Eliyahu, currently the chief rabbi of the city of Safed, has been accused of inciting racism and intolerance against Arabs and others. Eliyahu receives a salary from the Israeli government.

Timeline: The Palestinian Nakba (Catastrophe) & Establishment of Israeli Apartheid

The IMEU offers this timeline on the Palestinian Nakba (Catastrophe) and the establishment of Israel's apartheid regime .

Lehava: State-Sponsored Incitement

In recent weeks, numerous requests, including from the Israeli police, have been made to Israel's Attorney General to launch a criminal investigation into a group called Lehava, which is dedicated to preventing Jews, particularly Jewish women, from mixing with Palestinians and other non-Jews. The requests come in the wake of a series of violent assaults carried out against Palestinians by Israeli Jews fueled by rumors or the mistaken belief that Jewish women had been harassed by Palestinian men. So far, Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein has failed to take any action against Lehava, which receives indirect financial and political support from the government.