There is an epidemic of Internet hate.

With each advance in technology over the last two decades, from the appearance of web sites and the interactivity of AOL through the blossoming of social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube and the...

One of the first things Argentinian native Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio did after being elected pope on March 13 was to send a message of friendship to Rome's chief rabbi, Riccardo Di Segni -- and, by extension, the Jewish people.

"I sincerely hope to be able to contribute to the progress...

As Israel celebrates its 65th birthday, we should pause to marvel at the many successes of the Jewish state. Democracies around the world, including the U.S., have taken centuries to achieve the type of political, social and economic advances that define Israel's existence today. It is worth reflecting on what...

One of the most disturbing and paradoxically important questions to arise out of the ashes of the Holocaust is not so much the question of why six million Jews and millions of others were systematically annihilated by the Nazis, but the question of "what if... ?"

What if more people...

In his visit to Israel, President Obama did not miss a beat. Having written before his trip about what he should try to accomplish, I conclude that the president did exactly what he had to do to the benefit of Israel and the United States.

Already, one...

For supporters of political reform in the Middle East, the contradictory postures of Samira Ibrahim -- the courageous Egyptian feminist activist who publicly shared her deeply hostile views of America, Jews and Israel -- is both a cautionary tale and an opportunity to address prevalent hatreds and intolerance that endure...

Celebrating an anniversary like the Anti-Defamation League's Centennial leads to thinking about what we have accomplished over the years.

Of course, there are the programs, the policies, the legislation that we believe have made a contribution to society. Our model hate-crime law that now exists in 46...

This week the Congress of Argentina is debating the approval of an agreement signed by Argentine Foreign Minister Hector Timerman and his Iranian counterpart Ali Akbar Salehi, which aims to create a "Truth Commission" to investigate the 1994 terrorist bombing attack on the AMIA Jewish Community Center in Buenos Aires.

The resignation of Pope Benedict XVI, which officially takes effect on February 28, brings to a sudden and unexpected close a remarkable eight-year period of very positive relations between the Vatican and the Jewish people.

Pope Benedict was the only German Pope in history who was an eyewitness...

For us at the Anti-Defamation League, the old Madison Avenue line "as long as they spell my name right" partially applies to the new mini-series House of Cards, being aired on Netflix. The series stars Kevin Spacey as the scheming and conniving Democratic whip of the House of...

The recent study of Palestinian and Israeli textbooks, prepared under the auspices of the Jerusalem-based Council of Religious Institutions of the Holy Land and issued today, is already generating much controversy, particularly relating to a false equivalency in comparing how Israeli and Palestinian school books portray the other and themes...

Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi's blatantly anti-Semitic statements nearly three years ago should hardly be shocking to anyone familiar with the history of the Muslim Brotherhood movement.

In newly unearthed videos, Morsi is shown railing against Jews as "the descendants of apes and pigs," and urging Egyptians to "nurse...

It is fitting that the United Nations, as part of the international commemoration of the Holocaust on January 27, is paying tribute this year not only to the millions of innocents who died in the Nazi gas chambers, but also to those who made extraordinary sacrifices to hide and protect...

You can almost see it coming: With every breaking news story of catastrophes man-made and natural, some racist or bigot will come up with new Jewish conspiracy theory that somehow, in some way, Jews or Israel played a behind-the-scenes role in instigating it.

This seems particularly true with large-scale disasters,...

It was a deeply disappointing moment for Israel when more than 130 countries -- going against common sense and the carefully considered positions of both the United States and Israel -- voted last week to upgrade the Palestinian delegation at the United Nations to that of nonmember observer status.
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Earlier this year, France marked the 70th anniversary of one of the most painful chapters in that country's modern history: The round-up and deportation of more than 13,000 Jews from Paris.

The 1942 operation, known as the Vel d'Hiv, was carried out not by the SS or Nazi...

One of the most important developments in the effort to prevent Iran from developing a nuclear capability was the statement by President Obama last spring that a nuclear Iran would be an unacceptable danger to the entire world. In doing so, the president was removing the focus on...

The Muslim world's response to the insulting anti-Islam film trailer posted on YouTube has played out predictably enough. Expressions of outrage, followed by protests and violence on American embassies abroad, came on the heels of the release in Arabic of the Innocence of Muslims video, as the mobs turned their...

This Friday in London, the 2012 Summer Olympic Games will get underway with all the usual pageantry and grand references to the history of this most famous and ancient of athletic competitions.

One chapter of Olympics history that the International Olympic Committee has ensured will not be mentioned...

JERUSALEM -- Since his "off-hand remark" charging that I supposedly antagonized millions of African-Americans through my outspoken criticism of the anti-Semitic and racist Minister Louis Farrakhan, Russell Simmons, the hip-hop mogul and self-styled leader of interracial dialogue, has attempted to walk back his words.

"The remark was in no way...