ADL sets up international task force on antisemitism with 6 Jewish community groups

Major communal organizations in Britain, France, Germany, Argentina, Canada and Australia have joined the J7 initiative

The Anti-Defamation League is partnering with Jewish community groups in six countries to form a global task force against antisemitism, the ADL announced.

ADL’s partners in the new task force, which the organization is calling J7, are the Board of Deputies of British Jews; the CRIF umbrella group of French Jewish communities and organizations; the Central Council of Jews in Germany; the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs in Canada; the DAIA Jewish umbrella group in Argentina; and the Executive Council of Australian Jewry, the ADL announced in a statement Tuesday.

The partner groups will exchange information and consult each other on best practices for fighting antisemitism, the statement said.

Data from around the world “indicates a rise in antisemitic incidents and attitudes, and growing concern within our Jewish communities,” ADL wrote in the statement.

Josef Schuster, the president of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, wrote in the statement that the internet “increasingly blurs national borders” and that “antisemitic networks, tactics and developments don’t stop at national borders either.” The J7 format will allow Jewish community leaders to “approach globally operating institutions or companies and unite our efforts in combatting antisemitism.”

York-New Jersey Office, CSS CEO Evan Bernstein and CSI Executive Director Mitch Silber. (Jacob Henry via JTA)

The Anti-Defamation League is partnering with Jewish community groups in six countries to form a global task force against antisemitism, the ADL announced.

ADL’s partners in the new task force, which the organization is calling J7, are the Board of Deputies of British Jews; the CRIF umbrella group of French Jewish communities and organizations; the Central Council of Jews in Germany; the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs in Canada; the DAIA Jewish umbrella group in Argentina; and the Executive Council of Australian Jewry, the ADL announced in a statement Tuesday.

Josef Schuster, the president of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, wrote in the statement that the internet “increasingly blurs national borders” and that “antisemitic networks, tactics and developments don’t stop at national borders either.” The J7 format will allow Jewish community leaders to “approach globally operating institutions or companies and unite our efforts in combatting antisemitism.”

Jewish community efforts to combat antisemitism require “coordinated action,” said Jonathan A. Greenblatt, the CEO of ADL. The new coalition will serve as “a formal framework for coordination, consultation and formulating global responses to antisemitic threats against the Jewish people,” he added.

The J7 leadership will meet periodically, including at ADL’s 2024 Never is Now conference next year, the ADL statement read.

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