rich 1.0 Action Network https://actionnetwork.org <link href='https://actionnetwork.org/css/style-embed-v3.css' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css' /><script src='https://actionnetwork.org/widgets/v6/petition/tell-your-school-board-reject-the-adl?format=js&source=widget'></script><div id='can-petition-area-tell-your-school-board-reject-the-adl' style='width: 100%'><!-- this div is the target for our HTML insertion --></div> Jewish Voice for Peace https://actionnetwork.org/groups/jvp https://actionnetwork.org//images/generic_facebook.jpg For decades, the ADL has surveilled and targeted social justice movements, including civil rights, anti-apartheid, immigrant, farmworker, queer, Palestinian rights, and labor movements. The Guardian revealed last July that the ADL spied on progressive Black organizer, Tatjana Rebelle, keeping a file on their political activity and personal information. This news is just the latest installment in the ADL’s long history of spying on and repressing social justice activists and movements, particularly those led by marginalized communities. We’ve long known that the ADL is not a civil rights organization, it only masquerades as one. In reality, it operates as a pro-Israel lobbying group, focused on co-opting and abusing accusations of antisemitism to smear critics of Israel as bigots. Still, too many of our local school boards continue to partner with the ADL. More than 24,000 teachers and about 2,000 K-12 schools use ADL resources for civil rights education — meaning that this bigoted and biased organization is presented to students in our schools as a credible source on the exact issues, racism and antisemitism, that the ADL is itself guilty of. Our children deserve so much better than to learn from an organization that uses its power to harm individuals and movements working towards justice for all people. Join us in taking action to ask our local school boards to end any partnerships with the ADL, and to replace any ADL-authored resources on antisemitism or racism. Here’s what you can do: 1. Read and sign the petition to local school boards, and share it with others in your community 2. Learn more about why the ADL is not an ally to social justice movements from our partners at #DropTheADL. Use this resource sheet for more information on the ADL’s work to dangerously misdefine antisemitism and its history of Islamophobic, racist, anti-Palestinian advocacy: https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/resource/adl-one-pager/ 3. If you are leading advocacy efforts in your area, when you are ready to present a petition to your local school board, contact digital@jvp.org. We will provide you with a formatted petition, including a list of signatories in your area. https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/tell-your-school-board-reject-the-adl