Anti-Defamation League Celebrates 100 Years With Three-Day Conference
By Suzanne Pollak
Washington Jewish Week
The Anti-Defamation League celebrated its 100th birthday by staging a three-day conference on anti-Semitism in America and abroad and on the need to combat all forms of terrorism and hate crimes.
“We delude ourselves if we believe that the dark forces have been conquered,” said U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, as he addressed a crowd of about 1,000 at the Grand Hyatt Washington, where the conference was held April 28 to 30. “They continue to exist in this nation. They continue to exist in the leadership of other nations around the world who have pledged to do harm to Israel and to Jewish people in other countries.”
The conference’s theme, Imagine a World Without Hate, dealt with ways to counter terrorism and to stop discrimination of religious minorities — Muslims, Sikhs, Jews — undocumented immigrants and those being bullied in schools.
Major General Amos Yadlin, former chief of intelligence for the Israel Defense Forces and one of the pilots in Israel’s 1981 attack against Iraq’s Osirak nuclear plant, called terrorism “a strategic threat, not an existential threat.”
While “you never eliminate the last terrorist,” there are strong signs that the world is winning the war against terrorism, Yadlin said. A terrorist’s motive is “fear and intimidation” of others, he explained. But “at least in Israel, and I think in the United States as well, the terrorists are not winning.”
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