ADL Joining Forces With Major Law Firm to Fight Antisemitism Across the Country
“We were overwhelmed with complaints from campuses”
It is amazing how normalized antisemitism has become and how rapidly it happened, especially in higher education.
The New York Post reports:
‘Army of lawyers’: ADL teams up with law firm Gibson Dunn to launch nationwide network to fight antisemitism
The ADL and powerhouse law firm Gibson Dunn have launched a nationwide network of attorneys to provide free legal aid to Jewish Americans facing antisemitic harassment, vandalism, and violence — with organizers citing a record surge in anti-Jewish hate across the country.
The new ADL Legal Action Network, announced Wednesday, brings together more than 40 of the nation’s top law firms — including Cooley, Covington & Burling, Morgan Lewis, Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer and Lieff Cabraser — to offer pro bono legal services to victims of antisemitism.
Together, the participating firms represent some 39,000 attorneys across 35 states.
“The FBI’s latest hate crime data show that Jews continue to be the most targeted religious group in America,” Orin Snyder, a partner at Gibson Dunn, told The Post. “More than 70% of all reported religious hate crimes are directed at Jews in America.”
According to Snyder, there’s been a 757% increase in the number of hate crimes directed at Jews in the United States since the Hamas terrorist attacks of Oct. 7, 2023.
“Unfortunately, 2024 to 2025 is going to be even greater,” Snyder told The Post. “That larger national trend is also factored into why this legal action movement is launching today.”
The new network expands upon a hotline that Gibson Dunn and ADL launched in 2023 to help students and faculty report antisemitism on college campuses.
That hotline — known as the Campus Antisemitism Legal Line (CALL) — received nearly 1,000 complaints from more than 260 schools across 40 states, Snyder told The Post.
“We were overwhelmed with complaints from campuses,” Snyder said. “And then we started getting inundated with reports from outside of universities — from workplaces, K-12 schools, and communities. That’s when we realized this needed to be a national pro bono initiative.”
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It must really burn them when their woke campaign to vilify the right wing gets interrupted by an issue involving their core founding purpose.