Anti-Defamation Commission

Jewish-Australian community organisation to combat antisemitism

The Anti-Defamation Commission (ADC) is a Jewish-Australian community organisation that was originally founded by B'nai B'rith to combat antisemitism in Australia (originally as the B'nai B'rith Anti-Defamation Commission).[1][2][3] The ADC's efforts have resulted in academic scrutiny of trends of fascism in Australia with emerging research on activists and militia movements that have promoted antisemitic views.[4] The group is a former division of B'nai B'rith in Melbourne,[5] Data collection on antisemitic incidents in Australia is a focus of the Anti-Defamation Commission. Aside from the ADC, the Executive Council of Australian Jewry also collects data on antisemitism in Australia.[6]

## People

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The chairman of the Anti-Defamation Commission is Dvir Abramovich, an Israeli-Australian academic, columnist and activist.[7] Grahame Leonard, a former commissioner to the Victorian Multicultural Commission,[8] is a past chairman of the organisation, and academic and filmmaker Danny Ben-Moshe is a former director.[9]

## See also

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* Anti-Defamation League, a similar organisation in the United States originally founded by B'nai B'rith

## References

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1. ^ Abramovitch, D. (2015). Australia's Jewish people and democracy. Meanjin, 74(3), 224.
2. ^ Cohen-Almagor, R. (2011). Fighting hate and bigotry on the Internet. Policy & Internet, 3(3), 1-26.
3. ^ Jakubowicz, A. (2017). Alt_Right White Lite: trolling, hate speech and cyber racism on social media. Cosmopolitan Civil Societies, 9(3), 41.
4. ^ Moore, A. (2005). Writing about the extreme Right in Australia. Labour History, 1-15.
5. ^ "Anti-Defamation Commission". B'nai B'rith.
6. ^ "Antisemitism: Report Series on the Gen08 Survey" (PDF). Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation. 2011.
7. ^ Abramovich, Dvir (31 March 2008). "Slowly but surely, hearts are turning". The Age. Melbourne.
8. ^ "Leonard steps down from VMC". The Australian Jewish News. 13 February 2017.
9. ^ Naraniecki, A. (2011). Polish-Jewish relations in Australia: The social consequences of historical misrecognition. La Trobe University Centre for Dialogue.

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