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

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]

References

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