Anti-Defamation Commission Explained

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]

See also

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

Notes and References

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. Web site: Anti-Defamation Commission. B'nai B'rith.
6. Web site: Antisemitism: Report Series on the Gen08 Survey. Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation. 2011.
7. News: Slowly but surely, hearts are turning . Melbourne . The Age . Dvir . Abramovich . 2008-03-31.
8. Web site: Leonard steps down from VMC. The Australian Jewish News. 13 Feb 2017.
9. Naraniecki, A. (2011). Polish-Jewish relations in Australia: The social consequences of historical misrecognition. La Trobe University Centre for Dialogue.