1990s
A WORLD OF DIFFERENCE® becomes a formally structured institute providing ongoing anti-bias training and resources in the U.S. and overseas. In response to riots in Brooklyn's Crown Heights neighborhood, Institute staff work with students to create a standardized A WORLD OF DIFFERENCE® Institute Peer Training program.
Following a wave of extremist violence across Germany in 1992, German officials and educators invite ADL to bring its A WORLD OF DIFFERENCE® Institute to Germany to train students, teachers, social workers and law enforcement professionals. The Institute goes global in the years that follow; A WORLD OF DIFFERENCE® programs are now implemented in more than ten countries around the world.
After successfully working with others in the Jewish community to enable Jews to leave Ethiopia and settle in Israel, ADL launches "Children of the Dream," bringing Israeli youths of Ethiopian origins to meet with American peers.
With the help of ADL National Director Abraham H. Foxman, 1,600 Holocaust survivors from 28 countries gather in 1991 in New York City at the First International Gathering of Children Hidden during World War II. After the gathering, the Hidden Child Foundation joins ADL's Braun Holocaust Institute.
In the wake of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, ADL condemns the scapegoating of, and discrimination against, Arabs and Muslims. ADL also launches an advocacy effort to close broad gaps in U.S. counterterrorism law. ADL works closely with lawmakers on landmark federal antiterrorism legislation. Passed in 1996, the law establishes a ban on fundraising and material support for foreign terrorist organizations and bars their leaders from the U.S.
ADL staunchly supports Israeli-Palestinian negotiations and the Oslo Accords, and speaks out against incendiary rhetoric in Israel and the U.S. by critics of the Oslo Accords.
ADL launches Law Enforcement and Society, an innovative training program conducted in partnership with the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.
ADL takes a lead role in exposing extremists' use of the internet with extensive reports like "The Web of Hate: Extremists Exploit the Internet" and "Poisoning the Web: Hatred Online."
With public awareness about the impact of hate violence on the rise, ADL plays a central role in the first-ever White House Conference on Hate Crime in 1997, sparking enhanced community partnerships with law enforcement authorities to address the issue.
In 1999, the No Place for Hate® initiative is launched to counteract hate violence such as the Columbine High School shootings, the attack on the Los Angeles Jewish Community Center by white supremacist Buford Furrow, and the murders of Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr.