No Place for Hate is a positive program with a commendable mission statement. However, we cannot justify support if the program’s creator and sponsor, the ADL, does not practice what it preaches and continues to participate in what we regard as genocide denial.
The ADL’s actions—opposing genocide recognition to appease a foreign government which is committed to denying this crime against humanity—puts the ADL leadership in direct conflict with the very ideals that the No Place for Hate program aims to foster in our communities.
Until there is a change in position on this issue at the ADL national leadership level, the ADL as an organization has no moral authority to sponsor any anti-bigotry or anti-hate program. NPFH simply cannot credibly continue to be a subsidiary of the ADL.