In “AWOL from the Campaign Against Antisemitism: A Commander, a Strategy & a Battle Plan,” the Coalition for a Safer Web issues a blunt rebuke of major US Jewish institutions’ disorganized and fragmented responses to the record-breaking surge in antisemitic incidents across the United States. CSW argues that the Anti-Defamation League, whose name is synonymous with the fight against antisemitism and other large, high-profile foundations are proving collectively unable to do more than tally the surge in anti-Jewish activity. They have failed to slow, let alone reverse, the threat to Jews in America.

The report warns that the ADL and other legacy Jewish organizations – along with their donors – are duplicating efforts, wasting resources, and failing to keep pace with increasingly sophisticated online hate campaigns. CSW proposes a new “toolbox” of public and private sector strategies and tactics, to address the increasingly sophisticated funding networks and digital operations by domestic and foreign actors. Among these, a unified command structure and resource coordination among the disparate “anti-defamation” groups.