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Everyone has a plan to fight antisemitism. Few have studied what actually works.

When Matt Williams founded a research center for the Anti-Defamation League in 2022, he vowed to “ruthlessly and systematically test” what the organization does. Antisemitism was on the rise, and he wanted the Center for Antisemitism Research to scientifically study what could work to stop it. The creation of the center, he believed, represented an admission that one of the world’s most prominent voices against antisemitism had been operating with little evidence. “I would go a step further and say the ADL wants to be a serious nonprofit, measured on our social return on investment, but by a lot of measures, we’ve not been doing well,” Williams said in an interview, citing spiking antisemitism, rising extremism and the erosion of democratic norms around the world. The ADL established the new center amid mounting pressure from funders and trustees, he added.

 

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