ADL Intensifies Diplomatic Outreach with Release of ADL Global 100 Poll

  • June 12, 2014

With the release of ADL Global 100, the unprecedented survey of attitudes towards Jews in over 100 countries around the world, ADL staff and International Affairs Committee members took part in a number of meetings with members of the Los Angeles diplomatic corps to discuss the survey and to hear from Consulates about measures being taken in their home countries to fight against anti-Semitism.

At the Consulate General of Hungary with Consul Szilard Teleki, ADL’s Mary Weissmann, Consul General Kalman and Amanda Susskind.

On June 2 and June 6, ADL Pacific Southwest Regional Director Amanda Susskind and Executive Committee member and International Affairs Committee co-chair Mary Weissmann met with Consul General of Argentina Alejandro Luis Casiro and Consul General of Hungary Lazlo Kalman respectively, regarding the individual findings in their countries.

On June 9 and 10, ADL International Affairs Director Michael Salberg visited the Pacific Southwest Region to take part in the annual board meeting in conversation with Israeli Consul General David Siegel.

Weissmann welcomed Salberg to the region by  having a dinner party at her house with members of the Consular including French Consul General Axel Cruau, Swiss Consul General Jean-François Lichtenstern, Argentine Consul General Alejandro Luis Casiro and Hungarian Consul General Lazlo Kalman.

During Salberg’s visit, he and Susskind meet with: Polish Consul for Culture, Press, Education and Polish Community Małgorzata Cup and ADL Regional Board member Sassan Masserat (pictured below, top left);  Asian Jewish Initiative co-chair Brent Sokol, Korean American Coalition Executive Director Grace Yoo, and South Korean Consul of Political Affairs Minsik Ahn (pictured below, top right); and ADL Regional Board member and Asian Jewish Initiative co-chair Vince Gonzalez, and Philippine Consul General Leo M. Herrera-Lim (pictured below, bottom).  Besides discussing the individual findings of the survey from each country overall, ADL urged continued vigilance at the highest levels of government and law enforcement to fight against anti-Semitic incidents and crimes and encouraged more anti-bias education programs be introduced in schools.