Anti-Defamation League

=== Federal and state legislation ===
ADL was among the lead organizations campaigning for thirteen years, ultimately successfully, for the [[Matthew Shepard Act|Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://law.duke.edu/news/michael-lieberman-81/|title=Michael Lieberman '81|website=Duke Law News Releases|access-date=March 28, 2020|archive-date=March 28, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200328193846/https://law.duke.edu/news/michael-lieberman-81/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/attorney-general-loretta-e-lynch-hosts-63rd-annual-attorney-general-awards-honoring|title=Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch Hosts the 63rd Annual Attorney General Awards Honoring Department Employees and Others For Their Service|date=October 21, 2015|type=U.S. Department of Justice News Release|access-date=March 28, 2020|archive-date=March 28, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200328193740/https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/attorney-general-loretta-e-lynch-hosts-63rd-annual-attorney-general-awards-honoring|url-status=live}}</ref> The hold-up in passing that law focused on the inclusion of the term "sexual orientation" as one of the bases that a crime could be deemed a hate crime.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://abcnews.go.com/US/year-blaze-bernsteins-killing-parents-turn-alleged-hate/story?id=59754707|title=1 year after Blaze Bernstein's killing, parents look to turn alleged hate crime into 'movement of hope'|website=[[ABC News]]|date=December 30, 2018|access-date=April 1, 2020|archive-date=April 29, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200429033814/https://abcnews.go.com/US/year-blaze-bernsteins-killing-parents-turn-alleged-hate/story?id=59754707|url-status=live}}</ref> ADL also drafted the model hate crimes legislation in the 1980s; it serves as a model for the legislation that a majority of states have adopted.<ref>{{Cite journal|url=https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/hate-crime-laws-dont-prevent-violence-against-lgbt-people/|title=Hate Crime Laws Don't Prevent Violence Against LGBT People: So why do many LGBT people, and others, feel so deeply about the need to have them?|journal=The Nation|date=October 2, 2013|last1=Bronski|first1=Michael|last2=Pellegrini|first2=Ann|last3=Amico|first3=Michael|access-date=March 29, 2020|archive-date=March 29, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200329163617/https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/hate-crime-laws-dont-prevent-violence-against-lgbt-people/|url-status=live}}</ref>

In 2010, during a hearing for Florida House Bill 11 (Crimes Against Homeless Persons), which was to revise the list of offenses judged to be [[Hate crime laws in the United States|hate crimes]] in Florida by adding a person's homeless status,<ref>{{cite web| title = flhouse.gov HB 11 – Crimes Against Homeless Persons| url = http://flhouse.gov/Sections/Bills/billsdetail.aspx?BillId=42143&| access-date = April 22, 2010| archive-date = July 21, 2011| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110721040919/http://flhouse.gov/Sections/Bills/billsdetail.aspx?BillId=42143&| url-status = live}}</ref> the League lobbied against the bill, which subsequently passed in the House by a vote of 80 to 28 and was sent to the Senate,<ref>{{cite web| title = flhouse.gov HB 11 Apr 20 2010 – Voting record Florida House of Representatives| url = http://flhouse.gov/Sections/Bills/floorvote.aspx?VoteId=10836&BillId=42143&| access-date = April 22, 2010| archive-date = July 21, 2011| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110721040957/http://flhouse.gov/Sections/Bills/floorvote.aspx?VoteId=10836&BillId=42143&| url-status = live}}</ref> taking the position that adding more categories to the list would dilute the effectiveness of the law, which already includes race, religion, sexual orientation, disability, and age.<ref>{{cite web| title = Homeless could be added to Florida's hate crimes law| website = [[Miami Herald]]| url = http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/04/21/1589541/homeless-could-be-added-to-floridas.html| access-date = April 22, 2010}} ''Miami Herald'', Miami Herald Media Co., April 21, 2010, by Lee Logan, Tallahassee Bureau: "During a committee hearing on the bill, the Anti-Defamation League spoke against the bill, arguing that adding more categories to the hate crimes law would dilute its effect. But lawmakers were swayed by arguments in favor of protecting the homeless."</ref>

ADL expressed concern over Israeli legislative proposals requiring that NGOs publicize if they receive funding primarily from non-Israeli governments, a bill mostly opposed by centrist and left-wing and supported by right-wing Jewish American groups.<ref>{{cite press release|title=ADL Concerned That Proposed Legislation on NGO Funding in Israel Would Erode Nation's Democratic Character |url=http://www.adl.org/press-center/press-releases/israel-middle-east/adl-concerned-that-proposed-legislation-on-ngo-funding.html |publisher=Anti-Defamation League |language=en |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160117014336/http://www.adl.org/press-center/press-releases/israel-middle-east/adl-concerned-that-proposed-legislation-on-ngo-funding.html |archive-date=January 17, 2016 |url-status=live |date=January 11, 2016 |quote=In 2011, the League urged the Israeli government to work to modify two similar bills regarding donations from foreign governments to Israeli NGOs, and voiced concern over laws that stifle free expression.}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.timesofisrael.com/reform-joins-adl-ajc-in-opposing-israels-ngo-bill/|title=Reform joins ADL, AJC in opposing Israel's NGO bill|website=[[The Times of Israel]]|access-date=February 5, 2016|archive-date=February 17, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160217180518/http://www.timesofisrael.com/reform-joins-adl-ajc-in-opposing-israels-ngo-bill/|url-status=live}}</ref>{{primary source inline|date=March 2021}}