Anti-Defamation League Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! === Park51 Community Center opposition === In 2010, ADL issued a statement opposing the [[Park51]] Community Center, a proposed Islamic community center and mosque two blocks from the [[World Trade Center site]] in New York. It said, "The controversy which has emerged regarding the building of a Community Center at this location is counterproductive to the healing process. Therefore, under these unique circumstances, we believe the City of New York would be better served if an alternative location could be found."<ref name="berk">{{cite news |last=Berkman |first=Jacob |date=July 30, 2010 |title=ADL opposes World Trade Center Mosque |work=[[Jewish Telegraphic Agency]] |url=http://blogs.jta.org/telegraph/article/2010/07/30/2740283/adl-opposes-world-trade-center-mosque |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100803005159/http://blogs.jta.org/telegraph/article/2010/07/30/2740283/adl-opposes-world-trade-center-mosque |archive-date=August 3, 2010}}</ref> ADL denounced what it saw as bigoted attacks on the project. Foxman opined that some of those who oppose the mosque are "bigots", and that the plan's proponents may have every right to build the mosque at that location. Nevertheless, he said that building the mosque at that site would unnecessarily cause more pain for the families of some victims of 9/11.<ref name="berk" /><ref>{{cite news |last=Jacoby |first=Susan |author-link=Susan Jacoby |date=August 6, 2010 |title=The Spirited Atheist: Ground Zero mosque protected by First Amendment – but it's still salt in a wound |newspaper=The Washington Post |url=http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/spirited_atheist/2010/08/ground_zero_mosque_protected_by_first_amendment--but_its_still_salt_in_a_wound.html |url-status=dead |access-date=April 24, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100817115334/http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/spirited_atheist/2010/08/ground_zero_mosque_protected_by_first_amendment--but_its_still_salt_in_a_wound.html |archive-date=August 17, 2010}}</ref><ref name="nytimes6">{{cite news |date=August 4, 2010 |title=The ADL, the Mosque and the Fight Against Bigotry |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/05/opinion/l05mosque.html |url-status=live |access-date=February 5, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170803041802/http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/05/opinion/l05mosque.html |archive-date=August 3, 2017}}</ref> This opposition to the Community Center led to criticism of the statement from various parties, including one ADL board member, the American Jewish Committee, the [[Jewish Community Relations Council|Jewish Community Relations Council of New York]], Rabbi [[Irwin Kula]], columnists [[Jeffrey Goldberg]] and [[Peter Beinart]], the [[Interfaith Alliance]],<ref>Adam Dickter, [http://www.thejewishweek.com/news/new_york/wake_adl_jewish_groups_back_ground_zero_mosque "In Wake Of ADL, Jewish Groups Back Ground Zero Mosque"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100806183447/http://www.thejewishweek.com/news/new_york/wake_adl_jewish_groups_back_ground_zero_mosque|date=August 6, 2010}}, ''[[The Jewish Week]]'', August 3, 2010.</ref> and the [[Shalom Center]].<ref>Grace Rauh, [http://manhattan.ny1.com/content/top_stories/123265/jewish-leaders-rally-in-support-of-wtc-mosque/ "Jewish Leaders Rally In Support Of WTC Mosque"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100816033945/http://manhattan.ny1.com/content/top_stories/123265/jewish-leaders-rally-in-support-of-wtc-mosque|date=August 16, 2010}}, ''[[NY1]]'', August 5, 2010.</ref> In an interview with ''The New York Times'' Abraham Foxman published a statement in reaction to criticism.<ref>Abraham H. Foxman, [http://www.adl.org/ADL_Opinions/Interfaith/Mosque_Ground_Zero.htm "The Mosque at Ground Zero"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100806020909/http://www.adl.org/ADL_Opinions/Interfaith/Mosque_Ground_Zero.htm|date=August 6, 2010}}, originally published in ''[[Huffington Post]]'', August 2, 2010.</ref> In protest of ADL's stance, [[CNN]] host [[Fareed Zakaria]] returned the Hubert H. Humphrey First Amendment Freedoms Prize ADL awarded him in 2005.<ref>{{cite news |date=August 9, 2010 |title=CNN host returns ADL award over stance on Islamic center |work=[[CNN]] |url=http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/08/07/new.york.zakaria.adl/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121108133149/http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/08/07/new.york.zakaria.adl/ |archive-date=November 8, 2012}}</ref> ADL chair Robert G. Sugarman responded to a critical ''New York Times'' editorial<ref>{{cite news |date=August 3, 2010 |title=Editorial {{!}} A Monument to Tolerance |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/04/opinion/04wed1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170107035929/http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/04/opinion/04wed1.html |archive-date=January 7, 2017}}</ref> writing, "we have publicly taken on those who criticized the mosque in ways that reflected anti-Muslim bigotry or used the controversy for that purpose" and stating that ADL has combated Islamophobia.<ref name="nytimes6" /> On September 5, 2021, the national director and CEO of ADL, Jonathan Greenblatt, apologized for ADL's opposition to the center, stating, "We were wrong, plain and simple".<ref>{{Cite news |last=Greenblatt |first=Jonathan A. |date=September 5, 2021 |title=Opinion {{!}} ADL head: On NY Islamic center, we were wrong, plain and simple |work=CNN |url=https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/04/opinions/park-51-anti-defamation-league-9-11-greenblatt/index.html}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Barnard |first=Anne |author-link=Anne Barnard |date=September 11, 2021 |title=Painful memory for Muslims: Outrage over a proposed Islamic center in Manhattan. |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/11/nyregion/muslim-islamic-center-9-11.html}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Elfer |first=Helen |date=September 5, 2021 |title=Anti-Defamation League apologises for opposing mosque near Ground Zero after 9/11 |url=https://news.yahoo.com/anti-defamation-league-apologises-opposing-181649708.html |website=Yahoo!News |publisher=The Independent}}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. 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