Anti-Defamation League

=== 2000s ===
In 2003, the ADL opposed an advertising campaign by [[People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals]] (PETA) called "Holocaust on Your Plate" that compared animals killed in the meat industry to victims of the [[Holocaust]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://edition.cnn.com/2003/US/Northeast/02/28/peta.holocaust/|date=28 February 2003|publisher=CNN|title=Group blasts PETA 'Holocaust' project}}</ref> In 2005, PETA apologized for causing distress to the Jewish community through the campaign, though in 2008, the [[Chief Rabbinate]] announced that it was planning to gradually phase out the use of the "shackle and hoist" method of kosher slaughter in Israel and South America, in part in response to pressure from PETA.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.jpost.com/jewish-world/jewish-news/rabbinate-to-phase-out-shackle-and-hoist-animal-slaughter|title=Rabbinate to phase out 'shackle and hoist' animal slaughter. More humane method to be adopted following claims of cruelty|work=The Jerusalem Post|date=February 19, 2008|last=Wagner|first=Matthew|access-date=May 29, 2021|archive-date=June 2, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210602213011/https://www.jpost.com/jewish-world/jewish-news/rabbinate-to-phase-out-shackle-and-hoist-animal-slaughter|url-status=live}}</ref>

As of 2007, the ADL said it was archiving MySpace pages associated with white supremacists as part of its effort to track extremism.<ref>{{cite magazine|last1=Spencer |first1=Jason |title=Found in (My)Space |url=https://ajrarchive.org/article.asp?id=4405&id=4405 |access-date=16 July 2021 |magazine=[[American Journalism Review]] |issue=October/November 2007}}</ref>

The ADL opposed [[2008 California Proposition 8]], a ballot successful initiative that banned same-sex marriage. It did so alongside Jewish organizations, including the National Council of Jewish Women and the Progressive Jewish Alliance.<ref name="orthodox">{{cite web|url=http://www.forward.com/articles/14106/|title=Orthodox Join Fight Against Gay Nuptials|work=[[The Forward]]| date=August 29, 2008 |access-date=September 19, 2008|archive-date=September 11, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080911205150/http://www.forward.com/articles/14106/|url-status=live|first=Rebecca|last=Spence}}</ref> The ADL filed [[amicus brief]]s urging the [[Supreme Court of California]], [[Ninth Circuit]], and the [[Supreme Court of the United States|Supreme Court]] to invalidate Prop 8.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://38.106.4.56/Modules/ShowDocument.aspx?documentID=1228|title=BRIEF OF AMICI CURIAE ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ET AL. IN SUPPORT OF RESPONDENTS|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130307154233/http://38.106.4.56/Modules/ShowDocument.aspx?documentID=1228|archive-date=March 7, 2013|access-date=November 1, 2013}}</ref> In 2015, the ADL opposed the [[State Religious Freedom Restoration Acts]], state laws that used the United States Supreme Court decision in [[Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc.]] recognizing a for-profit corporation's claim of religious belief. The ADL opposed these laws out of concern they largely targeted LGBT people or denied access to contraceptives to employees of religiously owned businesses.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Sokol |first1=Sam |title=ADL slams controversial 'religious freedom' laws in US |url=https://www.jpost.com/Diaspora/ADL-slams-controversial-religious-freedom-laws-in-US-396007 |work=The Jerusalem Post |date=April 2, 2015 |access-date=March 29, 2020 |archive-date=March 29, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200329163616/https://www.jpost.com/Diaspora/ADL-slams-controversial-religious-freedom-laws-in-US-396007 |url-status=live }}</ref>

The ADL split from B'nai B'rith in 2009 and went independent, dropping the reference to the other organization in its name.<ref name=Amistad/>