At the ADL’s ‘Concert against Hate,’ the focus is on Israel
( JTA ) — WASHINGTON — At an annual event meant to honor people who champion its agenda, the Anti-Defamation League spotlighted a roster of Israelis and Americans whose stories reflected the fears and small triumphs Jews have experienced following more than a year of war in Israel and antipathy at home. There were three college students who fought campus antisemitism; survivors of Hamas’ Nova music festival massacre on Oct. 7, 2023; a Holocaust survivor and several others whose examples were meant to inspire the crowd that gathered at Washington, D.C.’s Kennedy Center on Monday. Almost unmentioned at the Concert Against Hate, however, was another more recent development that has likely sparked uncertainty and, perhaps, fear among some in the audience: the return to office of former President Donald Trump. The near omission — Ben Stiller, the emcee, did crack a joke about the incoming administration — was especially notable because the last time Trump was the president-elect, eight y
