The Anti-Defamation Commission (ADC) is a Jewish-Australian community organisation founded by B'nai B'rith to combat antisemitism in Australia. It was originally established as the B'nai B'rith Anti-Defamation Commission.Abramovitch, D. (2015). Australia's Jewish people and democracy. Meanjin, 74(3), 224.Cohen-Almagor, R. (2011). Fighting hate and bigotry on the Internet. Policy & Internet, 3(3), 1-26.Jakubowicz, A. (2017). Alt_Right White Lite: trolling, hate speech and cyber racism on social media. Cosmopolitan Civil Societies, 9(3), 41. The ADC's efforts have resulted in academic scrutiny of trends of fascism in Australia with emerging research on activists and militia movements that have promoted antisemitic views.Moore, A. (2005). Writing about the extreme Right in Australia. Labour History, 1-15. The group is a former division of B'nai B'rith in Melbourne. Data collection on antisemitic incidents in Australia is a focus of the Anti-Defamation Commission. Aside from the ADC, the Executive Council of Australian Jewry also collects data on antisemitism in Australia.
People The chairman of the Anti-Defamation Commission is Dvir Abramovich, an Israeli-Australian academic, columnist and activist. Grahame Leonard, a former commissioner to the Victorian Multicultural Commission, is a past chairman of the organisation, and academic and filmmaker Danny Ben-Moshe is a former director.Naraniecki, A. (2011). Polish-Jewish relations in Australia: The social consequences of historical misrecognition. La Trobe University Centre for Dialogue.
See also Anti-Defamation League, a similar organisation in the United States originally founded by B'nai B'rith
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