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. [1] [2] [3] 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. [4] The group is a former division of B'nai B'rith in Melbourne, [5] 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. [6]
The chairman of the Anti-Defamation Commission is Dvir Abramovich, an Israeli-Australian academic, columnist and activist. [7] Grahame Leonard, a former commissioner to the Victorian Multicultural Commission, [8] is a past chairman of the organisation, and academic and filmmaker Danny Ben-Moshe is a former director. [9]