Jonathan Greenblatt

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Jonathan Greenblatt
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Greenblatt in 2017
6th Director of the Anti-Defamation League
Assumed office
July 20, 2015

Greenblatt founded the Impact Economy Initiative at the Aspen Institute to help policy makers create an enabling environment for the emerging market of social enterprise and impact investing. The Initiative worked with thought leaders across impact sectors, including co-convening the Impact Economy Summit at the White House in October 2011. [17]

Other ventures

Greenblatt served as an operating partner at Satori Capital, a private equity firm focused on conscious capitalism, and was an active angel investor. [18] He also served as a member of the faculty at the UCLA Anderson School of Management, [19] where he developed and taught its coursework on social entrepreneurship.

Obama administration

In the fall of 2011, Greenblatt was appointed to serve as Special Assistant to the President for President Obama and Director of the Office of Social Innovation and Civic Participation (SICP) in the United States Domestic Policy Council. [20] As Director, he led the Office's efforts to utilize human capital and financial capital to bring attention to community solutions. The Office focused on issues such as national service, civic engagement, impact investing, and social enterprise. [21]

In his role as Director of SICP, Greenblatt took an active role in supporting AmeriCorps, [22] supporting social entrepreneurs, [23] and working with the G8 taskforce to support social impact investment. [24] Greenblatt was involved in a number of administration priorities, including preventing gun violence [25] and #GivingTuesday. [26] Greenblatt left the administration in 2014 and was succeeded by David Wilkinson. [27]

"Real Facebook Oversight Board"

On September 30, 2020, Greenblatt was named as one of the 25 members of the "Real Facebook Oversight Board", a group of academics, researchers and civil rights leaders created to counter the existing Facebook Oversight Board, an independent monitoring group over Facebook which they view as insufficient. [28]

Anti-Defamation League

Greenblatt was named CEO of the Anti-Defamation League in 2014.

In a 2022 speech to ADL leaders, Greenblatt said that "anti-Zionism is antisemitism". [29] The Times of Israel noted that the "speech marked a rare moment of the organization unequivocally" making that assertion. [30] The remarks upset activists and Jewish groups critical of Israel, and also set off controversy within the ADL. [31] Internal ADL messages seen by The Guardian included a senior manager at ADL’s Center on Extremism writing in protest that: "There is no comparison between white supremacists and insurrectionists and those who espouse anti-Israel rhetoric, and to suggest otherwise is both intellectually dishonest and damaging to our reputation as experts in extremism." [31] The newspaper reported that the speech, which "put opposition to Israel on a par with white supremacy as a source of antisemitism", had sparked controversy. [31] The ADL told The Intercept that it did not consider the protests antisemitic, but Greenblatt labelled the protesting groups as hate groups. [32] [33] Greenblatt accused groups including Jewish Voice for Peace and Students for Justice in Palestine of being "Iranian proxies". [34]

Personal life

Greenblatt is the grandson of a Holocaust survivor. [35] He is married to Marjan Keypour Greenblatt, an Iranian Jewish political refugee to the United States who is the founder and director of The Alliance for Rights of All Minorities (ARAM), a non-profit. [36] They have three children. [35] [37] [38]

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  31. 1 2 3 "Anti-Defamation League staff decry 'dishonest' campaign against Israel critics". The Guardian. January 5, 2024. Retrieved January 5, 2024. Critics of the group argue that these and other actions risk undermining the civil rights organization's counter-extremism work and say the group has foregone much of its historical mission to fight antisemitism in favor of doing advocacy for Israel.
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