AI Platforms Fail to Reject Antisemitism in Persian

The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) reported that AI chatbots including ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and Grok fail to reject antisemitism in Persian as effectively as in English, with Persian responses often hedging or failing to recognize antisemitic content. The ADL tested 800 responses across eight prompts during the 2026 Iran War, finding that English answers rejected antisemitism outright while Persian answers did not. ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt called the results deeply troubling.

Multilingual safety guardrails matter because models deployed globally can behave very differently across languages, creating moderation and trust risks for non-English users. According to a new report from the Anti-Defamation League ADL , the world's most widely used AI chatbots "fail, without exception, to identify and reject antisemitism as effectively in Persian as they do in English." The ADL Center for Technology and Society tested ChatGPT , Gemini , Claude , and Grok across eight prompts, generating 800 responses between March 9-30, 2026, during the 2026 Iran War, and found Persian answers often hedged, softened, or failed to recognize antisemitic content while English answers rejected it outright. ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt called the results "deeply troubling." Reporting in The Jerusalem Post and JNS/Cleveland Jewish News echoes ADL's findings.