APN's President and CEO Debra DeLee said: "We are pleased that the Atlanta Jewish Federation pressured Adler to step down and that readers of the newspaper strongly repudiated Adler's abhorrent article. We agree with the Atlanta Jewish Federation that despite Adler's apology and resignation, his outrageous column caused terrible damage to Israel and to the Jewish people."

"Words have consequences. Calls for murder may have disastrous consequences. We believe that people in positions of power - politicians, clerics, journalists or other opinion leaders, on all sides, bear a heavy responsibility of avoiding incendiary rhetoric."