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   From: void@invalid.noy   
      
   As Anti-Defamation League officials appear on global televisions   
   denouncing widespread rallies calling for an end to Israeli’s   
   genocidal violence against Palestinians, we are seeing the most   
   dangerous outcome of the ADL’s long history of asserting itself as a   
   civil rights group. The ADL’s framing of itself as an advocate against   
   bias is completely belied by its advocacy for Islamophobic policy, its   
   work to foster militarized policing and hyper-surveillance, and its   
   clearly articulated role as an advocate for Israeli policies,   
   including apartheid. The ADL crassly instrumentalizes the public’s   
   real concerns about antisemitism, producing outrageously inflated   
   statistics that list hundreds of protests against Israeli violence as   
   “antisemitic incidents.” As a result of this disingenuous posturing,   
   the ADL is being consulted as an expert on this war.   
      
   But the ADL is not a civil rights group. The ADL enters this war as a   
   right-wing organization, not a Jewish one. Yesterday on MSNBC, ADL CEO   
   Jonathan Greenblatt amplified the right-wing disinformation that Hamas   
   had called for a “day of jihad” and then suggested that ‘governors,   
   mayors, and people in positions of authority’ had ignored it because   
   they aren’t concerned enough with Jewish safety. He repeated this   
   disinformation as hundreds of Jewish protesters in Washington, DC,   
   literally laid down in the street to try to stop Israel’s assaults on   
   Palestinians.   
      
   The ADL is historically and presently a Cold War organization; it   
   views the world in terms of the West and the Rest. Its attacks on   
   critics of Israel often, without irony, target Jewish peace   
   organizations that are doing real work with Palestinians and   
   communities of color. Echoing the language of right-wing panic about   
   “socialism,” the ADL’s Greenblatt has taken to labeling efforts to   
   stop Israeli violence as “Soviet propaganda.” Yesterday on MSNBC, as   
   the Israeli military bombed Palestinians evacuating under Israeli   
   military orders, as the death toll among Palestinian children soared   
   over one thousand, Greenblatt also made the outrageous statement that   
   “anti-Zionism is genocide.”   
      
   The ADL’s reach into our conversations at this crucial time is   
   unbelievably dangerous. We may well be on the brink of a world war,   
   which the ADL is fueling with its insistence that Jewish safety   
   depends on Palestinian genocide. Schools are sending home ADL   
   materials on “how to talk about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict” that   
   literally demands that we center Jewish concerns about safety with no   
   reference to mass Palestinian deaths nor decades of brutal   
   colonization — and repeat the ADL’s claim that anti-Zionism is   
   antisemitism – all couched in the language of “positioning yourself as   
   a learner” and “considering history.”   
      
   We must stop platforming the ADL as a civil rights group. We must   
   understand it as a political organization with political aims. Its aim   
   is genocide, and its aim is war.   
      
   https://mondoweiss.net/2023/10/the-anti-defamation-league-is-fueling-war/   
      
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