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The ADL and its marriage to the enemies of tolerance
Abe Foxman ADL
- The ADL is oblivious to the fact that they are making an alliance of convenience with the enemies of tolerance, the Christian right -
The ADL had already given up its commitment to tolerance, see Religious Right Figures Signing Pro-war Statement Identified by ADL as Assaulting Tolerance and Pluralism in 1994 (see graphic below), so it was not great surprise to see it oppose the building of an Islamic Center in
- The Religious Right: The Assault on Tolerance and Pluralism in America: A Publication of the Anti-defamation League (1994)
lower Manhattan. The ADL is not oblivious; it’s just self-consciously committed.
The First Amendment must make way to the demands of war and intolerance.
By Paul Krugman
Peter Beinart has an excellent piece on how the Israeli occupation of the West Bank inexorably led the Anti-Defamation League into abandoning its principles, culminating in the awful decision to call for banning the Islamic Center in lower Manhattan.
Let me add two thoughts.
First, this has been building for a very long time. I remember my first visit to Israel, in 1981; even then older Israeli academics, veterans of an earlier era (literally — many of them had fought in 1967 and 1973), would talk grimly about the Likud government and its harsh policies, saying things like “I feel as if we’re living under a foreign occupation.” And it’s only gotten worse since then.
Second, Beinart doesn’t talk as much as I’d like about how this relates to U.S. politics. As he says, American liberals, while they fiercely support Israel’s right to exist, can’t bring themselves to support the policies of Israel’s current government. So the Israel-is-always-right crowd has gravitated to people who don’t have any problem with the occupation — which means the American hard right, including the Christian right. And they seem oblivious to the fact that they are thus making an alliance of convenience with the enemies of tolerance.
Anyway, it has been gratifying to see how many people understand just how wrong the ADL was; and special props to Mayor Bloomberg, who said exactly the right things.
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Anti-Defamation League (ADL) is an Israel propaganda tool. It’s Guru Abe Foxman is always the first person to call a person ‘an anti-Semite’, who dares to criticize Israel or Zionism or Judaism. In 2006, Abe foxman called the New Testament ‘anti-Semite’ and demanded that all verses quoting Jesus rebuking the Jews be deleted – as according to him – these biblical sayings gave Nazis the execuse to kill the Jews.
His other outburst was against Turkish Prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan – the very person whom he honored with ADL’s highest award in appreciation of Turkey’s saving 100,000 European Jews in the 1940s.
Abe also blasted Ben Obama for not acting like a “good friend” of Israel.
http://rehmat1.wordpress.com/2010/03/17/the-tail-wagging-the-dog/
Hey Rehmat,
Veterans Today and I are officially anti-Semitic now, see:
http://www.anti-semitism.net/anti-defamation-league/the-adl-and-its-marriage-to-the-enemies-of-tolerance-veterans-today.php
No commentary there of course, just a listing of “anti-Semitic” prose.
We should be honored, we’ve made the Zionazi black list!
Always amazing to see the defenders and enablers of lying racist genocidal psychopaths calling those who expose them “racist”.
Newsflash ADL, European/American Caucasian Ashkenazi Jews are no more Semitic a people than are Irish Catholics, they merely adhere to religions of semitic origin. Arabs on the other hand are, making Israel the biggest Anti-Semitic tribal abomination on the planet.
Stuff that in your Khazari propagandist pipes and smoke it!
WHEN THE BEAST CALLS YOU INTOLERANT !! ,
Then you have confirmation there is still GOOD in you