How do you feel about the ADL?

[Anonymous]

[Lliam]

It was created in 1913 to promote Zionism. Because of massive funding (I wonder from whom 😏), it has tremendous influence over U. S. politicians.

In 1979 the ADL began producing an annual Audit of Anti-Semitic Incidents. These audits, which found that anti-Semitism was “on the rise” nearly every year, were soon taken up by media and policymakers.

These audits remain a potent force in U. S. politics, despite periodic critiques that their methodology and raw data are not made public. Critics have noted that the ADL does not distinguish between teenage pranks designed to shock, such as swastika graffiti, and attacks grounded in bias, nor between expressions of bias and material violence. In the press, the ADL also counts calls for Palestinian rights, and even criticism of the ADL itself, as anti-Semitic incidents. Presumably these are included in the annual count. News media rarely look beyond the numbers, though, as they report “spikes” and “dramatic increases” which correctly remind readers, even if the data are spurious, that white supremacy persists.

The Anti-Semitism Awareness Act proposed this year (2019) aims to empower the federal Department of Education to characterize Palestinian human rights demands as violations of American Jews’ civil rights.

The ADL steals FBI documents and information from civil rights organizations. They stir up violent acts against people and organizations that criticize Israel.

ADL is now a vetter of content for YouTube, where videos relating to the Boyscott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement have been censored as hate speech. It has also reportedly joined forces with Facebook, Twitter, and Microsoft as well to “engineer solutions” to cyberhate, and is building a Silicon Valley “command center” to house these operations.

The ADL has leveled near-constant charges of dual loyalty at Arabs, anti-racists, and the left in the name of defending the U. S. and Israeli states—states not as representations of their people, but as entities with their own aims.

This history is essential. It lays bare the definition of “democratic participation” that permits AIPAC to fundraise and lobby for the Israeli state as a matter of political process, but calls popular movements against state violence “antidemocratic” and seeks to suppress them.

Would the U. S. allow any other nation but Israel to have such influence?

In the end, the ADL is anti-American and anti-democratic, promotes divisiveness, authoritarianism and violence.

In seeking information to answer this question, I found this informative article and selected a few excerpts for my comment:

https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/emmaia-gelman-anti-defamation-league/

[exitseven]

I had a bad case of it but Penicillin took care of it.

[exitseven]

Thanks for the MHO😎

[OlderAndWiser]

Activities of daily living?

[DarkWinterNights]

Something that seems to have been created for a good cause, but has fallen into the trap of fostering the very thing it claims to fight to justify its existence.

[shortster]

Used to be decent; now they are just partisan hacks.

[rigmarole]

Brainwashing institution...

[CupcakeTheDestroyer]

The anti-defamation league?

[Asker]

Yes...