Has the ADL Joined the Alt Left?

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The Coalition for Jewish Values (CJV) today criticized the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) for “abandoning its historic mission of defending the Jewish people” by giving a “free pass” to anti-Semitism coming from left-wing activists. On Tuesday the ADL produced a new guide, “From Alt Right to Alt Lite: Naming the Hate,” listing individuals that the ADL associated with “misogyny, anti-Muslim bigotry and xenophobia.” The CJV statement responded that the ADL “tars mainstream conservatives with guilt by association,” and that by avoiding critiques of left-wing activists, the ADL “betrays its core mission.”
“This pattern began in 2015 when Jonathan Greenblatt took over as CEO of the ADL, and accelerated during the Trump presidential campaign,” said Rabbi Yaakov Menken, Director of the CJV. “They are promoting the false notion that anti-Semitism is uniquely a right-wing problem.”
While the CJV called the ADL’s list of “Alt Right” leaders “a frightening depiction of American evil,” it rejected the “Alt Lite” list as “an often embarrassing exercise in demonization.”
The ADL lists Corey Stewart, the Chairman of the Prince William Board of County Supervisors, as an “Alt Lite” figure because he “champions the preservation of Confederate monuments” and has “defended the ‘heritage’ of the Confederate flag.” The CJV suggested that this was motivated by politics, given that Stewart announced his candidacy to oppose Democratic Senator Tim Kaine of Virginia just last week.
The CJV also provided its own list of ten left-wing figures, each of whom, it said, was both far more prominent and far more guilty of anti-Jewish defamatory speech. Rabbi Yoel Schonfeld, Senior Rabbinic Fellow of the CJV, commented that “if it is ignoring hate eminating from leading left-wing speakers and accusing innocent conservatives, the ADL has become a dangerous organization of the ‘Alt Left’ itself.”
{Matzav.com}

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  1. The ADL has become a worthless organization Instead of protecting Jews and Jewish values it espouses and promotes looney left-wing issues and ideas. The Idiot Jonathan Greenblatt, who was a special assistant to President Obama, has a far left agenda and promotes it through the ADL. It’s time to end the ADL. It’s worthless.

  2. The ADL has a sorry record of litigating against aid to yeshivos and looking for evidence of swastikas in bathrooms. It now has shown that in order to raise $ in competition with the Simon Weisthenthal Foundation which exposes LW anti Semitism, it has to go after what it considers “alt right” . The next time that you see anything issued in the name of ADL, ask yourslef what ADL has done against the suppression of speech and the promotion of Islamicterror on college campuses.

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