by Bill Levinson
(Re: http://www.adl.org/PresRele/DiRaB_41/6091_41.htm)
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) was once a very respectable organization, and my father thought the world of it. That was 20 or 30 years ago. The past five or six years have however seen ADL do the following, all on Mr. Foxman’s watch.
(1) ADL used its nominally Jewish identity to whitewash MoveOn.org’s knowing and willful hosting of anti-Semitic and other hate speech at its now-disgraced Action Forum.
(2) ADL engaged in conduct one step short of Holocaust denial by encouraging Congress to reject recognition of Turkey’s genocide of Armenians. Abraham Foxman fired ADL director Andrew Tarsy for refusing to go along with this outrage, whereupon two other ADL leaders quit in disgust.
(3) Abraham Foxman helped legitimize the prominent racist and anti-Semite (e.g. Freddy’s Fashion Mart) Al Sharpton by issuing a joint statement with him.
(4) ADL has attacked Robert Spencer and Pamela Geller for their efforts to expose the menace of militant Islam (which has in its own words declared its intention to annihilate Jews and take over the world, much like another ideology did during the late 1930s), and has denounced them and others as “Islamophobes.”
While the ADL is correct that “Most American Muslims are peace-loving, law-abiding citizens who cherish their life in America just as much as Christians, Jews, and followers of countless other faith traditions,” there is a video of a militant Islamic woman calling for Jews to “go back to the ovens” during a rally in Fort Lauderdale while other Muslims chant “go to hell” and “Nuke Israel.” There are rallies in Europe in which militant Muslims call for Osama bin Laden to bomb Denmark so they can take Danish women as war booty. Other militant Muslims say publicly that they will annihilate Jews and rule the world, an agenda very similar to the one that came with a swastika during living memory. My perception of ADL is therefore similar to a perception of America First, the German-American Bund, and similar enablers of that particular ideology during the late 1930s—the ones who kept telling us that Hitler was a nice peace-loving person until his friends dropped bombs on us and then he declared war on us.
I rely on Lowes for most of my home improvement and repair needs, and I will definitely recommend Lowes to others. Pay no attention to the ADL; it has turned itself into a sick joke among knowledgeable Jews and the country as a whole. (I have posted a copy of this letter to a pro-Israel blog for which I write.)
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