By Charles Jacobs & Ilya Feoktistov, AMERICAN THINKER
The Jewish community’s largest “defense” organization, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), has adopted a policy, consistent with the progressive agenda, not to speak up much about the global tsunami of Muslim anti-Semitism, but instead to campaign against “Islamophobia.”
This while FBI statistics show that hate crimes against Jews in America are five times the number of hate crimes against Muslims. The rationale for this policy, as the ADL’s chief, Abe Foxman, told the Boston Jewish Advocate, is that “[y]ou can’t fight the fight against anti-Semitism without fighting against bigotry. … You cannot ask people to stand with you unless you are ready to stand with them.”
But in cities across America, Foxman’s policy has led the ADL to stand with people and organizations whose mission it is to defame and harm Jews. To defend its policy of “outreach,” the Anti-Defamation League vigorously defames as “bigots” citizens who question radical Islamists’ true aims. This pattern of allying with Muslim anti-Semites to fight “Islamophobia” and then defaming legitimately concerned citizens can be clearly seen in three cases:
1. Detroit Imam Mustapha Elturk spoke at an interfaith event on the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks at Congregation Shaarey Tzedek, a synagogue with a proud and longstanding pro-Israel reputation. According to locals, the ADL branch in Detroit blessed the invitation — ignoring reports (available on ADL’s own website) that Elturk’s group — the Islamic Organization of North America — has a history of anti-Semitism.
The ADL has an annual $55M budget; presumably some of it is used to seek out enemies of the Jewish people. But any unfunded but curious citizen could have found on Elturk’s own website (it was on his homepage) the following sermon:
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If the Zionists don’t repent and stop their aggression… they will be rest assured punished by God as he twice punished them here in this world… Who are the Zionists? … Allah said, “Every time they enter into a covenant, they breach it. {…} People who break their covenant are worse than animals in God’s sight.”
During this sermon, the imam solicited his congregation for donations to Hamas-affiliated charities in the Gaza Strip, and he praised dead Gaza fighters as martyrs. In other sermons posted on his open site, Elturk defames American democracy, American society, and moderate Muslims — and he describes in exquisite detail the ways in which Westernized Muslim women will suffer in Hell for their libertine ways.
When some members of the Detroit Jewish community spoke out online against the synagogue’s embrace of Imam Elturk, 38 Detroit rabbis — following Foxman’s logic, it would seem — co-signed a letter (a Jewish fatwa?) condemning the anonymous dissenters for being “uncivil.” The president of the local Jewish Community Relations Council came out in favor of silencing the “online demagogues” and, channeling Stalin or Mao, promised to “set appropriate standards for conversation.” Daniel Levy, executive board member of Detroit’s ADL, defended Elturk’s invitation to speak at the synagogue because — again following Abe Foxman’s reasoning — the Detroit Jews and Mr. Elturk need to be “working together in mutual respect [as] the only way to move forward and not back.” He then accused those who disagree with Elturk’s invitation of “doing the work of our enemies.”
Apparently irony is not Mr. Levy’s strong suit.
2. In Florida, the ADL is doing the work of CAIR (Committee for American Islamic Relations) — a group identified by a federal judge as an American front for Hamas. Florida’s ADL recently helped CAIR defeat that state’s “American Laws for American Courts” law. The ALAC law was meant to prevent judges from taking into account foreign or religious laws, as was the case two years ago in New Jersey when a judge denied a Moroccan woman a restraining order against her estranged husband, who wouldn’t stop raping her. The Jersey judge ruled that because they were still married, Islamic law allowed the husband full rights to her body and that the poor woman must submit to rape at his leisure.
After the ADL helped defeat the law, a gleeful Ahmed Bedier, CAIR-Florida director, was caught on tape bragging that “when we go lobbying [against] the bill today, we will be using the talking points of the Anti-Defamation League.” (Bedier is close supporter of convicted Islamic Jihad terrorist Sami Al Arian.) Hassan Shibly, CAIR-Tampa’s executive director, said that “[o]ur victory tonight is a great example of how the interfaith and civil rights community united can make a positive difference for all Americans.” Mr. Shibly is a man who has claimed that Hezb’allah is a legitimate resistance movement. On Facebook — where he was once “friends” with Syrian dictator Bashar Assad — Shibly would post messages such as:
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How Jews and Christians lost the teachings of their Prophets and how Muslims can avoid falling into the same mistakes.
Niqab [full face veil for women] is Required in Islam!!
The Grandchildren of Holocaust Survivors from World War II are doing to the Palestinians exactly what was done to them by Nazis
Its time Americans WAKE UP to the ATROCITY that is Israel!!
3. In Michigan’s Farmington Public Schools district, not far from Dearborn and Detroit, the Islamic Cultural Association of Michigan (ICA) got what seemed to many as an inside deal to purchase an abandoned school in order to build a mosque. (They beat out the bid of a Jewish religious school.) The deal was negotiated when the district’s school board was led by former ADL Detroit Director Howard Wallach. The ICA mosque-builders are affiliated with the North American Islamic Trust (NAIT) — which is, according to federal authorities, a Muslim Brotherhood front. They have invited the Jewish anti-Semite Norman Finklestein to lecture to their members.
Last June, at an explosive school board meeting, concerned locals questioned the manner of the sale. They were opposed by speakers, including Dawud Walid, executive director of Detroit’s branch of CAIR, who hurled accusations of Islamophobia at anyone who disagreed with the deal. Joining CAIR’s Walid in support of the mosque were Betsy Kellman, the Michigan director of the ADL, and Detroit Jewish Community Relations Council executive director Robert Cohen.
Jewish leaders, defending the deal, accused Farmington residents of having “strong anti-Muslim feelings” and “making generalizations about Muslims.” They said nothing about the proposed mosque’s radical links or its likely animus toward their own Jewish constituents. The next day, CAIR issued a statement thanking both for their support and unfoundedly attacking the pro-Israel group StandWithUs for instigating the opposition.
In a phone interview, Kellman told us she did not know that ICA is linked to NAIT or that NAIT is a Muslim Brotherhood front. (The ADL has an annual budget of over $50M. The facts about NAIT are easily available from public, open sources.) Currently, Kellman chairs an interfaith group that includes — and thereby legitimates — CAIR. In 2010, Kellman spoke at a Detroit conference that also featured Tariq Ramadan, a Muslim Brotherhood leader who has called Israel the “enemy of Allah” and prayed for it to be struck down.
Such are the people and organizations that Foxman’s policies have this country’s largest Jewish defense organization allying with, as it aggressively attempts to silence, intimidate, and smear those who would criticize its actions, or its allies.
Recently, the National Conference on Jewish Affairs (NCJA) called for ADL head Abe Foxman to resign. We concur. The words used by Detroit ADL official Daniel Levy to describe the ADL’s critics apply most appropriately to Foxman: he is — with precious sums of Jewish money meant to protect Jews from their foes — doing the work of Jews’ enemies. This should be stopped.
For more on the ADL’s failures: www.charlesjacobs.org
Charles Jacobs is president and Ilya Feoktistov is research director, Americans for Peace and Tolerance.
@ Cynical:
those leaders of the ADL is the classic useful idiots. they are not supporting israel, they are not supporting Jews anywhere but they surely support moslems and Obama, the destroyer of Israel. do no give them even one red cent. they have no shame and i wish they would be honest and not pretend that they are supporing Jews and Jewish causes or israel.
I’m glad that the ADL is being exposed for their progressive agenda. In 1994 they published a book calling Republicans and conservatives anti Semitic even though most of them were pro Jewish and Israel. That book ignored the leftist and Democrat anti Semites or they praised them. Don Feder said they lost their credibility. I would like to know where their $55 million budget comes from; George Soros and his cohorts? When has Foxman criticized the Jew hating heretic Jesse Jackson? How about the Jew hating Clintons or Carter? He sure had a lot of criticism for Glenn Beck who loves Israel for exposing the Nazi convert George Soros when it is Soros who deserves condemnation for his behavior during the holocaust and for financing anti Israel organizations like J street. How much of Foxman’s $400,000 plus salary comes from Soros?
The ADL is an organization which has shown its true anti Jewish progressive face.
@ the phoenix:
Where is the help? Bribing our politicians? Gaining property and institutional status in Israel?
There will come a point when the people of Israel will wake up to their menace and having no choice but to take drastic measures. The backlash will effect you Jews in America more than here but it will happen unless they are stopped soon.
“Voltaire, a wise anti-Semite who remarked correctly that should the Jews get their own state, they would sell it.”
I didn’t write the above quote but I do agree with it.
@ the phoenix:
About ten years ago they earned the new denomination of unJews. I coined that term and it has gained some hold about the world.
@ yamit82:
the video i have just watched ‘yad l’achim’, was indeed disturbing. nonetheless, this is the part where i referred to as :
“i would tend to think of them as a ‘subcontractor’… if the main goal would be to strengthen israel while defeating its enemies, and while i do know and am FULLY AWARE that the ultimate goal of these c.z. is to bring back all this jesus shsssstuff,i would still not hesitate to enlist their help in the struggle.
once this is done, ok, now it’s ‘thank you for your help but i am a jew and jesus is not my god and have a good life!’
this is full disclosure, and as such, i see no problem with that…”
when it comes however to those very OVERT efforts on their part to bring in jews to their christian beliefs and away from judaism…this is where i would unabashedly say GOLF, FOXTROT, YANKEE!
not that i am making light of this issue, but, it is just that i feel/think that the muslime issue is more pressing.
p.s. please answer my comment to you @# 15
@ the phoenix:
There are no free lunches or dinners. A price has been demanded and partially paid already. For me it’s already a price too high.
Stupid Jews
the adl is a joke its about making money they themselfes are hate groupe they dont believe in the god given right of freedom of speach they want to opress the jewish people and cause thier owen destrection they are no diffent than the nazies who suppress the freedom speach of man
@ C.R.:
On what do you base such accusations?
Foxman seems to be your idea of the anti-christ. Can you prove each of your contentions?
Seems like anyone you disagree with is a Marxist. Those you seem to really hate are Jewish Marxists.
As Ted said the negatives you apply to Foxman can be found in all religions practitioners, all ethnic groups and in all countries and cultures. Why do you specifically apply such calumny to a Jew or is Foxman to you a symbol of most Jews? All Jews?
@ Stewart P:
You don’t know what you are talking about Stewart.
@ Ted Belman:
I believe that soros, ism, jstreet and all the rest of the extreme leftist activist Jews working against Israel and America are indeed evil to the core. I’m not speaking of those rank and file who simply vote for democrats, as they are just stupid, but not necessarily bad.
I disagree completely. marxism is inherently hostile to Jewish nationalism and America and is in fact genocidal. Their aims are evil.
@ yamit82:
dear yamit,
thank you for the links. this will keep me busy for a while…..:)
i TOTALLY understand what you are saying and agree with it. i view the situation a bit more mathematical/pragmatical.
i may be secular, but never in a million years would i EVER renounce my jewish faith and origins.
i see the most serious and of immediate priority for the survival of israel the need to regain its (foolishly lost) deterrence viz. the surrounding muslim mob AND its internal muslim population.
this b.s. nonesense of ‘surgical strikes’ serves only to aggravate everybody…
i am a firm believer in ‘live and let live’ but if attacked…go for the jugular with no restrictions….
in this, i am 1000% in accord with the late (unfortunately) rabbi kahane…and to repeat once more his message, “THEY MUST GO!”
to this i would also add the deluded peaceniks and latte drinkers of dizengoff and herzlyiah….
(phew!…feels better already 🙂 )
but back to the subject at hand, i am convinced that those of us that share the same convictions as outlined above, would not hesitate to get help from these ‘christian zionists’ if BOTH are working toward the same goal..
i would tend to think of them as a ‘subcontractor’… if the main goal would be to strengthen israel while defeating its enemies, and while i do know and am FULLY AWARE that the ultimate goal of these c.z. is to bring back all this jesus shsssstuff,i would still not hesitate to enlist their help in the struggle.
once this is done, ok, now it’s ‘thank you for your help but i am a jew and jesus is not my god and have a good life!’
this is full disclosure, and as such, i see no problem with that…
🙂
the phoenix:
Christian Zionists who seek to de-Judaize Israel
@ the phoenix:
1st define support?
Then ask why?
While there are good gentiles who support Israel because they have a grounded sense of what is the right thing to do and support Israel.
Then you have gentiles who have a religious agenda, sometimes positive and benign and sometimes negative and insidious.
There are some gentiles while supporting Israel have very negative attitudes towards Jews as Jews.
Most Jews can’t tell he difference and cling to the idea of gentile support because of the Jews historical fear of being alone.
A number of years ago the Christian missionary movement had a conference dedicated to work out the best way to break down the Jewish resistance to Christianity. They determined that if the Jews see how much they are loved and supported by good Christians they will be more receptive to their message. They hit on the concept of the messianic Jewish movement like Jews for Jesus and others. They will say that Jesus was a Jew and we don’t want you to become a Christian just a Jew who accepts Jesus.
Educate yourself first review <strong>this site
Rabbinic View of Christianity
Let me just say I trust my instincts. I have been debating evangelicals for over 5 years. They all no matter how they try to hide it certain tells. I could be wrong but I don’t think so.
dear yamit,
“I realized then how Little I had in common with those bagel and lox Jews of America”…
i have the same realization, and for a variety of reasons i see myself as a lone wolf that does not fit into ANY group.
i identify SOLELY with a national/zionist/bible-as-history beliefs, and those, are sadly embraced it seems to me, solely by the ultrareligious.
being totally nonreligious, i am not comfortable with this group where i stick out like a sore thumb…
but the liberal deluded idiots i find beyond contempt…. and i would stick out like a sore thumb there as well…as i would not miss an opportunity to point out how deluded they are… no matter what the subject of discussion was, i would always find a way to bring it back to the only subjects that matters: israel, and preventing the islamization of the west… (i am kind of paying a price for that now…as i have two tree hugging kids…..sigh)
while on this subject, yamit, i have asked you on another thread, perhaps too late a post on my part, ‘what is your take on manhigut yehudit and moshe feiglin’ the 10 points of their platform, are definitely points that i would wholeheartedly embrace…and TODAY, with this disastrous ‘leadership’, their message rings true and strong.
my best to you and yours.
@ the phoenix:
My mothers childhood friend married young and divorced in her late 30’s she remarried to a Jewish Man from Europe known to us kids simply as the refugee. I knew who he was but he never spoke when I saw him and was never on my mind. My sister got married just as I had completed my initial service in the IDF and I went home for the wedding. About a week after the weddig my mother informed me that the refugee wanted to talk to me and would I drop by. I went. I was really fit and deeply tanned when I saw him, He was a little pudgy a bit past middle age and never smiled as we talked. He asked me about Israel and my service in the IDF. Then with watering eyes told me his story of how he had escaped from one of the camps and joined the Jewish Partisans in 1942 till the end of the war. He said he was proud of me and that if he was 30 years younger he would move to Israel.
My parents used to joke when referring to him as the refugee who lived in the woods. I never understood what they meant and I don’t think they understood, that that little Jew endured more and did more as a Jew and for Jews than most of the “respectable Jews” in America put together.
I realized then how Little I had in common with those bagel and lox Jews of America. It’s not their fault it’s Americanization that is, and the 11th commandment “Thou Shalt Melt”
@ Cynical:
dear cynical,
Your assessment of this organization as a person ‘ that knows well-very well” is pretty much what I suspected it to be.
I will not repeat what I have already said in comment #1 above.
The most recent example: I listened to the YouTube clip of Carolyn Glick ‘Iran and Israel after the bomb’, that yamit has recommended.
As expected, a beautiful, intelligent, insightful presentation that should leave L.O.T.S. of food for THOUGHT and DISCUSSION……
Instead… Right after her speech (!), with no acknowledgement whatsoever (!!), some schmuck grubs the microphone and announces where desert will be served and ma’ariv service will take place without acknowledging the subject of the speech at all(!!!!!!!!), except with a ‘thank you carolyn’, ….
I don’t think this idiot heard a word of her speech (as I said earlier, he must have been munching bagels), and if he did, either he did not grasp or understood a word she said, or (most likely) his preoccupation is , as you said, to arrange a dinner *event*!!!
What a sad and pathetic joke!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VDNupft_oI&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Go to the last 45 seconds of the clip
@ Ted Belman:
My reply is P-U-R-E P-O-P-P-Y C-O-C-K. you Ted Belman is an extreme leftist in drag purporting himself to be a rightest. Consider yourself exposed.
@ C.R.:
While there is no doubt that there are evil Jews just as there are evil people anywhere, but to suggest that liberal or far left or revolutionary Jews are “evil” is totally off base. If anyone, including Jews, supports Marxism or atheism or World government, they are not, ipso facto, “evil”. Jews have always been on the left, which classically meant “for the many” and they fought against the right which meant for the few. They do so proudly. They are at the forefront of revolutionary movements hoping to change the world for the better. Perhaps their policies are too idealistic or unworkable. This does not make them evil.
@ Arison:
Good [genuine] Christians and other genuinely good people–would only support evil Jews like Abe Foxman and those evil Jews in the Israeli government–in utter ignorance!
Abe Foxman et al. at the ADL–are not genuine supporters of Israel–anyone who promotes cultural Marxism and economic Marxism as the ADL does cannot be a genuine supporter of Israel. Abe Foxman is profoundly mentally ill–a sociopath, as well as most if not all of the others in leadership at the ADL; they promote Islam, hatred against Christians, hatred against Israel and the USA, they promote bigotry and homosexual perversion–even to small children.
Abe Foxman is the typical Un-American, self hating, Israel hating, God hating Marxist Jew!
This organization should be banned–and most if not all of the leadership imprisoned!
The ADL is an organization that I know well–very well. Every poster here is probably being added to a database of “bigots,” “extremists,” or some other bad category. It used to be on index cards, now it is no doubt computerized. At some point the names might even be shared with law enforcement or some other part of government.
The ADL is an organization with a history of internal struggles, backstabbing, and purges. After many years of service, west coast director David Lehrer was purged after a challenge to Foxman’s authority.
I’ve always wondered why longtime legal director Jeff Sinensky left.
How it raises so much money, especially with the decline in Jewish identity and philanthropy, is beyond me. It does very little these days other than write letters, issue press releases,sponsor concerts and run fundraising dinners.
@ yamit82:
while admittedly new to the blog, and am just getting to meet the people that comment here, i am a bit perplexed…
what am i missing?
the curious american is supporting israel. what’s wrong with that?
@ the phoenix:
cheers, my christian
zionistfriend.FIFY
@ the phoenix:
@ CuriousAmerican:
Interesting POV.
Here is mine:
Pathans
The Pathans have totally frustrated the Christian missionaries. One major group of USA missionaries who have completely struck out in Afghanistan writes, “Since their entire way of life is opposed to change, the Pathan present one of the strongest challenges to the Christian Church today. Much intercession is needed if they are to be successfully reached with the Gospel.”
The prophet Isaiah teaches us that an ingathering of the exiles will herald the day of Redemption, for “You will be gathered up one by one, O Children of Israel; It shall be on that day that a great shofar [ram’s horn ] shall sound, and those lost in the land of Assyria and foresaken in the land of Egypt [and from all the other countries of exile and dispersion] will come [together] and bow down to Hashem on the holy mountain of Jerusalem (Isaiah 27:12-13).
Who’s afraid of redemption? The Fundamentalist Christians and the missionaries are, because they know that Moshiach will destroy the twenty centuries of lies that they’ve used to persecute us. Afghanistan – and particularly the Pathans – make them tremble in their boots. The Pathans: The Pathans are proud of several things – one, they’ve never assimilated; two, they acknowledge their roots from the tribes of Israel (some claim to be Benjaminites while others claim to be Menashe; I concur with the latter opinion); three, although they are offically Moslems, they wear a fringed garment that resembles tzitzit, keep their heads covered, observe the Sabbath, and circumcise their sons at exactly 8 days old. The Pathans are fiercely brave and totally committed, having succeeded to drive the Russian Army out of Afghanistan.
Israelite origin of the pashtuns and pathans
CuriousAmerican Said:
Not so. Christian Zionists support Israel for their own reasons. Nothing we do, and certainly nothing Israel does will change their support.
@ CuriousAmerican:
cannot argue with you on THAT!
🙂
cheers, my christian zionist friend.
This idiocy is what turns many Christians against Jews.
my head is hurting from shaking it in disbelief….
how friggin’ deluded can these bagel-munchin’ jews be????
do they REALLY think that by trying ‘to be nice’ to the ones that WANT TO KILL YOU, it will help prevent it???
see how far that got THOSE jews in the late ’30s in europe…
which part of …
“Sahih al-Bukhari 2926–Narrated Abu Hurairah: Allah’s Messenger said, “The Hour will not be established until you fight against the Jews, and the stone behind which a Jew will be hiding will say, ‘O Muslim! There is a Jew hiding behind me, so kill him'”
they do not get???
this adl is a disgrace! this rubbish might just as well be spoken by rhe fossil peres…
what jews need is NOT a bunch of cretins-born-jews to ‘talk nice’ to the musloids, americans and europeans (spit!!!) while politing nodding their head and maintaining a civil discourse….
what is needed is more followers of the late (unfortunately) rabbi kahane….
point.