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| DATE | 2016-11-26 |
| FROM | Ruben Safir
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| SUBJECT | Subject: [Hangout-NYLXS] ADL is toast
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It seems pretty clear from this opinion piece in the Jerusalem Post,
which is almost too painful to read through, that the ADL is defunct as
a Jewish organization. It is very very sad.
Opinion
By CAROLINE B. GLICK \
11/24/2016 22:14
Column One: The ADL’s new bedfellows
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Egyptian President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi was among the first Arab leaders
to welcome Trump’s victory.
Jonathan Greenblatt
Anti-Defamation League National Director Jonathan Greenblatt . (photo
credit:Courtesy)
In an interview this week with the Australian media, Jordan’s King
Abdullah became the latest Arab leader to express hope that President-
elect Donald Trump and his team will lead the world’s to date failed
fight against jihadist Islam.
Like his counterparts in Egypt and Saudi Arabia, Abdullah effectively
ruled out the possibility that President Barack Obama will take any
constructive steps to defeat the forces of global jihad in his last
months in power. Speaking of the humanitarian disaster in Aleppo for
instance, Abdullah said, “I don’t think there’s much we can do until the
new administration is in place and a strategy is formulated.”
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Egyptian President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi was among the first Arab leaders
to welcome Trump’s victory.
Sisi has been largely shunned by the Obama administration.
President Barack Obama supported the Muslim Brotherhood regime that Sisi
and the Egyptian military overthrew in 2013.
Sisi was the first foreign leader to speak to Trump after his victory
was announced. He released a statement to the media saying that he
“looks forward to the presidency of president Donald Trump to inject a
new spirit into the trajectory of Egyptian-American relations.”
The support that the incoming Trump administration is garnering in the
Arab world stands in stark contrast to the near wall-to-wall opposition
to Trump expressed by the American Muslim community.
According to a survey of Muslim American opinion taken in October by the
Council for American Islamic Relations (CAIR), 72% of American Muslims
supported Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton. Trump was supported by a
mere 4% of the Muslim community.
Muslim American activists played key roles in the Clinton campaign. They
were particularly active in swing states like Ohio and Michigan where
Trump won by narrow margins.
As The Jerusalem Post reported Wednesday, since the election, Muslim
American leaders have expressed concern and hostility toward the
incoming Trump administration. Muslim Democrat activist James Zogby, who
also heads the Arab American Institute, published an op-ed in The Jordan
Times to this effect after the election. Zogby expressed concern that
the Trump administration would harm the civil rights of Arab Americans.
The gap between the Arab world’s support for Trump and the Muslim
American community’s opposition to him is particularly notable because
it reverberates strongly the growing cleavage between the Israeli
government and public and large swaths of the American Jewish community.
Led most prominently by the Anti-Defamation League and its executive
director Jonathan Greenblatt, in the wake of the election, American Jews
are at the forefront of efforts to delegitimize Trump and his senior
advisers. Unlike their Muslim American counterparts, who are keeping
their criticism of Arab regimes to themselves, Greenblatt, the ADL and
their allies on the Left have linked their opposition to Trump to
legitimizing opponents of Israel.
Before assuming his role at the ADL, Greenblatt worked in Valerie
Jarrett’s political influence shop in the Obama White House. As ADL
chief, Greenblatt has used his position as the head of a major Jewish
organization to support the Obama administration’s policies. To this
end, since the election, the ADL has worked to tar the incoming Trump
administration as antisemitic, focusing its fire on Trump’s senior
strategist, former Breitbart News CEO Stephen Bannon.
The ADL spearheaded the campaign to label Bannon an antisemite. When its
claims were shown to be entirely spurious, this week the ADL quietly
acknowledged that Bannon has actually never made any antisemitic
statements. But its quiet admission of spreading lies didn’t stop the
ADL from continuing to traffic in them. Even after it admitted that “we
are not aware of any antisemitic statements from Bannon,” the ADL
continued to insist that Breitbart has been a home for antisemites
because some Jew-haters wrote antisemitic responses to Breitbart articles.
The ADL’s smear campaign against Bannon is a hard-sell because Breitbart
is among the most pro-Israel websites in the US. But this brings us to
the second aspect of the ADL-led campaign against President-elect Donald
Trump and his team.
With each passing day, it becomes increasingly clear that the ADL and
its allies are using the Trump victory as a means to draw a distinction
between pro-Israel and Jew-friendly while arguing that antisemites
support Israel and that people who hate Israel are not antisemites. This
was the clear goal at the ADL’s summit on antisemitism last week.
As Daniel Greenfield reported Thursday in Front- Page Magazine, the ADL
used the conference to legitimize the so-called BDS campaign to boycott
Jewish Israeli products and divest from businesses that do business with
Jewish-owned Israeli businesses.
It similarly normalized the general argument that there is nothing
inherently antisemitic about opposing the Jewish state.
In a panel with the disturbing title, “Is Delegitimization of Israel
Antisemitism?” the ADL featured anti-Israel activists Jill Jacobs and
Jane Eisen. Both women argued that BDS is legitimate. At the same time,
they denounced fervent supporters of Israel like Bannon and Center for
Security President Frank Gaffney.
Greenfield reported that the ADL gave a prominent platform at the
conference supposedly dedicated to fighting antisemitism to Ford
Foundation CEO Darren Walker. The Ford Foundation is one of the leading
contributors to anti-Israel organizations in the US and to anti-Zionist
political front groups in Israel.
Other speakers explained that it isn’t that Israel’s foes are
antisemitic. It is just that Israelis and their supporters have become
“hypersensitive” to criticism.
All in all, Greenfield concluded, “Instead of tackling antisemitism, the
ADL was tackling Israel and pro-Israel Jews” and “normalizing
anti-Israel rhetoric and organizations.”
A few days after the conference, the ADL took the next step toward
normalizing hatred for Israel in America when it announced its support
for Rep.
Keith Ellison’s candidacy to serve as the next chairman of the
Democratic National Committee.
Ellison became the first Muslim American elected to the House of
Representatives in 2006. In the decades that preceded his election,
Ellison built a long and documented history of membership in and
advocacy and employment for the antisemitic Nation of Islam. In his
capacity as a Nation of Islam spokesman, Ellison made antisemitic
statements and promoted anti-Jewish and anti-Israel positions and activists.
Since joining the House of Representatives, Ellison has been one of the
leading anti-Israel voices in Congress. He has spearheaded multiple
anti-Israel initiatives. He openly supports the boycott of Israeli
Jewish products and has castigated Israel as an apartheid state.
Together with James Zogby, last August Ellison served as a member of the
Democratic Party’s platform committee. The men attempted to purge the
platform of language in support of Israel.
Yet Wednesday the ADL released a statement extolling Ellison as “a man
of good character.” The ADL praised him as “an ally in the fight against
antisemitism and for civil rights.”
It even said that Ellison “has been on record in support of Israel.”
ADL is supporting Ellison – and opposing Trump and his pro-Israel
advisers – because Greenblatt and his backers support Obama’s policies
in the Middle East and want to make it difficult for Trump to abandon them.
Ellison and the leading American Muslim groups oppose Trump for the same
reason. The difference between the two groups is that the ADL and its
Jewish backers are acting in this manner because they support the Left,
which Obama leads. Ellison and his allies at CAIR, the Islamic Society
of North America, and the Arab American Institute and other groups
oppose Trump because they support the substance of Obama’s policies.
The chief characteristics of Obama’s Middle East policies have been
support for the Muslim Brotherhood and Iran against Israel and the US’s
Sunni allies.
Former FBI agent and counterterrorism expert John Guandolo estimates
that upward of 80% of Islamic centers and mosques in the US are
controlled by the Muslim Brotherhood.
The major American Muslim groups, including CAIR, ISNA and the Islamic
Circle of North America are tied to the Muslim Brotherhood. The Muslim
Brotherhood in turn supports Iran.
During his year in power in Egypt, the Muslim Brotherhood’s Mohamed
Morsi permitted Iranian warships to travel through the Suez Canal,
hosted Iranian leaders and Hezbollah commanders in Cairo and took a
series of additional steps to embrace Iran.
Trump’s foreign policy adviser Walid Phares gave an interview to
Egyptian television after Trump’s election stating that Trump will
support a bill introduced by Sen. Ted Cruz to outlaw the Muslim
Brotherhood in the US as well as its offshoots CAIR, ISNA and others due
to their support for jihadist terrorist groups formed by Brotherhood
members. Al-Qaida, Hamas and a host of other jihadist groups have all
been formed by Muslim Brotherhood followers.
Trump’s national security adviser, Lt.-Gen. (ret.) Mike Flynn; Rep. Mike
Pompeo, whom Trump has selected to serve as his CIA director; as well as
Marine Gen. James Mattis, the leading contender to serve as Trump’s
defense secretary are all outspoken opponents of Obama’s nuclear deal
with Iran.
Given the stakes, then, it makes perfect sense that the Arab American
groups oppose Trump.
It also makes sense that Arab regimes threatened by the Muslim
Brotherhood and Iran support Trump and eagerly await his inauguration.
And it clearly makes sense for Israel to welcome Trump’s election.
The only thing that makes no sense is the American Jewish campaign to
demonize Trump. The ADL’s leadership of the campaign to smear Trump and
his advisers while legitimizing BDS and supporting Israel-bashers is
antithetical to the interests of the American Jewish community.
In adopting these positions, Greenblatt and the ADL along with their
allies in J Street, Jewish Voices for Peace, If Not Now, The Forward,
other far-left groups and mainstream groups that have lost their way
show through their actions that they have conflated their Judaism with
their support for the Left.
To the extent that the interests of the Jews of America contradict the
positions of the Left, the Jews of America are behaving in an
“antisemitic” way.
It is the responsibility of the segment of the community that
understands “Jewish” is not a synonym of “leftist” to oppose the ADL and
its backers. If they fail to do so, they will contribute to the descent
of the community into powerlessness and irrelevance, not only in the era
of Trump, but into the future.
www.CarolineGlick.com
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