How did we reach this point where political ideology outweighs what should be unified Jewish support for Israel?

Under the rubric of tikkun olam, they instead embraced progressivism as a universalized view that allowed them to disassociate themselves from mainstream Judaism and Zionism, which they could then disparage as being too parochial as opposed to their wider vision of caring for all of humanity.

Ironically, officials charged with enforcing “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion” are among the worst promoters of anti-Jewish propaganda.

The abandonment of core principles and its job of defending Jews places the ADL on the same side of those it is pledged to fight.

American Jewish leaders, such as they are, often extend greater efforts crusading on behalf of other communities rather than their own.

Jew haters apparently know there are no costs to repackaging age-old anti-Semitic libels.

Jewish advocacy has gone corporate, answerable to a Board of Directors, fearful of fickle consumers, and obsessed with product placement. Calling attention to African-Americans or Muslims assaulting Jews will lead to accusations of racism or Islamophobia. And that would be bad for their brand.

At the same time that the ADL has done little to oppose left-wing anti-Semitism, which is what dominates college campuses, while criticizing the Jewish community for standing up to anti-Semitism, Greenblatt has turned the organization into an active political partisan.

Essentially, Greenblatt has transformed the ADL from a non-partisan advocate for Jews confronting anti-Semitism into an advocacy organization for left-wing and culture-war causes.

Almost from the moment he took over in 2014, the ADL has been mired in accusations of political bias, of providing cover for anti-Semites on the left from the kind of accountability the organization doggedly pursues for anyone on the right. Those accusations are true. But the organization is in the middle of a more consequential turn. To gain admission to the new progressive pantheon, the ADL has found itself compelled to jettison its century-old mission and become a different kind of organization entirely.

“Exposing extremism does not make Richard Green or his Clarion Project anti-Muslim. It does, however, make them anti-terrorist. The Clarion Project works with local law enforcement, including the U.S. government. In so doing, they have saved thousands of lives. Because of that work connection, are you also inferring that our government is anti-Muslim?” Javitch wrote. “ … It is a sad turn of events that the ADL, founded by B’nai B’rith, no longer seems to share the free speech values inherent within Judaism and the First Amendment.”

The Left doesn’t see inconvenient facts.

Sadly, the ADL now seems to focus most of it resources on promoting LGBT rights and supporting the Democratic party’s overblown war on white supremacists and away from black anti-Semitism rather than drilling down on antisemitism. In fact, the ADL’s 2021 “Murder and Extremism in the United States” report is receiving criticism for allegedly covering up Black, Nation of Islam, and Muslim antisemitism for political and ideological reasons instead of drilling down into the actual evidence.

The ADL's recent report on Murder and Extremism in the United States in 2021 ignores or downplays deadly extremism from non-white extremists

The “anti-bias” emphasis rings deeply ironic. No Place for Hate encourages schools to spread the watchwords of modern progressivism—microaggressions, equity (not equality), social justice—while training students for political activism. The whole program functions as an overt, unselfconscious, textbook example of bias in education.

ZOA obviously agrees that white supremacists are bigoted and dangerous. But, as the recent Islamist hostage-taker at the Colleyville synagogue and the Black Lives Matter activist who attempted to assassinate a Jewish mayoral candidate demonstrated, we dare not ignore or downplay the severe threats from other quarters.

Despite ADL/Greenblatt’s protestations against, and claims of opposition to, the fascism of the “cancel culture,” ADL does support the “cancel culture” against people or groups that are “right wing” — while opposing the “cancel culture” against those that are “left wing.”

When Whoopi Goldberg said the Holocaust wasn’t about race, because Nazis and Jews were both white, she voiced what has become unquestioned truth in today’s progressive circles. The ADL, an organization founded to fight Jew-hatred, is complicit.

Goldberg’s ill-conceived comments were actually completely consistent with the ADL’s recent and equally ill-conceived definition of racism.

Why, under its CEO Jonathan Greenblatt, does the ADL again and again employ and honor and give podiums to and praise and defend people and groups who hate and harm Jews and Israel? This is the antithesis of ADL’s stated purpose to combat antisemitism and support Israel.

The organization cannot simultaneously argue that there is a fixed hierarchy of privilege in society with whites at the top while effectively fighting antisemitism that emanates from malevolent activists who insist that Jews are white and at the very pinnacle of power, oppressing other minorities.

But the ADL seems to have entirely missed this connection between the spread of illiberal ideology on the left and the growth of a new variant of progressive antisemitism that insists that Jews are powerful and oppressive.

If only the ADL defended Jews and Israel half as vigorously as it defends George Soros.

Once upon a time the ADL had condemned Soros’ antisemitism. When Soros blamed antisemitism on Jews, Abe Foxman, the ADL’s former leader, had denounced Soros' comments as "absolutely obscene."

But at the new ADL, you are expected to pledge allegiance to Soros and to place him above the Jewish community or the Jewish state. The ADL has more pages defending Soros than it does defending Jewish students facing leftist and Islamist antisemitism on college campuses.

The ADL’s pathological refusal to state the truth about Amnesty indicates that in the campaign against the existence of the State of Israel, the ADL is not on the side of the Jews.

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"Since 2015, under the leadership of liberal former Obama administration staffer Jonathan Greenblatt, the organization has been sharply criticized for acting more as a left-leaning pressure group than a non-partisan anti-Semitism watchdog. Bethany Mandel, a right-leaning Jewish columnist, noted that the ADL under Greenblatt removed the words “anti-Semitism” from its mission statement."