Where is the anti-ADL?

The ADL’s latest assault on normal Americans is a report entitled “Extremists Declare ‘Open Season’ on Immigrants: Hispanics Target of Incitement and Violence.” The document wickedly conflates the current opposition to Bush’s Hispanic amnesty plan with a long catalog of racist hate crimes against Hispanics, all but two of which pre-date the current amnesty issue, many of them by many years.

The ADL is an evil, lying, anti-American organization.

I therefore repeat the political truth, that if the so-called moderates in any given group do not forcefully denounce and dissociate themselves from the extremists in that group, then the group itself can rightly be seen as extremist. In the absence of a B’nai Brith Anti-Anti-Defamation League, the ADL’s equation of normal Americans’ opposition to amnesty with violent racist hate crimes can be legitimately seen as an expression of the American Jewish community.

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A Jewish friend who is also a writer and speaker on Jewish issues wrote:

Larry,

You forgot to include one more word to describe the ADL—“anti-Jewish,” not anti-Semitic, but they are definitely anti-Jewish, especially Abe Foxman!

LA replied:

Fine. But tell me this: Where is the large mainstream Jewish organization—not just Rabbi Lapin and Toward Tradition, not just Don Feder or Dennis Prager or Irwin Graulich—that is standing against the ADL and saying the ADL does not represent Jewishness? The ADL is perhaps the most powerful and best known Jewish organization in the country. In the absence of a powerful mainstream Jewish organization opposing the ADL and saying, “You don’t speak for the Jews,” the ADL does, as a political reality, speak for the Jews.

Posted by Lawrence Auster at April 27, 2006 04:12 PM | Send