#NEWS: #AIPAC (American Israeli Public Affairs Committee) is funding the campaigns of 37 #ElectionDeniers b/c “This is no moment to be selective about friends”. This includes a man who espouses the #racist#ReplacementTheory that #ADL called to be fired. Read the #Jewish Insider’s coverage of the controversy.
#ADL / Blood Libel Accusations Resurface in the Wake of Oct. 7
You’d think ADL would bother to mention in their report about the reemergence of the antisemitic blood libels how many children Israel did in fact kill in this war alone… but why mess up their lovely report with disturbing facts?
#ADL honorary Kushner: ‘waterfront property could be very valuable’… Israel should 'bulldoze something in the Negev' to house displaced Palestinians so it can reconstruct Gaza and 'finish the job'
The Lutz report was written by expert Republican pollster and political strategist Dr Frank Luntz, in 2009, to help the Israeli government, and its supporters, like AIPAC and the ADL, to sway public opinion toward Israel. One of the most fundamental rules of the playbook is to always spin every conflict or scandal as one in which Israel is the victim of terrorism, and in which Israel has the “right to defend itself.” This strategy, according to the Lutz report, will always win the support of the majority of Americans. In contrast, you should never mention borders, territory, or the loss of Palestinian land usurped by Israel in 1948, 1967, or in 1973. That will make Americans much more sympathetic toward Palestinians, at the expense of Israel’s ambitions.
#US / “Antisemitic Attitudes” in the USA in 2024, according to the ADL
From the 1960s until 2014, there was a decline in #antisemitism in the US, according to the #ADL’s index, which examines respondents' agreement with a set of antisemitic statements.
In 2014, about 9% of respondents agreed with 6 or more antisemitic statements, in 2015 the number rose to 10% and in 2019 to 11%. In 2022 there was a significant jump to 20% and in 2024 the number is already close to 24%.
Over 40% of US citizens think that Israelis intend to cause maximal suffering to the Palestinians (impression shared with Israeli Palestinians, see Mohamed Barakeh’s comment https://kolektiva.social/@oatmeal/112026724167982937)
A third of US citizens think Israeli operatives are manipulating US national policy
Younger generations are much more comfortable being friends with Hamas supporter
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The Anti-Defamation League's Expanding Definition of Antisemitism Correlates with Increased Israeli Violence in Palestine
A broadened definition of #antisemitism by the Anti-Defamation League (#ADL) correlates with heightened Israeli state violence against Palestinians.
From 2014 to 2024, the ADL documented a rise in antisemitic attitudes among Americans coinciding with Israel's military actions in Gaza causing thousands of Palestinian deaths and injuries.
In July 2014, Israel assaulted Gaza, killing 2,125-2,310 Palestinians, wounding 10,626-10,895, and left over 1,000 children permanently disabled according to a UN report [1]. That same year, the ADL recorded only 9% of Americans professing multiple antisemitic attitudes [2]. But by 2024, this figure had jumped to 24%, as the ADL applied an expanding definition of antisemitism, which includes criticisms of Israeli policy in the occupied territories (including besieged and blockaded #Gaza).
The data suggests a correlation between Israel's use of force in #Palestine and a rise in perceived antisemitism in the US. This correlation calls for Western media to scrutinize the data presented by the ADL Against evolution of the conflict, which reaches new levels of violence with each iteration.
Only 34% of 🇺🇸 #Jews oppose a ceasefire, and the vast majority of the country supports it, including over 50% of all Jews. Yet the #ADL continues to spread the malicious lie that says supporting a ceasefire is antisemitic. Because ADL has never been about fighting #antisemitism, which can be demonstrated by the way they claim the Sonnenrad — the notorious Black Sun of white supremacist movements — isn't actually racist on their website, in order to protect the US government's alliances with various white supremacists movements who proudly display the Sonnenrad.
Heads up, if you try to argue the Black Sun is not a white supremacist symbol in my comments, I will block. This is an antifascist zone of discourse.
Today, I found out that we (#BabkaSocial) are part of an ADL conspiracy to fake antisemitism to protect Israel, and that this is proof antizionism is not antisemitism.
"The Biden administration plan for the “day after” in Gaza is rooted in American hubris and ignorance, and therefore doomed to failure."
"The United States has a long history of misunderstanding the Mideast, but this level of ignorance and willful blindness far surpass anything we’ve seen before."
As someone whose family is paid reparations by the Austrian government for the murders of my family during #WWII & who once worked for the #ADL I have serious objections to the declarations & priorities of the Anti-Defamation League’s prez #jonathangreenblatt re: #ElonMusk, the #Israel#Gaza war, #freespeech suppression & #antizionism. This article covers IT ALL.
Very thankful for these staffers at ADL who are calling out their leadership for wrongfully conflating criticism of #Zionism with #antisemitism.
My own experiences of engaging with ADL at the regional level have been positive, helpful &nuanced (unlike the rhetoric pushed by the nat'l org.), so I am inclined to believe what these whistleblowers are saying.
In 2006 Pres. Jimmy Carter's book #Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid was published. The #ADL and #AIPAC immediately defamed him and he was ostracized by Washington as is the case with any politician who dares to criticize #Israel and its apartheid policies.
Carter got 46% of the Jewish vote in 1980, shockingly low for a Democrat, because his UN ambassador dared to meet with Palestinians.
President Carter will be remembered as the most moral and human president America ever had.
The ADL is leading the attack against free speech on Palestine
"Despite being widely understood as a mainstream civil rights organization, the ADL has a long history of surveilling and infiltrating social justice and human rights organizations, silencing advocacy for Palestine, and particularly working to silence any and all criticism of Israel.
Students for Justice in Palestine, in particular, has been in the crosshairs of the ADL’s repression campaign for at least a decade. One of the main avenues for doing so has been to equate anti-Zionism, and really any form of criticism of Israel, with antisemitism. Such conflations lay the groundwork for the ADL to make its oft-repeated claim that SJP and JVP are the “photo inverse of the extreme right” and even to implicate them in the rise of antisemitic hate crimes. "
Sometimes Mr Balloonjuice gets serious. Here, he highlights the insane speed and stark contrast of Mr Greenblatt's seeming abrogation of his organization's core mission in service to Musk. It's a real 'Left is Right, Black in White' inversion of plain reality.
Greenblatt is CEO of the #AntiDefamationLeague, an organization that traditionally sought to challenge hate speech against #Jews.
Evaluating Websites: Identifying Fake News Sources:
Determining if news is fake is as simple as performing a Google search, other times you will need to do a little digging. Some fake stories may be based on a grain of truth, or based on a misunderstanding. #misinformation #disinformation #adl
Jonathan Greenblatt of the #ADL’s first comment about anything #Twitter related (today, 11/17) since Elon Musk boosted a comment saying Jews are anti-white is not anything about that but something praising him for policing pro-Palestinian statements on the platform. There’s absolutely no mention of Musk promoting a version of the conspiracy theory that motivated the Tree of Life synagogue mass shooting.
There has been a troubling rise in #antisemitism in the US and Europe but remarkably little has occurred in the movement to end the war in #Gaza Obvious antisemitic acts such as shouting clearly antisemitic slogans or physically attacking Jews or #Jewish institutions for being Jewish has been thankfully largely absent.
The #ADL Anti-Defamation League tracks antisemitic and other forms of extremism in the US. One publicly available source is a "H.E.A.T. map" (Hate, Extremism, Antisemitism, Terrorism) which allows searches by event and ideology, including "left wing" and "Islamist." The map is updated monthly. As of the latest update, there have no, that is zero, incidents of antisemitic extremism that the ADL ties to left wing or Islamist groups of ideologies in the US. None.