The Drop the ADL from Schools campaign seeks to challenge the role the Anti-Defamation League plays in promoting anti-Palestinian racism in K-12 schools across the U.S.
Protests over Israel’s genocidal assault on Gaza have been occurring across college campuses for over a year, with students facing crackdowns and suppression.
These battles have been well-documented, but fights over the issue haven’t been limited to just universities. Although not covered as much, similar struggles are occurring at the K-12 level.
One such effort is the Drop the ADL (Anti-Defamation League) from Schools campaign, which is an offshoot of the Drop the ADL movement.
In 2020 the group published a primer detailing the ADL’s history of repressing Palestinian rights, aligning itself with the police, and backing surveillance efforts against activist groups. A coalition of organizations (including Palestinian Youth Movement and the Adalah Justice Project) also published an open-letter calling for action.
“Even though the ADL is integrated into community work on a range of issues, it has a history and ongoing pattern of attacking social justice movements led by communities of color, queer people, immigrants, Muslims, Arabs, and other marginalized groups, while aligning itself with police, right-wing leaders, and perpetrators of state violence,” it read. “More disturbing, it has often conducted those attacks under the banner of ‘civil rights’.” (more...)
Educators sound alarm over ADL presence in schools
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