After a New York Magazine article exposed a crisis within the Anti-Defamation League, CEO Jonathan Greenblatt is finally being asked tough questions about the organization's attacks on Palestine activists and its embrace of Israel.
Anti-Defamation League (ADL) CEO Jonathan Greenblatt is frequently interviewed by members of the mainstream media.
Usually, it’s to sound the alarm over domestic antisemitism. In the ADL’s world, the U.S. Jewish population is perpetually under threat because the organization openly conflates antisemitism with anti-Zionism. In their reports, a person defacing a synagogue with a swastika is treated the same way as a student leading a chant in support of Palestine.
“Anti-Zionism as an ideology is rooted in rage,” Greenblatt told the ADL’s annual leadership summit in 2022. “It is predicated on one concept: the negation of another people, a concept as alien to the modern discourse as white supremacy. It requires a willful denial of even a superficial history of Judaism and the vast history of the Jewish people. And, when an idea is born out of such shocking intolerance, it leads to, well, shocking acts.”
That same year, the ADL claimed that antisemitic incidents had increased by 500% over the previous decade.
After that audit, Greenblatt made his usual tour of the cable news circuit, facing absolutely no pushback from a single anchor about the organization’s methodology for measuring antisemitism. (more...)
The mainstream media is finally asking some tough questions about the Anti-Defamation League
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