Anti-Defamation League

Why won't the ADL trust Jewish students and community media?

Submitted by Ali Abunimah on Tue, 03/06/2012 - 00:22

The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) loudly condemned Israeli Apartheid Week events, and last weekend’s One State Conference at Harvard.

With its latest smears, it is trying to conceal the fact that its fearmongering is failing to intimidate students, including Jewish students who attended and participated with open minds:

The phony war over which US party loves Israel most

Josh Ruebner
10 January 2012

US support for Israel, once a carefully nurtured bipartisan consensus, is fast degenerating in the context of the 2012 presidential election into a mud-slinging partisan contest as to which party, in the words of Mitt Romney, who leveled the accusation against Obama, is more guilty of having “thrown Israel under the bus.”

ADL promotes conspiracy theories to undermine support for Palestine at Occupy Wall Street

Submitted by Ali Abunimah on Wed, 11/16/2011 - 23:33

In an move reminiscent of anti-Semitic attacks on Jews in America’s past, the ADL is seeking to isolate and cast suspicion on supporters of Palestinian rights at Occupy Wall Street.

Protest smearing of Occupy Wall Street, Palestine solidarity movements as "anti-Semitic"

Submitted by Maureen Clare Murphy on Fri, 10/28/2011 - 06:16

In a news segment broadcast Wednesday night by ABC 7 News in Chicago, reporter Chuck Goudie claims that there is “a vein of anti-Semitism flowing through the movement that has Jewish leaders concerned.” I and other activists have responded to this vile smear attack on the Occupy Wall Street movement, and the Palestine solidarity movement more generally.

Despite attacks, national conference unites Students for Justice in Palestine

Alex Kane
New York City
21 October 2011

Hundreds of student activists from dozens of colleges and universities across the US are expanding the grassroots movements for Palestine solidarity activism despite aggressive smear campaigns by pro-Israel groups.

Zionist bullying "doesn't work"; Students for Justice in Palestine interviewed

Maureen Clare Murphy
21 September 2011

Three campus activists talk to The Electronic Intifada about the upcoming national Students for Justice in Palestine meeting, the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement on US campuses and the challenges activists face from Zionist groups and school administrations.

New moves to curb criticism of Israel in US and Canada

Kristin Szremski
29 July 2011

A number of new initiatives to curtail freedom of speech by conflating opposition to Israeli crimes with anti-Semitism are underway in the United States and Canada.

Salaita skewers liberalism in "Israel's Dead Soul"

Raymond Deane
10 June 2011

Steven Salaita is an associate professor of English at Virginia Tech who has written several books on the failure of liberal civil rights discourse to counter anti-Arab racism, particularly in the United States. In his new book, Israel’s Dead Soul, he evaluates the potential complicity between enlightened ideals and their opposite.

Challenging AIPAC and confronting "US interests"

Monadel Herzallah, Sara Kershnar, Max Ajl and Kristin Szremski
23 May 2011

The roster of speakers at AIPAC’s annual policy conference — from Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu to Christian Right paragon Ralph Reed, President Barack Obama and several members of Congress — is clear evidence that the relationship between and interests shared by AIPAC, the religious right and the US government continue unabashed and unchallenged.

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