The storied Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has come a long way from the days when Abe Foxman was its executive director. See https://www.adl.org/resources/press-release/adl-condemns-donald-trumps-hate-speech-and-stereotyping While the ADL staff still apparently does good work, cooperation with, and respect for, the ADL has become increasingly problematic due to the public actions of its present executive director, Jonathan Greenblatt.
In the last few years, we have seen Mr. Greenblatt cozy up to and seek to explain away the antisemitism displayed as the highest levels of Donald Trump’s operation. See most recently, for example, https://forward.com/news/700072/adl-tesla-jlens-meta-amazon-musk/ (2/27/25) (“Why the ADL is encouraging Jews to invest [Elon Musk’s] Tesla”) This was published the same day the Union for Reform Judaism and other progressive Jewish organizations announced that they would stop engaging on Musk’s X/Twitter: https://urj.org/press-room/statement-ending-engagement-xtwitter (“As Jewish groups committed to healing what is broken in our world, we aim to do our work through means that similarly foster repair. In study after study, as well as our lived experiences, X has become a platform that promotes hate, antisemitism, and societal division. Under the leadership of Elon Musk, X has reduced content moderation, promoted white supremacists, and re-platformed purveyors of conspiracy theories. Musk himself has re-posted content that is antisemitic and xenophobic, promoting it to his millions of followers.” See also https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/elon-musk-x-twitter-antisemitism-hashtags-trending-hate-rcna151945 (June 4, 2024) (“Elon Musk's X app ran ads on #whitepower and other hateful hashtags. A review by NBC News found X running ads on 20 racist and antisemitic hashtags more than 18 months after Musk said that he would demonetize hate posts.”)
Just a month earlier, the ADL, per Mr. Greenblatt, sought to excuse or minimize Musk’s public Nazi salute. See https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/01/elon-musk-nazi-salute-trump-inauguration-adl-antidefamation-league.html?#rzzz5jix90nlvdauag01begldekr0898(1/21/25) (“It’s Clear Enough What Elon Musk Did. The ADL’s Response Is Pathetic.”) and https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/20/us/politics/elon-musk-hand-gesture-speech.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare (1/20/25) (“The Anti-Defamation League, which has tangled with Mr. Musk in the past, later said on X that Mr. Musk had ‘made an awkward gesture in a moment of enthusiasm’ and that it was ‘not a Nazi salute.’ The organization added that ‘all sides should give one another a bit of grace.’”)
And this outrage was only ninety days after Mr. Greenblatt sought to minimize the October 24, 2024, Madison Square Garden event that so closely tracked the infamous Nazi at Madison Square Garden in 1939. See https://newrepublic.com/article/187695/anti-defamation-league-running-cover-trump (11/1/24) (“Why is the Anti-Defamation League Running Cover for Trump? Yes, it’s fair to compare Trump’s Madison Square Garden spectacle to the Nazi rally of 1939.”) and https://www.jta.org/2024/10/30/united-states/former-adl-chief-abe-foxman-slams-group-for-muted-response-to-trumps-msg-rally (10/30/24, “Former ADL chief Abe Foxman slams group for muted response to Trump’s MSG rally”)
This was just months after Greenblatt’s ADL honored Trump’s son-in-law at its annual summit. See https://www.timesofisrael.com/adl-honors-jared-kushner-at-annual-summit-despite-pushback-from-some-groups/ (3/7/24) (“ADL honors Jared Kusner at annual summit, despite pushback from some groups.”)
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