Hi, Steve -
I admit that I was a little taken aback by some of the stuff I saw on the Website of the Anti-Defamation League. I've always thought of ADL as representative of "mainstream" Judaism. The Jewish Defense League has been thought of as the extremist organization.

Maybe it's unfair to judge an organization from just one page on its Website. The Home Page of ADL is more representative of how I view the organization: https://www.adl.org/. I think you would agree with most of the stuff you find there.

Still, as the ADL Web page on BDS says, at least a portion of BDS seeks "the demonization and delegitimization of Israel." That's a legitimate viewpoint, I think. There are elements of BDS that certainly seem anti-Semitic.

I tend to favor the Palestinians because they are clearly the underdogs in this disagreement, and my family has far more Arab and Palestinian connections than Jewish ones - but I have to try to understand the Jewish point of view, too. My sister has close connections with several families in Palestine, and she can tend to jump on me for being pro-Jewish when I see myself as just trying to be fair.

-Joe-